AI news — 7 November 2026

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The Decoder
Business

OpenAI Secures $11 Billion in Funding at $1.25 Trillion Valuation

OpenAI has raised an initial $11 billion in a funding round that values the company at $1.25 trillion and could expand to $20 billion. Backers include firms such as SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, and a consortium from the United Arab Emirates, alongside efforts through investment banks to enlist wealthy individual investors. The company scaled down its initial target of $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation following a market selloff in the AI sector.

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OpenAI lands an $11 billion funding round, but has to court dentists for more capital

OpenAI has secured $11 billion in fresh capital, the first tranche of a round that values the company at $1.25 trillion. The full round could swell to $20 billion. That OpenAI is already turning to wealthy private investors hints at a saturating AI capital market and growing investor caution. The article OpenAI lands an $11 billion funding round, but has to court dentists for more capital…

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OpenAI
Models & releases

OpenAI Introduces GPT-6 Cyber for Vulnerability Detection

OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Cyber, a cybersecurity model built to identify exploitable vulnerabilities and generate fixes. The model is trained to remain strictly within its authorized scope.

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GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents

Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.

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The Decoder
Models & releases

Ricursive Intelligence releases Ripple-65B Preview open coding model

Ricursive Intelligence has launched Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight model trained on 12 trillion tokens at a development cost of $32 million. Built with a dense Transformer architecture optimized for Nvidia hardware, it is available on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Ripple-65B Preview delivers strong agentic coding results as a fully Apache 2.0 open US model

Ricursive Intelligence is releasing Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model that the company says achieves the top score among open-source U.S. models on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark at a total R&D cost of $32 million. On other benchmarks, however, Ripple falls behind the likewise newly released western open model Inkling 2 Small. The article Ripple-65B…

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Hugging Face
Arab world

Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Egyptian and Nigerian English Accents

The Open ASR Leaderboard has partnered with Liva AI to add private evaluation datasets featuring Egyptian and Nigerian English accents. The update aims to improve accent representation and increase trust in speech recognition benchmarks by preventing over-optimization on public data. The new data also enables a more detailed performance breakdown based on Kachru's Three Circles model.

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Egyptian and Nigerian English join the Open ASR Leaderboard

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TechCrunch
Business

Palo Alto Networks in Talks to Acquire Clutch Security for $500 Million

Palo Alto Networks is negotiating to acquire Clutch Security, a startup that secures AI agents' access to enterprise systems, for $500 million in cash plus milestone payouts. Clutch is approaching $10 million in annual recurring revenue and was valued at $85 million in January 2025. If completed, the deal would be Palo Alto Networks' seventh acquisition this year as it responds to rising AI-driven cyber threats.

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Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M

Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.

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The Decoder
Research

Google develops AI to detect high blood pressure using standard smartwatches

Google Research has developed an AI model that identifies signs of high blood pressure using standard smartwatch pulse and motion sensors without requiring a cuff. The feature has been integrated into the Google Health app to encourage users to get checked, though it does not serve as an official diagnosis.

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Google's AI detects high blood pressure from a regular smartwatch without a cuff

Google Research built an AI that spots signs of high blood pressure using only the pulse and motion sensors in a standard smartwatch, no cuff needed. In a 196-person study, its 65.8 percent detection rate beat the traditional in-office measurement. The method is already live in the Google Health app, though it doesn't replace a formal diagnosis. The article Google's AI detects high blood…

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Open-source repositories 8 repositories

Trending on GitHub★ 65,526
Cybersecurity

cloudflare/security-audit-skill

This skill turns coding agents into security auditors by orchestrating a structured, six-phase audit workflow across codebases. It features isolated verifier agents that actively attempt to disprove candidate vulnerabilities before generating verified, machine-readable findings.

  • JavaScript
  • MIT
  • #security
  • #agents
  • #code-audit
Open repository
Trending on GitHub★ 56,678
Audio & video

microsoft/VibeVoice

VibeVoice provides open-source voice AI models for both speech-to-text recognition and real-time speech generation. It supports streaming transcription, edge CPU inference, and structured long-form audio transcribing with speaker identification across multiple languages.

  • python
  • MIT
  • #speech
  • #asr
  • #tts
Open repository
New on GitHub★ 20,794
Coding

deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype

This is a research prototype of a proactive coding agent that monitors a GitHub repository and executes development tasks, such as opening pull requests, when asked by authorized users. It is designed to minimize demands on human attention by acting only when permitted, and it provides a web panel to track items requiring human review.

  • TypeScript
  • MIT
  • #agents
  • #coding
  • #github
Open repository about +2,772 stars a day
Hugging Face model♥ 10,972
Audio & video

Lightricks/LTX-2.5

This diffusion model supports multimodal generation and conversion across text, image, video, and audio. It allows users to perform tasks such as text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-audio transformations using a single model file.

  • other
  • #diffusion
  • #video
  • #audio
Open model
Trending on GitHub★ 9,739
Data & search

NVIDIA/auto-ontology

Auto Ontology is an open-source Python framework that builds a semantic context layer from enterprise metadata to help AI agents reliably query databases. It translates natural language into SQL, validates queries against certified definitions, and serves context via MCP, CLI, and APIs.

  • Python
  • Apache-2.0
  • #agents
  • #text-to-sql
  • #knowledge-graph
Open repository
New on GitHub★ 4,945
Coding

microsoft/TokenEconomizer

TokenEconomizer is a plugin that reduces the cost of running coding agents by learning from past sessions in a repository without modifying the agent itself. It cuts waste by remembering repository facts, pruning unused tools, and stepping in when the agent gets stuck in failure loops.

  • Python
  • Apache-2.0
  • #agents
  • #coding
  • #optimization
Open repository about +192 stars a day
New on GitHub★ 4,629
Agents

onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent

This project allows OpenAI-compatible vision models to view and operate a real iPhone using a low-cost ESP32 board for screen mirroring and USB input. It enables the AI to tap, swipe, and type directly on the device without requiring a computer, jailbreak, or developer account.

  • Swift
  • MIT
  • #agents
  • #ios
  • #hardware
Open repository about +171 stars a day
Hugging Face model♥ 1,625
Models

moonshotai/Kimi-K3.1-Pro

Kimi K3.1 Pro is an open-weight multimodal model with a 1-million-token context window designed for agentic tasks across text and images.

  • other
  • #multimodal
  • #agents
  • #moe
Open model

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