Robots have spent years getting better at moving through the world. The harder problem now is what they do when they arrive: aligning a gear, connecting a cable, or assembling a small component without crushing it. That shift from locomotion to delicate manipulation took center stage on Monday at the Conference on Robot Learning, known as CoRL, in Austin, Texas, where NVIDIA introduced GR00T 2, a new foundation model for robots.

Google expanded its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Unit line on Monday, November 9, adding two systems built for very different jobs. TPU 8tx is designed for secure and confidential inference, while TPU 8i Max is built for massive context windows and the highest compute density per rack. With the TPU 8t and TPU 8i introduced at Google Cloud Next in April, Google has now announced four TPU systems in a single year for the first time.

Anthropic has reportedly agreed to pay about 3.4 billion dollars for gas-fired generators capable of producing 1.7 gigawatts of electricity, in what the Financial Times described as the largest known single purchase of power-generation equipment by an AI lab. The newspaper reported the agreement on Sunday, November 8, and TechCrunch followed the story on Monday, as the competition among AI companies shifted further from chips and models toward a more basic input: electricity itself.

NVIDIA, South Korean chip designer Rebellions and SK Telecom announced a collaboration on November 9, 2026, to build sovereign AI infrastructure for Korea, linking Korean-designed processors directly into NVIDIA's rack-scale platform. The agreement, supported by Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, was unveiled in Seoul and brings together NVIDIA's open infrastructure, Rebellions' next-generation chips and SK Telecom's data centers, models and public-facing services.

One of Microsoft's most distinctive artificial intelligence research groups has come to an end, according to the researcher who helped create it. John Langford, a partner research manager at Microsoft Research, announced in a November 6 post on his Machine Learning (Theory) blog, titled "The End of AI Frontiers," that he has left Microsoft — and that the AI Frontiers group itself is finished. "So AI Frontiers is over," he wrote, adding that there will be no internships with the group's researchers in the coming year.

Thinking Machines Lab is reportedly close to raising 5 billion dollars in a funding round led by Accel at a 40 billion dollar pre-money valuation, according to Business Insider, which cited multiple people familiar with the negotiations on November 6. The financing could close as soon as this week, which would value the company at about 45 billion dollars after the new money is counted. Thinking Machines declined to comment and Accel did not respond, so the round is reported rather than confirmed until either side announces it.

A convenience feature in Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent, has left real passwords and API keys sitting in public view on GitHub. Research published on November 5 by the security firm Apiiro found that when a developer approves a command with the option "Yes, and don't ask again," Claude Code saves that command word for word as a permission rule in a file called .claude/settings.local.json, inside the project folder. If the command contained a secret, the secret is saved with it, in plain text.

Dave Wehner, Meta's chief strategy officer and one of the longest-serving finance leaders in big technology, is leaving the company after 14 years to become chief financial officer of Fireworks, the artificial intelligence inference startup. Wehner announced the move on X on Friday, and CNBC reported the appointment on Saturday. The move is one of the most high-profile executive departures from Meta's leadership team this year.

Google is taking direct control of a Wyoming data center project it once declined to use as a customer. Crusoe, the Denver-based developer that started the campus in southeastern Wyoming, confirmed on Friday that it has sold the unfinished project to Google, a day after Google announced a planned 17 billion dollar investment to build its first data center in the state.

OpenAI has closed the first 11 billion dollars of its latest funding round, at a valuation of 1.25 trillion dollars, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Reuters carried the report on Friday evening, November 6. The money has been wired, according to the reporting, but the round itself is not finished, and OpenAI declined to comment.