AWS Kiro bots own recurring coding chores with separate memory
Kiro bots, generally available in Kiro Crew, are named agents with their own memory and permissions for scheduled development work. Cost tracks credits, not the seat fee.
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AIRoA-0 averages 78% on ten tasks from handheld demos alone
Japan's AIRoA released a bimanual robot model trained only on handheld gripper data, reporting 78% success on ten tasks at an unseen site against 27% for the strongest baseline it tested.
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Perplexity Teammates put ongoing work on Max-only agents
Perplexity launched Teammates on 4 Nov 2026: Max-only agents that own ongoing roles, watch Slack and GitHub, and spend plan credits when they fan out.
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Meta pauses business terms that would have let it scrape linked sites
Meta's revised commercial terms will not take effect on 20 November. Its existing terms stay in force, and the company has set no new start date.
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash extends clips to 15 seconds and cuts API price
Google made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available on 5 November 2026, with native 15-second clips and 720p API pricing of $0.07 a second, 30% below Omni 1.1.
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Cursor cloud agents now build and host shareable web apps
Cloud agents in Cursor can now build a web app, add a database and sign-in, and publish a shareable link. The feature needs a plan with cloud agents, and hosting is as-is.
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Judge says publishers suing Anthropic cite no infringing Claude output
A judge says music publishers alleging Claude copied lyrics from 20,517 songs have not shown one such output. A status report on the claim is due 13 November.
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- Perplexity Teammates put ongoing work on Max-only agents
- Meta pauses business terms that would have let it scrape linked sites
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash extends clips to 15 seconds and cuts API price
- Cursor cloud agents now build and host shareable web apps
- Judge says publishers suing Anthropic cite no infringing Claude output
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The AI Observer Awards will recognise AI work that was checked, shipped and still holds up a year later.
A planned programme. Nominations, jury and criteria will be published here before anyone is asked to enter.
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- AI agency of the year
- Best AI tutorial
- Best interview
- Tool that held up