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1. AI

   Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Tops Three Agent Benchmarks at Half the Cost

   Google says Carbon, built to think longer than any Gemini before it, finishes agent tasks at less than half the cost of the next best outside model. How does a model that spends more tokens end up cheaper per job?

   Nov 11, 2026 · 5:45 PM

   

2. AI

   Google DeepMind Puts Humanoids on Mercedes Lines, Sorting Parts at 96% Success

   Google DeepMind's newest robot model sent humanoids onto two working Mercedes-Benz assembly lines to lay out the parts for each car. The surprise is how little the robots lost on the way from the lab to the factory floor.

   Nov 11, 2026 · 1:00 PM

   

3. Business

   Oura Pays $625M for Counsel to Put a Doctor Inside Its App

   Oura is paying $625 million in cash for Counsel Health, whose AI answers health questions and hands members to physicians who can diagnose, prescribe and refer. Why does a ring company want its own doctors?

   Nov 11, 2026 · 6:30 PM

   

4. Tech

   AMD Ships 256-Core EPYC Venice, With Up to 73,728 Threads per Rack

   AMD's sixth-generation server chip puts 256 cores in one socket and pitches every thread as a home for an AI agent. Why does a CPU matter so much in a data center built around GPUs?

   Nov 11, 2026 · 5:00 PM

   

5. Business

   TSMC Sets Aside Up to $1 Billion for Stakes in Anthropic and OpenAI

   The company that manufactures the chips behind much of today's AI now wants a share of two of the labs that use them. Why would a supplier that sells to everyone buy into two rivals at once?

   Nov 11, 2026 · 2:00 PM