Coverage
12 Nov 2026
Super Intelligence (SI) news, papers, lab posts and video briefings from 12 Nov 2026, newest first. Every item links to its source.
Articles
United Airlines Is Banning AI Bots from Booking Flights
Capability · The Wall Street Journal
Can markets find the AI cash?
Markets · Financial Times
United Airlines Blocks A.I. Agents From Booking Flights
Capability · The New York Times
United won’t let your AI agent book your flight
Capability · The Verge
US tech stocks rally as AI trade revives
Markets · Financial Times
Why the data center you dread might never even be built
Markets · TechCrunch
How backlash and red tape continue to slow data centers post-Blue Wave
Markets · TechCrunch
I Saw the Future of Robotics in a Virtual Duck That Chases My Cat
Capability · Wired
CoreWeave turns to customer prepayments, shorter contracts to fund AI growth
Capability · TechCrunch
With $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips
Markets · TechCrunch
Taiwan’s chipmaking giant TSMC to invest $1B in Anthropic, OpenAI
Markets · Ars Technica
AI has proved that a theory underpinning fundamental physics is trustworthy
Capability · The Economist
Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.
Capability · Ars Technica
Microsoft data center brings "a kind of boom" amid AI pushback
Markets · CBS News
Is the job market hibernating?
Markets · Financial Times
A Startup Wants to Fight AI Bioweapons With AI
Markets · Wired
OpenAI’s quarterly revenue reportedly crosses $10B for the first time
Markets · TechCrunch
Google’s AlphaGenome 2 zooms in on the cellular roots of disease
Labs · The Verge
Britain should ‘exploit’ NHS data to power AI, says minister
Policy · Financial Times
Google DeepMind just mathematically verified key parts of Signal
Labs · Ars Technica
Adobe’s AI experiments let you walk around in photos and interview your characters
Capability · The Verge
UK chip start-up Fractile hits $7bn valuation
Markets · Financial Times
‘Fear factor’ hits the AI power boom
Capability · Financial Times
The AI agents running start-ups with no employees
Capability · Financial Times
Why Is It So Hard to Teach A.I. Agents to Behave? Researchers Have a Theory.
Capability · The New York Times
The job market is tough for young people. Older workers are thriving.
Markets · The Washington Post
AI has made it ‘close to impossible’ to assess university coursework, regulator says
Policy · The Guardian
Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robot
Labs · Ars Technica
Amazon and Google Will See Big Paydays from Anthropic IPO
Markets · The New York Times
What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle?
Capability · Ars Technica
ChatGPT is getting verified AI ‘Business Agents’
Labs · The Verge
The indie game community is in disarray over AI and Big Walk
Capability · The Verge
Anthropic Targets Valuation of Up to $1.4 Trillion for Blockbuster I.P.O.
Markets · The New York Times
Anthropic has its own AI-powered office suite now
Labs · The Verge
eBay appears to have shut the door on third-party AI agents
Capability · The Verge
Video briefings
Gemini Carbon, NVIDIA CEO AFFAIR, Fable 5.2, Meta Muse Ember, GPT Image 2.6, Minimax H3: AI NEWS
Matthew Berman · 91.7K views
What software provides when AI bypasses the interface
Matthew Berman · 2.1K views
AI made Box features obsolete before launch
Matthew Berman · 4.5K views
Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
Google DeepMind · 621K views
Papers
LEASH: Stay Safe in Agentic Robotics
arXiv:2611.14115 · Zhu, Q. et al.
WAM is capable in BEHAVIOR-1K: the 2nd-place solution to the 2026 BEHAVIOR Challenge
arXiv:2611.13818 · He, Y. et al.
The RSI Tax: When Recursive Self-Improvement Is Not Worth the Cost
arXiv:2611.13524 · Zhang, Y. et al.
NCP: Verifier-Guided Optimization of Weight-Space Control Policies
arXiv:2611.13236 · Aksoy, E.
Mitigating Agentic Deception via Evaluation-Side Partially Observable Games
arXiv:2611.12835 · Li, H. et al.
ForgeSystem: An Architecture for Demand-Specific Artefact Production with AI Agents
arXiv:2611.12288 · He, Q. et al.
SkillDuet: Co-Evolving Models and Skills through Response Feedback
arXiv:2611.12109 · Ji, X. et al.
Review the Episodes, Refine the Lessons: Simple Memory Evolution for Embodied Agents
arXiv:2611.11509 · Yao, Y. et al.
JoMoHa: Joint Model--Harness Optimization with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2611.11499 · Wu, X. et al.
Trustworthy Recursive Self-Improvement with Statistical Guarantees
arXiv:2611.10787 · Gao, Z. et al.
No Second Run: Does RSI Stop at Frontier Pre-training?
arXiv:2611.10719 · Cai, X. et al.
LongCapHarness: Capability-Guided Auto-Harnessing for Long-Context Reasoning
arXiv:2611.10463 · Zhang, T. et al.
Is Recursive Self-Improvement Safe?
arXiv:2611.10261 · Conitzer, V.
AI Governance Should Prioritize Control and Knowledge Boundaries Over Limiting Intelligence
arXiv:2611.12941 · Luuk, H.
Recursively Self-Improving Electromagnetic Spectrum Agents: Architecture and Operation
arXiv:2611.09318 · Chong, B. et al.
Flex-RSI: Benchmarking Recursive Self-Improvement of Frontier Agents
arXiv:2611.08946 · Zhang, J. et al.
Lab notes
Lazare, veni foras: Reprogramming Dormant Neurons to Backdoor AI Agents
Microsoft Research
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available
Google DeepMind