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Anthropic is donating the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation. Skills package task instructions and resources; the foundation will provide a vendor-neutral home for the standard.
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Video · 3:31:24Andrej Karpathy’s original video introduces LLMs such as ChatGPT. This selection is based on the video’s title and description, not a verified transcript. The original video is in English.
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Third Intelligence has released Haas-ja-v1.0, an open-weight Japanese speech recognition model under the Apache 2.0 license. In the company’s five-dataset evaluation, it scored 6.12% strict CER; its reported hourly cost estimate is roughly 75–100 times lower than GPT-Transcribe’s. Haas-ja-v1.0 has 615.8 million parameters and was trained on about 46,000 hours of data. The company reports the best strict CER among evaluated open models on asr-ja-bench v1.1, which contains 18,318 utterances and 23.38 hours of Japanese speech.
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company lost more than one million Google search referrals per week in October. He blamed AI Overviews and AI Mode, raising a potential structural risk for sites that depend on Google traffic. Huffman said demand for Reddit had not changed, but Google was sending fewer users. Reddit shares fell more than 25 percent despite strong earnings.
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OpenAI released work-use data across 165 activities and nearly 100 countries. Enterprise messages and Codex use are excluded.
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The Decoder reports that major US banks are restricting credential-based access by external AI agents. The report highlights authorization concerns when agents access accounts or attempt actions independently.
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Anthropic’s foundational guide distinguishes predefined workflows from more autonomous agents. Its 2024 patterns remain useful concepts, while the page notes that the tooling landscape has changed.
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Video · 59:48Karpathy’s introductory talk offers an entry point to large language models. The title identifies it as an introductory talk. Our selection uses public metadata; we have not verified a transcript.
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Crusoe confirmed it sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google. Google said it plans to invest $17 billion to develop the campus; the purchase price was not disclosed. Crusoe announced the project last year with Tallgrass, with plans to eventually scale it to 10 gigawatts. Google is taking over development; the report says it had raised concerns about costs and the construction timeline under Crusoe’s management.
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Meta is acquiring Conductor, which lets developers manage multiple AI coding agents at once; the price was not disclosed. Conductor Cloud will shut down on November 20, and the desktop app will stop receiving new models in early 2027. Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz confirmed the deal without disclosing its price. The report says Meta aims to strengthen its AI products for developers.
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Ballistic Ventures plans to raise a total of $490 million across two new funds. Regulatory filings show neither fund had recorded sales at the time of filing, and the firm declined to comment. The cybersecurity-focused VC is seeking $360 million for its third flagship fund and $130 million for Ballistic Ventures Fund B, according to filings. U.S. cybersecurity startups raised $11.5 billion in 2025. A JPMorgan Chase report citing PitchBook data says AI-enabled companies accounted for about 72% of U.S. cybersecurity venture deals through May.
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AI inference provider Fal has raised $1.3 billion in a Series F round. Bloomberg reported its valuation doubled from $8 billion in April to $16 billion. The San Francisco-based company hosts and runs video, image, and audio models. Fal said it raised a combined $1.65 billion across Series E and F; Bessemer Venture Partners led the latest round, with Nvidia, Sound Ventures, and T. Rowe Price participating.
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