World Labs lists its Atlas tool release on November 12. Fei-Fei Li demonstrated an aerial view generated from 33 ground-level photos, but missing input can also erase real buildings.
Users report that Anthropic's Claude has started refusing to help build Pokémon fan games and assets, even when the sprites are already on the user's own computer. Japanese outlet AUTOMATON says it extends a late-October Claude Code rule against recreating specific existing games, and that the rule text now spells out names, characters, art, music, levels and appearance. Anthropic has not publicly commented on the Pokémon refusals.
On Nov. 11, Tmall made Token, the unit AI usage is measured in, a standalone Double 11 category for the first time. MiniMax, Alibaba Cloud, Zhipu, Qwen Office and Qoder sold monthly and weekly cards at roughly 50% to 67% off. Tmall reportedly said token sales rose 450% month over month on the first sales day.
At Baidu World 2026 on Nov. 12, founder Robin Li said Baidu's daily active AI agents grew from about 5,000 a year ago to 37,000, and the tasks they complete rose from 84,000 a week to more than 1 million. He called the "intelligent organization" AI's next act and said jobs won't vanish but will converge into builders and sellers. The figures are Baidu's own and haven't been independently verified.
Security firm Claroc says 35,578 of the 37,571 Grok-built apps it found online opened without sign-in, and about 1 in 10 held business or personal data, including a hospital staff list, an ICU patient briefing and plain-text passwords. Twenty-four were built by X and SpaceXSI staff. App addresses could be found in searchable DNS records, and sharing defaulted to "Anyone with the link." The company says creators choose access before publishing.
A lot of AI work is not writing prose. It is making a fast call: should this be refunded, which model should handle it, does this break a policy? On November 11, Google introduced the Gemini Decisions API and a dedicated model, Gemini Decision 1, which it says can take text, images, audio, video, or a PDF and score up to 1,000 questions in one pass, with 150 to 250 milliseconds of end-to-end latency and no charge for output tokens. The speed and pricing figures come from Google.