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Today’s brief · Friday, November 6
- AIAI startup Thinking Machines Lab shows Inkling 2 Small, with open weights due next week
- AIAmazon lets shoppers text its Alexa assistant to find and buy products
- AIAirbnb plans an AI travel agent for 2027 that builds a screen around each question
In this brief
Week in review
Oct 26 – Nov 1The cost of AI showed up in this week's earnings. Big Tech kept spending heavily while cash flow turned negative and share prices fell, and Anthropic's IPO filing gave the first detailed look inside an AI lab's finances. Crawlers taking content to train AI were another thread, as sites, Reddit and the big AI companies each acted on scraping. On the security side, a record crypto theft and a tampered coding add-on stood out.The stories that mattered, and a review quiz →Earlier briefs
- Thursday, November 5Concept: Time-based one-time passwords
- Wednesday, November 4Concept: Rolling hash
- Tuesday, November 3Concept: Two's complement