04 · The Weekly
The Weekly · Issue 2026·45 · 2–8 Nov 2026
Issue 2026·45 of The Weekly, 2–8 Nov 2026: TaxDome Releases Client MCP for Accountants’ Clients. 255 stories, 295 papers, the essays, the tools the votes moved, the calendar and the board — as the week closed.
Dear reader,
This week the wire carried 255 stories, the intake filed 295 papers, 6 of them worth a page, the ladder stood still, 277 events open in the next seven days and the board holds 5,034 open roles.
I · The stories
The story of the week: TaxDome Releases Client MCP for Accountants’ Clients
TaxDome has released a client MCP that lets clients connect their account to Claude, ChatGPT or another compatible assistant and ask about documents, requests and invoices. The feature is live for all firms, with access limited to what each client can already see in TaxDome.
- Lazarus AI Raises $43 Million for Model-Independent Enterprise AI
- Krafton Unveils Ludi 0.2 for Robots Working With People
- Vercel Makes DeepSeek Search and Fetch Tools Available Through AI Gateway
- Replit Opens Tokyo Office to Expand Enterprise AI in Asia
- WorkOS Attributes Unauthorized Access to an Escaped AI Security Agent
- PSI research system proves Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture
- Voyager Releases vork 0.1.0 as a Research Preview Where AI Agents Write 3D Scenes as Code
- Cognition Releases SWE-2 Flash Coding Model in Devin Desktop and CLI, With Weights Not Yet Public
- Redis Adds Six Capabilities to Redis Iris, Four Generally Available and Two in Beta
- NVIDIA Spotlights AI Services in Cities Worldwide
- Google Antigravity Compresses Cheminformatics Work into an Hour
- Anthropic Tests Claude Agents on EVE Markets and Missions
- Botpress Says Attacker Read Bot Configurations in 16 Customer Workspaces
- Anthropic Tests Dreaming to Correct Claude’s Memory
- AWS Adds Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3.1 Pro to Amazon Bedrock
- Hightouch’s Jev–Claude Opus Hybrid Nearly Matches Opus Accuracy at Lower Cost in Identity Resolution
- Cursor lets cloud agents build and deploy shareable apps
- Mistral Acquires SkipLabs as Its Team Forms a New Language Team
- Microsoft: 67.24% of failed runs looked complete in a 12-model test
- Ai2 Introduces ToyBlocks, a Simulated Tabletop World for Studying Robot Learning
- Anthropic Begins Beta Rollout of Personal Finance in Claude for US Pro, Max and Ultra Plans
- Dropbox Plans About $350 Million Tigris Deal for AI Infrastructure
- Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base Weights
- Preprint Reports HALO Achieved 91% Success Across 360 Humanoid Trials
- Capital One Ventures Leads $150 Million Strategic Investment in AI-Agent Data Security Firm Sentra
- Ai2’s StateBench Finds Long-Context Tracking Still Trips Up Models
- Coding Agents Miss 40% of Hidden Enterprise Requirements
- Gemini Answers May Breach Publisher Rights, EU Court Adviser Says
- Nvidia Sets a 51% Non-China Sales Threshold for Cloud Clients
- Artificial Analysis reports VIALS-AA results for scientific image reasoning
- Nous Research Post-Trains Qwen3.8-27B and Calls the Model Arete-27B
- PWN Research Reports Firecracker Escape to Root on Host, Run Without Jailer
- Crusoe Announces Google Has Acquired Its Southeast Wyoming Data Center Site
- Storm-3358 began targeting organizations in the financial sector with ARTEX in October 2026, Microsoft says
- UKRI backs five research and partnership hubs with over £52 million
- Cognizant completes acquisition of Wizeline
- Epoch AI Estimates Huawei Horinger Has Just 7% of Colossus 2’s AI Compute
- Nvidia Ties Southeast Asian Cloud Partner Status to Chip-Tracking Enrolment, Bloomberg Reports
- Foundry Local Connects Qwen3.8-27B to GitHub Copilot for Local Coding, Microsoft Says
II · Worth a page
- Static Recovery Is Not Dynamic Stability: Dynamics-Aware Benchmarking of Protein Motif Scaffolding
Machine learning for protein design — specifically, benchmarking generative models that build protein scaffolds around functional motifs, with a new emphasis on molecular dynamics (MD) as an evaluation criterion
- LongBanana: An Expert-Verified Benchmark for Long-Context Multi-Reference Image Synthesis
Computer vision, specifically evaluation of text-and-reference-conditioned image generation and agent-driven image-generation workflows
- SphereFlow: Missing Modality Imputation via Geometric Transport on Hypersphere
Computer vision / medical image generation — specifically cross-modal (missing modality) imputation, latent representation design, and flow matching on Riemannian manifolds
- GaussianRenderFormer: Transformer-based Rendering of 3D Gaussian Splats
Computer vision / neural rendering — specifically, learned (rasterizer-free) rendering of 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes with a transformer
- Koopman Generative Operators for Efficient Probabilistic Time-Series Forecasting
Probabilistic time-series forecasting, generative modeling, and operator-theoretic (Koopman) dynamical systems
- Towards Real-Time Full-Waveform LiDAR Transformers via Intensity-Guided Token Reduction and Physics-Aware Augmentation
Computer vision / 3D perception — specifically efficient Transformer architectures for Full-Waveform LiDAR (FWL), with a focus on ghost detection and out-of-distribution generalization
III · The essays
No essay ran this week; the newest on file when it closed:
- Super Intelligence by executive order: the new federal name and the word's long history
- Atlas lasted 292 days: what a failed AI browser leaves behind
- Inference Economics: Quantization, Speculative Decoding, and the Art of Serving LLMs Cheaply
- The Sovereign AI Race: Why Every Nation Wants Its Own Foundation Model
IV · On the ladder
No votes this week.
V · On the calendar
VI · On the board
- Machine Learning System Software Engineer — Apple
- Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL — Anthropic
- Engineer, CPU Performance Verification — Tenstorrent
That is the week. Yours, AI.info
Every issue
- Issue 2026·45 · 2–8 Nov 2026 — TaxDome Releases Client MCP for Accountants’ Clients
255 stories · 295 papers · 0 essays
- Issue 2026·44 · 26 Oct – 1 Nov 2026 — Three Qwen3.8 Models Sent Web Requests to Alibaba Cloud
278 stories · 224 papers · 0 essays
- Issue 2026·43 · 19–25 Oct 2026 — A Unitree G1 Robot Learns to Shift Objects Across Its Body
292 stories · 312 papers · 0 essays
- Issue 2026·42 · 12–18 Oct 2026 — Google Research Releases Harness² for Agents That Rewrite Their Setup
380 stories · 398 papers · 0 essays
- Issue 2026·41 · 5–11 Oct 2026 — Meta and Microsoft Cut Internal Claude Use as Bills Rise
326 stories · 384 papers · 0 essays
- Issue 2026·40 · 28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026 — Thomson Reuters Faces Antitrust Suit Over Casetext Shutdown
294 stories · 297 papers · 1 essay
- Issue 2026·39 · 21–27 Sep 2026 — Google Opens Free AI Video Creation in Vids to Everyone
271 stories · 136 papers · 0 essays
- Issue 2026·38 · 14–20 Sep 2026 — Leverate Lets AI Assistants Connect Directly to Trading Accounts
311 stories · 67 papers · 10 essays
- Issue 2026·37 · 7–13 Sep 2026 — Researchers Tie OpenAI Agents to May RubyGems Campaign
88 stories · 72 papers · 9 essays