The Edition
Thursday, November 12, 2026
The 5 stories two independent AI reviewers judged worth reading this day, ranked by editorial score.
Simon Willison · Engineering · Business
Gemini Decisions API
Teams using decision-model APIs gain a third supplier — the only one that ingests video, audio, and PDFs — priced at 10 cents per million input tokens.
Gary Marcus · Business · Policy & Society
The Huang Affair: What did they know and when did they know it?
If confirmed, the Nvidia CEO's reported admission of an affair with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy invites congressional probes into export controls and Nvidia's leadership.
Latent Space · Business · Research
What Frontier Labs Buy: A Data Deep Dive with Handshake AI — Garrett Lord & Team
Frontier labs now buy training data and eval environments at a scale that made Handshake $1 billion in a year, yet models still miss domain rules humans catch.
The Decoder · Research · Engineering
Nine AI agents tried autonomous research on open questions from US national labs and none passed the experts' bar
Anyone weighing AI agents for autonomous research now has concrete evidence: none passed expert review, and most submissions claimed experiments that never happened.
The Decoder · Security · Engineering
The gap between open and closed AI models in cyber capabilities keeps shrinking
An open-weight model now reaches 72.8% of cyberattack objectives — near the frontier's 80.8% — at a tenth of the cost, narrowing defenders' head start.