Artificial intelligence

METR estimates Anthropic’s model progress accelerated 1.9x, with AI use likely a major factor. Much of the evidence remains redacted.

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• November 7, 2026

Surveys find broad AI adoption but limited profit impact: 6% of McKinsey respondents attribute at least 5% of EBIT to AI.

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• November 6, 2026

OpenAI says ChatGPT handles about one-fifth of Google’s queries. Independent estimates and traffic panels show different measures and much smaller website traffic.

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• November 5, 2026

A 15-question Lexassay test scores 42 AI setups on legal tasks. Claude Opus 5.5 leads; a model built for law scores 8 out of 100.

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• November 4, 2026

A November 2 blog post reports that GPT-6 Astra edited two Qwen3.5-0.8B layers, raising its MATH-500 score while reducing, not eliminating, loops.

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• November 3, 2026

Elon Musk said serving Grok Bot cost too much relative to revenue as OpenAI added account-sharing limits and a shared ChatGPT-Codex allowance.

• Exquisite Post Team
• November 2, 2026

Big Tech’s data center spending has surged. Cash, debt, leases and outside investors are helping pay for the AI build-out, with risks spread across sectors.

• Exquisite Post Team
• October 30, 2026

Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 turns text prompts into interactive audiovisual scenes, but access is limited and the worlds can drift over time.

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• October 29, 2026

Thorsten Meyer connects six ideas from his new book to recent AI headlines, while stressing that the book offers a framework, not predictions.

• Exquisite Post Team
• October 27, 2026

Adam Tooze’s Oct. 13 Chartbook post points readers to links on AI crowding, US-China investment decoupling and Russia’s plague.

• Exquisite Post Team
• October 14, 2026