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AI, startup and technology news for the countries that speak your language: the news in two lines and three reasons.
AI, startup and technology news for the countries that speak your language: the news in two lines and three reasons.

Mercor, Micro1 and Handshake are buying professional work records to help develop AI models, Wired reports. The push seeks real business workflows rather than simulated tasks, raising questions about employee privacy.

Meta is rolling out Spaces in Muse, letting users describe custom app-like tools for its AI assistant to build. Connected apps can supply background updates, keeping planners and trackers current without repeated prompts.

OpenAI has reportedly raised $11 billion in a new funding round at a $1.25 trillion valuation. The round remains open and could reach about $20 billion, according to Bloomberg reporting cited by TechCrunch.

Perplexity has launched Teammates, always-on AI agents that can take on different workplace roles. Access requires its $200 a month Max subscription.

Anthropic is rolling out Claude’s Personal Finance beta to Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the US. Users can connect bank and card accounts through Plaid, but Claude’s access is read-only and it cannot move money.

A Semrush guide outlines how merchants can make products visible in OpenAI's ChatGPT shopping results. It cites tests where OpenAI crawlers did not run JavaScript and ChatGPT read only a page's raw HTML.

Cursor has released Build Live Apps, which turns requests to its AI coding agent into hosted web apps. The feature handles hosting, login through Cursor SSO and a Postgres database when needed.

Google has released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, its AI video model, for general use. It generates clips up to 15 seconds long and costs 30% less, at about $0.07 per second for 720p video.

Nvidia is providing billions of dollars to expand AI chip packaging capacity at Siliconware Precision Industries, Reuters reports. The financing targets a production bottleneck, although neither Nvidia nor its supplier confirmed the arrangement.

Airbnb plans to launch an AI travel agent in the first half of 2027 to help users plan and book trips. It will assemble maps, photos, comparisons and calendars around each request rather than rely on a conventional chatbot.

Axiom Math says its AI agents have formally verified the Stacks Project, a major mathematical reference. The result is about 16 million lines of computer-checked code, drawn from roughly 7,654 pages of mathematics.

Box unveiled Box Content Retrieval, which uses Nvidia Nemotron embeddings to help AI agents search company documents. The system will roll out to Box Enterprise Advance customers in early 2027.

Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise about $5bn at a valuation of about $50bn, Bloomberg reported. The financing has not closed, and the AI drug discovery company's work remains preclinical.

Google says AI Mode contributed to weaker-than-expected search revenue at parent Alphabet. The AI search service monetises at a lower rate than traditional search.

Sarvam AI has launched Prism, an open-weight AI model for making structured decisions in business workflows. Its Apache 2.0 licence lets developers adapt the model and deploy it on their own infrastructure.

Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that runs multiple agents in parallel workspaces. Conductor will shut its cloud service on November 20 and then begin deleting user cloud data.

Together AI has introduced Together Compiler to automatically optimise AI inference as models, traffic and hardware change. The company reports up to 2.6x higher throughput across selected open-source models in less than 24 hours.

Bull and Schwarz Digits have agreed to develop European AI and cloud infrastructure together. The companies say the planned stack would keep sensitive data, infrastructure and operations under European jurisdiction and control.