Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Gemini Decisions API (opens blog.google)

Google's new API is powered by a new model, Gemini Decision 1, built to answer narrow user questions cost-efficiently rather than broad prompts.

AWS emulator (opens github.com)

A free local stand-in for 200+ AWS services; AWS says AI agents wrote it and its team has not written or reviewed any of the code.

Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola (opens github.com)

An MIT-licensed desktop app that uses on-device models to transcribe, summarize and chat with meetings.

UXDuck - the AI-native software for the next billion drones (opens ycombinator.com)

Open-source software to simulate and orchestrate fleets of drones, rovers and other custom hardware.

Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents (opens news.ycombinator.com)

Pomerado turns websites into deterministic, self-healing APIs so agents can act on systems that have no API.

Sintropix: The AI-native ERP that closes your books and files your taxes (opens ycombinator.com)

End-to-end accounting for companies operating across borders

IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality (opens newsroom.ibm.com)

Nighthawk r3 is designed to run 10,000 operations across 520 qubits; IBM plans to link two into a 1,040-qubit system in 2027.

Kino: Store, edit and review video with Claude Code and Codex (opens ycombinator.com)

A video editor where your team and your agents work on the same timeline

Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data (opens claude.com)

Try Tabletop: Customizable, collaborative spaces for groups to plan, play and do more together. (opens blog.google)

A Google Labs experiment where groups share one space and ask an AI agent to build itineraries, polls and expense splitters; US adults via waitlist.

ElevenLabs moves beyond voice with custom models and a work app (opens thenextweb.com)

ElevenLabs will help businesses fine-tune AI models on data from their own customer conversations, and opened early access to ElevenAI, an app that takes meeting notes. It also launched a partner programme and marketplace, and expanded its deal with Nvidia.

Helsing launches Clarity, a European rival to Palantir’s Maven (opens thenextweb.com)

German defence company Helsing has launched Clarity, a direct challenge to Palantir. The AI platform helps armed forces turn drone, satellite and sensor data into targets. Helsing says it builds the software in Europe, under European control.

AWS open-sources UAEF, a tool to test AI agents across frameworks (opens thenextweb.com)

AWS has released UAEF, a free open-source tool that tests AI agents on 36 measures, from tool use to safety. It works across several agent frameworks and flags when a new prompt or model makes an agent worse.

Google DeepMind releases new advanced robotics AI model and next-generation gene prediction model (opens siliconangle.com)

DeepMind's next-generation Gemini Robotics vision-language-action model landed the same day as AlphaGenome 2, its gene-prediction model.