TLDR 2026-11-11

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Big Tech & Startups

Amazon's Ring unveils flying drone and robot to patrol homes and businesses (3 minute read)

The Ring Drone Cam is a security camera that can fly from room to room to investigate suspicious activity. For $250, the drone can fly up to eight minutes at a time before autonomously returning to its charging dock. The Ring Rover Cam is a $1,000 device with a display and an extendable periscope camera mounted on a two-wheeled base. The Ring Drone Cam will ship in the US on January 27 (pending approval from the FCC), and the Ring Rover Cam will start shipping on December 16.

Apple's Claris Testing 'Harbor' App for Local AI on Macs (2 minute read)

Harbor is an app currently being tested by Apple's Claris subsidiary that turns Apple Silicon Macs into private AI servers. It supports connecting multiple Mac computers over Thunderbolt 5 to pool unified memory and enable larger models with higher concurrency. Harbor is in early access and not publicly available. There was an App Store listing, but it has now been removed, so it isn't clear whether the app will be free. The sign-up page for the app asks for a company name, suggesting a business focus.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

‘Flying cars' could launch in China next summer, maker of two-seat model says (4 minute read)

XPeng's $300,000 low-altitude flying car will be ready for use in the second half of 2027. About the size of a Fiat 500, the vehicle can fly using six drone-like battery-powered propellers. It can be steered using a joystick or fly autonomously to a programmed destination. The price tag includes a six-wheeled van for transporting the vehicle. The flying car has a flight range of 30 kilometers, but XPeng says this will soon be doubled.

Starlink Mini 2 Has a Swappable Battery, But It Costs Way More Than Expected (7 minute read)

The Starlink Mini 2 is the first Starlink dish to support the company's swappable battery, which lasts up to 4.5 hours. SpaceX is asking early adopters to pay $999 to own it. That fee includes a full year of Starlink Roam Unlimited, which is usually valued at $2,100. Shipments are estimated to begin in mid-December.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Stop your AI agents from going rogue (Sponsor)

Ask an email agent to summarize your inbox, and it reads the message an attacker wrote to look like an instruction. That's how indirect prompt injection turns a helpful agent into a damaging tool call. Gray Swan CPO, Spencer Whitman, shows how to secure production agents with three layers: red-teaming, behavior enforcement and deterministic controls.

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Gemini 4 Carbon is now available (11 minute read)

Gemini 4 Carbon is now available to developers, enterprises, scientists, and consumers. Carbon features frontier performance in cybersecurity capabilities and long-horizon agentic workflows across complex knowledge work, software engineering, and scientific reasoning. It is available via the API in Google AI Studio and Gemini for Business for all paying developers and enterprises. It is also rolling out to all Google AI Ultra subscribers in Google Antigravity, the Gemini app, and AI Mode in Search.

Modern Web Guidance 1.0: The web platform expertise your coding agent is missing (15 minute read)

The Modern Web Guidance is a set of skills that embed web platform expertise, best practices, and browser compatibility data directly into coding agents. The stable release of the guidance includes a new modernization workflow, an expanded guide database, deeper human expert review for every guide, and full evaluation coverage across all of the guides. Firefox and Edge have joined Chrome to support Modern Web Guidance to improve cross-browser compatibility and contribute to the project. The project aims to ensure that anyone coding with agents can take full advantage of the power and capabilities of the modern web platform.

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Miscellaneous

Q3.5 Timelines Update: Looks Like the Intelligence Explosion Will Happen in 2027 After All (126 minute read)

A Superhuman AI Researcher (SAR) is predicted to arrive at some point in 2027, assuming there is no substantial deliberate slowdown in development. AIs that can automate all white-collar work are predicted to arrive before 2028. Companies are currently not on track to align an SAR, and using a misaligned SAR to do recursive self-improvement will have negative consequences. China will probably be able to steal the training recipe and maybe even the model weights if an SAR is trained in the near future.

Anthropic to Seek $1.3 Trillion Valuation in IPO (5 minute read)

Anthropic plans to sell 825 million shares at a range of $70 to $78 a share in its initial public offering, which is expected to start trading on Thursday of next week. The company expects to raise an additional $26 billion from big investors, including Google and AMD. Some Anthropic executives and founding members plan to sell around 23.6 million shares in the offering. At the planned valuation, Anthropic's IPO won't top SpaceX's record-breaking offering in June.

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Glue work is still harmful in the age of AI (4 minute read)

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My AI Agents Found an Unmapped Maya Site (5 minute read)

We should probably lidar the whole planet and let agents discover the rest.

Google Fi announces super network automatic carrier switching for improved speed and reception (2 minute read)

The super network feature is now rolling out to Pixel 9 and above devices with eSIMs.

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