AI BRIEFING / WeeklyMon, Nov 2, 2026 — Sun, Nov 8, 2026

Weekly AI briefing

Editor's picks come first, followed by stories repeatedly covered across days and sources.

Top stories

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    Editor's pick

    if(kakao)26: Shifting Focus from Conversational AI to Agentic AI

    if(kakao)26 highlighted the direction of transitioning from conversational AI to execution- and trust-centric agentic AI.

    Kakao Pay

  2. 02

    Editor's pick

    Anthropic amended S-1 reveals $17 billion Q3 revenue and $895.4 billion in compute commitments

    The filing reports $33.24 billion in nine-month revenue, a 1,200% year-over-year increase, and a $104 billion net loss driven largely by fair value changes.

    Hacker News

  3. 03

    Editor's pick

    GitHub announces Game Off 2026 with theme SHIFT and December 1 deadline

    Developers have until December 1, 2026, to submit games to the 14th edition of GitHub's month-long game jam, which encourages AI-assisted development and community voting.

    GitHub Blog

  4. 04

    Editor's pick

    LongCat-2.5 Launches with Native Multimodality and 1.6T Parameters for Agentic Coding

    The 1.6T parameter model achieves 88.4 on Terminal Bench v2.1 and 91.9 on BrowseComp, outperforming LongCat-2.0 and approaching frontier models like Claude-Opus-5.

    Hacker News

  5. 05

    Editor's pick

    Ex-Meta Researcher Admits Torrenting Pirated Books3 Dataset, Deleted It Due to Litigation

    Deposition testimony reveals a former Meta researcher downloaded the pirated Books3 dataset, contradicting Meta's earlier claim that it did not obtain the data via BitTorrent.

    GeekNews

Developer tool releases

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Rising repositories and models

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  1. xtools-at/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Qwen3.5-9B-UNCENSORED-heretic

    9B-sized DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Uncensored Version

  2. rails/rails

    The Heart of a Ruby Web Framework with 100,000 Commits

  3. lz4/lz4

    Ultra-fast LZ4 with 770 MB/s compression and 4950 MB/s decompression