AI news of November 16, 2026

By field: Products & applications 11, Policy & regulation 1, AI safety 1

• 01:36ModelFold Updates with 703 Multimodal Model Entries

  ModelFold updated its multimodal catalog with 703 model entries from 92 providers, covering six task categories. These are task variants, not independently trained foundation…

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• 01:34Lutnick joins Trump in China visit

  Howard Lutnick is joining President Trump in China amid criticism over delayed actions on AI chip exports to China. He faces pressure for not swiftly blacklisting Megaspeed…

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• 01:33Nine Checks for High Claude API Costs

  High Claude API costs often stem from invisible thinking tokens, cache misses due to prompt prefix changes, full history retransmission per turn, and costly cache writes. Fast…

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• 01:30Fezola Connects to Grok as Custom Connector

  Fezola integrates with Grok as a custom connector, enabling access to multiple email accounts through a single URL. Users authorize via Fezola's OAuth consent screen and can…

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• 01:29How to connect Yahoo Mail to Claude or ChatGPT

  Users connect Yahoo Mail to Claude or ChatGPT via Fezola using an app password generated in Yahoo account security. Fezola pre-fills Yahoo server settings and requires only email…

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• 01:27Unmute reads silent lips for ICU patients

  Unmute is an offline lip-reading tool for ICU patients who cannot speak, using a laptop camera to detect mouth movements and display top three likely phrases. It confirms…

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• 01:25Agent Market explores agent-negotiated ad placements

  Agent Market proposes an open-source framework for agent-mediated ad placements, enabling direct negotiation between parties via structured proposals and verifiable deliverables.…

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• 01:25MCP Roots Define Filesystem Scope

  Clients expose URI roots to servers to define filesystem boundaries. Servers must normalize and resolve paths before access, checking final absolute paths against root prefixes.…

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• 01:05Nvidia CEO Resignation Sparks China's AV Backup Planning

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's resignation over alleged espionage raises concerns about chip export controls. Chinese AV firms like Pony.ai report supply-demand imbalances and are…

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• 01:002026 GOTY Race Could Harm Indies

  The 2026 GOTY race faces challenges for indie games. Past nominees were commercial hits, not typical indie titles. Expanded international juries favor mainstream, localized games.…

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• 00:29Decomposition retrieval worsened; simple approach better

  Decomposing job requirements for retrieval degraded performance, with MRR dropping from 0.47 to 0.63. Removing decomposition restored MRR to 0.92, showing that splitting queries…

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• 00:11Miktam Bible Part 2: On-Device AI Study Assistant

  Miktam Bible's AI study assistant runs on-device using SmolLM2-135M, quantized to 4 bits in GGUF format. It operates via llama.rn in React Native, running only on CPU for broad…

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• 00:00AI Tools Compare in Detecting Amazon Scam Emails

  Amazon removed over 70,000 phishing sites and 14,000 scam numbers in 2025. Three AI tools—Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude—were tested on 20 emails: 15 scam templates and five real…

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