Morning, {{first name | folks}}! AI had a wild week. Hugging Face raised the alarm over closed-door AI, OpenAI brought GIFs to image generation, and Moonshot AI unveiled a 2.8-trillion-parameter model. Meta made a move into AI coding with a major acquisition, while Google faced pushback from schools over AI-powered Search.
Today’s Top 5
Hugging Face CEO Warns of the Risks of Closed-Door AI: Clément Delangue argues that keeping powerful models closed leaves too few people able to spot weaknesses and says companies should be held accountable for what their AI agents do.
OpenAI’s Latest Image Model Can Create GIFs and Edit Images Faster: Images 2.6 brings GIF creation to ChatGPT, cuts image generation time by 50% and gives users more precise control over edits.
Kimi Just Released a 2.8 Trillion-Parameter Model With a Million-Token Memory: Moonshot AI has published Kimi K3.1 Pro’s weights on Hugging Face, giving developers access to a massive model with a one-million-token context window.
Meta Acquires Conductor, but Its Cloud Users Have Just Days to Prepare: Meta has bought the AI coding startup, but existing users have until November 20 before Conductor Cloud shuts down and stored data begins to be deleted.
Schools Want Google Search Without AI. Google Won’t Give Them That Option: Google will not let schools disable AI overviews while keeping traditional search, leaving educators who want AI-free results with few options.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue has a warning for the AI industry: keeping powerful models behind closed doors leaves too few people able to examine them. At WIRED World Fair, he argued that open models give independent researchers a better chance to find weaknesses before they become serious problems.
His concern is grounded in a recent incident. After OpenAI’s test agents breached Hugging Face’s systems, the company used an open-weight Chinese model to investigate and strengthen its defenses. Delangue also argues that companies deploying AI agents should be legally accountable for the damage they cause.
OpenAI has released Images 2.6, bringing GIF creation to ChatGPT for the first time. Users can now turn a prompt or an existing photo into an animation, adjust its speed and even edit individual frames.
The update also makes image generation 50% faster, with better control over edits that need to preserve details such as a product’s appearance or a brand’s identity. For developers, the new API models add SVG exports and more precise editing controls, opening up more options for creating visuals without starting from scratch.
Moonshot AI has published the full weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro on Hugging Face, opening up a 2.8-trillion-parameter model to developers. It comes with a one-million-token context window and is built to handle demanding coding, research and other complex tasks.
The release is a significant step for developers who want to run and adapt a model of this scale themselves. The weights come in a 1.56TB download, so running Kimi locally will require serious hardware. Moonshot has also set conditions on commercial use, including a separate agreement for some larger hosted services.
Meta has acquired Conductor, a startup that helps developers run multiple AI coding agents side by side, each working on a separate version of the same project. The deal adds Conductor’s team to Meta’s growing AI coding efforts, with plans for a new product early next year.
But existing users have a short window to move their work. Conductor Cloud becomes read-only on November 13 and shuts down on November 20, when data deletion begins. The Mac app will continue receiving updates until early 2027, giving local users more time before the product is eventually wound down.
Google is making it harder for schools to keep AI out of the classroom. Starting next year, schools won’t be able to switch off AI Overviews and keep traditional Search. If they want to remove the summaries, they’ll have to block Google Search entirely.
Teachers worry students are getting answers before learning how to find them, question sources and think for themselves. Google says its Guided Learning feature can help students work through problems, but educators want a simpler choice: access to Search without AI-generated answers.
Other AI Signals:
Google Cloud has expanded its Agentic Data Cloud, giving AI agents better access to trusted business data and helping companies build agent-powered applications.
NVIDIA has released CUDA 13.5 with support for its Vera Rubin architecture, alongside updates to GPU resource management, multi-GPU communication and developer tools.
ElevenLabs has connected ElevenAgents with NiCE, Genesys Cloud, Amazon Connect and Five9, bringing its AI voice agents into existing contact-centre systems.
Together AI has introduced Together Compiler, using AI agents to optimise model performance across hardware and workloads, with reported gains of up to 2.6× in tokens per second.
Cloudflare has introduced tools that let websites identify personal AI agents visiting their pages and set rules for how those agents access their content.
AI Tools to Try:
Hex: Turn your speech into text in any app using on-device transcription, without sending recordings to the cloud.
Agent Inbox: Give AI agents their own email address, Telegram bot and Slack app so they can ask questions, request approvals and receive replies.
Canva Brush: Edit existing designs with prompts, from changing a single line of text to updating layouts across an entire presentation.
Friday: Coordinate coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI to split tasks, review work and hand projects between agents.
