Nov 12, 2026
OpenAI Adds Verified Business Profiles and AI Agents to ChatGPT
OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT in beta, letting companies claim verified profiles, track engagement, and launch AI agents that answer customer questions. The move pushes ChatGPT toward becoming a consumer discovery and commerce layer.
Nov 12, 2026
Anthropic IPO Is 'Multiple Times Oversubscribed' as Roadshow Begins
Anthropic's roadshow kicked off with massive demand as the Claude maker's IPO is already multiple times oversubscribed, raising up to $90.4 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation. Claude traffic surged 24% in October as the company heads toward a November 19 Nasdaq debut.
Nov 12, 2026
Cognizant Splits 68,000 Staff Into Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini Units
Cognizant has created three dedicated delivery units aligned to Anthropic's Claude (25,000+ staff), OpenAI (25,000+), and Google's Gemini (18,000+), all announced within 22 days. The IT services giant is betting that deep specialization plus managed services will win enterprise AI deployment contracts.
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Inkling 2 Small: Hosted on Tinker Now, Open Weights Planned Next Week
Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-parameter MoE model with 17B active per token, is available today via Tinker's hosted API with closed weights. The company intends to release the full weights under an Apache 2.0 license next week after safety evaluations, relative to its November 5 announcement. The model supports text and image inputs (no audio), offers 64K and 256K context variants, and its per-token pricing on Tinker is operation-specific: prefill costs $0.30 per million tokens ($0.03 cached), sampling costs $1.00, and training costs $1.50 for the 64K context version. This article clarifies the current deployment routes, exact context limits, input modalities, and cost structure to help developers choose between immediate hosted access and future self-hosting.
Oct 30, 2026
Statistics Canada’s AI jobs study separates hiring from departures
The October 28 paper measures worker flows; potential AI exposure does not show whether employers adopted it.
Oct 29, 2026
CNIB will lead Canadian AI-glasses training under Meta partnership
Meta’s October 29 partnership funds peer-led learning, accessible resources and community feedback. A separate donation path runs through CNIB’s Come to Work employment program.