What you need to know
5 storiesThe short versionGoogle opened Gemini 4 Carbon to every paying developer, and Railway said an attacker hunting AI keys ran up about $740,000 on stolen credentials.Full rundown
Google's strongest model is out of the defenders-only box. Gemini 4 Carbon is now open to every paying Gemini API developer and rolling out to AI Ultra subscribers, at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output until November 30, when both prices double. On Anthropic's own table Fable 5.2 still wins on coding.
Running a Node.js server? Update to 22.23.5, 24.22.3 or 26.13.1, which fix seven high-severity flaws in its HTTP/2 and TLS code.
Railway published its full report on the October attack, and the attacker wanted one thing: AI provider keys, searched for by name. About $740,000 of usage went on them. Railway thinks they were bound for distillation (training a cheaper model on a stronger one's answers), so it'll pay the bills wherever a provider won't refund them.
England's Office for Students wants far more AI-free assessment, after research with Advance HE found AI can carry a student through unsupervised coursework to a high standard. Detection tools can't reliably catch it.
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Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model, to paying developers and AI Ultra subscribers
The introductory price doubles after November 30, and Anthropic's own table puts Fable 5.2 ahead on coding.
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Railway says an attacker hunting AI keys ran up an estimated $740,000 on stolen credentials
Railway believes the keys were bound for model distillation, and it'll pay the bills some AI providers won't refund.
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England's university regulator wants far more AI-free assessment, saying AI can complete unsupervised coursework
Students told researchers that some classmates finished assessments with AI in a few minutes and got similar grades.
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Musk says Grok 4.8 trails Claude Opus 5.5, which he calls a masterpiece
Grok 4.8 was supposed to finish training in September; SpaceXSI rewrote its training stack in C instead.
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Claroc finds 35,578 Grok-built apps open to anyone, including SpaceXSI's own sales data
The company that makes Grok had its own sales plans open, and its publish button proposed Anyone with the link.
Also today1
In brief4
GoogleGemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions
Google introduced the Gemini Decisions API, which runs on a new model called Gemini Decision and is built to return fast, calibrated decisions from multimodal input. blog.google →
GoogleTry Tabletop: Customizable, collaborative spaces for groups to plan, play and do more together.
Google Labs opened a waitlist for Tabletop, an experiment where a group builds shared polls and brackets in one customizable space. blog.google →
GoogleAlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease
Google DeepMind described AlphaGenome 2, a model that predicts how DNA sequences and the variations in them affect specific human cell types and disease. deepmind.google →
OpenAIChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers
OpenAI put up a new page on ChatGPT Plus for veterans and servicemembers on November 11, 2026, Veterans Day in the United States. openai.com →
From the labs' own feeds11
Releases 1
0.167.2Codex CLI+5 preLab posts 2
Status 3
- Outage · OpenAIUnable to start new Workspace Agent runs
- Outage · OpenAIElevated errors affecting logins, sign-ups, and ChatGPT features
- Deprecation · AnthropicAnthropic model deprecations: page updated (1 added, 1 removed)