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AI news for Nov 15, 2026

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet for user-approved purchases · LangChain raises $300 million to expand agent infrastructure · Salesforce releases SOV-Transcribe-1 for controllable speech recognition

News card: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet for user-approved purchases
OpenAI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet for user-approved purchases

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Wallet on November 13 for eligible adult US Pro subscribers using dots. Each purchase requires user review and a security check, while payment tokens keep actual card details away from agents and merchants.

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LangChain

LangChain raises $300 million to expand agent infrastructure

LangChain announced a $300 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation on November 13, led by CapitalG. The funding supports its work on infrastructure for running, improving and governing enterprise agents through LangSmith.

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News card: Salesforce releases SOV-Transcribe-1 for controllable speech recognition
Hugging Face

Salesforce releases SOV-Transcribe-1 for controllable speech recognition

Salesforce released SOV-Transcribe-1 on November 12 under Apache 2.0 for non-streaming speech recognition. Its instruction-controlled formatting and contextual keyword support give developers more control over transcription on their own infrastructure.

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News card: Google reports multiagent advances in science and engineering
Google Research

Google reports multiagent advances in science and engineering

Google Research reported November 13 results from Antigravity’s /teamwork collaborations with human experts across mathematics, chemistry and systems engineering. The work includes formal verification and kernel optimization, illustrating how coordinated agents can support research and infrastructure development.

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News card: NVIDIA demonstrates robot simulation with SimReady assets
Hugging Face

NVIDIA demonstrates robot simulation with SimReady assets

NVIDIA’s November 13 walkthrough combines reusable SimReady robot and object assets in Isaac Sim for a beverage-can pick-and-place task with agent-generated controls. Authored physics properties and validation evidence help developers compose and check simulation scenes.

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GitHub

GitHub Copilot app adds general Enterprise Server support

GitHub made Enterprise Server support generally available in Copilot app 1.2.0 and later on November 13, bringing remote repositories, issues and pull requests into the app. Users must first sign in with a GitHub.com or GHE.com account; cloud sessions remain unavailable for Enterprise Server.

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News card: GitHub schedules December retirements for selected Copilot models
GitHub

GitHub schedules December retirements for selected Copilot models

GitHub announced on November 13 that selected Copilot models will retire on December 14 and published suggested replacements. Teams should update integrations and model policies; Claude Haiku 4.5 remains available to individual subscribers on annual plans.

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News card: Anthropic details Anvil for automated safeguard testing
Anthropic

Anthropic details Anvil for automated safeguard testing

Anthropic’s November 12 report says its Anvil system found stronger jailbreaks more efficiently than expert red-teamers in internal safeguard evaluations. The system relies on privileged model access and testing conditions, so the findings demonstrate a defensive evaluation method rather than equivalent capabilities for ordinary users.

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News card: Anthropic offers self-hosted Claude Managed Agents
Anthropic

Anthropic offers self-hosted Claude Managed Agents

Anthropic’s November 12 release notes introduced self-hosted Claude Managed Agents, with access requested through account teams. Customers can keep the agent service and session history on their infrastructure while sending model requests to a chosen provider, separating service hosting from inference.

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News card: Vercel releases Workflow SDK 5 for durable agent workloads
Vercel

Vercel releases Workflow SDK 5 for durable agent workloads

Vercel announced Workflow SDK 5 on November 12 with encrypted payloads, regional run placement and lower execution overhead for automation and agent loops. Configured failover can move step execution to a fallback region, while run state stays in its original region.

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