# forck.live — 10–16 November 2025 > AI lab announcements, news reports and podcasts. forck.live follows what companies announce about their own products. Press may corroborate an official story; it never leads and never appears as an item of its own. A missing date stays missing. A title is the publisher's words — where a company does not publish in English, an English rendering is listed separately as `Title in English` and named as this site's translation, never as theirs. This file is one issue of the weekly archive: every confirmed first-party announcement of ISO week 2025-W46, 10–16 November 2025, newest first. The window never moves, so this URL always names the same seven days — but a post published inside them and detected later is added when it arrives, so a closed week can still gain entries. Every entry is one first-party announcement, and carries the same eight fields in this order before any others: Company · Announced · Category · Coverage · Announcement · Group · Source · Record `Source` is the company's own page the announcement was traced to and `Record` is this site's page for it. Both are safe to cite. `Coverage` is a number of outlets, or `not counted` — which means this record reached no count of its own, never that nobody wrote about it. `Category` is this tracker's own analysis, and is authoritative wherever it is stated. `not stated` means either that nothing has analysed the post yet or that the analysis placed it outside this taxonomy; neither is a verdict about the announcement. `Announcement` is whether the post is news of something the company did, rather than a how-to, a customer story, a changelog listing or a staffing note. `Group` is which of this record's groups the entry falls in, carried on the entry itself so it holds where the groups are headings and where they are not. One of: `models`, `covered`, `announcements`, `routine`. Anything after `Record` is held detail that only some announcements carry. - This week's page: https://forck.live/week/2025-W46 - The current issue, and the catalogue of the other weeks: https://forck.live/briefing.md - Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt ## Announcements ### Sakana AI — Announcing Our Series B - Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai) - Announced: 2025-11-16T15:00:00+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://sakana.ai/series-b - Record: https://forck.live/items/4703-announcing-our-series-b - Subject: Sakana models Sakana AI announced it has raised 32 billion yen (200 million US dollars) in Series B funding to accelerate its mission of developing sustainable AI and implementing AI that benefits Japan. ### Harvey — How We Approach Design at Harvey - Company: Harvey (harvey.ai) - Announced: 2025-11-14T14:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/how-we-approach-design-at-harvey - Record: https://forck.live/items/17649-how-we-approach-design-at-harvey - Subject: Harvey Harvey published its design principles for its AI platform, emphasizing domain awareness, effortless complexity, and intentional design. The company described features such as Review Tables in Vault and Workflow Builder that automate tasks while preserving lawyer workflows and user oversight. Harvey's design team uses the product daily, collaborates with customers through its Product Operations team, and draws on legal expertise from colleagues with legal backgrounds. ### OpenAI — Introducing OpenAI for Ireland - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-11-14T04:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-for-ireland - Record: https://forck.live/items/382-introducing-openai-for-ireland - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI launches a partnership initiative called 'OpenAI for Ireland' with the Irish Government, Dogpatch Labs, and Patch to support SMEs, founders, and young builders in using AI. ### Cognition — Devin's 2025 Performance Review: Learnings From 18 Months of Agents At Work - Company: Cognition (cognition.com) - Announced: 2025-11-14 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://cognition.com/blog/devin-annual-performance-review-2025 - Record: https://forck.live/items/7685-devin-s-2025-performance-review-learnings-from-18-months-of-agents-at-work - Subject: Devin / SWE Cognition published a performance review of its AI agent Devin, 18 months after launch, highlighting that Devin is 4x faster at problem solving, 2x more efficient in resource consumption, and has a 67% PR merge rate. The review notes strengths in junior execution at scale and senior intelligence on demand, as well as areas for improvement. ### AMD — Join the AMD Open Robotics Hackathon - Company: AMD (amd.com) - Announced: 2025-11-13T21:37:26+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/amd/openroboticshackathon - Record: https://forck.live/items/1587-join-the-amd-open-robotics-hackathon AMD, Hugging Face, and Data Monsters announce the AMD Open Robotics Hackathon, a hands-on competition for robotics enthusiasts, with in-person events in Tokyo (Dec 5-7, 2025) and Paris (Dec 12-14, 2025). Participants form teams, use LeRobot and AMD hardware, and compete for prizes up to $10,000. ### Harvey — GPT-5.1, Now Live in Harvey - Company: Harvey (harvey.ai) - Announced: 2025-11-13T19:15:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/gpt-5-1-now-live-in-harvey - Record: https://forck.live/items/17650-gpt-5-1-now-live-in-harvey - Subject: Harvey Harvey made GPT-5.1, OpenAI's newest frontier model, available to eligible clients in the US and EU via the model selector over the next 24 hours. The model was trained with an emphasis on dynamic thinking times and improvements in formatting, style, and personality. On Harvey's BigLaw Bench evaluation suite, GPT-5.1 achieved a score of 91.8%, the highest yet for the GPT family of models. ### Google Research — Separating natural forests from other tree cover with AI for deforestation-free supply chains - Company: Google Research (research.google) - Announced: 2025-11-13T19:04:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://research.google/blog/separating-natural-forests-from-other-tree-cover-with-ai-for-deforestation-free-supply-chains/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/1390-separating-natural-forests-from-other-tree-cover-with-ai-for-deforestation - Subject: Research Google Research and Google DeepMind release Natural Forests of the World 2020, a globally consistent 10-meter resolution map distinguishing natural forests from other tree cover, published in Nature Scientific Data. The map uses a multi-modal temporal-spatial vision transformer (MTSViT) model and achieves 92.2% accuracy. It aims to support deforestation-free regulations like the EUDR. ### Google DeepMind — SIMA 2: An Agent that Plays, Reasons, and Learns With You in Virtual 3D Worlds - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2025-11-13T14:52:18+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/1278-sima-2-an-agent-that-plays-reasons-and-learns-with-you-in-virtual-3d-worlds - Subject: Gemini Google DeepMind introduces SIMA 2, a Gemini-powered AI agent that can think, understand, and take actions in interactive environments. ### Harvey — Harvey Expands Law School Program to the United Kingdom - Company: Harvey (harvey.ai) - Announced: 2025-11-13T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/harvey-expands-law-school-program-to-the-united-kingdom - Record: https://forck.live/items/17651-harvey-expands-law-school-program-to-the-united-kingdom - Subject: Harvey Harvey expanded its Law School Program to the UK, partnering with Oxford University Faculty of Law, The University of Law, King's College London, and BPP University Law School to provide access to its generative AI platform for legal education and training. ### OpenAI — Understanding neural networks through sparse circuits - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-11-13T10:00:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/understanding-neural-networks-through-sparse-circuits - Record: https://forck.live/items/383-understanding-neural-networks-through-sparse-circuits - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI is researching mechanistic interpretability and a new sparse model approach to improve transparency and safety of AI systems. ### Google Research — A new quantum toolkit for optimization - Company: Google Research (research.google) - Announced: 2025-11-13T07:27:00+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://research.google/blog/a-new-quantum-toolkit-for-optimization/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/1391-a-new-quantum-toolkit-for-optimization - Subject: Research Google Quantum AI researchers introduce Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI), a quantum algorithm that can solve certain optimization problems (e.g., optimal polynomial intersection) that are intractable for classical computers, as published in a recent Nature paper. ### Hugging Face — Building for an Open Future - our new partnership with Google Cloud - Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co) - Announced: 2025-11-13 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/google-cloud - Record: https://forck.live/items/1588-building-for-an-open-future-our-new-partnership-with-google-cloud - Subject: Platform Hugging Face announces a new strategic partnership with Google Cloud to enable companies to build AI with open models, including a CDN Gateway for faster model downloads and integration with Google Cloud services. ### OpenAI — Introducing group chats in ChatGPT - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-11-13 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/group-chats-in-chatgpt - Record: https://forck.live/items/386-introducing-group-chats-in-chatgpt - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI introduced group chats, allowing multiple users to collaborate with ChatGPT in the same conversation. ### OpenAI — How Philips is scaling AI literacy across 70,000 employees - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-11-13 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/philips - Record: https://forck.live/items/385-how-philips-is-scaling-ai-literacy-across-70-000-employees - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API Philips is scaling AI literacy across 70,000 employees using ChatGPT Enterprise to promote responsible AI use and improve healthcare outcomes. ### OpenAI — Introducing GPT-5.1 for developers - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-11-13 - Category: model-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-for-developers - Record: https://forck.live/items/384-introducing-gpt-5-1-for-developers - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API GPT-5.1 is now available in the API with faster adaptive reasoning, extended prompt caching, improved coding performance, and new apply_patch and shell tools. ### Alibaba — Qwen DeepResearch: When Inspiration Becomes Its Own Reason - Company: Alibaba (alibaba.com) - Announced: 2025-11-12T20:59:26+00:00 - Category: capability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-deepresearch - Record: https://forck.live/items/4586-qwen-deepresearch-when-inspiration-becomes-its-own-reason - Subject: Qwen Alibaba's Qwen announces an updated version of its deep research tool, Qwen DeepResearch 2511, featuring a multi-agent collaborative mechanism, improved anti-hallucination, report quality, and new output formats like web pages and podcasts. ### Google Research — Differentially private machine learning at scale with JAX-Privacy - Company: Google Research (research.google) - Announced: 2025-11-12T15:32:00+00:00 - Category: developer-tool-release - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://research.google/blog/differentially-private-machine-learning-at-scale-with-jax-privacy/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/1392-differentially-private-machine-learning-at-scale-with-jax-privacy - Subject: Research Google Research announces the release of JAX-Privacy 1.0, a library for differentially private machine learning on JAX, designed for scalability and modularity. ### ElevenLabs — Harvey and ElevenLabs Partner to Give Lawyers a Global Voice - Company: ElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io) - Announced: 2025-11-12T12:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/harvey - Record: https://forck.live/items/3380-harvey-and-elevenlabs-partner-to-give-lawyers-a-global-voice - Subject: Voice AI Harvey and ElevenLabs announced a partnership to give lawyers a global voice. ### OpenAI — Neuro drives national retail wins with ChatGPT Business - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-11-12T11:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://openai.com/index/neurogum - Record: https://forck.live/items/387-neuro-drives-national-retail-wins-with-chatgpt-business - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API Neuro uses ChatGPT Business to scale nationwide with fewer than 70 employees, achieving time savings, cost reductions, and faster execution across sales and operations. ### OpenAI — Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-11-12T06:00:00+00:00 - Category: safety-policy-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion - Record: https://forck.live/items/388-fighting-the-new-york-times-invasion-of-user-privacy - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI is fighting the New York Times' demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and accelerating new security and privacy protections. ### Perceptron — Perceptron Platform - Company: Perceptron (perceptron.inc) - Announced: 2025-11-12 - Category: product-launch - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://www.perceptron.inc/blog/perceptron-platform - Record: https://forck.live/items/18620-perceptron-platform - Subject: Perceptron Isaac / Perceptron Mk1 Perceptron announced the first release of its API platform, designed for Physical AI applications. The platform includes a multimodal API supporting image and text input, visual grounding, and structured outputs, along with a Python-first SDK. To kickstart development, the Isaac 0.1 model will be free to use for one week via the API. ### World Labs — Marble: A Multimodal World Model - Company: World Labs (worldlabs.ai) - Announced: 2025-11-12 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/marble-world-model - Record: https://forck.live/items/7344-marble-a-multimodal-world-model - Subject: Marble / Atlas World Labs is making Marble, a generative multimodal world model, generally available to anyone. Marble can create 3D worlds from text, images, video, or coarse 3D layouts, and allows interactive editing, expanding, and combining of worlds. The company also launches Marble Labs, a creative hub with tutorials and case studies, and Chisel, a 3D sculpting tool for advanced users. ### OpenAI — GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-11-12 - Category: model-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1 - Record: https://forck.live/items/390-gpt-5-1-a-smarter-more-conversational-chatgpt - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI is upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new customization options for ChatGPT's tone and style. GPT-5.1 begins rolling out today to paid users. ### OpenAI — GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking System Card Addendum - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-11-12 - Category: model-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card-addendum-gpt-5-1 - Record: https://forck.live/items/389-gpt-5-1-instant-and-gpt-5-1-thinking-system-card-addendum - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI released a system card addendum for GPT-5.1 Instant and Thinking that provides updated safety metrics, including new evaluations for mental health and emotional reliance. ### ElevenLabs — Sir Michael Caine partners with ElevenLabs and joins new Iconic Marketplace - Company: ElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io) - Announced: 2025-11-11T12:00:00+00:00 - Category: partnership-acquisition - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/announcing-partnership-with-sir-michael-caine-to-newly-launched-iconic-marketplace - Record: https://forck.live/items/3381-sir-michael-caine-partners-with-elevenlabs-and-joins-new-iconic-marketplace - Subject: Voice AI Sir Michael Caine partners with ElevenLabs and joins the new Iconic Marketplace. ### ElevenLabs — Introducing Scribe v2 Realtime - Company: ElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io) - Announced: 2025-11-11T12:00:00+00:00 - Category: new-model - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-scribe-v2-realtime - Record: https://forck.live/items/3379-introducing-scribe-v2-realtime - Subject: Voice AI ElevenLabs introduced Scribe v2 Realtime. ### ElevenLabs — ElevenLabs welcomes Matthew McConaughey as a new investor - Company: ElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io) - Announced: 2025-11-11T12:00:00+00:00 - Category: funding-company-news - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/elevenlabs-welcomes-matthew-mcconaughey-as-new-investor - Record: https://forck.live/items/3378-elevenlabs-welcomes-matthew-mcconaughey-as-a-new-investor - Subject: Voice AI ElevenLabs announces that Matthew McConaughey has become a new investor in the company. ### Google DeepMind — Teaching AI to see the world more like we do - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2025-11-11T11:49:13+00:00 - Category: research-paper - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/teaching-ai-to-see-the-world-more-like-we-do/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/1279-teaching-ai-to-see-the-world-more-like-we-do - Subject: Gemini Google DeepMind announces a new paper analyzing how AI systems organize the visual world differently from humans. ### Baidu — ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking: A Breakthrough in Multimodal AI - Company: Baidu (baidu.com) - Announced: 2025-11-11 - Category: model-update - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: models - Source: https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/posts/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b-thinking/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/4650-ernie-4-5-vl-28b-a3b-thinking-a-breakthrough-in-multimodal-ai - Subject: ERNIE Baidu announces ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, an upgraded multimodal model with enhanced reasoning, visual grounding, and tool utilization capabilities, achieving performance close to top flagship models while activating only 3B parameters. ### Google DeepMind — How AI is giving Northern Ireland teachers time back - Company: Google DeepMind (deepmind.google) - Announced: 2025-11-10T16:50:39+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/how-ai-is-giving-northern-ireland-teachers-time-back/ - Record: https://forck.live/items/1280-how-ai-is-giving-northern-ireland-teachers-time-back - Subject: Gemini A six-month pilot with Northern Ireland's C2k initiative showed that using Gemini and other generative AI tools saved teachers an average of 10 hours per week. ### Vercel — Vercel: The anti-vendor-lock-in cloud - Company: Vercel (vercel.com) - Announced: 2025-11-10T13:00:00+00:00 - Category: not stated - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: no - Group: routine - Source: https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-the-anti-vendor-lock-in-cloud - Record: https://forck.live/items/20790-vercel-the-anti-vendor-lock-in-cloud - Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway Vercel argues that its platform avoids vendor lock-in by using framework-defined infrastructure, where developers write code for frameworks like Next.js rather than proprietary cloud APIs. The post states that approximately 70% of Next.js applications run outside of Vercel, and that Next.js 16's Build Adapters provide a standard API available to all platforms. ### OpenAI — Free ChatGPT for transitioning U.S. servicemembers and veterans - Company: OpenAI (openai.com) - Announced: 2025-11-10T02:00:00+00:00 - Category: availability-change - Coverage: not counted - Announcement: yes - Group: announcements - Source: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-veterans - Record: https://forck.live/items/391-free-chatgpt-for-transitioning-u-s-servicemembers-and-veterans - Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API OpenAI is offering a free year of ChatGPT Plus to U.S. servicemembers and veterans within 12 months of retirement or separation to support their transition to civilian life.