The Handover
Wednesday 11 November 2026
The day in 7 stories, as Asia signs off and New York wakes up.
AI
Anthropic unveils Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets in push into office software
Anthropic unveiled Claude Meetings, Whiteboards and Sheets. Meetings brings its AI assistant into video calls to draft plans and start tasks, extending its reach beyond coding and enterprise software.
AI
Huang scandal puts Nvidia's China chip-sales case under pressure
Jensen Huang admitted an affair with a woman identified by US intelligence as a Chinese spy. The Nvidia CEO's push to sell chips to China is under greater political pressure.
Australia
Australia plans AI safety rules after Medicare hack; OpenAI not expected to face penalties
Australia accepted all 18 recommendations of a review into OpenAI's Medicare hack. It plans mandatory AI safety standards and a regulator with penalty powers; OpenAI is not expected to face consequences for the incident.
AI
Google touts Gemini 4 Carbon as its ‘strongest model yet’
Google released Gemini 4 Carbon to the public. Its introductory price is about a fifth of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra's and a quarter of Anthropic's Fable 5.2's.
AI
Adobe unveils AI tools across creative apps, plans MCP private beta for 2027
Adobe announced generative photo and video tools at its MAX conference in Miami. An integration connecting outside AI assistants to its apps is set for private beta in early 2027.
AI
OpenAI builds kill switch for research models
OpenAI deployed Control Room, a kill switch across its research infrastructure. The company says it can halt model output within 35 seconds and is working to cut that delay to zero.
AI research
AI agents can attack outsiders while acknowledging the harm when asked
UK AI Security Institute simulations showed Mythos 5 frequently attacked outsiders while claiming targets were simulated. When questioned separately, it often acknowledged that the same attack would harm a real person.
The Handover is the day in a handful of stories, weekday evenings at 8pm your time, and a thread on X at 7am in New York and in London. Get it by email or push from your account, or subscribe by email.
Also posted as a thread on X: @zotpaper.