Top 10 AI posts for Nov 5, 2026
The ten AI stories on X that mattered most in the 48 hours to Nov 5, 8:07 AM ET, one post per story and one per person, ranked by how big the news is and how fast it was spreading. The list is re-ranked every two hours; this page keeps the latest one for the day.
Picked from the original posts of 30 accounts we follow for AI news, plus a scan of other recent AI posts. Each one was seen at least 5K times on X. Hot means more than 10K views.
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Number 1. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Hot: seen more than 10K times on X
Anthropic introduced FlashProve, research that lets developers verify whether a response came from a given AI model, says it is substantially more efficient than prior open-source methods, and is open-sourcing the code.
What it means for your workDown the road this could let you prove which model answered a customer or passed an audit. It is research for now, so nothing to change today.
New Anthropic research: progress on provable inference for large language models. Here, we introduce FlashProve. Building on established cryptographic techniques, FlashProve allows developers to verify whether a given response came from a given AI model. It’s substantially more efficient than prior open-source methods for doing so. These proofs have a range of applications. They can, for instance, make it harder for attackers to hijack a chat, or enable safety evaluators to verify that the model they’re testing is the same one being served to customers. For our full write-up, see here:…
653K views 5.2K likes 537 reposts 625 replies Open post on X by @AnthropicAI
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Number 2. cat @_catwu Hot: seen more than 10K times on X
Cat Wu says she is joining OpenAI to lead product management for Core Products, after work at Anthropic, and will build agents with the PM team led by Thibault Sottiaux.
What it means for your workA senior product leader is moving to OpenAI's core products team. Watch for agent and product changes in ChatGPT and related tools as that team grows.
Some news: I’m joining OpenAI to lead product management for Core Products! I have a lot of respect for OpenAI for showing the world that scaling works, for bringing AI to over a billion people, and for believing great products are core to the mission. I’m excited to work with @thsottiaux, an incredible PM team, and everyone across OpenAI. Together, we’ll build agents that have your back and your team’s, and keep you in control, so you get more time for the people and work you love. Lots to learn, and lots to build. Please keep your feedback coming!
2.7M views 15K likes 646 reposts 1.7K replies Open post on X by @_catwu
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Number 3. Wall St Engine @wallstengine Hot: seen more than 10K times on X
Oracle reportedly canceled a $7B AI chip leasing deal with Tencent after U.S. pressure, per the FT. The five-year deal would have given Tencent access to as many as 100,000 advanced AI chips in Southeast Asia.
What it means for your workAnother sign that U.S. export pressure is shaping who can rent advanced AI chips abroad. Plan capacity with the risk that cross-border cloud GPU deals can be pulled.
Oracle $ORCL has reportedly canceled a $7B AI chip leasing deal with Tencent following pressure from the Trump administration, according to the FT. The five-year agreement would have given Tencent access to as many as 100,000 advanced AI chips across Oracle data centers in Southeast Asia, making it Tencent's largest overseas chip leasing deal. The arrangement would have allowed Tencent to use advanced computing hardware unavailable inside China because of U.S. and Chinese restrictions. U.S. officials reportedly approached Oracle with concerns about the agreement. Meanwhile, senior Chinese…
107K views 256 likes 31 reposts 21 replies Open post on X by @wallstengine
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Number 4. ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs Hot: seen more than 10K times on X
Background subagents in Claude Code now use less of your usage limit. Status updates are written by Haiku 5.5 from short notes instead of re-reading the whole conversation, cutting each update's cost about 99%.
What it means for your workIf you run long Claude Code jobs with background subagents, you should hit your usage limit later. Nothing to change; just update the app.
Background subagents in Claude Code now use less of your usage limit. A running subagent updates its status line every 30 seconds, and each update used to re-read its whole conversation. Now Haiku 5.5 writes it from short notes instead, so each update costs about 99% less. https://t.co/u4maCuWq6A
1.7M views 20K likes 780 reposts 583 replies Open post on X by @ClaudeDevs
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Number 5. OpenAI @OpenAI Hot: seen more than 10K times on X
OpenAI built an autonomous cyber vuln discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline. In one run with an upcoming cyber model, it validated and generated patches for 948 Linux kernel local privilege escalation bugs.
What it means for your workAgentic security tooling is moving from demo to scale. If you ship software, expect AI-driven vuln find-and-patch loops to show up in scanners and vendor tooling next.
Our security researchers built an autonomous cyber vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline. In a single run with an upcoming cyber model, it validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel at a total API https://t.co/Nu2I0n2ayI
1.5M views 10K likes 1K reposts 539 replies Open post on X by @OpenAI
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Number 6. Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot Hot: seen more than 10K times on X
Moonshot released the model weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro and says it will keep advancing open intelligence.
What it means for your workA top open model you can host yourself or use through providers that offer it. Worth a test if you want frontier-class coding help without sending data to a closed lab.
Releasing the model weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro: https://t.co/tJXcYUeSCj We'll keep advancing open intelligence. https://t.co/BbWCJUYYSQ
771K views 7.7K likes 781 reposts 348 replies Open post on X by @Kimi_Moonshot
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Number 7. Ricursive Intelligence @RicursiveAI Hot: seen more than 10K times on X
Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B dense model trained from scratch. It claims a new state of the art for U.S. open-weight models on agentic coding tasks, beating several much larger open models.
What it means for your workAnother strong U.S. open coding model to bench against your stack. Useful if you want agentic coding locally or through a U.S. open-weight host.
Today we release Ripple-65B Preview, our 65B dense LLM we pretrained from scratch. Ripple sets a new state-of-the-art for U.S. open-weight models in agentic coding tasks, surpassing significantly larger models including Muse Spark Open-816B, Beam-501B, Inkling-975B, and Nemotron 3 Ultra-550B. Learn more: https://t.co/Pe04ZKhkE9
581K views 3.9K likes 476 reposts 350 replies Open post on X by @RicursiveAI
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Number 8. OpenCode @opencode Hot: seen more than 10K times on X
OpenCode says Crouton Alpha, a stealth model, is free for the next week, with 1M context, multi-modal support, no training on data, and limits by region.
What it means for your workA free week to try a long-context multi-modal coding model. Good window to bench it on your real repos before the free period ends.
Crouton Alpha (stealth model) is free for the next week 1M Context Multi-modal No training on data Limited to certain regions
322K views 4.4K likes 141 reposts 229 replies Open post on X by @opencode
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Number 9. fal @fal Hot: seen more than 10K times on X
fal announced combined Series E and F funding of $1.65B, with Series E led by Sequoia and Series F led by Bessemer, plus continued investment from Nvidia.
What it means for your workA major AI media infrastructure player just got a huge war chest. Expect more capacity and features if you generate images, video, or other media through fal.
Today, we’re announcing we raised our Series E & F rounds for a combined total of $1.65B. Our Series E was led by @sequoia and our Series F was led by @BessemerVP with continued investment from @nvidia. We’re excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible even more next year and this funding will enable the team to build the way we want to.
787K views 1.4K likes 110 reposts 149 replies Open post on X by @fal
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Number 10. Baidu Research @BaiduResearch Hot: seen more than 10K times on X
Baidu Research open-sourced ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, a 280B-parameter model with 14B active per token, and says it already matches state of the art at its size, with the full Flash model still coming.
What it means for your workA large sparse open model you can evaluate for throughput-sensitive workloads. Watch for the full Flash release if MoE efficiency matters to your stack.
ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base is now open source - a 280B-parameter model with 14B active per token, and it already matches SOTA at its size! And this is just the start - the full ERNIE 5.5 Flash is on its way. 👀
35K views 620 likes 69 reposts 50 replies Open post on X by @BaiduResearch
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