AI news — Nov 13, 2026

8 stories, headline tone across 6 companies, and 14 agent releases.

Today's stories

Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpful The Verge
Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different. Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent for c…
Bloomberg details web of Chinese AI companies with smuggled NVIDIA chips linked to Alice Huang Engadget
Bloomberg found evidence of a network of Chinese companies smuggling NVIDIA chips with Alice Huang at the center.
Israel’s VCs see opportunity for challengers in Nvidia’s turmoil TechCrunch
Given Nvidia’s stronghold on AI and its importance in Israel, many in the country's startup ecosystem are worried about the impact of his departure.
Elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and platform.claude.com Hacker News
Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer Hacker News
Chinese frontier AI models carry the fingerprint of export-controlled GPUs Hacker News
Google’s new Gemini model is better at understanding complicated questions The Verge
Google says its new Gemini 4 Hydrogen model can give more helpful answers to complex questions, including "questions with multiple parts, hard-to-u…
No, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya site The Verge
Armed with a team of AI agents, Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed earlier this week to have discovered a potentially unmapped Maya site in Me…

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