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Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 and said 1,000 of its agents formalised Fermat’s Last Theorem in Lean in 30 hours.

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The S&P 500 rose 2.3% on Monday, its best day since April, as Brent fell 5.8% to $92.57 a barrel.

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A Commerce Department inquiry into Megaspeed was moved to the Justice Department after Nvidia contacted officials, according to the New York Times.

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Anthropic says Fable 5.2 agents formalised Fermat’s Last Theorem in 30 hours

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, one model under two sets of safeguards, with gains in coding, science and mathematics. The results come from the company’s own testing.

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Brent falls to its lowest close since August Brent crude futures, daily close, $ a barrel
$80 $100 $110 $120 $130 Sep 2026 Oct Nov $92.57

Source: Yahoo Finance. Latest data: 9 November 2026.

Brent settled at $92.57 on 9 November, down from $117.64 on 30 October. It was the lowest close since 31 August, when the contract settled at $90.49.

Ethan Mollickprofessor of entrepreneurship and author of One Useful Thing

Mollick calls Fable 5.2 almost general intelligence, with jagged edges

Mollick argued that Fable 5.2 comes close to his working definition of artificial general intelligence, but remains uneven in taste and judgement rather than in simple errors.

Megaspeed inquiry was moved after Nvidia contacted Commerce officials

A Commerce Department inquiry into Megaspeed, the Nvidia chip buyer at the centre of the Jensen Huang affair, was transferred to the Justice Department after an Nvidia executive reached out, according to the New York Times.

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Anthropic sends bankers its IPO pricing, then retracts it

Anthropic sent bankers a filing showing about 867 million shares at $70–80 each, then said the pricing details were inaccurate, according to emails seen by Reuters.

Reuters, via The Standard

Meta releases Muse Ember, a small model priced for agent work

Meta released Muse Ember at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, aimed at the tool calls and subtasks agents repeat all day.

· Meta

Google adds 2 TPU systems for confidential inference and long contexts

Google expanded its eighth-generation TPUs with the 8tx, which keeps data encrypted during computation, and the 8i Max, which doubles compute and memory bandwidth per package.

· Google
New on arXiv today
Probability

Empirical approximation of Lₚ norms for p ∈ (2, ∞)

Dai et al.

For an \(N\)-dimensional subspace with a Nikol’skii-type condition, order \(N \log N\) independent samples approximate every \(L_p\) norm in it to within \(1 \pm \varepsilon\), with exponentially small failure probability.

arXiv:2611.08896 ·
Optimization

e-means: outperforming k-means (in one-tenth the epochs)

Bessa et al.

A mini-batch k-means with exponential moving averages and scaling-law hyperparameters beats the loss of Lloyd’s algorithm after 25 epochs in 1.4 to 2.6 epochs.

arXiv:2611.09501 ·
Reasoning and inference

Where Should Learning Live? Regret Analysis for Text, Parameter, and Joint Adaptation

Kim et al.

Choosing prompts and adapters repeatedly during deployment has an excess loss that splits into selection regret, family restriction and deployment history; limiting switches gives sublinear regret.

arXiv:2611.09701 ·
Quantitative finance

The End-of-Day Reversal After 2019: A Pre-Registered Test on S&P 500 Stocks Excluding Heavily Traded Names

Vidovich and Zerjal

A pre-registered test finds the last-half-hour reversal in US stocks still present in 2023–2026 at about 3 basis points a day, but absent in 2020–2022 and much weaker on the full index.

arXiv:2611.09286 ·

S&P 500 has its best day since April as oil falls

The S&P 500 rose 2.3% to 7,549.94 on Monday, recovering most of last week’s loss, as lower oil prices eased inflation worries.

S&P 500, index points7,549.94
Daily closes, 11 May to 9 Nov 2026 · Yahoo Finance
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Brent settles at its lowest since August on hopes of Iran talks

Brent crude fell 5.8% to $92.57 a barrel on Monday, its lowest close since 31 August, after Donald Trump said renewed strikes on Iran were highly unlikely if talks progressed.

· Associated Press · Yahoo Finance: Brent futures