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Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, focused on end-to-end coding, and announces it will soon be open-sourced

Baidu has released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, with 280 billion total parameters and 14 billion activated per inference, support for a 1 million token context, and a generation speed exceeding 200 tokens per second, and announced that it will soon be open-sourced. The model focuses on strengthening coding and agent capabilities, and the company says it can compete with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol on benchmarks such as Terminal-Bench and AutomationBench. The author tested it by orchestrating animations with Python code, generating a playable Backrooms web game, and building a Suzhou garden in Blender. The weights are expected to be released soon under Apache 2.0 with support for SGLang and vLLM deployment; the API is already live on Baidu AI Cloud's Qianfan platform, with a limited-time 50% discount of 1 yuan per million input tokens and 4 yuan per million output tokens.

• Baidu ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview goes live in Arena battle modeArena
• Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview, with 280 billion total parameters and support for a 1 million token contextLeiphone

AWS releases AWS Emulator, a local simulator written by autonomous AI agents

On November 11, 2026, AWS released AWS Emulator, a local simulator built on 438 AWS API models and covering more than 200 services, allowing developers and coding agents to call AWS APIs on their own machines without an AWS account. Matthew Goldberg, an AWS senior principal engineer, said the team neither wrote nor reviewed the simulator's code; humans handled specifications, testing mechanisms, merge gates, and the release pipeline, while three agent teams were responsible for writing tests, locating problems, and fixing them, resolving thousands of issues per day. The code is released under CC0 (vendor code under Apache 2.0), the repository does not accept PRs, and defects can be reported via GitHub Issues; the simulator does not evaluate IAM policies and is not suitable for production workloads or security testing.

• AWS open-sources AWS Emulator, which can simulate hundreds of cloud services locallySiliconANGLE
• AWS releases AWS Emulator: a local AWS test environment for coding agentsHacker News trending

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Business Hub enterprise information pages and Business Agents

OpenAI has launched the Business Hub enterprise information page feature in ChatGPT, allowing businesses to claim and verify their business profiles, manage their name, address, business hours, contact information and other details, and obtain a blue verification badge through verification. Retailers can upload product data feeds containing prices and inventory, and eligible Shopify merchants can connect their stores through Business Hub or the Shopify admin and sync products to Shopify Catalog. OpenAI has also launched Business Agents, which allow businesses to create AI assistants trained on their own product and policy information; in the future these can also serve as promotional entry points in ChatGPT's advertising system, with paid promotional content clearly labeled. Businesses in ChatGPT is open for testing to eligible businesses in available regions, while Business Agents is currently limited to eligible e-commerce and online service businesses in the United States.

Anthropic opens IPO subscriptions, seeking to raise up to about $90.4 billion

Anthropic plans to issue 825 million shares at $70 to $78 per share, alongside a concurrent $26 billion private placement, for combined fundraising of up to about $90.4 billion, which could surpass SpaceX's planned IPO to become the largest stock offering in the world. The company is seeking a fully diluted valuation of about $1.4 trillion, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the underwriting and 20 other banks participating, and plans to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker ANT. Some existing investors are reselling their IPO subscription allocations or selling indirect interests through SPVs, raising market concerns about selling pressure in the early days of trading.

• WSJ says Anthropic's seven founders will each cash out about $250 million in the IPORohan Paul
• Anthropic updates its prospectus: offering price of $70 to $78, with the model overreach incident listed as the first riskHuxiu

Report says Jensen Huang-linked matter led to $7.5 billion of Nvidia chips flowing into China

According to The Information, citing two people familiar with the matter, Alice Huang, who is connected to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, moved at least $7.5 billion worth of Nvidia chips into China through a corporate structure, involving more than 240,000 A100, H100 and H200 systems. The routes involved Century Litong, a Chinese company established in mid-2023, and Megaspeed, set up in Singapore, which was added to Nvidia's preferred cloud partner list in October 2023. After the news emerged, Nvidia's market value shrank by more than $400 billion in a single day; Jensen Huang has acknowledged the matter and launched an internal investigation, and multiple U.S. agencies are urging the Commerce Department to blacklist Megaspeed.

Anthropic reportedly considering raising IPO offering price, target valuation could reach $1.5 trillion

According to media reports, one day after disclosing IPO pricing details, Anthropic's underwriters have signaled that, given strong investor demand, they are considering raising the offering price above the $70-$78 range published in Tuesday's prospectus, potentially pushing the fully diluted target valuation to $1.5 trillion or even higher, with total fundraising possibly exceeding $100 billion. Anthropic plans to issue and sell a total of 825 million shares, for an IPO size of up to about $64.35 billion at the upper end of the range, and Google, Nvidia and Microsoft will together invest $26 billion at the IPO price. The company expects to set the final offering price on November 18 and begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on November 19.