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METR's 2x Speedup and Data Center Backlash — November 6, 2026
Anthropic's AI research is moving twice as fast as before, an independent nonprofit found. Voters just rejected new data centers in thirty-eight of forty-one ballot measures this week. The other side keeps building. We go through GitHub's rebuilt storage system for thousands of coding agents, a new OpenAI model built to hunt software bugs, growing doubts about Anthropic's IPO valuation, and the three-bug outage that knocked out Google's Kubernetes control system.
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