[1] Amazon's look at Fauna's Sprout humanoid

Amazon is developing a home robot unlike anything we've seen... According to CNBC, Amazon's new Personal Robotics Group is building around Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid, bringing together Fauna's team and much of the talent behind its original Astro project. The group also draws on Lab126, Amazon's consumer hardware R&D unit behind Kindle and Echo, along with robotics research talent from MIT. Its Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) team is developing foundation models and full-stack robotic systems, with research spanning locomotion, dexterous manipulation, multimodal learning and sim-to-real transfer. Its current deployment focus is largely on warehouse operations. Together, these efforts bring different pieces of the robotics stack: Physical AI capabilities from FAR, humanoid hardware and engineering expertise from Fauna, and home navigation and human-robot interaction experience from Astro. (video is Fauna's Sprout humanoid）

— CyberRobo (@CyberRobooo) November 9, 2026

[2a] DeepMind say scientific discovery entering new phase

Google DeepMind are building the AI/SI tools that let others achieve very fast progress. This announcement seems significant.

[2b] DREADDS and epilepsy

DREADDs (Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs) are engineered receptors used in neuroscience for precise, reversible control of specific brain cells or circuits. Researchers use a viral vector to deliver the gene for a DREADD into a targeted brain region. They can then turn it on or off by taking a tablet. Not specifically AI related but indicative of the immense advances coming.

[2c] OpenAI’s Greg Brockman on 'death becoming a choice'

OpenAI’s Greg Brockman says "death becoming a choice" is possible, and predicts AI will make real strides on curing diseases in the next 12 to 18 months “I think that you look at something like biology, and that’s not something that’s unique to just humans. I think that we all suffer, that the question of even just thinking about death becoming a choice. All of this is possible.” “Having cures for diseases is something that’s become also a trope in this field, but I think that you’re gonna see real delivery and real significant strides and impacts on biology, health, and curing of diseases over the next 12 months, 18 months.” “I think it’s gonna take time to really deliver on the full impacts, just by the nature of this field. But I think it’s all possible and doable, and it’s exactly the kind of thing we have these models that are solving these unsolved problems. Clearly, we need to apply it to biology and life sciences.”

— Fireside Alpha (@firesidealpha) November 5, 2026

[2d] Anthropic and vaults

AI helping uncover important insights.

Read the full preprint here: https://t.co/endRhOCTko https://t.co/C2TO3Z4sAS

— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) November 4, 2026

[3a] Anthropic release new Claude Fable and Mythos models

Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges. They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision. https://t.co/jP0AutLxXb

— Claude (@claudeai) November 9, 2026

[3b] Recursive Self Improvement - from the upcoming 'Machine God' film

RSI segment from Machine God documentary https://t.co/43UW0o9KBK

— steve hsu (@hsu_steve) November 8, 2026

[3c] METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research)report likely speed up in AI/SI capability

Read report for detail - but many find this further cause for alarm

Read our public report here: https://t.co/VkiZlb515W

— METR (@METR_Evals) November 5, 2026

[4] Brian Greene on the possibility of AI consciousness

Columbia physicist Brian Greene on why we can’t easily rule out AI consciousness: Your brain is ~100 trillion trillion atoms forming ~90 billion neurons. Every one of those particles obeys the laws of physics. “The particles in your head, they don’t get to break the rules” https://t.co/mnnq9vePDE

— Big Brain AI (@realBigBrainAI) November 9, 2026

[5a] Google's Project Suncatcher has a data centre in space

Our TPUs just phoned home... from space. ICYMI, on October 1, we sent four TPUs into orbit to test whether our AI hardware could operate in space. The initial goal was to see if our chips could turn on, process a prompt, and transmit a response back to Earth. This week, we got our answer. ✨ This milestone brings us one step closer to understanding if space-based compute is possible. We’re sending two more TPU-equipped satellites to orbit in 2027 for our next milestone. Watch this space 👀 and learn more about the first milestone of our long-term moonshot with Project Suncatcher ↓

— News from Google (@NewsFromGoogle) October 30, 2026

[5b] SpaceX needs huge amount of computing power hence Terafab

Elon Musk Stuns Billionaire https://t.co/hmF5RDt0BH

— Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 (@farzyness) November 7, 2026