AI Daily Briefing (2026-11-04): 12 Updates from TechCrunch AI, The Verge AI, Ars Technica AI & More

This is the 2026-11-04 daily briefing: 12 AI updates published by TechCrunch AI, The Verge AI, Ars Technica AI, Hugging Face, Google DeepMind over the last 24 hours. Original headlines are kept as-is; every entry links to the official announcement or original report.

• TechCrunch AI | Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows (11-03)
• TechCrunch AI | Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures seeks $490M for new funds amid AI-driven cybersecurity boom (11-03)
• TechCrunch AI | Hiding inside Palantir’s skyrocketing quarter is a foreboding signal (11-03)
• The Verge AI | Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fake (11-03)
• Ars Technica AI | Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers (11-03)
• The Verge AI | Apple starts giving Siri AI access to third-party apps (11-03)
• TechCrunch AI | AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges (11-03)
• The Verge AI | Apple’s latest watchOS beta includes its new always-on Audio Intelligence features (11-03)
• The Verge AI | OpenAI says ChatGPT is catching up to Google in search (11-03)
• Ars Technica AI | Google will let schools skip AI tools, but they have to give up search, too (11-03)
• Hugging Face | StateBench: Testing how language models track state changes over long documents (11-03)
• Google DeepMind | Agentic cheminformatics with Google Antigravity (11-03)

These entries are aggregated automatically from official RSS feeds by our daily pipeline. They are provided as a reading guide only — refer to the linked originals for facts and figures.