TILens Daily Edition
2026-11-12
Filters: topic=ai, github=hidden

Stats: 38 articles, 20 sources, 4 research papers
Top topics: AI, General, AI Research

## News

- The $5 Trillion Shift: Preparing Retail Backends for the Age of AI Agents
  Source: mongodb-blog
  Topic: MongoDB (+AI)
  URL: https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/innovation/5-trillion-shift-preparing-retail-backends-for-age-of-ai-agents

- Holiday Extras is rethinking what it can build with Codex
  Source: openai-blog
  Topic: AI Labs (+AI)
  URL: https://openai.com/business/customer-stories/holidays-extras-codex

- Jensen Huang’s exit puts Nvidia’s support for open source in question
  Source: techcrunch
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/jensen-huangs-exit-puts-nvidias-support-for-open-source-in-question/

- Free OpenAI-compatible LLM APIs in 2026: how to switch `base_url` in Python and JS
  Source: devto-javascript
  Topic: JavaScript (+AI)
  URL: https://dev.to/shiva_prasad_cc614c6ee026/free-openai-compatible-llm-apis-in-2026-how-to-switch-baseurl-in-python-and-js-268p

- Google built an AI model that can’t write a sentence — and that’s the point
  Source: newstack
  Topic: DevOps (+AI)
  URL: https://thenewstack.io/google-gemini-decisions-api/

- Gilbert + Tobin rethinks the business of law with AI
  Source: openai-blog
  Topic: AI Labs (+AI)
  URL: https://openai.com/index/gilbert-tobin-sam-nickless

- Supporting research on AI and children’s safety
  Source: openai-blog
  Topic: AI Labs (+AI)
  URL: https://openai.com/index/children-first-declaration

- The Definitive Fine-Tuning Guide for 3D Generation Models
  Source: huggingface-blog
  Topic: Hugging Face (+AI)
  URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/3d-lora-finetuning

- Glasswing overwhelms maintainers with underwhelming findings (VulnCheck)
  Source: lwn
  Topic: Open Source (+AI)
  URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1107173/

- New Fable 5.2 AI built a complete operating system in 8 days
  Source: adafruit-blog
  Topic: Hardware (+AI)
  URL: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/11/12/new-fable-5-2-ai-built-a-complete-operating-system-in-8-days/

- Google pushes privacy angle as Gemini-powered smartglasses debut starting at $395
  Source: ars-technica
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/11/google-pushes-privacy-angle-as-gemini-powered-smartglasses-debut-starting-at-395/

- Extract Text from Image or Scan: When Browser OCR Works (and When It Fails)
  Source: devto-javascript
  Topic: JavaScript (+AI)
  URL: https://dev.to/rashid_salimov_ad8baac497/extract-text-from-image-or-scan-when-browser-ocr-works-and-when-it-fails-454d

- Presentation: Opening the Black Box: Critical Explainability for AI Agent Tool Selection with Kiji Inspector
  Source: infoq-architecture
  Topic: Architecture (+AI)
  URL: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/explainable-ai-llm-agent-decisions/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Architecture+%26+Design

- AI’s biggest CEO may be on his way out
  Source: the-rundown-ai
  Topic: AI (+AI Tools)
  URL: https://www.therundown.ai/articles/ai-s-biggest-ceo-may-be-on-his-way-out

- 😺 DeepMind launched AlphaGenome 2 for DNA
  Source: the-neuron-ai
  Topic: AI (+AI Research)
  URL: https://www.theneuron.ai/newsletter/deepmind-launched-alphagenome-2-for-dna-a377/

- The AI Spending Boom Has a Problem: Most Companies Spend Very Little
  Source: the-neuron-ai
  Topic: AI (+AI Research)
  URL: https://www.theneuron.ai/news/ai-spending-boom-most-companies-spend-very-little/

- Five Serverless Instances, Five Counters, One Rate Limit That Didn't Exist
  Source: devto-javascript
  Topic: JavaScript (+AI)
  URL: https://dev.to/sellermind/five-serverless-instances-five-counters-one-rate-limit-that-didnt-exist-1p64

- Everything That Happened in AI Today (Thursday, November 12, 2026)
  Source: the-neuron-ai
  Topic: AI (+AI Research)
  URL: https://www.theneuron.ai/digest/everything-that-happened-in-ai-today-thursday-november-12-2026/

- [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 12, 2026
  Source: lwn
  Topic: Open Source (+AI)
  URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1105460/

- Nvidia's CEO search 🔍, AWS emulator 👨‍💻, Gemini Decisions API 💡
  Source: tldr-tech
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://tldr.tech/tech/2026-11-12

- 22 Node, Bun and Deno stacks benchmarked
  Source: node-weekly
  Topic: JavaScript (+AI)
  URL: https://nodeweekly.com/issues/647

## Research

- RAG Retrieval Lost 40 Points When Distracting Passages Grew to 2.68M
  Source: towards-data-science
  Topic: AI Research (+AI, Information Retrieval, Python)
  URL: https://towardsdatascience.com/rag-retrieval-lost-40-points-when-distracting-passages-grew-to-268m/

- I Mutation-Tested 50 Python Libraries. Tests in the Young Ones Missed 41% of Planted Faults.
  Source: towards-data-science
  Topic: AI Research (+AI, Python)
  URL: https://towardsdatascience.com/i-mutation-tested-50-python-libraries-tests-in-the-young-ones-missed-41-of-planted-faults/

- A Soft-Label MNIST Testbed for Human vs. Model Confidence
  Source: towards-data-science
  Topic: AI Research (+AI, Python)
  URL: https://towardsdatascience.com/a-soft-label-mnist-testbed-for-human-vs-model-confidence/

- How to Read Cross Pair Correlation in R Without Fake Repulsion (Part 3)
  Source: towards-data-science
  Topic: AI Research (+AI, Python)
  URL: https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-read-cross-pair-correlation-in-r-without-fake-repulsion-part-3/

## Community

- How Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) Happened-airhacks.fm podcast
  Source: adam-bien
  Topic: Java (+AI)
  URL: https://adambien.blog/roller/abien/entry/how_behaviour_driven_development_bdd_happened_airhacks_fm_

- Bliki: Generated Glossary
  Source: martin-fowler
  Topic: Architecture (+AI)
  URL: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/GeneratedGlossary.html

- Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://antigravity.google/blog/gemini-4-hydrogen-in-google-antigravity/

- Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open-source AI
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/hugging-face-ceo-vows-to-keep-fighting-for-open-source-ai-after-jensen-huangs-exit/

- Gemini 4 Hydrogen
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://aistudio.google.com/docs/whats-new-gemini-4-hydrogen

- Gemini 4 Hydrogen
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-hydrogen/

- I'm making LLMs work on small and old devices
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://github.com/hyperionaidev/smolmaxxing/

- Anthropic IPO
  Source: hacker-news
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://ipo.anthropic.com/us/

- The anti-marketing aspect of the Gemini network
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+AI, Web)
  URL: https://ploum.net/2026-11-12-anti-marketing-gemini.html

- libreagi - save OS models
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://libreagi.com/

- AI Security Issues Are Social Engineering Issues
  Source: lobsters
  Topic: General (+AI)
  URL: https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2026/11/11/ai-security-issues-are-social-engineering-issues/

## Media

- Building a custom evaluation for your agent
  Source: youtube-googlecloud
  Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General)
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GatM9XV0gOw

- What is native multimodality? 🍿 Just a moment #01
  Source: youtube-googlecloud
  Topic: AWS (+AI, Cloud, General)
  URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxdwhoUxBZU