Frontier Daily (Nov 7): 9 items from Latent Space, Hacker News, OpenAI and more

Every day Laojin pulls the official channels and compiles the past 48 hours of AI news into a short brief: curation only, no commentary, with the original link and publish time attached to every item.

1. Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich

Fabian Theis, a key figure in the Virtual Cell concept, discusses his lab's work on algorithms for multi-scale, multi-modal and time-varying biological data, alongside Biohub's $1.8B commitment from Biohub, NIH, DOE, Google and Meta.

Source: Latent Space · 2026-11-06 · Original

2. University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk

University libraries are being swarmed by AI data-scraping bots, putting public access at risk, per CBC, drawing 61 upvotes and 33 comments on Hacker News.

Source: Hacker News · 2026-11-06 · Original

3. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

Google introduced Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash on its blog for developers, drawing 176 upvotes and 142 comments on Hacker News.

Source: Hacker News · 2026-11-06 · Original

4. [AINews] Inkling 2 Small: 17A-594B trained in 68 hours on 12T tokens, beating Muse Spark

Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small, a 17A-594B model pretrained from scratch in under three days on 12T tokens with a single joint RL run, said to be competitive with and often beating same-size Chinese models and compared against Western models like Mistral, Reflection and Meta Muse.

Source: Latent Space · 2026-11-06 · Original

5. Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex

OpenAI shares how Cult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster and change how work gets done.

Source: OpenAI Blog · 2026-11-05 · Original

6. Quoting Paul Ford

Simon Willison quotes Paul Ford from 'The Web Is More Than Enough' saying the web browser is very powerful software for applications and the cost of accessing that power is going down seemingly every day.

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-11-05 · Original

7. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash: Fast and cost-effective with longer clips

Google DeepMind's blog introduces Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash as fast and cost-effective with support for longer clips.

Source: Google DeepMind Blog · 2026-11-05 · Original

8. Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates

OpenAI reports that Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.

Source: OpenAI Blog · 2026-11-05 · Original

9. The Long-Term Benefit Trust

Anthropic describes its Long-Term Benefit Trust, an independent body of five trustees with authority to elect and remove Anthropic board members, balancing stockholder and public interests.

Source: Anthropic News（官网监测） · 2026-11-05 · Original

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_Sources: official blogs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Qwen; official RSS of Simon Willison, Latent Space, Import AI and One Useful Thing; Anthropic site monitoring, top AI discussions on Hacker News and open-source updates from key AI orgs on GitHub. Mistral / Meta AI have no stable public feed; X sources are curated by hand. This is a source digest — no commentary from Laojin._