AI Daily · Nov 4, 2026 · Wed
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Product launches/updates
Google DeepMindFirst partyGoogle Antigravity launches Cheminformatics Skills, completing drug discovery analysis in one hour
Google DeepMind launches Cheminformatics Skills for Google Antigravity, built on RDKit and connected to ChEMBL and PubChem, enabling agents to complete the full workflow in about one hour, from extracting thousands of compounds from literature, matching molecular pair analysis, and building potency prediction models to proposing novel rigidified macrocyclic compounds and synthetic routes.
Industry news
Revolut replaces Claude and Codex with self-hosted GLM, cutting AI coding bills by about 90%
Revolut has switched the default coding tools of about 2,000 software engineers from Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to GLM, the open-weight model from Chinese lab Z.ai, self-hosted by the company, with bills dropping to about one-tenth of the original.
The DecoderOpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week
OpenAI says its hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device that lets users converse with the Codex coding agent, completed as a side project in under a week. Astra handled all aspects including enclosure design, PCB layout with component selection and routing, firmware, and user interface; a contract manufacturer produced a small batch of prototypes in under a month, but the design went through multiple rounds of revisions because manufacturing constraints, tolerances, and assembly details were not fully considered, and OpenAI plans to feed this data back into subsequent models.
Paper research
IBM compares CUGA, Hermes, and Deep Agents: AppWorld task completion rate ranges from 30% to 81% with the same model
An IBM team used the same open-source model GLM-5.3-flash on 90 AppWorld tasks to compare three agent harnesses—CUGA, Hermes, and Deep Agents—with task pass rates of 81.1%, 46.7%, and 30.0% respectively, and the number of scenarios passed by all variants was 20, 8, and 2.