AI News for November 2, 2026 — 7min.ai

[TOOLS] ChatGPT merges Chat and Work, moves paid plans to a shared token budget: OpenAI is merging ChatGPT's Chat and Work modes.
[NEWS] OpenAI signs energy and investment deals in the UAE: OpenAI signed deals to deploy its technology across energy companies, investment firms and government agencies in the United Arab Emirates.
[RESEARCH] Google's StreamVibe teaches video assistants when to speak up unprompted: Researchers from Google, Stanford, Oxford and several US universities built StreamVibe, a video agent that watches tasks like cooking or furniture assembly and decides on its own when to help.
[RESEARCH] Adobe's EditAgent edits images like a Photoshop pro, picking tools and checking results with data: Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, which breaks image edits into sub-steps and pairs a general-purpose editor with specialized tools for jobs like sharpening or zooming.
[NEWS] OpenAI wants to rename data centers 'compute campuses' ahead of post-midterm PR push: OpenAI confirmed it will propose calling AI data centers "compute campuses," which a spokesperson said better describes "the scale and role" of its infrastructure.
[NEWS] Anthropic's internal Claude use, valued at retail prices, now exceeds employee pay: Anthropic's IPO filing shows that in April, the retail value of the Claude usage its own staff consumed passed its monthly employee compensation, excluding stock awards.
[NEWS] South Korea targets 'world's highest performance' sovereign AI model in record budget: South Korea is aiming to build the "world's highest performance" sovereign AI model, funded by a record new government budget that makes AI spending a centerpiece.
[OPINION] Microsoft AI chief Suleyman: building conscious AI would be 'reckless': Mustafa Suleyman said in a long X post that current AI models aren't conscious and developers should keep it that way.
[NEWS] Musk expands Colossus 2 with 'Spam' and 'Gun Range' sites in Memphis: Elon Musk said SpaceX is adding two facilities to its Colossus 2 AI compute campus in Tennessee.
[NEWS] WA police scan 1.38M faces in facial recognition trial, making 122 arrests: Western Australia police ran real-time facial recognition across 100 deployments at 43 sites over five months, scanning 1,380,882 faces.

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