6 AI stories explainx.ai reported on November 6, 2026 so far, ranked by reader interest and grouped by topic. Each links to the full write-up with sources.
Inkling 2 Small is a 594B MoE (17B active) from Thinking Machines. It is on Tinker now with closed weights; the lab promises Apache 2.0 weights next week. All benchmark numbers are the lab's own.
Teardown is an MIT-licensed Claude Code skill built on claude-motion. Ask how a machine works and it generates one offline 3D HTML page you can drive and open up. It is a week old with two commits.
Cuban says AI deepfake ads using his likeness sell a fake diabetes cure on Facebook. Reported Meta documents put scam and banned ad revenue near 16 billion dollars; Meta calls that estimate rough and overly inclusive.
Airbnb said in its Q3 2026 shareholder letter that an AI agent for planning and booking trips will launch in the first half of 2027, built as a custom interface rather than a chat window.
Check Point Research counted 2,557 ARTEX systems, 1,608 of them live, and read logs from 10 exposed servers: attacks ran almost on their own, but the money-making campaign paid nothing.
OpenAI says UNSW, Sydney, La Trobe and Adelaide are rolling out ChatGPT Edu and AI courses; the 81% student-use figure comes from a survey OpenAI commissioned, not from an independent study.
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