Tech news picked on 2026-11-11
- Snowflake's new Dashboards (in the documentation, 2.0) display the set numbers a team checks every day on a screen inside Snowflake, and let you ask AI right away about anything you wonder about while looking. The goal is to use it without a separate BI (data visualization) tool.
- Dashboards are written by putting SQL and chart definitions in a .dash file, so changes can be tracked with Git. For authoring, if you ask the AI tool CoCo in plain language, it creates tiles, SQL and layout for you.
- Placing a placeholder in the SQL turns it into a filter, and you can also use drilldown, where you click a chart to dig from region to city to customer, and chart actions that filter other tiles at the same time.
- According to the official documentation, queries run with the viewer's own permissions, so Snowflake permissions apply as they are. The author explains that the only cost is the warehouse usage fee for running queries, and that no BI license is needed.
- Google unveiled Gemini Robotics 2.5, an AI model that helps robots handle objects and perform tasks in real environments, on the 11.
- Google said it validated dexterous manipulation and task performance on more than 200 tasks.
- In a real car production line test done with Apptronik and Mercedes-Benz, the humanoid robot Apollo 2 performed parts kitting (gathering parts into a bundle for a work task) with a success rate of 96%.
- Google said it also improved safety and reliability, explaining that the task completion rate around obstacles improved by 33% and the task completion rate in environments with people nearby improved by 43%.
X unveils a clip feature that lets you cut a scene from a video and post it with your own comment
- X announced on Monday a clip feature that lets users cut a scene they like from any video, add their own opinion, and post it right away without leaving X.
- According to X, every clip carries a Clip from label that links to the original video, so viewers can see the original creator and their other content.
- X said that both the original creator and the clip creator can earn revenue based on clip views through its rewards program, Original Content Rewards.
- TechCrunch described the tool as closer to a simple feature that only trims and posts video.
- Instead of a file, the secret key used to connect to servers (the SSH private key) is created inside an isolated security area of the Mac chip (the Secure Enclave). The key never leaves the chip, and the chip signs for each connection.
- It is created with the built-in macOS commands sc_auth and ssh-keygen. The author used the -t bio option to require Touch ID every time the key is used. The post says this is supported on macOS Sequoia and Tahoe.
- The author ran into three problems. The Touch ID enrollment was reset, so key creation failed. The old ssh-add -K instructions did not work. The key path had to be written directly in the SSH config file for the key to be recognized.
- The author decided not to use this method because the Touch ID prompt showed an unfamiliar phrase, ctccardtoken, instead of an SSH message. Instead, the author says they will look into apps that use the Secure Enclave, such as Secretive.
- Auto SR is Microsoft's technology that upscales games rendered at a lower resolution to look sharper, and it competes with Nvidia DLSS. It is rolling out to the Xbox Ally X, the Ally X20, and some Windows Copilot Plus PCs.
- During the April test, it could only be used when connected to the dock. The official release also works in handheld mode on battery power, and it supports games that run on 1080p.
- Previously, frame rates were limited from about 60 to 75fps, but Microsoft said the new performance mode allows up to 120fps. Performance mode and Auto HDR compatibility are delivered through a Windows update.
OpenAI acquires AI travel agent Odesia, founder joins and service already shut down
- Odesia was a service where AI planned trips for users. Founder Francis Davidson said he is now working at OpenAI, and an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the hire.
- The terms of the deal were not disclosed. TechCrunch wrote that it appears to be an acquisition aimed at securing talent. Odesia raised a pre-seed round of $6 million led by Sequoia and launched about 5 months ago.
- Davidson said early users were helped to plan millions of dollars' worth of travel. This is the founder's own claim, and the tool has already been shut down.
- OpenAI has not announced any new travel product or plans. The spokesperson only said that travel is an area ChatGPT users often ask about.
Talk with verified brand AI agents inside ChatGPT and ask product comparison questions
- During a ChatGPT conversation, you can talk directly with an AI agent that represents a brand. You can ask about the products the company offers and follow up with questions such as the differences between two products.
- If a company has created a business agent and that company appears in a ChatGPT answer, you can start a conversation. The company directly specifies the agent's instructions and business information.
- According to OpenAI, this conversation is clearly marked and kept separate from regular ChatGPT conversations. Companies register their organization and get verified in the Business Hub.
- In the Business Hub, companies can also see how many times they were mentioned in ChatGPT answers and which topics appear often. The feature is in beta and is first offered to eligible e-commerce and online service companies in the United States.
- Claude Meetings is a feature that adds Claude to a video meeting as a visible participant. According to Anthropic, it follows the conversation, drafts the plan being discussed, sketches a schedule on the whiteboard, and answers questions in the meeting chat.
- It can pull in material such as last year's figures from connected work apps. After the meeting ends, you can view the meeting notes, the to-do list, and the materials Claude created on claude.ai.
- Claude identifies itself as a meeting participant and leaves a notice in the meeting chat. In calls with external guests, it joins only if an admin allows it, and it leaves automatically when a guest joins.
- Claude Whiteboards, released at the same time, organizes the discussion into a board with a timeline and deadlines and turns it into a document or slides. Claude Sheets creates spreadsheets such as a campaign tracker or a hiring budget and explains the changes it made.