Briefs

Afternoon briefs

Short items from today's intake that did not lead a full story, each with its source. Nothing here is a stitched article — every item stands on its own outlet.

Reported with AI assistance from public sources. Every item below names its outlet and links to it. An editor pass and fact-check ran on the edition's full stories before publication. — Align Newsroom, part of Creytix.

ai

Full story: United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights for travelers

AlphaGenome 2: Deciphering how cells read DNA to better understand disease — Google DeepMind — Blog

Issue types and fields are available for personal accounts — GitHub — Changelog

Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship with Nvidia Executive — Hacker News — Front Page

😸 WATCH: AI Changed More in 4 Years Than You Remember — The Neuron — Newsletter

rust-v0.167.2 — OpenAI Codex — Releases (watched repo)

v0.34.0rc1 — vLLM — Releases (watched repo)

money

African writing award probe finds 'no evidence' winning story was AI generated — BBC News — World

Missing 11-month-old baby found buried alive in a crate in South Carolina — BBC News — World

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent relocated after alleged Iranian threats — BBC News — World

technology

Full story: Google in, Nvidia out as US lines up Apec CEO Summit delegation

us-politics

Por qué la familia Kennedy demanda a Trump por la polémica construcción de su arco del triunfo — BBC Mundo

world

Uganda’s ruling party rejects Museveni’s reported plan to position son as successor — Africanews

Hormuz Strait will ‘never return’ to pre-war status, Iran’s Ghalibaf says — Al Jazeera English

Por qué hunden frente a la costa de Florida al mítico SS United States, el que fuera el transatlántico más rápido del mundo — BBC Mundo

France's 11 November ceremonies: Macron, Le Pen, Mélenchon between memory and pacifism — Euronews

Autonomie de la Corse : le gouvernement annule une réunion prévue jeudi à Paris après le désistement des nationalistes — Le Monde

Milei in tears as he bids farewell to Leo XIV at Ezeiza, closing the Pope’s Argentina visit — MercoPress

Russian crude oil prices jump on China, India demand — Nikkei Asia

Russia’s ambassador to the US dies ‘suddenly’, foreign ministry says — South China Morning Post