Daily 9 for November 12, 2026 covers nine developments across AI, fintech, crypto, software and tech, announced between November 10 and November 12. Google opened a low-cost API for yes-or-no judgments, Node.js shipped fixes for four high-severity flaws, and IBM said its new Nighthawk processor runs 10,000 operations on 520 qubits.
Each item links to the company, project or organization that published it.
1. Google launches the Gemini Decisions API
Google introduced the Gemini Decisions API and a model built for it, Gemini Decision 1. It answers closed questions instead of writing text: yes-or-no checks, picks from a list and rubric scores, with up to 1,000 questions in one request. Input can be text, images or other media up to 256,000 tokens. Google says end-to-end latency is 150 to 250 milliseconds and that pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens, with no output tokens billed. On its own benchmark suite, Google says the model is nearly five times cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. It is available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Google, November 11.
2. Runway releases Praxis-1 robot model weights
Runway made Praxis-1, the robotics model it introduced in September, available as open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, with inference and fine-tuning code and permission for commercial use. Praxis-1 is a 27-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts diffusion transformer that predicts both video and robot actions. Runway reports a 46.2% score on NVIDIA’s RoboLab-120 benchmark, ahead of the other models it compared. The weights are on GitHub and Hugging Face, with LeRobot support, and the model also runs on vLLM-Omni and Runway’s hosted Reactor. Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are launch partners. Runway, November 11.
3. DeepL puts its Aure model behind live voice translation
DeepL launched Aure, a voice translation model that now powers DeepL Voice for online meetings, in-person conversations and the API for Voice. DeepL says Aure keeps adjusting tone, emotion, emphasis and pace as a speaker talks, building on the voice preservation it already offered. At launch it covers English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Korean. DeepL says DeepL Voice does not permanently store transcripts and deletes them when a session ends. DeepL, November 11.
4. Western Union and Intermex split over a terminated deal
Western Union sent Intermex a notice ending its agreement to buy the remittance company. It said California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation issued final conditions of approval that Western Union found unacceptable. According to Western Union, the regulator had approved the deal in February and extended that approval twice before withdrawing it, while 54 other states, territories and countries had signed off. No termination fee is payable by either side. Intermex rejected the termination a day later, called on Western Union to complete the merger and said it reserves the right to seek specific performance and damages. Western Union, November 10, with Intermex’s response, November 11.
5. DoorDash Crimson accounts connect through Plaid
DoorDash added a Plaid integration to Crimson, the banking account it offers Dashers, so they can link it to other financial apps. DoorDash says more than 2 million Dashers use Crimson. Plaid connects with more than 12,000 financial institutions and more than 9,000 apps, and DoorDash names Cash App, Earnin, Varo and Chime among them. Crimson’s banking services are provided by Starion Bank, Member FDIC. DoorDash, November 11.
6. Polymesh gives every asset an EVM address
Polymesh upgraded its mainnet from version 8.0.2 to 8.1.3. Each asset on the chain now has an EVM address, appearing as an ERC-20 token for fungible assets or an ERC-721 collection for NFTs, while Polymesh’s compliance rules still apply. The release also adds freezes at the holder level and on part of a balance, NFT approvals, Ethereum keys as MultiSig signers and partial support for ERC-3643 and ERC-7943 methods. Holders do not need to do anything, but integrators must regenerate their chain metadata. Polymesh, November 11.
7. EBA takes direct supervision of USDC in the EU
From November 12, the European Banking Authority directly supervises parts of USDC, issued in the EU by Circle Internet Financial Europe SAS. The EBA classified USDC as a significant e-money token under MiCA on October 14, the first of 45 such tokens to get that label. The EBA now oversees own funds, the reserve of assets, liquidity and recovery and redemption plans, while France’s ACPR keeps governance, qualifying holdings, fit-and-proper checks, outsourcing and conflicts of interest. The EBA also has a memorandum of understanding with the New York Department of Financial Services. EBA, October 14.
8. Node.js patches four high-severity flaws
The Node.js project released security updates for its 26.x, 24.x and 22.x lines: versions 26.13.1, 24.22.3 and 22.23.5. All four fixes are rated high. One, CVE-2026-123864, affects every supported line and can leak heap memory, including TLS keys, over HTTPS; plain HTTP is not affected. The other three are HTTP/2 bugs: a remotely triggered abort, a session leak and a use-after-free that can leak response memory. The releases also update llhttp, undici and sqlite. Node.js, November 11. Background: what is a zero-day vulnerability.
9. IBM’s Nighthawk r3 runs 10,000 operations on 520 qubits
IBM said its Quantum Nighthawk r3 processor is designed to run circuits of 10,000 operations on 520 programmable qubits, out of 2,034 physical qubits on the chip, and it uses 10 l-couplers. IBM plans to link two r3 chips into a 1,040-qubit system in 2027. The earlier Nighthawk r2 handles up to 100,000 samples per second, and IBM says partners E.ON, Algorithmiq and Q-CTRL have run 34 billion circuits on its processors. IBM also linked r1 processors with l-couplers at 99.3% state-transfer fidelity. IBM, November 11. Background: what is a qubit.
