Afternoon edition — Friday 13 November 2026

The ggml-org project released llama.cpp v1.0.0 and ggml v1.0.0 on 13 November. In a Hugging Face blog post, the maintainers say both libraries now follow semantic versioning, so breaking changes to the public C API will bring a major-version bump.

The release notes say v1.0.0 removes 35 deprecated functions, adds FP8 key-value caches and a host-memory cache for mixture-of-experts weights, and adds support for new models including Kimi-K3.1-Pro. It also hardens llama-server against SSRF, CORS and DNS-rebinding attacks and adds an OpenAI-compatible speech endpoint.

Anthropic's status page shows two major incidents on 13 November. At 10:58 Paris time it began investigating problems with users authenticating to claude.ai and Claude Code; a fix was deployed at 12:05 and the incident was marked resolved at 12:58.

At 14:09 a second incident opened for degraded performance on claude.ai, the Claude API and Claude Code, later widened to connectors including Claude Docs and Claude Sheets. At 15:36 Anthropic reported recovery on claude.ai and the API but said errors could return and that connectors and Claude in Meetings remained degraded. A separate incident affecting the Microsoft 365 connector, opened on 12 November during Microsoft's global outage, was still unresolved.

On Hacker News, users weighed the cost of the morning outage. "Depending on what your job is, this is either the adult equivalent of a snow day or some of the greatest stress in a long time," wrote Topfi. Another user, cmiles8, observed that in an outage this big the severity "almost drops, since everyone is impacted and thus just shrugs their shoulders."

The US Department of War announced on 13 November that its Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) is now the Department of War Super Intelligence Office (SIO). The department says the rebrand follows President Trump's direction to move federal terminology from artificial intelligence to Super Intelligence, and that the office now has a new logo and a new web address, si.mil.

The office's head, Cameron Stanley, said the mission is to harness sovereign Super Intelligence for military superiority. The release says the change will roll out over the coming weeks and that existing programmes, solicitations and partnerships continue unchanged; the office supports the Maven Smart System and the War Data Platform.

Reuters reported on 13 November, citing an internal document and people familiar with the matter, that Amazon has a plan called World Product Graph to gather data on virtually every item for sale, whether Amazon stocks it or not. The document, a PR/FAQ memo, gives an aspirational public date of 1 October 2027; Reuters could not determine whether or when the plan will be carried out.

According to Reuters, the document says Amazon has signed up Coca-Cola and Bayer to contribute product data and that Amazon would also crawl other retailers' websites. It says many answers from Amazon's shopping assistant Rufus, now Alexa for Shopping, are wrong or incomplete. People familiar with the matter told Reuters that executives see richer data as a way to make outside AI shopping agents come to Amazon.com rather than rival sites.

The 27 EU heads of state or government met in Dublin on 13 November for an informal European Council that the Council calls the first leaders' strategic discussion on AI: how AI can boost European competitiveness and its effects on society, security and trust. Ukraine was added as a second topic.

Reuters reports that Mistral AI chief executive Arthur Mensch and Geoffrey Hinton were to brief the leaders, and that the bloc's plan for seven AI gigafactories has yet to take off amid disputes over the 2028-2034 budget.