11-10 Daily Briefing

AI News Daily · 10 Nov 2025

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Highlights

• StepFun drops the 3B-parameter Step-Audio-EditX (zero-shot cloning + multi-round emotion edits); Google Finance Beta embeds AI Q&A; Nano Banana 2 reignites debates on fine-grained instruction following.
• Step-Audio’s paper unifies audio tasks inside conversational frameworks; NB2’s “clock at 11:15” precision shows multimodal reasoning still accelerating.
• The Register blasts benchmarks as “jokes,” Tombkeeper questions humanoid robot incentives, and overseas observers say “the West invents theory, China engineers it.”

Product / Feature Updates

• Step-Audio-EditX turns emotion/accent/style into an iterative workflow.
• Google Finance Beta lets retail investors ask, “What’s the outlook on this stock?” with cited answers.
• Nano Banana 2 isn’t official yet, but leaked Media IO clips show near-human instruction fidelity.

Research Watch

• Step-Audio’s unified architecture + NB2’s careful plotting experiments prove multimodal LLMs still chase “language controlling every sense.”

Industry / Capital

• Benchmark farce critiques, speculation that humanoids are driven by adult markets, and the “overseas theory + domestic engineering” split all warn practitioners not to worship leaderboards—focus on real needs and differentiated edges.

Open Source / Tools

• tinker-cookbook, airweave, librespot, Zig, etc., cover post-training, agent context, custom players, and system languages—giving engineers leverage.

Community Signals

• Threads on favourite agentic coding tools, PPT prompt packs, and “K2-Thinking is slow but brilliant” show people stress-testing workflows before committing.