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From the archiveCorrection · · Added ten stories and expanded three briefs; corrected the Grok access explanation.
SN75 Hippius confirms iPhone availability, following its earlier Android release
At 08:57 UTC November 9, SN75 Hippius announced mobile availability. The official download page links to working Apple and Google Play listings from T34 Corporation. Apple’s public metadata dates the iPhone release to November 6, with version 1.2.0 updated at 14:56:56 UTC that day and iOS 15.1 required; this is a late-found release, not a claim it first shipped today. Android availability was already covered September 21 and is not a second launch. The product and store pages describe automatic photo/video backup and access to desktop files, with encryption before upload. Listings and announcement media were checked, but no app was installed, backup performed or encryption implementation independently audited. Availability does not establish downloads, paid adoption or customer revenue.
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13 more storiesOpenTensor and Injective set November 10 deadline for Bangkok Hacker House
OpenTensor and Injective reminded builders on November 9 that applications close November 10 for their December 1–10 Bangkok Hacker House. The official program lists accommodation, meals and flight subsidies, with a December 9 demo day. Selected teams may be considered for milestone grants; acceptance and funding are not guaranteed. Applicants must be building on Injective and attend the full program. The published page does not specify the application closing hour or timezone. This is an upcoming builder program, not evidence that participating projects have shipped.
TAO.com announces Arena opening round with a 17.12 TAO prize pool
TAO.com announced Arena on November 9. Its live rules date the opening round from November 6 at 14:30 UTC through November 22 at 23:00 UTC, so the round did not first begin today. The native prize pool is 17.12 TAO, split 50%/30%/20%; the promoted dollar value can change with TAO. Ranking uses eligible realized and unrealized P&L measured in TAO, subject to wallet, trade-size and anti-abuse rules. Entry is advertised as free. No wallet was connected and no entry or trade was made during this review.
TaoStats reaches its November 9 legacy API migration deadline
TaoStats reminded users on November 6 that its legacy API endpoints were due to retire on Monday, November 9. The original October migration guide moves consumers from /api/ routes to /v1/ on the same host and retains existing API keys and authentication. It also documents stricter parameters and pagination changes, including a default of 50 and a maximum of 200 results. This is the previously announced deadline arriving, not a new API launch today. An authenticated legacy-endpoint shutdown check was unavailable, so retirement execution and its exact hour are not independently confirmed.
SN31 rec4ll publishes a free tier with explicit memory and processing limits
First directly verified November 8 at 22:22 Eastern, the public product page offered 20 databases,8 million vectors,50 GiB estimated vector storage,1,000 embeddings/hour and 10,000 queries/hour shared by search and generation, without a card or deposit. The page says source text is encrypted at rest but independent operators see plaintext during processing. These published limits are useful for evaluating persistent AI memory, but no API request, reliability test or signup was performed. The original announcement time is unconfirmed. A fresh November 9 page visit returned an empty rendered body, so current availability was not re-established; the published terms are retained as a dated observation.
SN44 Score reports three vision skills above their first-week targets
Score published first-week November evaluation figures on November 9: person detection 90.6%, vehicle detection 90.2% and worksite PPE 90.9%, each against a 90% goal. Room dirtiness was 85.8% against 90%, beverage 71.1% against 90%, and cricket delivery 73.0% against 85%. The attached card and post are the team’s own evaluation report. The underlying test sets, metric comparability and live customer outcomes were not independently reproduced; these percentages should not be read as universal real-world accuracy.
SN51 Lium adds GB200 pricing support and changes idle Spot-pay code
November 9 PR2149 adds GB200 as its own GPU family, initially using B200 rental rates and idle caps. Its provider notes require GPU splitting with a minimum of one for idle pay on four-GPU GB200/GB300 trays. Separate merged changes cap idle Spot pay at 80% of the comparable Secure idle rate while retaining the filler-revenue bound, and allow eligible free GPUs on partly rented Spot nodes to receive idle pay without double-paying rented GPUs. Download slowness now requires all measured endpoints to fail the threshold. These are verified code and documentation changes; deployed versions, current payouts, customer savings and installation were not independently tested. Separately, the team’s public statistics page, updated 15:12:37 UTC November 9, displayed $2.6 million billed to renters,1.08 million GPU-hours and28,721 rentals over a rolling 30 days, with 75% utilisation. These are team-reported operational counters, not independently audited revenue or the unverified calendar-October figures. A later November 9 merge distinguishes host GPU loss from other reset failures, provides a compatibility fallback for older backends and lets newer Redis drop records override stale local state. Deployment and a measured reliability improvement were not independently verified.
SN54 Yanez announces limited BioVault password-manager alpha
Late-found November 3 news: Yanez announced a limited BioVault alpha that stores passwords and notes in a browser and requires a fresh face approval in YID to unlock. Access was offered by request rather than as an unrestricted public release. Its version 0.15 guide, updated November 3, says the alpha has not had an independent security review. It documents split browser/server keys and a recovery kit, while warning that losing the required keys or kit can make recovery impossible. Neither the product nor its biometric security was independently tested during this review.
SN64 Chutes announces GLM 5.2 Fast support
Chutes announced zai-org/GLM-5.2-Fast on November 9 through its existing OpenAI-compatible endpoint and API keys. Its listing quotes $2.45 per million input tokens and $7.70 per million output tokens. The announcement advertises a one-million-token context and maximum 128K output. The public model catalog independently lists the Fast model; it marks confidential compute false, so this must not be confused with the separate TEE variant. No paid inference, latency test or benchmark reproduction was performed.
SN71 Leadpoet merges optional weekly Arena reward decay without a floor
November 9 PR1147 adds an optional model-tenure clock: when enabled, occupied slot rewards halve every 140 settlement epochs, approximately seven days, without a four-halving floor. Removed allocation follows the existing burn path rather than going to other holders. Only genuinely new promoted model sources reset the replaced slots; daily documents, restarts and repackaging do not. The switch defaults off in the reviewed service code and requires coordinated validator and gateway activation. Older markerless states retain their previous floor. Follow-up judge recovery and drain guards were also merged. No live activation receipt or executed five-slot eTAO change was verified. Later November 9 merges normalize genesis hashes for reward-clock scope and restore paired restart recovery. A separate attribution change accepts reversed legal-name/initialism labels only alongside verified company bindings and refreshes deferred industry guidance. These are code changes, not verified production payouts.
SN97 Ingot tightens challenger KL margin and revises evaluation weighting
Ingot merged a November 9 evaluation change reducing the challenger KL margin from 3% to 2% relative to the incumbent’s own KL. Within each domain, KL is now weighted across answer tokens before domains are combined by their sample shares, replacing the earlier mean of per-sample normalized values. The 800-sample mix shifts terminal tasks from 300 to 330 and math from 50 to 20, alongside a dataset revision. Dashboard rescoring is intended to make older duels comparable. This is reviewed merged code, not independently verified production activation, model superiority or changed payouts.
SN111 Claims releases the weekly sample and starts evaluation
The November 9 mainnet round closed intake at 12:00 UTC and released its sample at 14:32 UTC. At 15:03 UTC its public dashboard showed evaluation in progress,31 miners,32 packages and 29 accepted packages; scores appear only after publication. The progress panel describes 320 papers and 30 pipelines, which is a different counter from accepted packages. No winner, completed evaluation or reward distribution is established. The following weekly intake remains a separate round. This updates the earlier overnight submissions-open and queued states rather than announcing another competition.
SN114 SOMA sets an 11% emission burn allocation
At 12:18:12 UTC November 9, finalized block 9,468,579, extrinsic 8, event 171 executes a successful proxied allocation change. The full vector moves from 0% burn /0% recycle /about 18% owner /about 41% validators /about 41% miners to 11% burn /0% recycle /about 18% owner /30% validators /about 41% miners. Exact integer vectors and before/after storage are preserved in the evidence; small normalization differences are rounded here. SOMA’s registration, identity and owner remain unchanged. This configures the division of future alpha emissions, not a separately executed transaction burn. Root’s live baseline is paid from and capped by the validator bucket; alpha validators share the remainder, and historical yield can lag the change.
SN117 EveryFrame publishes everycli 1.0.0 and separate worker-upgrade requirements
The November 9 13:39 UTC merge publishes version 1.0.0, redesigned miner health checks and job diagnostics. Its release notes describe optional price-based offers, provider routes for additional models and updated Phala provisioning. Automatic offers default off and pause when complete current prices are unavailable. CLI updating alone does not update the deployed worker or enable offers; the notes require a compatible signed worker for the new capabilities and review of Miner Terms. Existing manual offers are preserved. These are released source and documented requirements, not an independently installed client, verified provider availability or demonstrated miner profit.
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11 updatesSmaller developments and early plans. Verification labels distinguish confirmed information from developing claims.
Yuma reports October Large Cap Fund performance
Yuma’s November 9 Large Cap Fund disclosure reports an October return of −16.9% in USD, against −20.9% for its TAO benchmark. That is a 4.0 percentage-point difference while both USD returns were negative. Yuma separately reports +5.0% measured in TAO; that is a different currency basis, not a positive dollar return. These are manager-reported monthly figures and the accompanying chart, not an independently audited NAV or a forecast of future performance.
SN4 Targon documents 13.1.0 network persistence and recovery
The November 9 documentation update consolidates 13.1.0 instructions for persistent static networking, bonds and VLAN configuration, including recovery and reboot behavior. This is an operator documentation change, not a newly verified binary release or a production fleet upgrade. Operators should check the applicable version and existing network configuration before applying the documented steps; no installation or network change was performed during this review.
SN8 Vanta records five qualifying alpha burns across the overnight window
Five finalized successful direct burn_alpha calls remove 200.070080868,496.426519683,655.757208060,272.892643668 and 120.022948968 alpha, totaling 1,745.169401247 alpha. Their UTC times are November 9 01:02:48,02:39:00,04:15:12,07:54:00 and 08:24:24; the first three occurred November 8 Eastern. Event IDs 9465202-176,9465683-205,9466164-202,9467258-183 and 9467410-335 preserve exact execution evidence. The wallet differs from the registered owner and registration 1,477,264 is unchanged. These archived events are carried into the morning report, not counted as new executions. No buyback or revenue funding is inferred.
SN28 SayGM announces list-price cuts; exact reduction remains unverified
At 09:00 UTC November 9, SN28 SayGM posted that it is cutting list prices. The current public table labels rates in USD per million tokens and distinguishes recent finalized results from eligible miner offers. During this review, Claude Opus 5.5 displayed $4 input, $0.20 cached input and $20 output per million tokens. Without a directly comparable prior tariff or an effective-time notice, this scan cannot quantify the reduction or say every listed model became cheaper. The six-second attached video is promotional; no complete audio review, paid inference, invoice or provider-performance test was performed.
SN28 SayGM changes worker-removal and Phala CVM teardown behavior
SayGM merged an operator change on November 9: gmcli worker remove now deletes the associated Phala CVM by default after successful worker deregistration, with --keep-cvm available to preserve it. The implementation adds preflight checks and distinguishes a successful deregistration followed by failed teardown. A separate merge refreshes compiled Chutes TEE measurement references. Operators should distinguish these merged changes from the later dev-testnet release preparation; a production rollout was not verified. No worker, CVM or account was changed during this review.
SN36 Weir adds seven-day hotkey activation-fee quotes
A November 9 07:55 UTC source change moves GPU activation fees into platform configuration and implements hotkey-bound seven-day quotes. An open quote uses the lower of its quoted fee and the current model fee. Missing configured fees stop new activations while preserving already activated GPUs. Removed hardcoded fee values are not current price quotations. No payment, live quote issuance or deployed fee schedule was tested. At 09:56 Eastern the cached alpha/TAO snapshot showed+15.99% over 24 hours and+2,125.30% over seven days; the latter crosses recent slot reuse and cannot establish a reaction to this commit.
SN44 Score records a finalized buyback-and-burn
At 05:41:48 UTC November 9, finalized block 9,466,597, extrinsic 9, event 175 records 4,349.820044482 alpha destroyed through the successful buyback path with 137.911407 TAO input. The TAO enters the subnet pool; it is not TAO destroyed. Before/after identity storage retains the existing registration, and the executing wallet is not the registered subnet owner. No customer-revenue funding or off-chain identity is established. This event was already verified in the permanent archive and is carried into this edition without recounting it.
SN53 engy records a finalized buyback-and-burn
At 09:13:00 UTC November 9, finalized block 9,467,653, extrinsic 8, event 199 records 10,707.973763420 alpha destroyed through the successful buyback path with 292.02 TAO input. The TAO enters the subnet pool; it is not TAO destroyed. Before/after identity storage retains the existing registration, and the executing wallet is not the registered subnet owner. No customer-revenue funding or off-chain identity is established. This event was already verified in the permanent archive and is carried into this edition without recounting it.
SN61 RedTeam reports CEO appearance at the House of Lords
RedTeam said on November 9 that its CEO, @oli_innerworks, represented the project at the House of Lords the preceding week, discussing cybersecurity. Its announcement quotes Mark Jeffrey’s November 8 event post. The team’s statement establishes what it is reporting; an official parliamentary record and exact event date were not independently verified in this pass. The appearance is not evidence of a government endorsement, procurement contract or adopted policy.
SN66 Conjectures removes individual chat-log JSON size caps
November 9 PR201 removes per-file JSON byte caps and validates artifact-index entries as a stream. The prior 10 GiB ZIP limit remains, along with 20,000 ZIP entries,64 MiB JSONL line limits,24 levels of JSON nesting and isolated validation resource budgets. Large packages still require multipart upload and adequate scratch storage. This extends the previously covered package-size change; it does not make uploads unlimited or establish that production accepts every package.
SN127 Zils merges customer training-data cleanup around jobs
November 9 PR222 adds cleanup of customer training rows, photos and partial downloads before claim and after job completion; finite round fleets remove their last-round rows. A completed frozen candidate can still be delivered after its training rows are removed. This does not erase candidate artifacts, raw outputs or logs. Seven-day archive cleanup and stopping an unbounded fleet remain manual responsibilities. The change follows the previously covered delivery gates; it is verified implementation, not independent proof that every deployed miner erased its data. Later on November 9, PR223 adds an incumbent-ensemble guard: a new greedy combination must improve on the current ensemble by at least 0.5 score points on the same decision items before replacing it. The guard does not preserve an ensemble that cannot be rebuilt because a member is unknown or was not graded this round; identical membership needs no extra comparison. The merged implementation does not establish production rollout, an actual missed payment or a repaired round. A later November 9 merge also reports the miner’s installed commit during job claims and surfaces coordinator upgrade refusals. The documented admission window requires matching coordinator support; the merge alone does not prove fleet-wide activation.
Stars indicate editorial priority, not investment quality. Routine competition updates receive at most three stars. Shizzy videos receive three; substantive non-video Shizzy coverage receives at least four. Scheduled events remain plans.
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OpenTensor and Injective’s Bangkok Hacker House closes applications November 10. Chutes adds GLM 5.2 Fast, TAO.com announces Arena, and TaoStats reaches its migration deadline. Plus Hippius on iPhone, SOMA’s 11% allocation burn, Score’s vision results, Yanez’s limited BioVault alpha and newly reviewed miner/operator changes.
Coverage: Nov 8, 2026, 4:12 PM – Nov 9, 2026, 1:22 PM ET
Searched
- All128active slots reconciled to finalized owner/identity storage, market rows and retained sectors;124configured repository rows queried over seven days.
- All47loaded November9subnet briefs read natively; required Const/Tensia/owner originals, replies, reposts and bookmarks compared with earlier reports and pending leads. Exact source dispositions and access gaps retained.
- Contiguous eTAO/burn extension9468329–9469368 and lifecycle review9462214–9469368, plus prior overnight qualifying events. All128owner wallets collected at9469368.
- Both YouTube Videos and Live inventories checked. Latest public/member/replays unchanged; owner removals and Carbon cancellation preserved. All128rendered market rows checked inUSDandTAO, all four return sorts exercised without blanks.
- Final native X omission pass added primary SN75 Hippius and SN28 SayGM announcements; Apple/Google listings and pricing units checked. Chain and lifecycle coverage extended through9469511.
- November 9 catch-up: eighteen required X accounts inspected in native loaded timelines, plus owner posts/replies/reposts and relevant bookmarks. Direct originals, product pages, API guides and selected merged patches support ten additions and three expanded briefs; full seven-day timeline coverage remains incomplete.
- Combined finalized eTAO/burn scan 9469512–9470297, all 128 allocation vectors and owner wallets reconciled. No new allocation change or individually qualifying burn; three successful coldkey-swap announcements did not affect a current subnet owner and were not executed transfers.
Public-data gaps
- Earlier Grok blockage was overstated from the usage meter without a submitted-query test. Two actual queries succeeded around 12:32 PM Eastern. During this catch-up, fresh Auto and Fast discovery/top-five queries and a Fast omission query were submitted and explicitly rejected for exhausted included usage/credits. No completed response is claimed for those later checks. Timeline pagination and full audiovisual review gaps remain.
- The seven-day124-row repository sweep returned53HTTP200,42HTTP403,14HTTP429,3HTTP404 and12unconfigured sources. Pagination and individual X timeline/media coverage gaps remain. Prior primary-verified monitor evidence supplements this pass.
- Authenticated TaoStats/v1 cross-check is BLOCKED because no API key is configured. Public SN113display remainsUnknown. Market snapshots and rendered rows are available; independent backup attribution and historical repair remain unverified.
- All47loaded November9 briefs were reviewed as discovery, not original team statements. Selected incidents, team metrics, commercial claims and saved interview media await original-source or complete audiovisual review. The fresh rec4ll product page rendered blank, so its limits remain a dated prior observation.
- SN75 Hippius was not installed or independently security-audited; its iPhone release predates the November9announcement. SN28 SayGM’s exact before/after price reduction and full promotional audio remain unverified.
- Late-found BioVault announcement retains its November 3 date. RedTeam appearance remains a team report without an independently checked parliamentary event record. Fund returns and Score evaluation figures are issuer/team reports. Promotional media and product performance were not fully independently tested.
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