Thursday, November 12, 2026Thursday, November 12, 2026
Thursday, November 12, 2026 — the day's news on the subjects on Clay's list. Stories are from November 9 to November 12, 2026, from the named source list, and each story is carried once across the four days.
United Airlines bans personal AI agents from booking flights
United Airlines announced on November 11 that it is banning personal AI agents from booking flights, saying the move protects customer data and keeps the airline in line with FAA and DOT rules.
United said the agents can expose sensitive information, and that actions taken by these tools may result in unintended purchases, account changes, or use of MileagePlus miles; agents can still show United flight options and prices, but cannot complete a purchase.
Meta's Muse agent passed 10 million users in October; banks restricted AI agents in October and Amazon blocked them in September, and flight check-in still requires a human to confirm that bags hold no banned substances.
A PEN America report released for Banned Books Week in early October warns that using AI to guide book removals will worsen the snowball effect of school book bans.
Some districts have had AI review their collections and flag content; critics say the tools hallucinate and pull passages out of context, and one Florida district's AI scan sent more than 1,800 titles for further review in October.
PEN America counted nearly 12,000 book bans in the 2025–2026 school year, with Texas and Florida making up more than 11,400 of them; Moms for Liberty announced an AI tool in October to scan school board meeting agendas, with human review.
England's Office for Students said universities should return to traditional exams and in-person presentations after lecturers said AI has made it 'close to impossible' to assess coursework.
The finding comes from an OfS and Advance HE report that interviewed more than 300 students and staff at 127 universities and colleges; the OfS said the credibility of degrees is under threat.
The regulator warned that failing to design valid and reliable measures of students' knowledge and skills could breach conditions of registration and lead to sanctions, and its strategy director called AI use 'a generational risk.' The headline link goes to a full copy of the Guardian story carried by All USA News Hub.
Mate, a free AI shopping assistant backed by Paris Hilton, launched ahead of Black Friday to help shoppers save more.
The assistant finds products, negotiates discounts and guaranteed cashback at more than 200,000 U.S. stores, and can handle checkout and track packages.
There is no separate app: Mate works by text through iMessage or WhatsApp, including from a photo of something the shopper wants.
For this year's Forbes CIO Next list, Forbes surveyed technology chiefs at companies including Microsoft, Target, Boeing and Levi Strauss & Co. about where AI is delivering results.
The executives said AI is helping businesses automate tasks, speed up projects and rethink how employees spend their time — but that AI is no magic wand.
Some of the biggest lessons, they said, came from knowing when to hold back, including which decisions they will never leave to a machine. The headline link goes to a full copy of the Forbes story carried by RamaOnHealthcare.
Nasdaq 100 futures led Wall Street lower on Thursday after Nvidia shares plunged 7% in premarket trading on reports its board was weighing the ouster of CEO Jensen Huang.
At 4:11 a.m. ET, Dow E-minis were up 0.04%, S&P 500 E-minis fell 0.38% and Nasdaq 100 E-minis dropped 0.79%; Intel, Marvell and Micron fell between 2.6% and 3.4%, while CoreWeave dropped 7.2%.
The declines threatened to erase Wednesday's gains, when strong CoreWeave results helped AI stocks regain their footing.
Goldman Sachs forecasts annualized spending on AI-related hardware and intellectual property will climb to $1.4 trillion by the end of 2027 — nearly 4% of the U.S. economy — and pass $900 billion by the end of 2026.
Goldman estimates AI investment will directly add 5.3 percentage points to 2027 business investment growth, including semiconductor investment, and 0.6 percentage points to U.S. GDP growth.
Overall U.S. business investment growth is forecast at 8% in 2027, nearly double the 4.2% consensus, and Goldman said the Democrats' midterm victories pose only limited risks to AI investment.
A rebound in AI stocks lifted the U.S. market on Wednesday: the S&P 500 rose 1.3% and pulled within 2.6% of its all-time high, while the Nasdaq composite rallied 1.6%.
CoreWeave, which rents out access to AI chips, leaped 24.7% after losing less money over the summer than analysts expected, and said it has roughly $9 billion in customer prepayments and deposits coming in the next three months.
Micron rallied 11.9%, Broadcom rose 4% and Nvidia climbed 2.9%. The headline link goes to the Associated Press story as carried by WPTF.
The Washington Post reports that men are seeing more career advancement than women in jobs where artificial intelligence tools have been introduced.
The pattern is tied to jobs that already use AI tools for work such as writing, coding, scheduling and customer service, rather than roles that might be automated years from now.
The reporting states the outcome but does not confirm a cause; labor researchers generally point to who gets access to new tools and training first, and to men and women clustering in different job types and seniority levels. The headline link goes to a summary of the Post's story carried by HTT News.
What impact AI is having on states (AZ, NV, CA, OR, WA)
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No real news found for this subject in the named sources for November 9–12, 2026.
Carnivore Weekly's latest piece tackles the headaches many people hit in their first week on the diet: 'Day three, pounding head, ready to quit.'
The article explains why carnivore headaches happen and how long they usually stick around. The headline link goes to Carnivore Weekly's home page, where this story stands as its latest item, dated November 11, 2026.
Keto
Up to 5 stories.
No real news found for this subject in the named sources for November 9–12, 2026.
A wrong-way driver, suspected of being heavily intoxicated, caused a head-on collision on Highway 87 near Pine; both drivers were airlifted to hospital and felony charges follow.
Arizona has confirmed its sixth case of New World screwworm, prompting expanded restrictions on animal movement in southeastern Arizona, and in Globe a new federally funded safety project is changing downtown intersections and pedestrian crossings.
In Payson, two local women have stepped forward to become advocates for children in foster care; the newscast also carries Central Arizona weather.
Solar
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Panels
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No real news found for this subsection in the named sources for November 9–12, 2026.
AirTrunk and European Energy Australia signed an exclusivity agreement to develop two renewable projects in New South Wales' Hunter region, inside the Hunter-Central Coast Renewable Energy Zone.
The projects comprise a 260 MW solar project, a battery of more than 800 MWh and up to 350 MW of wind; the solar and battery parts are expected to begin operating from 2030 and the wind from 2032.
The companies are discussing a long-term power purchase agreement to support AirTrunk's energy needs in New South Wales, including its proposed data centre campus at the former Kurri Kurri smelter site; AirTrunk aims to match all its electricity use with renewables by 2030.
About this page
My Daily Review is built from Clay's subjects list. Each subject carries a number — the most stories for that subject that day; a new subject starts at 5. Fewer are shown when fewer real stories are found, and a subject with no real news that day says so. Stories come from the named source list Clay picked on October 23, 2026 — 44 sources; each story was opened and checked before use, and each story names its source and its date, with the headline linking to the full story. No one source carries more than a quarter of the day's stories. This page was built on Thursday, November 12, 2026, for the four days November 9–12, 2026, with each story carried once across those days.