A November 11, 2026, Sspai news roundup covers a phone-number privacy pilot in China, credentials exposed through Claude Code settings files, a smart-glasses recall and several AI product updates.
China approves 700-number privacy pilot
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on November 10 that it had approved 10 companies to pilot a number-protection service using dedicated 15-digit numbers beginning with 700. The initial focus is on services such as food delivery and ride-hailing. Users can choose whether to enable the service; when enabled, a courier or driver can call through an intermediary number without either party seeing the other’s real number. Caller ID or a pre-call announcement can identify the service and platform. The ministry said it plans to expand coverage after the pilot.
Claude Code settings files expose credentials
AI security company Apiiro reported on November 9 that more than 100,000 Claude Code settings files had been uploaded to public GitHub repositories. About 1,100 files from 63 organizations contained secrets, including database passwords and API tokens; Apiiro said 215 of those secrets were missed by both gitleaks and TruffleHog.
According to Apiiro, approving a shell command with “Yes, and don’t ask again” can save the authorization in .claude/settings.local.json, sometimes including the full command and any embedded secret. Anthropic documentation says the file is added to a developer’s global .gitignore, but that protection does not travel with a repository. Claude Code’s Boris Cherny said the team was examining ways to prevent the problem and suggested using auto mode and secret-scanning tools. He also said such settings files generally should not be committed to Git and disputed how broadly the reported behavior occurs.
INMO AIR3 recall
China’s market regulator reported a recall of 4,701 INMO AIR3 smart glasses made between May 2025 and June 2026. Some untested third-party apps may cause abnormal power consumption and, with prolonged use, overheating in the left temple that poses a burn risk. INMO says it will address the issue through a free OTA update to V3.18.109. Users are advised to limit use until they update through official channels.
AI and software updates
- MiniMax released weights for its H3-Image generation and editing model on November 11. It supports up to 16 reference images; the company says it can generate a 4096 × 4096 image in 10 seconds.
- Google expanded access to Gemini 4 Carbon on November 10. Its stated promotional API prices are $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 after November 30, 2026.
- Meituan announced the MIT-licensed LongCat-2.5 multimodal model, which it says has 1.6 trillion total parameters, activates about 48 billion per token and supports a one-million-token context.
- Anthropic introduced beta versions of Claude Sheets and Whiteboards for paid users and previewed Claude Meetings. It also renamed Claude Dashboards to Claude Data.
- Mozilla released Firefox 160 with an on-device speech-recognition interface supporting 40 languages, expanded MKV audio support and adjustable picture-in-picture playback speed.
Apple said sign-language interpretation in the Apple TV app was planned to launch globally with Being Heumann on November 13. Supported titles will display a sign-language icon; the feature requires the listed 27.2 versions of Apple’s operating systems or a supported third-party device running the latest app.