The Evening Briefing of 11 November

The fact that weighs most today is the negotiation in Abu Dhabi: the United States, Russia and Ukraine have been negotiating from 10 to 11 November. According to the Guardian, these are the first substantive talks between Moscow and Kyiv since February, and Washington says it aims for a “definitive end” to the conflict.¹ The central issue is security guarantees for Ukraine after the war. Rubio reports some progress on the post-war architecture, but specifies that a final concrete plan has not been defined and that the guarantees must also be acceptable to Russia, otherwise they would not hold.¹ The two accounts remain far apart. Zelensky says that no one has seen the documents discussed between the Americans and the Russians, while Rubio describes Washington as a facilitator outside the conflict, able to put forward proposals but not to ensure an agreement.¹ Seated at the table are the American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, senior diplomats and military officials sent by the Kremlin, and European officials from national governments, NATO and the European Union. Paul Taylor, writing in the Guardian, however describes a Europe relegated to a side room.¹ On the form of the agreement, Rubio does not rule out a treaty, but says that the level of detail has not yet been reached and recalls the difficulty of obtaining approval from the US Senate.¹

The front line story

While the talks focus on guarantees, a video released by the Russian Ministry of Defence in mid-October, showing a soldier waving a flag in Dobropillia, is according to Linkiesta probably manipulated with artificial intelligence. The sign is a flag that at one point changes orientation, a flaw that, for Linkiesta, depends neither on compression nor on the sensor.² The edit came out just as the capture of the city was reported to Putin, yet nearly three weeks later the Ukrainian army still held some positions. The Institute for the Study of War had already counted at least thirty-five videos probably created or altered with AI as early as September.² The Financial Times reconstructs a chain in which the announcement of a conquest is passed up level by level to Putin, when the troops may already have withdrawn. Katya Arenina identifies the most insidious outcome as unjustified confidence in the advances. Linkiesta adds that the videos would also serve to portray Ukrainian resistance as close to collapse, to convince the West that supporting Kyiv is pointless.² On 10 November British counter-terrorism police arrested a 41-year-old member of the US Army near Gloucester, suspected of violating the British National Security Act 2023, with Russia named as the state involved. The Washington Post reports that he was serving at Imjin Barracks, where the NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps has its headquarters. His name has not been released and no charges have been reported.³ FBI Director Kash Patel recalled 167 arrests for counterintelligence and espionage over the last 21 months, an increase of 53%. The case is separate from the videos and the negotiations, and the police say it is unconnected to other ongoing investigations.³

Washington and Cop31

The US House has halted the impeachment of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, referring the eight articles of impeachment brought by Republican Thomas Massie to the Republican-led Judiciary Committee by 211 votes to 204. The referral means that any vote can be postponed indefinitely: Hegseth remains in his post, and Democrats could try again in January.⁴ No other Republican followed Massie, while 11 Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, did not vote. With eight more members present, the motion to refer would have failed and the House could have voted on the impeachment itself. The charges concern above all the war in Iran, which according to the articles was started without congressional authorisation, as well as Yemen and Venezuela.⁴ In Antalya, Cop31, the UN climate conference, has opened, with delegates from almost 200 countries. John Kerry tells the Guardian that China is the only country to have truly accelerated on clean energy, and that the others, the United States included, are making slow progress.⁵ For the second year running Washington remains outside the negotiations, after Trump withdrew the country from climate cooperation in 2025. The Guardian recalls that in the five-year plan of March 2026 China committed to lead global climate governance, and that the summit could provide the first indications on the facts. Dawn observes that global emissions show few signs of falling.⁵

Economy and artificial intelligence

The Svimez 2026 Report indicates that between 2021 and 2025 GDP in the South rose by 9.5%, compared with 6.6% in the Centre-North and 7.2% nationally. However, the report does not consider a structural narrowing of the gap to be proven, and Svimez estimates that the boost from the PNRR, the European recovery plan, will begin to fade from 2027.⁶ The weak points concern businesses: among southern firms, 15.4% export, compared with 29.7% in the Centre-North, and graduates in scientific and technological subjects make up 5.2% of employees, compared with 9.4%. On consumption, southern households recorded +7.6%, while Centre-North households recorded +9.9%.⁶ On the AI front, AgID published on 9 November the guidelines for public administration, 140 pages under determination no. 169. They call for classifying each system according to the risk levels of the European AI Act, adopting a management model based on the ISO/IEC 42001 standard, and ensuring data quality, security and training.⁷ On the market, OpenAI has launched business profiles in beta on ChatGPT, with verified listings, aggregated visit statistics and AI agents that answer customers, the latter for now only for eligible e-commerce and online services businesses in the United States. Meanwhile, Google is bringing the Gemini Intelligence features to Pixel 10 with the November Pixel Drop.⁸⁹ A study published on arXiv compares three open-source tools designed to detect when the data encountered in service no longer resemble the data used to train the model, a phenomenon called distribution shift. The test also measures response times on drones with limited computing power. According to the authors, detecting the shift better costs more processing time, so the two aspects must be balanced.¹⁰

In brief

Apple is introducing an on-screen sign language interpreter on Apple TV, starting 13 November with the film Being Heumann and for now only on selected Apple Original titles.¹¹ Michele Barbara, president of the Italian Society of Otorhinolaryngology Sioechcf, said in Rome that nasal polyposis affects 4% of the population and requires a multidisciplinary approach.¹²

This article was written by artificial intelligence from the sources cited, without human review. Automatic newsroom by Redazia.

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Footnotes

1. Garanzie di sicurezza per l’Ucraina: Rubio vede progressi, ma il piano non c’è ancora, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. Russia, deepfake sulla guerra in Ucraina: il video di Dobropillja, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Militare statunitense arrestato nel Regno Unito per spionaggio pro Russia, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩ ↩²

4. Impeachment Hegseth bloccato dalla Camera Usa: 211 voti a 204, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩ ↩²

5. Kerry: la Cina guida la transizione verde, gli altri Paesi “arrancano”, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩ ↩²

6. Rapporto Svimez 2026: il Sud cresce più del Nord, ma il divario non è chiuso, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩ ↩²

7. Linee guida AgID sull’AI nella PA: cosa cambia per enti e fornitori, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩

8. Profili aziendali in ChatGPT: OpenAI sfida Google nella ricerca di attività, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩

9. Gemini Intelligence arriva sui Pixel 10 con il Pixel Drop di novembre, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩

10. Distribution shift nelle immagini dei droni, tre strumenti open source messi alla prova, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩

11. Apple TV introduce l’interprete in lingua dei segni per film e serie supportati, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩

12. Poliposi nasale, colpisce il 4% della popolazione: gli otorini chiedono un approccio multidisciplinare, aitoday.it, 2026-11-11 ↩