Good morning. Voters made data centers a campaign issue, Meta bought a company that runs coding agents side by side, and Uber put a number on how few people let AI agents book for them. Today’s guide shows how to run several coding agents without letting them collide.
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Daily Digest: Data center backlash, Meta buys Conductor, Uber agents
November 5, 2026: voters push back on AI data centers, Meta buys a parallel coding-agent app, and Uber says AI agents booked just four rides in its top week.
Today in 6 stories · November 5, 2026
- 01Policy & Regulation
Midterms put data centers on the ballot: what voters decided
Exit polls and local ballot measures show strong opposition to nearby data centers; Congress is now Democratic.
- 02Big Tech
Meta acquires Conductor, a parallel coding-agent workspace app
Terms are undisclosed; Conductor's cloud service closes November 20.
- 03Business & Enterprise
Uber: only 4 rides were booked by AI agents in its busiest week
About 320 million trips and orders in Halloween week, and just 500 Uber Eats orders came from agents.
- 04AI Coding
Run parallel coding agents safely with git worktrees
One folder and one branch per agent, then review and merge one at a time.
- 05YouTube & Video Picks
Seven videos on the math behind neural networks, in order
From vectors and matrices to gradient descent, backpropagation and building micrograd.
- 06Events & Conferences
AI conferences calendar: GTC Washington to CVPR 2027 dates
Six events from November 30, 2026 to June 2027, with official dates and places.
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