Lyria 3.5 music generation, Ripple-65B open coding model, and the agent tools to watch

Google's Lyria 3.5 lands on Replicate, a 65B open coding model ships under Apache 2.0, and always-on agents arrive with a $200 monthly price tag.

On 6 November, the day's releases split three ways: a music model anyone can call today, an open-weight coding model that undercuts hosted rivals, and a run of agent infrastructure from Vercel, AWS and Perplexity. Underneath all of it sits a quieter signal, as midterm ballots backed tighter data center rules in 40 of…