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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google launches Gemini 3, its “most intelligent” and “factually accurate” model yet, better at coding and reasoning, and trading “flattery for genuine insight” — The flagship Gemini 3 Pro model is coming to the Gemini app and Search, with improvements across coding, reasoning, and less ‘flattery.’
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google debuts Antigravity, an “agent-first” coding tool that leverages Gemini 3 Pro and third-party models, in free public preview for Windows, macOS, and Linux — Available in free preview now, it supports browser control and provides proof of its work.
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| Google Research: |
Google details a new generative UI implementation that lets Gemini 3 Pro create interactive interfaces for any prompt, launching in the Gemini app and AI Mode — Yaniv Leviathan, Google Fellow, Dani Valevski, Senior Staff Software Engineer, and Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Q&A with Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, spending most of his research time on world models, fitting the entire Google Search index into Gemini, AI bubble, and more — Demis Hassabis was noticeably relaxed when he joined our virtual call from London. — It was the day before the release of Gemini 3 …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini 3 Pro scores 1,501 on LMArena's Text Arena, becoming #1, and shows PhD-level reasoning with top Humanity's Last Exam and GPQA Diamond scores — Google today announced Gemini 3 with the goal of bringing “any idea to life.” The first model available in this family …
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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
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| Bloomberg Law: |
A US judge rules that Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions don't violate antitrust law as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market — Meta Platforms Inc. won a key lawsuit Tuesday after a federal judge ruled that the company's acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram …
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| Microsoft: |
Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to investing up to $5B and $10B, respectively, in Anthropic — Anthropic to scale Claude on Azure Anthropic to adopt NVIDIA architecture NVIDIA and Microsoft to invest in Anthropic
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| CNBC: |
Source: Microsoft's and Nvidia's investments in Anthropic push the AI startup's valuation to the range of $350B, up from $183B after it raised $13B in September — Microsoft on Tuesday announced new strategic partnerships with Nvidia and the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Agent 365, a framework that lets businesses deploy and manage AI agents like human employees, with dashboards showing telemetry and alerts — Microsoft's agent factory vision now comes with some data and security controls. … While Microsoft was founded on the idea …
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| Lance Whitney / ZDNET: |
Microsoft integrates more AI features into Windows, including new Copilot skills, AI agents on the taskbar, writing assistance, and troubleshooting agents — ZDNET's key takeaways — Microsoft is adding more Copilot and AI agents to Windows. — Certain new AI features require a Copilot+ PC.| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
Cloudflare says its services have been recovered after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others on November 18 — Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline — Your support helps us to tell the story
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| Dane Knecht / @dok2001: |
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| Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: |
Trump says the US needs a “Federal Standard” governing oversight of AI instead of “a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes”, otherwise China will catch up — President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a federal standard governing oversight of artificial intelligence …
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| BBC: |
Sundar Pichai says the AI boom has some “irrationality”, tech's investment cycles can “overshoot”, and “no company is going to be immune” to the bubble bursting — In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an …
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| Luke Kehoe / Ookla: |
Apple's N1 chipset in the iPhone 17 lineup delivers up to 40% higher median Wi-Fi download and upload speeds globally vs. the Broadcom-based iPhone 16 lineup — New wireless silicon in the iPhone 17 family delivers material performance improvements over predecessors, pushing it ahead of many Android flagship devices in Wi-Fi.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon's Zoox announces that users in San Francisco can now sign up for its Zoox Explorers program to take free rides in its robotaxis in select neighborhoods — Zoox on Tuesday began allowing select San Francisco users to hail its driverless vehicles, pitting the Amazon-owned robotaxi service … | Apple: |
Apple details how it is 3D printing Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3 cases using titanium powder, helping Apple save 400 metric tons of raw titanium in 2025 — It started with a pie-in-the-sky idea: What if 3D printing — historically used to create prototypes — could be leveraged to produce millions …
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| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
Soumith Chintala, who co-created the PyTorch ML framework at Meta and left the company this month, has joined Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab — - Soumith Chintala, the creator of PyTorch, has joined Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines Lab. — Chintala's move comes amid major restructuring inside Meta's AI ranks.| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Kraken raised $200M at a $20B valuation, after raising $600M at a $15B valuation in Sept.; prior to the two rounds, Kraken raised only $27M in venture capital — One of the world's largest crypto exchanges has raised a huge stash of capital from a blue chip financial titan.
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft wanting PCs to “understand you”, the feature delivers inconsistent results and often slow, incorrect responses — It's not hard to understand the AI future Microsoft is betting billions on — a world where computers understand what you're saying and do things for you.| Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News: |
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments after his Jeffrey Epstein emails were released; OpenAI still lists Summers as a board member and didn't comment — Sen. Elizabeth Warren had called for institutions affiliated with Summers, who was treasury secretary during the Clinton administration, to sever ties with him.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman is leaving after 17 years at Meta; Clara Shih, who joined in November 2024 to lead its Business AI unit, is also exiting — Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman is leaving the social networking leader, one of several leadership changes … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Lambda, which rents access to AI chips, raised a $1.5B Series E led by TWG Global, after raising $500M in April 2024, taking its total funding to $2.3B — The fundraise will help the startup build its own data centers as the AI infrastructure boom shows no signs of letting up
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| Reuters: |
Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 22.3% YoY to ~$15.9B, below ~$16.4B est., and net profit up 80.9% YoY to ~$1.59B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by AI and EV revenue — China's Xiaomi (1810.HK) reported a 80.9% jump in third-quarter profit on Tuesday as the world's third-largest smartphone maker doubled …
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