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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google unveils Gemini 3, its “most intelligent” and “factually accurate” model yet, with improvements across coding and reasoning, and offering less “flattery” — The flagship Gemini 3 Pro model is coming to the Gemini app and Search, with improvements across coding, reasoning, and less ‘flattery.’
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, New York Times, Search Engine Land, ZDNET, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Reuters, Engadget, ZDNET, Business Insider, Axios, MobileSyrup, Google Cloud, Livemint, Android Central, Fortune, Constellation Research, Matt Wolfe on YouTube, The Keyword, and Android Authority
X: @sentdex, @yacinemtb, @zephyr_z9, @rihardjarc, @peterwildeford, @buccocapital, @scaling01, @firstadopter, @peterwildeford, @denny_zhou, @thoughtlesslabs, @venturetwins, @minchoi, @sqs, @theomediaai, @fchollet, @thorstenball, @artemr, @cgtwts, @antirez, @arcprize, @mattshumer_, @emollick, @jacalulu, @rajanpatel, @amandaksilver, @clankert800, @rihardjarc, @iterintellectus, @yitayml, @deedydas, @quocleix, @googledeepmind, @skirano, @ns123abc, @googledeepmind, @skirano, @googledeepmind, @sebkrier, @googledeepmind, @googledeepmind, @joshwoodward, @elonmusk, @demishassabis, @demishassabis, @deliprao, @yuchenj_uw, @danshipper, @sriramk, @patrickmoorhead, @demishassabis, @officiallogank, @mattturck, @film_girl, @scaling01, @scaling01, @lmthang, @rowancheung, @scaling01, @_philschmid, @figma, @kimmonismus, @rmstein, @patrickc, @omarsar0, @patloeber, @emostaque, @cursor_ai, @jeffdean, @benbajarin, @skirano, @mattshumer_, @thefox, @scaling01, @googleai, @googleai, @sundarpichai, @google, @bilawalsidhu, @altryne, @altryne, @altryne, and @scaling01. LinkedIn: Lily Lin
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini 3 Pro scores 1,501 on LMArena, above 2.5 Pro, and demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanity's Last Exam and GPQA Diamond — Google today announced Gemini 3 with the goal of bringing “any idea to life.” The first model available in this family …
More: SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Tom's Guide, and WinBuzzer
X: @yuchenj_uw, @goran_majic, @garymarcus, @scaling01, @rohanlikesai, @tengyanai, @mattshumer_, @sama, @ludwigabap, @jeffdean, @arena, @officiallogank, @mikeknoop, @levie, @artificialanlys, @artificialanlys, @artificialanlys, @artificialanlys, @artificialanlys, @kimmonismus, @dillonuzar, @ryanlpeterman, @kimmonismus, @alexfinn, @chiyeung_law, @deryatr_, @__apf__, @chasebrowe32432, @officiallogank, @officiallogank, @saboo_shubham_, @saboo_shubham_, and @artificialanlys. Bluesky: @taumuyi
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google launches Antigravity, an “agent-first” coding tool that leverages Gemini 3 Pro and third-party models, available in free public preview — Available in free preview now, it supports browser control and provides proof of its work.
More: The Keyword, Thurrott, 9to5Google, MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, The New Stack, Android Authority, aiwithbrandon on YouTube, and Theo - t3․gg on YouTube
X: @patloeber, @kevinhou22, @omarsar0, @qeeqez, @fuckpoasting, @dimillian, @_anshulr, @terry_djony, @wesbos, @_digitaldaku_, @thdxr, @theo, @googledeepmind, @steren, @antigravity, @_mohansolo, and @mweinbach. Bluesky: @taumuyi
| New York Times: |
Google says Gemini 3 Pro is integrated into the Gemini app, which now has 650M MAUs, and powers Google Search's AI Mode conversational search feature — After several years of criticism that it was lagging behind in artificial intelligence, Google is turning up its competition with smaller start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic.| Google Research: |
More: The Keyword. X: @googleresearch, @googleresearch, @googleresearch, @googleresearch, @jeffdean, and @rajanpatel. LinkedIn: Vijay Narayanan
| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
Cloudflare says “a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved”, after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others from 11:48am UTC — Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline
More: Cloudflare Status, CNBC, The Guardian, Inc, TechRadar, Business Insider, Tom's Hardware, BBC, The Guardian, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, OpenAI, The Verge, The Hans India, Benzinga, Livemint, The Economic Times, 9to5Mac, Windows Central, Fox Business, Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Forbes, Moneycontrol, WebProNews, The Independent, Associated Press, RTÉ, PCMag, Bloomberg Law, CBS News, Engadget, Inc42 Media, PhoneArena, Mashable, Technical.ly, South China Morning Post, Reuters, San Francisco Examiner, Digit, Help Net Security, The Shortcut, The Gateway Pundit, Tom's Guide, Futurism, Windows Central, New York Times, PC Gamer, Deadline, Android Central, Financial Times, and City A.M.
X: @menhguin, @sxtvik, @tomwarren, @patio11, @packym, @stacey_hauff, @eugenewei, @asvanevik, @typesfast, @zackkorman, @philipvollet, @madsposting, @isik5, @luciascarlet, @emremighty, @mpaepper, @letterboxd, @suchnerve, @coder_blvck, @jsrailton, @netblocks, @fkadev, @chribjel, @pzrsaa, @aaronp613, @tomwarren, @liron, and @amuse
Mastodon: @cloudflare@noc.social and @emdecy@sendtoot.co
Forums: Hacker News and Hacker News
| Dane Knecht / @dok2001: |
Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht says “we failed our customers and the broader Internet” when a Cloudflare issue “impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us” — I won't mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I
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X: @dok2001, @yongfook, @johnkutay, @mikeisaac, @yenkel, and @muvaffakonus. Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social
| 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 …
More: BBC, The Hill, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Quartz, Reuters, The Guardian, Benzinga, Dexerto, Cautious Optimism, Business Insider, Gulf News, and Implicator.ai
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Bluesky: @carnage4life, @mutablejoe, @paulwaldman, @wolvendamien, @justinhendrix, @carlquintanilla, @kenbazinet, and @karlbode.com. Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social
| Microsoft: |
Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest 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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X: @zephyr_z9, @benitoz, @nvidia, @anthropicai, @joannastern, @tomwarren, @mgsiegler, and @satyanadella. Bluesky: @peark.es. Forums: Slashdot
| Lance Whitney / ZDNET: |
Microsoft integrates more AI features into Windows, including new Copilot skills, AI agents in 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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More: GeekWire, ITPro, CNBC, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, SiliconANGLE, Constellation Research, TechRadar, Wired, The AI Economy, Techstrong.ai, Jason Howell's Newsletter, Ken Yeung, and Petri IT Knowledgebase. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| Ted Litchfield / PC Gamer: |
Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October — Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral. — Game developer Rebecca Heineman has died after being diagnosed with cancer last month.
More: Engadget, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and TechRaptor
Mastodon: @daveycraney@social.lol and @jbz@indieweb.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/gaming, r/retrogaming, and r/pcgaming
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers demonstrated a major WhatsApp flaw that exposed 3.5B users' phone numbers, with 57% also showing a profile photo; Meta fixed the enumeration problem — By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp's contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure …
More: The Hacker News, 9to5Mac, and WebProNews
| 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.
More: The Harvard Crimson, CNBC, Global News, Politico, New York Times, and Blaze Media
X: @r_gov11, @elisaxchen, @fahrenthold, @tab_delete, @heerjeet, @soumitrashukla9, @sndurlauf, @andrewcurran_, @dhruvtkpatel, @mattparlmer, @michael7ucci, @dhruvtkpatel, @thecrimson, @distributionat, @jerrycap, @dhruvtkpatel, @dhruvtkpatel, and @rcobooth. Bluesky: @davidingram
Forums: r/neutralnews and r/Epstein
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko steps down from the decentralized social network as part of its transition to a nonprofit structure governed by a board — Mastodon's creator, Eugen Rochko, is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X rival … | Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI and Intuit sign a multiyear deal, set to generate $100M+ in OpenAI revenue, in which Intuit will deepen its use of OpenAI models and launch ChatGPT apps — Intuit sees the opportunity to expose its products, such as TurboxTax and QuickBooks, to a broader range of potential users on ChatGPT
More: Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Intuit Inc., Proactive, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Forbes, Axios, and CNBC
| Financial Times: |
CoinGecko: the total market value of 18K+ crypto coins is down 25% since October 6, wiping out ~$1.2T; bitcoin fell 28% to $89.5K, its lowest level since April — Bitcoin drops 28% in six weeks as worries over AI stocks spill into digital assets and high-octane bets backfire
More: PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Tom's Hardware, Reuters, Bloomberg, Benzinga, The Block, CoinDesk, CNBC, and Telegraph. Bluesky: @beneltham
| xAI: |
xAI unveils Grok 4.1, saying its hallucination rate is 3x less compared to its previous models and Grok 4.1 Thinking holds the top spot on LMArena's Text Arena — Grok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the iOS and Android apps. It is rolling out immediately …
More: xAI, Livemint, Gizmodo, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, and The Verge
X: @arena, @minimaxir, @chrisparkx, @thekitze, @zeffmax, @leothecurious, @mark_k, @flavioad, @arena, @arena, @miles_brundage, @yuhu_ai_, @koltregaskes, @mark_k, @ai_for_success, @scaling01, @nearlydaniel, @yiwenyuan98, @litianleli, @adityagupta, @elonmusk, @xai, and @billyuchenlin. Bluesky: @olaindeach.oddling.nl
Forums: Hacker News and r/MyBoyfriendIsAI
| 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 … | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU Commission opens an investigation into AWS and Azure to determine whether they should fall under the DMA and says they “occupy very strong positions” — Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp.'s Azure are under investigation by the European Union to determine whether …
More: European Commission, The Register, Forbes Middle East, and Associated Press
X: @hennavirkkunen and @eu_competition
Bluesky: @gateklons and @coricrider.com
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety — After scrutiny over its ability to protect children on the platform, Roblox is making a big change.
More: 9to5Mac, BBC, CNET, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Developer, Roblox, Benzinga, The Sun, The Guardian, Associated Press, Engadget, GamesBeat, ABC, iTnews, GameSpot, Straight Arrow News, CNN, TechCrunch, and Reuters
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Larry Ellison is overhauling a £10B science initiative in Oxford after clashing with President John Bell, who left in September, and COO Lisa Flashner — Trump-supporting billionaire narrows EIT's ambitions by cutting initiatives and tightening control| The Information: |
Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise funds at a $130B+ valuation, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1B Series K at a $100B valuation — Databricks, a database provider whose tools help customers develop and use AI, is in talks to raise money at a valuation of more than $130 billion … | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Sphere, which raised a $4.3M seed as an edtech marketplace, pivots and raised a $21M Series A led by a16z to develop an AI tax compliance software service — As Nicholas Rudder built his last startup, an educational marketplace called ScholarSite, he kept running into the same problem: tax.| 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 exiting — Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman is leaving the social networking leader, one of several leadership changes … Sponsor Posts
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