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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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X: @ryancarson, @rmstein, @benbajarin, @scaling01, @zephyr_z9, @kevinroose, @sriramk, @yuchenj_uw, @googledeepmind, @lmthang, @sentdex, @quocleix, @skirano, @rajanpatel, @figma, @googleai, @amandaksilver, @demishassabis, @emollick, @scaling01, @thefox, @officiallogank, @googledeepmind, @deliprao, @googledeepmind, @benbajarin, @film_girl, @denny_zhou, @jacalulu, @artemr, @antirez, @mattshumer_, @mattturck, @iterintellectus, @scaling01, @danshipper, @scaling01, @patloeber, @skirano, @mattshumer_, @googleai, @yacinemtb, @cgtwts, @zephyr_z9, @rihardjarc, @google, @demishassabis, @patrickc, @elonmusk, @firstadopter, @altryne, @thoughtlesslabs, @emostaque, @jeffdean, @demishassabis, @altryne, @_philschmid, @peterwildeford, @cursor_ai, @minchoi, @bilawalsidhu, @sqs, @yitayml, @deedydas, @kimmonismus, @buccocapital, @googledeepmind, @sundarpichai, @clankert800, @sebkrier, @patrickmoorhead, @skirano, @rihardjarc, @venturetwins, @theomediaai, @rowancheung, @thorstenball, @altryne, @scaling01, @scaling01, @fchollet, @googledeepmind, @ns123abc, and @omarsar0
LinkedIn: Nalini Polavarapu, Michelle Morrison, Wole Oluyemi, and Lily Lin
Bluesky: @carlquintanilla and @kweinmeister
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/programming, r/ClaudeCode, and r/technews
| 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
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X: @kylebrussell, @googleresearch, @googleresearch, @googleresearch, @jeffdean, @rajanpatel, and @googleresearch
LinkedIn: Shruti Shetty and Vijay Narayanan
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini 3 Pro scores 1,501 on LMArena, displacing 2.5 Pro for #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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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
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| 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
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Mastodon: @cloudflare@noc.social and @emdecy@sendtoot.co
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| 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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| 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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Bluesky: @justinhendrix, @carlquintanilla, @wolvendamien, @kenbazinet, @mutablejoe, @karlbode.com, @carnage4life, and @paulwaldman. Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social
| 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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| 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: |
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| Bloomberg Law: |
A US judge rules Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp 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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| 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 … | 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 exiting — Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman is leaving the social networking leader, one of several leadership changes …
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| 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 …
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Bluesky: @anildash.com and @lucyannd
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches Topic Chats, which enables public conversations on subjects like F1, and plans to use AI and other safety tech to moderate the chats — After primarily focusing on private conversations since its founding, Snapchat is embracing public conversations with a new “Topic Chats” feature.
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft advertising the feature as able to “understand you”, it delivers inconsistent and often 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.
Forums: r/BetterOffline and Slashdot
| 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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| 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
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| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Maxima, whose AI platform automates accounting tasks like reconciliation and journal entry, raised $41M in seed and Series A rounds at a $143M valuation — Artificial intelligence startup Maxima has raised about $41 million from investors including Redpoint Ventures and Kleiner Perkins …
More: PYMNTS.com and Business Wire
| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
Internal docs show Meta's Vibes AI video feed has about 2M DAUs as of November 9, up 1% from the previous week; ~52% of returning users prompted the AI — - Internal documents show how Meta's new Vibes AI video feed is performing across its biggest markets.
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| 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.| 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 … | 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
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