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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: @rmstein, @jeffdean, @yacinemtb, @charles_rqi, @signulll, @scaling01, @karpathy, @karpathy, @karpathy, @yitayml, @ryancarson, @skooookum, @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, @zephyr_z9, @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, @deedydas, @kimmonismus, @buccocapital, @googledeepmind, @sundarpichai, @clankert800, @sebkrier, @patrickmoorhead, @skirano, @rihardjarc, @venturetwins, @theomediaai, @rowancheung, @benbajarin, @thorstenball, @altryne, @scaling01, @scaling01, @fchollet, @googledeepmind, @ns123abc, and @omarsar0
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/programming, r/ClaudeCode, and r/programare
| 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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Bluesky: @taumuyi and @seldo.com
| 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: @googleresearch, @googleresearch, @googleresearch, @jeffdean, @rajanpatel, @googleresearch, and @kylebrussell
LinkedIn: Shruti Shetty and Vijay Narayanan
| 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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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
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| New York Times: |
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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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Bluesky: @flingjore.com and @mgsiegler.com
Threads: @benedictevans, @andymstone, and @kurtwag8. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| 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.| 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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LinkedIn: Svetla Marinova, Danny Murphy, and Natasha Bezuidenhout. Bluesky: @peark.es. Mastodon: @rjek@mastodon.social
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| 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 … | 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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| Dane Knecht / @dok2001: |
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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/news, r/wallstreetbets, r/siliconvalley, r/CanadianInvestor, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.
More: The Information, Reuters, and Kraken Blog
| 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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LinkedIn: Mohamed Soliman, Zachary Bratun-Glennon, and Darian Shirazi
| 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 …
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Bluesky: @theglipper, @agreenberg, @mrfresh, and @couts
Forums: r/cybersecurity and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: The Information, Reuters, Gizmodo, and Wall Street Journal
| 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.| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q3 revenue down 7% YoY to ~$4.4B, its biggest quarterly revenue decline ever, and a ~$1.5B net loss, as the search giant battles falling usership — Baidu Inc. posted its biggest quarterly revenue slide on record, highlighting a weakening advertising business while it tries to keep up in the artificial intelligence race.
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| 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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| 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 …
More: Forbes Middle East, XiaomiTime, and GSMArena.com
| Bloomberg: |
PDD, which owns Pinduoduo and Temu, reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$15.2B, above ~$15.1B est., and net income up 17% YoY to ~$4.1B, as it weathers US tariffs — PDD Holdings Inc. warned of a slowdown in an intensively competitive Chinese consumption environment, reflecting an escalating battle …
More: PDD Holdings and The Business of Fashion
| 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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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/technology
| 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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Mastodon: @Gargron@mastodon.social, @Mastodon@mastodon.social, @haubles@hachyderm.io, @stux@mstdn.social, and @janggolan@mastodon.social. Forums: Beehaw
| 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 …
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