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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.’
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| Google Research: |
Google details a new implementation of generative UI that lets Gemini 3 Pro build 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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| 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: |
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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| 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.| 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| 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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| 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.
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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 …
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| 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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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
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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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| 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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| 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.| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Apono, which helps enterprises manage cloud permissions by eliminating standing privileges, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $54M+ — Cloud identity security startup Apono Inc. revealed today that it has raised $34 million in new funding to accelerate development …
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