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November 18, 2025, 5:40 AM
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xAI:
xAI unveils Grok 4.1, saying it's 3x less likely to hallucinate 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.
Bloomberg:
Amazon raised $15B in its first US dollar bond offering in three years; sources say the proceeds will be used for acquisitions, capex, share buybacks, and more  —  Amazon.com Inc. raised $15 billion in its first US dollar bond offering in three years, adding to a spree of jumbo debt sales …
Financial Times:
CoinGecko: the total market value of 18K+ tracked crypto coins fell 25% since October 6, wiping out $1.2T; bitcoin fell 28% to $89,500, its lowest since April  —  Bitcoin drops 28% in six weeks as worries over AI stocks spill into digital assets and high-octane bets backfire
@artificialanlys:
Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across 40+ topics; Claude 4.1 Opus takes first place in its key metric  —  Announcing AA-Omniscience, our new benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across >40 topics, where all but three models are more likely to hallucinate than give a correct answer Embedded knowledge in language models is important for many real world use cases. Without [image]
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta launches a “content protection” tool to let creators detect and take action when their Reels are reposted on Facebook or Instagram without permission  —  The company's content protection program can identify reels lifting others' work.  —  Creators on Facebook and Instagram …
Martin Arnold / Financial Times:
The UK CMA opens probes into StubHub, Viagogo, and others over allegedly deceptive online pricing practices; the UK plans to ban above face value ticket resales  —  CMA opens investigations into eight companies including ticketing websites StubHub and Viagogo
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Arm and Nvidia announce that Arm-based Neoverse CPUs will be able to integrate with AI accelerators using Nvidia's NVLink Fusion tech  —  Arm on Monday said that central processing units based on its technology will be able to integrate with AI chips using Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology.
Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs:
Microsoft says it mitigated a 15.7 Tbps DDoS from the Aisuru botnet on a single Australian Azure endpoint in October, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded  —  Microsoft says the Aisuru botnet launched a 15.7 Tbps DDoS on Azure from 500k IPs, using massive UDP floods peaking at 3.6 B pps.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
NetChoice sues Virginia over a law that would require parental permission for minors to use social media for more than one hour per day, arguing it violates 1A  —  Virginia's law would require social media platforms to limit how much time kids under 16 spend on their sites, with parental permission required for longer sessions.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
A US judge approves Paramount's settlement with 12 state AGs who tried to block its WBD deal, and Paramount tentatively sets October 6 to close the acquisition

Los Angeles Times:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a bill that creates refundable tax credits for local news outlets based on the number of journalists they employ

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch is stepping down after 7.5 years to become the CEO and chairman of Mattel; lead independent director Mike Perlis will be interim CEO

More News

Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Runlayer, which aims to make it easy for companies to securely scale MCP servers, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed from Khosla Ventures and Felicis
CNBC:
Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future targets NY State Assemblymember Alex Bores, co-sponsor of the RAISE Act, a bill imposing safety and disclosure requirements
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare acquires Replicate, which hosts over 50,000 AI models and simplifies AI model deployment via a single API call; Replicate will keep its brand

Earlier Picks

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Ford and Amazon partner to let people purchase certified pre-owned Ford vehicles via Amazon Autos, initially available in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas
Emily Mason / Bloomberg:
Ramp says it is now valued at $32B following a $300M raise led by Lightspeed and an employee tender offer, up from a $22.5B valuation in July
Joe Wertz / Bloomberg:
Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext 2, a weather model that it says offers faster, more accurate two-week forecasts and includes more tools for energy traders
Ben Bergman / Business Insider:
In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI
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