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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: @tanayj, @rmstein, @scaling01, @yitayml, @skooookum, @elonmusk, @karpathy, @danshipper, @kevinroose, @sriramk, @yuchenj_uw, @googledeepmind, @lmthang, @sentdex, @quocleix, @rajanpatel, @figma, @amandaksilver, @demishassabis, @emollick, @scaling01, @officiallogank, @signulll, @googledeepmind, @deliprao, @googledeepmind, @film_girl, @denny_zhou, @tszzl, @jacalulu, @artemr, @antirez, @mattshumer_, @mattturck, @iterintellectus, @zephyr_z9, @scaling01, @skirano, @yacinemtb, @jeffdean, @cgtwts, @zephyr_z9, @rihardjarc, @demishassabis, @karpathy, @patrickc, @firstadopter, @thoughtlesslabs, @demishassabis, @_philschmid, @peterwildeford, @minchoi, @sqs, @charles_rqi, @deedydas, @kimmonismus, @buccocapital, @googledeepmind, @clankert800, @ryancarson, @sebkrier, @patrickmoorhead, @skirano, @rihardjarc, @venturetwins, @artificialanlys, @theomediaai, @yacinemtb, @rowancheung, @benbajarin, @kylebrussell, @thorstenball, @scaling01, @jeffdean, @fchollet, @googledeepmind, @veggie_eric, @ns123abc, @ns123abc, @mweinbach, @karpathy, @omarsar0, @patloeber, @emostaque, @cursor_ai, @jeffdean, @benbajarin, @skirano, @mattshumer_, @thefox, @scaling01, @googleai, @googleai, @sundarpichai, @google, @bilawalsidhu, @altryne, @altryne, @altryne, and @scaling01
LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Shane Holland, Matt Renner, Nalini Polavarapu, Michelle Morrison, Wole Oluyemi, and Lily Lin
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, r/artificial, r/ClaudeCode, r/programare, 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.
More: Google Antigravity, The Keyword, InfoWorld, The New Stack, Simon Willison's Weblog, VentureBeat, WebProNews, MIT Technology Review, aiwithbrandon on YouTube, The New Stack, and Theo - t3․gg on YouTube
X: @antigravity, @kevinhou22, @altryne, @beffjezos, @omarsar0, @_anshulr, @patloeber, @iamgingertrash, @qeeqez, @rakyll, @scottwu46, @gergelyorosz, @steren, @_digitaldaku_, @_mohansolo, @fuckpoasting, @luke_metro, @dimillian, @terry_djony, @scaling01, @thdxr, @altryne, @theo, @ai_for_success, @googledeepmind, @wesbos, @wolframrvnwlf, @brexton, and @mweinbach
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Google Research: |
More: Moneycontrol, Forbes, and Gemini
X: @googleresearch, @googleresearch, @googleresearch, @jeffdean, @rajanpatel, @googleresearch, and @kylebrussell
LinkedIn: Donald McCasland, Shruti Shetty, and Vijay Narayanan
| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
More: International Business Times and Developer Tech News
X: @beyang, @yoda, @andrewcurran_, @vkpedia, and @zephyr_z9
| Alex Heath / Sources: |
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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
Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, and r/wallstreetbets
| Matthew Prince / Cloudflare: |
Cloudflare says the November 18 outage was caused by a change to one of its “database systems' permissions”, not by “malicious activity of any kind” — On 18 November 2025 at 11:20 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC), Cloudflare's network began experiencing significant failures to deliver core network traffic.
More: The Verge, Simon Willison's Weblog, Engadget, Mashable, The Guardian, The Register, Cyber Security News, The Cyber Express, and UPI
X: @eastdakota and @cloudflare
Mastodon: @darkuncle@infosec.exchange and @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, r/sre, and Lobsters
| 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
More: The Register, Network World, Daily Sabah, The Verge, Directions on Microsoft, Spyglass, Verdict, Axios, SiliconANGLE, The Information, Capital Brief, Miami Herald, CRN, UPI, CIO Dive, Ars Technica, and Neowin
X: @zephyr_z9, @miles_brundage, @trungtphan, @benitoz, @nvidia, @anthropicai, @joannastern, @tomwarren, @zephyr_z9, @mgsiegler, and @satyanadella
LinkedIn: Svetla Marinova, Natasha Bezuidenhout, and Danny Murphy. Bluesky: @peark.es. Mastodon: @rjek@mastodon.social
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers — Today we announced that Microsoft and Anthropic are expanding our partnership. As part of the partnership, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5 … | CNBC: |
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| Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: |
President Trump says the US needs a “Federal Standard” to govern AI oversight instead of “a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes” or China will catch up — President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a federal standard governing oversight of artificial intelligence …
More: Benzinga, Punchbowl News, The Verge, Raw Story, NewsMax.com, and Axios
X: @rondesantis, @collin_mccune, @adamthierer, @davidsacks47, @pmarca, and @bhorowitz
Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump … and @realDonaldTrump …
| 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 … | 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.
More: Windows Central, ZDNET, The Verge, Ars Technica, Windows Developer Blog, Windows Blog, Windows Blog, Tech Times, Kotaku, Digital Trends, ZDNET, and TechCrunch
X: @tomwarren. LinkedIn: Katie Anderson. Bluesky: @lookitup.baby and @spavel. Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/LinusTechTips and r/pwnhub
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok plans to test letting users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed, and will add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content — TikTok, an app that was once just a place for user-generated content, is launching a new setting that lets users choose … | New York Times: |
CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025 — Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon's Zoox says users in San Francisco can now sign up for its Zoox Explorers program to take free rides in its robotaxis in select neighborhoods — Zoox on Tuesday began allowing select San Francisco users to hail its driverless vehicles, pitting the Amazon-owned robotaxi service … | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / Sifted: |
Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $44B in 2025, up from $41B in 2024; tech now makes up 15% of Europe's GDP, up from 4% in 2016 — Sifted combed through the 183 charts in this year's edition to pick out the most important bits — Europe's startups are getting some of their mojo … | Bloomberg: |
In a lawsuit, US-based TP-Link says Netgear orchestrated a smear campaign by planting false claims with journalists and influencers about TP-Link's China ties — California-based TP-Link Systems Inc. says it may take a sales hit of more than $1 billion because of erroneous reports … | Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
Soumith Chintala, who co-created the PyTorch ML framework at Meta and left the company earlier this month, joins Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab — - Soumith Chintala, the creator of PyTorch, has joined Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines Lab. — Chintala's move comes amid major restructuring inside Meta's AI ranks.
More: Implicator.ai. X: @chris_j_paxton, @code_star, @soumithchintala, @miles_brundage, and @iscienceluvr
| Apple: |
Apple details how it is 3D printing Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3 cases using titanium powder, helping the company save 400 metric tons of raw titanium in 2025 — It started with a pie-in-the-sky idea: What if 3D printing — historically used to create prototypes — could be leveraged …
More: Tom's Hardware, The Gadgeteer, Cult of Mac, iClarified, Moneycontrol, MacRumors, Hindustan Times, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B valuation, up from the $113B it reported after merging with X in March 2025 — Like other AI startups, xAI is burning cash rapidly as it seeks to improve its flagship Grok chatbot — Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence company …
More: Benzinga, Reuters, and Tech Times
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Kraken raised $200M at a $20B valuation, after raising $600M at a $15B valuation in September; prior to these two rounds, Kraken raised only $27M in VC funding — One of the world's largest crypto exchanges has raised a huge stash of capital from a blue chip financial titan.
More: Kraken Blog, Business Wire, The Crypto Times, Benzinga, BeInCrypto, Cryptonews, Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk, NewsBTC, Decrypt, and The Block
LinkedIn: Stephanie Lemmerman and Mark Greenberg
| Costas Paris / Wall Street Journal: |
The US DOE will provide Constellation with a $1B loan to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant; the output will be sold to Microsoft under a 20-year deal — Constellation Energy aims to bring mothballed plant back to life to power Microsoft AI agreement| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Fox News hires Palantir to build tools that help journalists produce stories across Fox platforms and social media; Fox won't use AI to generate editorial copy — Fox News Media has been working with Palantir for the past year to build a suite of custom AI newsroom tools alongside its journalists … Sponsor Posts
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