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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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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.
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 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
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
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 …
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.
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
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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
Itsuro Fujino / Nikkei Asia:
A look at Huawei's efforts to build an independent Chinese chip supply chain; through vehicles like Hubble, it has invested in 60+ chip companies since 2019  —  GUANGZHOU — Chip companies affiliated with Huawei Technologies are on a tear of acquisitions and capacity buildups in a bid to create …

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