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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.
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| New York Times: |
Google says Gemini 3 Pro is available in the Gemini app, which now has 650M MAUs, up from 350M in March, and powers Google Search's conversational AI Mode — After several years of criticism that it was lagging behind in artificial intelligence, Google is turning up its competition with smaller start-ups like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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| 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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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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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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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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.
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| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
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| Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg: |
Trump says the US needs a “Federal Standard” governing oversight of AI instead of “a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes”, otherwise China will catch up — President Donald Trump called on Congress to pass a federal standard governing oversight of artificial intelligence …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon's Zoox announces that 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 …
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| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
Soumith Chintala, who co-created the PyTorch ML framework at Meta and left the company this month, has joined 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.
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| 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.
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| Apple: |
Apple details how it is 3D printing Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3 cases using titanium powder, helping Apple 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 to produce millions … | 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
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| Tess Patton / The Wrap: |
A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit — On track for 150,000 episodes by the end of 2025, Inception Point AI's Quiet Please podcast network values quantity over quality| 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 … | 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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| Luke Kehoe / Ookla: |
Apple's N1 chipset in the iPhone 17 lineup delivers up to 40% higher median Wi-Fi download and upload speeds globally vs. the Broadcom-based iPhone 16 lineup — New wireless silicon in the iPhone 17 family delivers material performance improvements over predecessors, pushing it ahead of many Android flagship devices in Wi-Fi.
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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 …
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Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore, collaborating with institutions across the Asia-Pacific in education, public services, and more — ios_share — Through cutting-edge research, a growing bench of world-class talent, and deepening work with government …
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