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November 18, 2025, 9:40 AM
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Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
Cloudflare says “the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented”, hours after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others starting at 11:48 UTC  —  Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline
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 …
xAI:
xAI unveils Grok 4.1, saying its hallucination rate is 3x less 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.  It is rolling out immediately …
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
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 …
@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]
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU Commission opens an investigation into AWS and Azure to determine whether they should fall under the DMA and says they “occupy very strong positions”  —  Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp.'s Azure are under investigation by the European Union to determine whether …
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
GlobalFoundries acquires Advanced Micro Foundry, a Singapore-based silicon photonics foundry, for an undisclosed sum, and plans a new R&D center in Singapore  —  Chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries (GFS.O) said on Monday it has acquired Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), a Singapore-based chipmaker …
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.
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
Josh Sisco / Bloomberg:
Filing: the US FTC ends its review of SoftBank's $6.5B acquisition of chip designer Ampere, granting an early termination; SoftBank announced the deal in March  —  The US Federal Trade Commission has ended its review of SoftBank Group Corp.'s acquisition of semiconductor designer Ampere Computing LLC …
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Lambda, which rents access to AI chips, raised a $1.5B Series E led by TWG Global, after raising $500M in April 2024, taking its total funding to $2.3B  —  The fundraise will help the startup build its own data centers as the AI infrastructure boom shows no signs of letting up
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety  —  After scrutiny over its ability to protect children on the platform, Roblox is making a big change.
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 …
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

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From Mediagazer

Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:
A deep look at FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's moves favoring the Trump administration; former chair Tom Wheeler warns against the agency becoming a political tool

K.J. Yossman / Variety:
ITV reports H1 2026 revenue up 2% YoY to £1.9B, ITV Studios revenue up 2% to £912M, and ad revenue up 3% to £850M, with digital ad revenue up 13%

More News

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
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
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

Earlier Picks

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 New York State Assembly member Alex Bores, who co-sponsored the RAISE Act, a bill requiring AI safety protocols
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare acquires Replicate, which hosts 50K+ open-source and fine-tuned AI models and simplifies deployment via one API call; Replicate will keep its brand
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Ford and Amazon partner to let Amazon Autos users browse, finance, and purchase certified pre-owned Ford vehicles, initially 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 and $16B in June
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