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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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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| Google Research: |
More: Moneycontrol, Forbes, and Gemini
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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
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| 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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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.
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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
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X: @nvidia, @zephyr_z9, @miles_brundage, @trungtphan, @benitoz, @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 …
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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, Windows Developer Blog, Ars Technica, Windows Blog, Windows Blog, 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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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
| 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.
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LinkedIn: Stephanie Lemmerman and Mark Greenberg
| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
UK bank Lloyds agrees to acquire UK startup Curve, which offers digital wallets, in a deal set to close in H1 2026; Sky News reported Lloyds is set to pay £120M — Lloyds Banking Group Plc is buying British fintech firm Curve as part of a push to widen its digital offerings and take on challenger banks such as Revolut Ltd.
More: Proactive, BusinessCloud, and Dow Jones Newswires
| 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 … | Tess Patton / The Wrap: |
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