Google unveils Gemini 3, its “most intelligent” and “factually accurate” model yet, with improvements across coding and reasoning, and offering less “flattery”
The flagship Gemini 3 Pro model is coming to the Gemini app and Search, with improvements across coding, reasoning, and less ‘flattery.’
Cloudflare says “a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved”, after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others from 11:48am UTC
Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline
Google launches Antigravity, an “agent-first” coding tool that leverages Gemini 3 Pro and third-party models, available in free public preview
Available in free preview now, it supports browser control and provides proof of its work.
Google says Gemini 3 Pro scores 1,501 on LMArena, above 2.5 Pro, and demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanity's Last Exam and GPQA Diamond
Google today announced Gemini 3 with the goal of bringing “any idea to life.” The first model available in this family …
Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest 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
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 …
Google details a new implementation of generative UI that lets Gemini 3 Pro build interactive interfaces for any prompt, launching in the Gemini app and AI Mode
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Microsoft integrates more AI features into Windows, including new Copilot skills, AI agents in 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.
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.
Google says Gemini 3 Pro is integrated into the Gemini app, which now has 650M MAUs, and powers Google Search's AI Mode conversational search feature
here's everything you need to know Aakriti Bansal / MediaNama : Google AI Mode Turns Search into Travel Planner: What It Means for Fair Competition BSS : Google seeks AI lead with improved Gemini Step...
Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral. — Game developer Rebecca Heineman has died after being diagnosed with cancer last month.
Researchers demonstrated a major WhatsApp flaw that exposed 3.5B users' phone numbers, with 57% also showing a profile photo; Meta fixed the enumeration problem
By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp's contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure …
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 …
Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht says “we failed our customers and the broader Internet” when a Cloudflare issue “impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us”
I won't mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and ...
Microsoft launches Agent 365, a new framework to let businesses deploy and manage AI agents like human employees, with dashboards showing telemetry and alerts
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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 …
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.
Google plans to release Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the coming weeks, once it passes further rounds of safety testing
and Google Says It Will Make Search Smarter Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India Magazine : Google Launches Gemini 3, Claims Benchmark Lead Over GPT-5.1 and Claude Sonnet 4.5
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
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
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 …
Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 22.3% YoY to ~$15.9B, below ~$16.4B est., and net profit up 80.9% YoY to ~$1.59B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by AI and EV revenue
China's Xiaomi (1810.HK) reported a 80.9% jump in third-quarter profit on Tuesday as the world's third-largest smartphone maker doubled …
Sources: Larry Ellison is overhauling a £10B science initiative in Oxford after clashing with President John Bell, who left in September, and COO Lisa Flashner
Trump-supporting billionaire narrows EIT's ambitions by cutting initiatives and tightening control
Xiaomi President Lu Weibing says the company expects a shortfall in memory chips to push up mobile device prices in 2026, after SMIC's similar warning last week
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Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise funds at a $130B+ valuation, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1B Series K at a $100B valuation
Databricks, a database provider whose tools help customers develop and use AI, is in talks to raise money at a valuation of more than $130 billion …
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
Last month, Azure stopped one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded … Mastodon: Rob Ricci / @ricci@discuss.systems : Azure: Our datacenters got DDoSed by 500k IP addresses — Everyone else: We ar...
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
Martin Arnold / Financial Times :
Klarna reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $903M, above $882M est., a $95M net loss, and expects $1B+ revenue in Q4, in its first post-IPO earnings release
Samantha Subin / CNBC :
Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian IPO, giving it a ~$5B market cap; it was last valued at $2.8B in 2024 when it raised a $210M Series B
Indian edtech startup Physics Wallah ended its first day as a public company on a high, with its shares closing 44% higher …
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5B and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50B
Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence developer co-founded by ex-OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati … Bluesky: @drewharwell.com . Threads: @carnage4life Bluesky: Drew Harwell / @...
PDD, which owns Pinduoduo and Temu, reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$15.2B, above ~$15.1B est., and net income up 17% YoY to ~$4.1B, as it weathers US tariffs
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Internal memo: CISA will increase its hiring efforts in 2026 to rebuild after the Trump administration's cuts and prepare for a potential US conflict with China
these 21 tech roles are hiring now Bluesky: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi.risky.biz : It was intentional. They fired all the people who worked on election security, and will hire loyalists on the fre...
Arm and Nvidia announce that Arm-based Neoverse CPUs will be able to integrate with AI accelerators using Nvidia's NVLink Fusion tech
Arm's Neoverse CPUs to get access to Nvidia GPUs Scott Martin / NVIDIA : Accelerated Computing, Networking Drive Supercomputing in Age of AI The Business Times : Arm to offer Nvidia's NVLink technolog...
Meta launches a “content protection” tool to let creators detect and take action when their Reels are reposted on Facebook or Instagram without permission
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
Q&A with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on returning to Amazon post-burnout, his goal to “zero out crime”, privacy and the “surveillance panopticon”, and more
and don't let money ‘drive your life,’ Ring's founder says Mike Prospero / Tom's Guide : Best Black Friday Ring video doorbell deals — 5 early sales to shop now Bluesky: Nilay Patel / @reckless : I do...
Agentio, which uses AI to help brands automate and scale campaigns with YouTube creators, raised a $40M Series B led by Forerunner at a $340M valuation
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
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
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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 exiting
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman is leaving the social networking leader, one of several leadership changes …
Baidu reports Q3 revenue down 7% YoY to ~$4.4B, its biggest quarterly revenue decline ever, and a ~$1.5B net loss, as the search giant battles falling usership
Update Baidu Inc : Baidu Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal : Baidu Revenue Falls on Weak Advertising Demand, Posts Loss on Impairment
GlobalFoundries acquires Advanced Micro Foundry, a Singapore-based silicon photonics foundry, for an undisclosed sum, and plans a new R&D center in Singapore
move makes chipmaker one of the largest silicon photonics manufacturers Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0 : GlobalFoundries Acquiring Advanced Micro Foundry To Expand AI Infrastructure Capabilities Ovais Subh...
Sphere, which raised a $4.3M seed as an edtech marketplace, pivots and raised a $21M Series A led by a16z to develop an AI tax compliance software service
As Nicholas Rudder built his last startup, an educational marketplace called ScholarSite, he kept running into the same problem: tax.
SCOTUS declines to hear an appeal by Gesture Technology Partners over the right to challenge expired patents, leaving in place a win for Apple, Google, and LG
Blake Brittain / Reuters :
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
Josh Sisco / Bloomberg :
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
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal :
Berlin-based Peec AI, which helps brands manage visibility in AI-powered search results, raised a $21M Series A led by Singular at a $100M+ valuation
Anna Heim / TechCrunch :
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