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.
Larry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from the OpenAI board, after a US House Committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein
Former Treasury secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board, he and the company told Axios in separate statements Wednesday …
Gemini 3 hands-on: a fundamental improvement on daily use, extremely fast, Antigravity IDE is a powerful launch product, and its personality is terse and direct
Gemini 3 is a fundamental improvement on daily use, not just on benchmarks. It feels more consistent and less “spiky” than previous models.
FTC v. Meta: TikTok's rise undermined the FTC's antitrust case and helped Meta avoid a breakup; Judge Boasberg said the tech landscape has “changed markedly”
Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.
The Dutch government suspends its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner; a Dutch minister says the move is “a show of goodwill”
The Dutch government suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, handing back control to its Chinese owner …
The EU unveils proposed updates to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and plans to water down the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure
The EU folds under Big Tech's pressure. … After years of staring down the world's biggest tech companies and setting the bar …
Meta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume buying startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a slowdown under Lina Khan
To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta's antitrust win may change that thinking.
Epic Games partners with Unity to bring games made with Unity Engine to Fortnite in 2026, part of Epic's longterm vision to make Fortnite into an open metaverse
Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. … Epic Games is teaming up with arguably …
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 …
Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling
which we discussed in our NeurIPS '25 talk with @ilyasut and @quocleix—the team delivered a drastic jump. The delta between 2.5 and 3.0 is [image] Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy : I played with Gemini 3 ...
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 …
Crypto exchange Kraken says it confidentially filed for a US IPO, without revealing any terms; Kraken said it raised $200M at a $20B valuation on November 18
Crypto exchange Kraken said on Wednesday it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States.
Adobe plans to acquire NYSE-listed Semrush, which helps companies run search engine optimization as AI use rises, for $1.9B in cash, paying $12 per share
Semrush helps businesses from Amazon to TikTok with search-engine optimization and marketing — Adobe struck a $1.9 billion deal …
CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.
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
See The Market Value After The Deal Ateev Bhandari / Reuters : Crypto exchange Kraken valued at $20 billion in latest funding round Helene Braun / Yahoo Finance : Kraken Scores $800M Raise Backed by $...
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 …
A new bipartisan Senate bill amends Section 230 to make commercial social media platforms responsible if their recommendation systems cause foreseeable harms
A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms.
TikTok is rolling out new digital well-being features like an affirmation journal and says it will also give users badges for limiting their daily screen time
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
A look at Tsinghua University, which leads China's AI innovation, with 4,986 AI patents between 2005 and 2024, alumni behind startups like DeepSeek, and more
this university might be winning the AI race, and you've probably never heard of it X: Saritha Rai / @saritharai : BIG TAKE Xi Jinping's university drives China's AI boom, filing more patents than Har...
Meta release SAM 3, a model for detection, segmentation, and tracking of objects in images and video, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D
Meta Platforms Inc. today is expanding its suite of open-source Segment Anything computer vision models with the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D …
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 …
The EU's General Court dismisses Amazon's request to remove its designation as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA; platforms with 45M+ users qualify
- Amazon had contested ‘very large platform’ status — EU court says large online marketplaces can pose systemic risk
Ubisoft says it will release results for the fiscal first half before trading opens on November 21, after unexpectedly postponing their publication last week
Ubisoft Entertainment SA said that it will release its results for the fiscal first half before trading opens on Friday …
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
additive manufacturing cuts raw material usage in half Vincent Nguyen / The Gadgeteer : Lasers, Layers, and Wrist Wonders: Why Apple's New Watches Are 3D-Printed Legends David Snow / Cult of Mac : App...
As TSMC readies its €10B Germany plant for 2027, its Taiwanese suppliers say they're struggling with the EU's complex permitting, labor, and environmental rules
European chipmakers need TSMC's help to grow their own semiconductor supply chain, but the chip giant's Taiwanese suppliers find Europe a tough place to do business.
Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips
Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia …
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 …
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
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
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
Costas Paris / Wall Street Journal :
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 …
Sources: South Korean antitrust officials visited Arm's Seoul offices as part of ongoing scrutiny of its licensing practices, following Qualcomm's complaint
South Korea's antitrust regulator visited the Seoul offices of Arm Holdings Plc this week as part of ongoing scrutiny …
NetEase says 2M+ people played martial arts game Where the Winds Meet in the 24 hours after its global release, as Chinese companies' cultural influence expands
The big story — From Nezha 2 to Labubu, it's been quite a year for Chinese cultural exports.
UK online grocer Ocado's stock closed down 17.4% on November 18 after its US partner Kroger said it would close three automated warehouses in January 2026
as it happened Holly Williams / The Independent : Ocado sees shares plummet after blow from Kroger site closures Chris Price / Telegraph : Ocado suffers £300m slump as US supermarket axes its warehous...
Boston Dynamics says its robot dog Spot is used by 60+ US and Canadian bomb squads and SWAT teams, with ~2K units deployed globally, five years after its debut
Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like “Uptown Funk.” X: @heysamantha . Mastodon: @eff@mastodon.social X: Samantha Murp...
Meta warns of significant difficulties in identifying and removing underage users as it prepares for Australia's under-16 social media ban, set for December 10
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg :
xAI's Grok 4.1 tops benchmarks in emotional intelligence, while its model card also shows a marked increase in sycophancy compared to Grok 4
extremely vaguely — that they improved on sycophancy, but it actually got more than 2x worse? [image]
Alphabet's stock rose as much as 6.9% on Wednesday, its biggest gain since early September, amid a wave of glowing reviews for Gemini 3
Alphabet Inc. shares soared the most in two months on Wednesday as a wave of glowing reviews for the newly released version of its Gemini artificial …
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
Pranav Dixit / Business Insider :
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
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg :
Crypto miners like IREN are pivoting to AI data centers amid the AI boom; IREN's stock, down to ~$1 in 2022, is up 300% in 2025, giving it a $13B+ market cap
Developers desperately need access to electricity—and bitcoin miners are in prime position to assist
AI music platform Suno raised $250M led by Menlo Ventures at a $2.45B valuation, up from ~$500M in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200M
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal :
Brookfield Asset Management is targeting $10B for its new AI infrastructure fund and has already raised $5B from its balance sheet, Nvidia, and other investors
Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal :
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
Tess Patton / The Wrap :
Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore, collaborating with institutions across the Asia-Pacific in education, public services, and more
Lila Ibrahim / Google DeepMind :
Kuaishou reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$5B and net profit up 37% YoY to ~$632M, above ~$588M est., driven by ad growth and its Kling AI video generator
Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal :
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
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Guardio, which helps detect malicious code created with AI tools, raised $80M led by ION Crossover, and says it has 500K paying users and $100M in ARR in 2025
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
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
Itsuro Fujino / Nikkei Asia :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.