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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 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Source: Microsoft's and Nvidia's investments in Anthropic push its valuation to the range of $350B, up from its $183B valuation after raising $13B in September (CNBC)
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Gemini 3 demonstrates strong planning, coding, and judgment skills, and shows how AI models moved past hallucinations to subtle, and often human-like, errors (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
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Microsoft launches Agent 365, a new framework to let businesses deploy and manage AI agents like human employees, with dashboards showing telemetry and alerts (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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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 (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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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 (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
2025-11-18 17:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft integrates more AI features into Windows, including new Copilot skills, AI agents in the taskbar, writing assistance, and troubleshooting agents (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)
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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 (Google Research)
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Google launches Antigravity, an "agent-first" coding tool that leverages Gemini 3 Pro and third-party models, available in free public preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
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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 (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
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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 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Google unveils Gemini 3, its "most intelligent" and "factually accurate" model yet, with improvements across coding and reasoning, and offering less "flattery" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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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 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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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 (New York Times)
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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)
2025-11-18 15:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)
2025-11-18 14:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Microsoft)
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Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October (Ted Litchfield/PC Gamer)
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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 (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
2025-11-18 13:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
2025-11-18 15:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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