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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Snapchat rolls out 'Topic Chats' for public conversations | TechCrunch

The social network says the new feature will let users chat about what’s happening in the world and across various communities, from Formula 1 to...

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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

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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)

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3

From chatbots to agents

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Gemini 3 demonstrates strong planning, coding, and judgment skills, and shows that AI models have moved past hallucinations to subtle, often human-like, errors

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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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Anthropic valued in range of $350 billion following investment deal with Microsoft, Nvidia

Microsoft announced new strategic partnerships with Nvidia and the AI startup Anthropic.

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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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a16z leads $21M Series A into AI-native tax compliance software Sphere | TechCrunch

Sphere helps automate registration, calculation, filing, and remittance obligations for companies. “We help companies collect tax on customer tra...

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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

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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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Microsoft Agent 365 lets businesses manage AI agents like they do people

AI agents are getting some much-needed controls.

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Microsoft launches Agent 365, a framework that lets businesses deploy and manage AI agents like human employees, with dashboards showing telemetry and alerts

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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) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-18/meta-s-chief-revenue-officer-exits-in-broad-leadership-reshuffle

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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 also exiting

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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 (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)

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Microsoft is packing more AI into Windows, ready or not - here's what's new

Microsoft is clearly excited about all this AI infiltrating Windows, but are its users as excited? Not quite. Here's why.

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Microsoft integrates more AI features into Windows, including new Copilot skills, AI agents on the taskbar, writing assistance, and troubleshooting agents

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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)

Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt

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Google details a new generative UI implementation that lets Gemini 3 Pro create interactive interfaces for any prompt, launching in the Gemini app and AI Mode

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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 launches Gemini 3 with state-of-the-art reasoning, ‘generative UI’ for responses, more

Google today announced Gemini 3 with the goal of bringing “any idea to life.” The first model available in this family is Gemini 3 Pro...

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Google says Gemini 3 Pro scores 1,501 on LMArena

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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 launches Gemini 3 with new coding app and record benchmark scores | TechCrunch

Google released Gemini 3, its latest and most advanced foundation model, to be made immediately available through the Gemini app and AI search inte...

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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

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