A Cloudflare Outage Affected Services Globally, Including ChatGPT, Spotify, And X

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Cloudflare Outage Exposes Internet’s Hidden Weak Point

A widespread internet outage on Tuesday morning, affecting services including ChatGPT, Spotify, and X, was traced to an issue at the infrastructure company Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s chief technology officer, Dane Knecht, stated the cause was a latent bug activated by a standard configuration change in their bot mitigation system, not a cyberattack. The company quickly resolved the main incident, though the event highlights the fragility and reliance of the internet on a small number of core infrastructure providers.
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Windows Becomes an AI-First “Agentic OS”

Microsoft is turning Windows into an “agentic OS” by building AI agents, like Microsoft 365 Copilot and others, right into the Windows 11 taskbar with an “Ask Copilot” button you can opt into. These agents are basically your PC assistants, helping you control things, do research, and automate tasks in a secure space, with their status updates right there on the taskbar. They’re also baking AI smarts into key Windows parts using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and adding Copilot to apps like File Explorer for things like summarizing documents, using a mix of local AI (on a Copilot Plus PC) and cloud-based AI.
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Google Unleashes Gemini 3 to Take On OpenAI

Google has launched Gemini 3, a natively multimodal AI series. The flagship, Gemini 3 Pro, is now available in the Gemini app and for Google Search subscribers. Designed as a major OpenAI competitor, Gemini 3 Pro simultaneously processes text, images, and audio, rolling out with new features across Google products like enhanced coding, “generative interfaces” in Canvas, and a “Dynamic View.” The update also improves Google’s AI Search with better visual results, an upgraded intent understanding technique (“query fan-out”), reduced “sycophany,” and better reasoning, which powers an experimental Gemini Agent for tasks like email organization and travel booking.
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Grok 4.1 Rolls Out With Major Personality Upgrade

Grok 4.1 is immediately rolling out to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the mobile apps, available in Auto mode or as a selectable model. This new version significantly improves real-world usability, focusing on creative, emotional, and collaborative interactions by being more perceptive, engaging, and consistent. It maintains the reliability of previous versions through enhanced style, personality, helpfulness, and alignment, achieved by using frontier agentic reasoning models for large-scale, autonomous evaluation and iteration, especially for non-verifiable reward signals.
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Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic Strike Massive AI Power Deal

Microsoft and Nvidia are significantly increasing their involvement in the AI industry through a new partnership with Anthropic, a major rival to ChatGPT’s maker, OpenAI. Anthropic has committed $30 billion to use Microsoft’s cloud services, while Nvidia will invest up to $10 billion and Microsoft up to $5 billion. This large-scale deal underscores the immense demand for computing power driving the AI race, despite growing investor concerns about the sector’s financial stability and potential bubble risks, similar to a recent substantial cloud deal between OpenAI and Amazon.
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Meta Launches New Tool to Protect Reels Creators

Meta has launched a new mobile tool called “Facebook content protection” for creators to prevent unauthorized use of their original Facebook Reels. This tool detects when a reel is copied, giving creators options to block its visibility on Facebook and Instagram, track its performance with optional attribution, or release their claim. This is part of Meta’s effort to support original creators and fight content copycats.
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NetChoice Sues Virginia Over Social Media Limits for Minors

The tech trade group NetChoice has sued the state of Virginia to stop a new law (SB 854) that restricts minors under 16 to one hour of daily social media use without parental consent, effective January 1, 2026. NetChoice argues the law violates the First Amendment by limiting online free speech and raises privacy and security concerns due to the requirement for platforms to verify user ages using “commercially reasonable methods,” which could potentially involve stricter measures like government ID submission.
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Russia Imposes New Electronics Tax to Boost Defense Tech

Russia is planning a new tax on imported consumer electronics to raise $2.7 billion over the next three years, with the funds intended to bolster the domestic electronics industry, including its defense sector, which has struggled to meet the demand for hardware—such as chips for drones and advanced weaponry—since Western sanctions blocked access to essential foreign components.
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Snapchat Launches Topic Chats for Interest-Based Communities

Snapchat is launching “Topic Chats,” a new feature for public discussions on shared interests like Formula 1 or reality TV. The company will prioritize user privacy by keeping profiles private to non-friends and display names non-searchable. To moderate conversations, Snapchat will use LLM technology, other safety measures, and user reporting to enforce Community Guidelines. Topic Chats will integrate with the app by showing friends’ joined chats and related Spotlight videos, and will first roll out in Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S., with messages retained for up to five years.
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