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2 wild Varanasi theories that explain S.S. Rajamouli's mysterious new movie

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The DC movie leftover Blue Beetle is on Netflix, where it belongs

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A US judge rules that Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions don't violate antitrust law as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)

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Internal docs show Meta's Vibes AI video feed has about 2M DAUs as of November 9, up 1% from the previous week; ~52% of returning users prompted the AI (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)

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Sen. Warren presses Trump admin on potential AI bailout plans

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Exclusive Soup Kitchen Offers Free Meals By Invite Only

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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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Cloudflare Suffered Hours Long Outage (Which Brought Down Daring Fireball, Among Thousands of Other Sites)

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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 (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)

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Source: Microsoft's and Nvidia's investments in Anthropic push the AI startup's valuation to the range of $350B, up from $183B after it raised $13B in September (CNBC)

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All the games coming to Xbox Game Pass in the second half of November

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All Battlefield 6 Season 1 battle pass rewards

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Black Panther 3 is Sinners director Ryan Coogler's "next movie"

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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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Microsoft launches Agent 365, a framework that lets businesses deploy and manage AI agents like human employees, with dashboards showing telemetry and alerts (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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The Apple Watch Series 11 has plunged to a record low price

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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)

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GameStop workers say its Trade Anything Day will be a huge mess

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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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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 (Google Research)

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