Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO | 2025-11-17
Jeff Bezos is stepping back into the CEO chair to co-lead Project Prometheus, a new AI venture reportedly focused on engineering and manufacturing. With $6.2 billion already raised and 100 hires poached from top labs, the big mystery is what the well-funded startup will actually build.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/17/jeff-bezos-ai-startup-project-prometheus
WTFPL – Do What the Fuck You Want to Public License | n.d.
The WTFPL is an ultra-permissive software license often invoked in debates about openness and attribution. Its Version 2 famously fits into two short paragraphs, effectively granting do-anything rights that resemble the public domain in many jurisdictions.
https://www.wtfpl.net/
Gemini 3: Introducing the latest Gemini AI model from Google | 2025-11-18
Google’s Gemini 3 aims to push reasoning and multimodal performance while rolling out broadly across the Gemini app, Search’s AI Mode, AI Studio, and Vertex AI. A new “Deep Think” mode and a million-token context window set the stage, alongside the agentic Antigravity developer platform.
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/
New EU Chat Control Proposal Moves Forward – Privacy Experts See a Dangerous Backdoor | 2025-11-17
EU lawmakers advanced a revised Child Sexual Abuse Regulation that drops mandatory scanning yet adds “risk mitigation” powers critics say could still pressure encrypted services to scan messages. Privacy advocates also warn age-verification rules would erode anonymity for 450 million EU residents.
https://techreport.com/news/new-eu-chat-control-proposal-privacy-experts-see-dangerous-backdoor/
Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws | 2025-11-19
The European Commission proposed easing parts of the GDPR and delaying or relaxing elements of the AI Act to cut red tape and boost growth. Changes include fewer cookie pop-ups and broader data-sharing for anonymized sets, with the plan now heading to Parliament and member states.
https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 | 2025-11-18
Cloudflare detailed a major incident traced to an oversized Bot Management feature file after a ClickHouse permissions change, triggering widespread 5xx errors. Core traffic largely recovered by 14:30 UTC and fully stabilized by 17:06, raising questions about safeguards for critical configuration rollouts.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
Build with Google Antigravity, our new agentic development platform | 2025-11-20
Google introduced Antigravity, an agent-first developer platform that lets AI agents plan, execute, and verify tasks across editor, terminal, and browser. Available free in public preview, it supports Gemini 3 Pro (with “Artifacts” for auditability) and even third-party models like Claude Sonnet 4.5.
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/build-with-google-antigravity-our-new-agentic-development-platform/
Introducing Claude Opus 4.5 | 2025-11-24
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 targets long-horizon reasoning, software engineering, and agentic workflows, and is available across apps, API, and major clouds. The company highlights better benchmark performance and new pricing at $5 input/$25 output per million tokens, aiming to broaden everyday use.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5