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A cascading software problem disrupted Outlook, Teams, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Defender, Intune, and some cloud-based Windows access worldwide for roughly eighteen hours. A large number of servers unexpectedly became unavailable, but no evidence of malicious activity was found. Services gradually recovered as the investigation into the cause continued.Nvidia’s leadership transition is raising questions in Israel about whether slower decision-making could create opportunities for competing AI-chip and inference-software companies. Nvidia employs about six thousand people in the country and established its largest research operation outside the United States there after acquiring Mellanox. That presence makes the company’s future investment decisions particularly important to Israel’s technology sector.Former Nvidia chief Jensen Huang allegedly described interim CEO Colette Kress as unable to help steer strategy during a finance-team meeting. The account comes from an anonymous source and follows questions from Kress about how Nvidia should evaluate billions of dollars in credit-backed data-center deals. The company’s board is searching for a permanent leader following Huang’s resignation.Media startup Mansa has released a thirty-part vertical drama created entirely with artificial intelligence. The low-cost production is designed to test audience demand before any live version moves forward. Critics say the approach excludes human performers, while the company argues that rapidly produced concepts could help overlooked stories attract studio backing. No performance data for the AI series has been disclosed.Elon Musk says Tesla expects to stop producing the Cybertruck around the middle of 2027, freeing its Texas factory to increase output of the autonomous Cybercab. The plan has left owners seeking answers about pending orders, replacement parts, service, and Tesla’s reduced consumer lineup. A petition opposing the decision has gathered more than five thousand signatures.NASA is seeking private-sector ideas for raising Hubble’s orbit, upgrading the telescope, or managing a controlled retirement. Without intervention, atmospheric drag could lead to reentry around 2033 or 2034, and an orbit-raising mission would likely need to happen by 2032. After more than three decades in space, Hubble is already operating with only one primary gyroscope.The two-hundred-and-ninety-nine-dollar Glydr controller is designed to move some of the workload from a user’s hands to their feet. Two foot-operated surfaces provide analog movement and as many as sixteen mappable actions. With an aluminum build, Hall-effect sensors, and configurable controls, it is intended for accessible gaming and everyday computer use beyond the basic on-or-off functions of traditional pedals.AI agents are generating little activity across several major travel and delivery platforms. During one week, agents completed only five hundred transactions out of Uber’s three hundred and twenty million trips and deliveries. DoorDash has seen only several hundred agent orders, while agent-driven bookings remain immaterial for Airbnb. United Airlines is also restricting unauthorized agents because of privacy, unintended-transaction, and regulatory concerns, highlighting both weak demand and substantial operational barriers.SpaceX is planning a Starship flight followed by an attempt to land the upper stage about twenty-two and a half hours later. If successful, it would be the first full recovery of an orbital rocket’s components with the intention of reusing them. Separately, Rocket Lab is preparing Electron’s one-hundredth mission to deploy a synthetic-aperture-radar satellite, marking a major milestone for the small launch vehicle that first flew in 2017.Meta employees allegedly discussed a behind-the-scenes strategy to turn academics against researcher Jonathan Haidt before the publication of his book about social media and youth mental health. It remains unclear

Nebius is planning between $40 billion and $45 billion in capital spending for 2027, with customer prepayments and contract-backed loans expected to cover as much as 85 percent. A major Microsoft project in New Jersey is already months behind schedule, highlighting the financial risk of funding construction against computing capacity that has not yet been delivered.Gemini 4 Hydrogen is rolling out in Google Search worldwide, with a focus on multipart questions, highly specific requests, and difficult typos. The model is designed to deliver more structured, visual answers and complete tasks two and a half times faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash. It is also coming to AI Studio, the Gemini API, the Gemini app, and the Antigravity development platform.An Outlook disruption that began in the United States and the Americas expanded to users in other regions, leaving people unable to access their inboxes. Parts of the service infrastructure were under elevated load, and connection traffic was being redistributed, but no specific cause had been identified.United Airlines is changing its booking, ticketing, and distribution policies to restrict unauthorized AI assistants acting for customers. The concerns include exposed account credentials, unintended purchases or account changes, misuse of loyalty points, and federal check-in rules requiring a person to acknowledge baggage restrictions.Attackers breached a Fireworks AI development system through its cloud provider and obtained customer billing information and datasets. About one percent of Notion customers were affected, and transcripts from the AI Insights feature were taken. Notion then disconnected from Fireworks and deleted the data it had stored there.AWS Emulator gives coding agents a local environment for testing software against simulated cloud services before deployment. The controlled setup is intended to make agent-generated code easier to evaluate, drawing on earlier distributed-systems techniques that injected failures and recreated difficult network conditions.A committee led by theoretical physicist David Gross has concluded that an AI-generated result proves the existence of pure Yang-Mills theory under standard versions of the problem. The group released both an explanation and a formally checked Lean proof. Some mathematicians maintain that future reviews should take place more openly instead of through a privately selected committee.Google's new Decisions API can evaluate yes-or-no questions, multiple-choice options, and detailed rubrics across text, images, audio, video, and PDFs in a single pass. The Gemini Decision 1 model accepts as many as one thousand independent questions and inputs of up to 256,000 tokens, returning probabilities and confidence scores for tasks such as model routing, tool selection, policy checks, and content grading.Two unions representing interested DeepMind employees have applied to a United Kingdom labor authority to determine whether they have enough support to trigger a legally recognized ballot. Roughly one thousand product-focused employees could qualify, with organizers seeking collective bargaining over how the company's artificial intelligence is developed and used.Synchron has voluntarily paused enrollment in trials of its second-generation Stentrode after identifying a performance problem in the lead that carries signals to implanted electronics. No device safety issue has been found. Lead design and manufacturing have been moved in-house, and enrollment is expected to resume after the system is upgraded.Android XR smart glasses designed by Warby Parker and Gentle Monster are available for preorder ahead of sales beginning December tenth. Prices start at $395 and $449, respectively. Both designs weigh about 41 grams, offer nine hours of battery life, and include a 12-megapixel camera with a recording indicator. Gemini provides voice assistance, but the glasses do not have an in-lens display.Buyers of the $650 F