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These are the Daily Tech Headlines for Tuesday, November 18, 2025. I'm Rob Dunwood. A widespread Internet outage on Tuesday morning affecting services including ChatGPT, Spotify and X, was traced to an issue at the infrastructure company Cloudflare. Go. Cloudflare's Chief Technology officer Dane Connect, stated that cause was a latent bug activated by a standard configuration change in their bot mitigation system, not a cyber attack. The company quickly resolved the main incident, though. The event highlights the fragility and reliance on the Internet on a small number of core infrastructure players 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 as Copilot button you can opt into. These agents are based 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 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, Google has launched Gemini 3, a natively multimodal AI series. The flagship Gemini 3 Pro is now available in the Gemini app for Google Search subscribers. Designed As a major OpenAI competitor, Gemini3Pro simultaneously processes text, images and audio, rolling out with new features across Google products like enhanced coding, generative interfaces in Canvas and Dynamic View. The update also improves Google's AI search with better visual results, an upgraded intent understanding technique reduced sycophancy and better reasoning, which powers an experimental Gemini agent for tasks like email organization and travel booking. Grok 4.1 is immediately rolling out to all users on grok.comX and the mobile apps available in auto mode 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. 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 BU double risk. Similar to a recent substantial cloud deal between OpenAI and Amazon, met 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 the tech trade group Netchoice has sued the state of Virginia to stop a new law, SB854, 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 users ages using commercially reasonable methods, which could potentially involve stricter measures like government ID submission. 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 block access to essential foreign components. And finally, Snapchat is launching Topic Chats, a new feature for public discussion on shared interests like Formula 1 or Reality TV company. 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 join chats and related spotlight videos, and it will first roll out in Canada, New Zealand and the US with messages retained for up to five years. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to dailytechnewshow.com and if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check us out. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next time.