6 hours ago
Meta’s Takes App Tests Prediction Markets on Employees, Using Points Instead of Money
Key Takeaways Meta is testing an employee-only prediction app called Takes, the Wall Street Journal reported. Staff stake virtual points called “cred” on event outcomes, earning it for right calls and losing it for wrong ones. The project was earlier called Arena. Investing.com says it followed Mark Zuckerberg’s direction. Meta…
8 hours ago
Microsoft’s Outage Outlasted Its Fix: Recovery Came in Phases, With Backlogs Still Draining
Key Takeaways The outage began around 16:00 GMT on November 12 and hit Outlook, Teams and Copilot in 74 countries by Microsoft’s count, with Downdetector showing more than 130,000 Outlook reports at the peak. Microsoft says a process on affected servers that sets up secure connections became overwhelmed and servers…
1 day ago
Chinese AI Projects Worth $3 Billion Rest on Chips Washington Restricts
Key Takeaways Reuters reviewed more than 150 Chinese procurement notices, contracts and disclosures and found projects worth over 23 billion yuan ($3.2 billion) built around Nvidia’s H100, H200 and H800 chips. That total covers buildings, power systems and other infrastructure, not chip spending alone, and Reuters says none of the…
1 day ago
Muse Will Phone US Businesses From $20 a Month, but Who Is Calling?
Key Takeaways Meta’s Muse can place calls to US businesses for paying subscribers, TechCrunch reported on November 12. Plans start at $20 a month for 500 million tokens a week. TechCrunch says many businesses and receptionists hang up when they realise an AI is calling. It doesn’t say if calls…
2 days ago
Jensen Huang Out, Kress Steps In as Nvidia Faces a Looming Earnings Test
Key Takeaways Jensen Huang resigned Thursday as president, CEO, and director, effective immediately; CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO and keeps her finance role. Nvidia’s announcement gave no reason, four days after the board opened an outside investigation. Shares fell sharply and GPU-dependent cloud providers CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN dropped…



































































