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Rose Henderson / Bloomberg: Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month  —  Cloudflare Inc. said it has fixed a problem that led to the websites… Read More »Cloudflare says it has fixed an issue that caused a 25 minute outage on Friday, following a major, hours-long outage last month (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Marc Benioff says it “would not shock” him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings  —  – Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is rebranding many products… Read More »Marc Benioff says it “would not shock” him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

TrendForce: Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15-20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026  —  Soaring AI-server memory demand is driving DRAM prices sharply higher—and now PC and… Read More »Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15-20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026 (TrendForce)

Bloomberg: Polish lawmakers fail to override the president’s veto on a crypto assets regulation bill; Poland is the last EU country not to adopt EU’s crypto regulation  —  Polish lawmakers failed to overturn a veto on a bill regulating digital… Read More »Polish lawmakers fail to override the president’s veto on a crypto assets regulation bill; Poland is the last EU country not to adopt EU’s crypto regulation (Bloomberg)

Hugging Face: Hugging Face details how it used its new tool, Skills, to fine tune LLMs using Claude, including for writing scripts, submitting jobs to cloud GPUs, and more  —  We gave Claude the ability to fine-tune language models using… Read More »Hugging Face details how it used its new tool, Skills, to fine tune LLMs using Claude, including for writing scripts, submitting jobs to cloud GPUs, and more (Hugging Face)

Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law: The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using “io” as a trademark in some instances while an infringement suit against it proceeds  —  The Ninth Circuit affirmed a temporary order blocking OpenAI… Read More »The Ninth Circuit affirms a temporary order blocking OpenAI from using “io” as a trademark in some instances while an infringement suit against it proceeds (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law)

New York Times: The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months  —  Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more… Read More »The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (New York Times)

Bloomberg: Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC to support its WBD deal, one of the largest ever loans of its kind  —  Netflix Inc. has lined up $59 billion of… Read More »Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC to support its WBD deal, one of the largest ever loans of its kind (Bloomberg)

Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers for its Meta AI chatbot  —  Meta on Friday said it has struck several commercial AI data… Read More »Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers for its Meta AI chatbot (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter: Netflix says it “expects to maintain Warner Bros.’ current operations…, including theatrical releases for films”  —  Now that that’s settled…  Netflix just solidified itself as the leading entertainment company (and then some), and all… Read More »Netflix says it “expects to maintain Warner Bros.’ current operations…, including theatrical releases for films” (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)