Here are the biggest technology news, AI developments, and business updates today, on November 19, 2025:
Tech News and AI Developments
- Cloudflare experienced an outage, causing widespread disruptions across X, ChatGPT, Spotify, OpenAI, and other major websites worldwide as a system failure affected major websites globally.
- xAI announced Grok 4.1, featuring significant enhancements in creativity, emotional intelligence, and everyday performance, delivering a smoother and more capable model that outperforms its predecessors in blind human preference tests.
- Google introduces Gemini 3, its most advanced AI model designed to deliver state-of-the-art reasoning, multimodal intelligence, and agentic capabilities across Search, the Gemini app, and developer tools.
- Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic announce a sweeping set of partnerships that scale Claude on Azure, deepen Anthropic’s hardware collaboration with NVIDIA, and secure major financial investment to accelerate frontier AI development.
- Google’s November Demand Gen Update introduces new AI-powered ad enhancements, easier creative testing, and improved brand controls, providing advertisers with stronger performance tools just in time for the peak holiday shopping season.
Trending AI Tools
- Janitor – lets you create and chat with custom AI characters for storytelling, role-play, or interactive conversations.
- Character – enables users to create and interact with custom AI characters or other users’ characters across a diverse range of themes and personalities.
- PolyBuzz – allows users to chat with millions of customizable AI characters for role-play, story creation, or entertainment.
- PolyAI – helps businesses build advanced conversational voice agents to handle customer service across phone, chat, SMS, and digital channels.
- Polly – enables hybrid teams to gather live feedback, run quizzes, conduct stand-ups, and analyze sentiment directly in Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom, making workplace engagement smarter and faster.
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