Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that Google is pressuring schools not to ban AI — by rescinding their access to its eponymous search engine if they do.
The decision triggered a firestorm among educators and lawmakers, with senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) accusing the company of “extortion.” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) fumed that Google was “once again prioritizing profits over people,” tweeting that it’s “more concerned with forcing Gemini into schools than enabling students to succeed.”
“No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children,” New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani wrote.
The Google Search of yore is now topped with an AI feature called AI Overviews, which has caused an unprecedented tidal wave of misinformation. Since it comes ahead of actual sources with confident-sounding answers that are often overtly wrong or flawed, the feature has caused grave concern among teachers who fear that it’s undermining students’ educational development.
The fact is that it’s not just schools. Users have been pleading Google for an AI-free search experience, which would be trivially easy for the tech giant to implement, but those pleas have fallen on deaf ears. Worse yet, in a Tuesday statement commenting on the NYT’s reporting, Google dug in its heels, claiming it was giving schools “more choice, not less.”
“We are also updating Search for schools to make it better for learning,” Google wrote in its statement. “Specifically, AI Mode and AI Overviews will offer step-by-step guided learning through problems, so that students don’t get quick answers to schoolwork.”
In other words, the tech titan refuses to acknowledge the problem in any meaningful way, actively trying to gaslight educators that it’s taking their concerns seriously.
To be clear, this isn’t “more choice” — it’s refusing to engage with the school system on their request to have an AI-free Google experience in the classroom, a possibility that appears to be off the table.
It’ll be interesting to see how educators will respond to Google’s insistence on AI. The tech giant’s software is deeply engrained in the classroom, from Gmail to Chromebooks, which could make cutting the company’s software out a difficult transition.
Alternatives to its search engine are far and few between. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist at all — and Google’s competitors are jumping at the chance to gain ground.
“There is no technical reason why Google can’t turn AI off,” said Allison Goodman, senior communications manager at search alternative DuckDuckGo. “AI overviews is a search module like maps, flights, or weather. Google can determine when it shows up and when it doesn’t.”
“Unlike Google, AI in DuckDuckGo is optional,” Goodman wrote, clarifying that “schools can make DuckDuckGo their default search engine.”
Mor eon the news:Google Announces It’s Shutting Off Search Engine Access for Schools That Ban AI
SpaceXSI’s always-on AI agent has shed its beta label and picked up a set of native Apple integrations at the same time. Grok Bot 1.0, announced Nov. 11, now lets the Mac app reach into Messages, Mail, Notes, Reminders, Calendar, Location and Contacts, according to a post from the product’s @bot account on X.
The pairing is aimed squarely at people who live inside Apple’s ecosystem. Granting the bot access to messaging threads, inboxes, reminders and calendar entries means it can draft replies, surface scheduling conflicts and pull context from a user’s own records rather than relying on what it is told in a prompt. Location and contacts access widen that further, giving the agent a sense of who is involved in a task and where it is happening.
The Apple support lands as part of a broader 1.0 release that turns Grok Bot from a single-user assistant into something closer to a shared colleague. Under the new Team Bots setup, a bot can be handed to a group, invited into Slack and Microsoft Teams channels, and dialed into video calls. It tracks multi-person discussions, works out who is participating, and can volunteer information or take on work on its own initiative.
SpaceXSI describes the shift as moving from a tool that receives delegated tasks to one that understands the work a team is doing and the people doing it. Bots are meant to learn team preferences, remember decisions and draw on the expertise of individual members, then propose changes to how they operate. The company’s example: during a product launch, a bot notices that fresh customer research points to a different message than the one under discussion, raises it, and once the team settles on a direction, coordinates with another bot to refresh campaign materials.
Safety controls have been added for shared environments. Bots are designed to respect each user’s permissions, request confirmation before sensitive actions and judge whether information is appropriate to post in a public channel.
Other changes since the beta include more reliable browser navigation with smoother log-in handling, stronger document and slide creation with interactive “Pages” that colleagues can co-edit, tighter links to Gmail, Google Calendar and GitHub, smarter approval logic that distinguishes actions already cleared from those needing sign-off, and new settings and analytics for managing what a team bot knows.
Pricing and availability follow the existing subscription structure. Grok Bot is offered to X Subscription Premium members at $30 a month and above, as well as to Cursor subscribers. Team Bots require the Team or Enterprise tier, while the meetings feature is available on Team, Enterprise and Ultra plans.
The rollout puts Grok Bot in more direct competition with rival assistants courting the same productivity niche. ChatGPT added its own Messages integration earlier this year, and a competing agent called dot recently picked up Apple Mail and Calendar support. Grok Bot launched in August with iPhone and Mac apps, expanded to iPad afterward, and gained its own email address for agentic work last month, with Claude models running behind the scenes.
For Apple users, the practical effect is that a single agent can now act across the apps where most personal and work context accumulates, reducing the need to copy information between tools. For SpaceXSI, the Apple tie-in and the team features together broaden the addressable market from individual power users to organizations willing to pay for shared seats. Whether that translates into adoption will depend on how comfortably buyers let an outside agent into their mail, messages and calendars.
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Grok Bot access
X Subscription Premium and above ($30/month)
Individual Grok Bot
Cursor subscription
Individual Grok Bot
X Subscription Team / Enterprise
Team Bots
X Subscription Team / Enterprise / Ultra
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Note: Plan details as described in the 1.0 announcement.
With only a week to go until Grand Theft Auto VI launches, multiple companies are trying to get in on the zeitgeist in different ways.
Earlier this week, we covered Logitech’s new policy of giving employees PTO to play new video games, and now, Kalshi wants to turn playing GTA 6 into work for someone. In a LinkedIn job posting that the prediction market claims is totally real, Kalshi is seeking out someone to obsessively play and livestream GTA 6 starting at launch on Nov. 19, with the end goal of figuring out how best to optimize the in-game economy, while also analyzing the amount of productivity lost in the real world due to people taking time off to play it.
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This “GTA 6 Researcher” job also entails releasing a weekly research report on the in-game economy, and requires at least a decade’s worth of “sweaty gaming” experience and three years of streaming experience. You’ll also need to have a good streaming setup, with all the equipment and whatnot. For what it’s worth, Kalshi lists compensation at $100,000 to $120,000 for a fixed project fee, with a $15,000 fee upon completion of the project.
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The job may understandably sound enticing to many, especially when factoring in the listed compensation. However, it sounds like a whole lot of work that you’d possibly be doing entirely by yourself, and it could also be a great way to make the act of playing GTA 6 as not-fun as possible. Speaking from personal experience: Doing something you love for work is still work, at the end of the day.
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North Korean state-backed hackers have stolen more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over the past 18 months using surreptitiously recorded images of people which are then used to target their contacts, the FBI said Thursday.
Handa na ang Pilipinas sa unang pagsabak sa Eurovision Asia kasama ang singing champ na si CARMELLE na ibibida ang OPM sa global stage gamit ang awiting Sobra-Sobra sa Sabado (Nobyembre 14) sa Bangkok, Thailand.
Another giant stone face has been chiseled off the Mount Rushmore of billionaire tech wife guys.
Jensen Huang, the man who built the global chip juggernaut Nvidia, resigned this morning amid revelations that he had not one but two extramarital affairs, according to bombshell reporting by The New York Times. Jensen’s status as the chipmaker’s CEO was already in question after it was revealed that he’d had an intimate relationship with a businesswoman at a Chinese AI infrastructure company called Megaspeed that was facilitating sales of Nvidia chips to Chinese companies — and an alleged spy working on behalf of the Chinese government. Then the second affair emerged, this one with a Nvidia executive who reported to him directly.
In sum, this is a chief executive of an American company at the heart of the global AI boom who slept with a customer and a direct report. And that’s before you get to fact that the customer in question is an alleged spy for America’s main international rival who may or may not have been smuggling chips around US sanctions. After Huang was ousted today from the company he founded in 1993, Nvidia’s stock took a sharp downturn.
Even by the standards of the AI industry, Huang’s vibe was unusual. He wasn’t your average jeans-and-hoodie tech guy, nor was he often seen in a suit. He instead wore expensive leather jackets, often from the luxury brand Tom Ford, and had a rock star persona within the extremely-not-rock-star world of tech. At the same time, he presented himself as a family man: both of his adult kids work at Nvidia, and his wife of more than 40 years, Lori Mills Huang, presides over the Nvidia Foundation.
“It’s good to have someone in your life who unconditionally believes in you, who believes you’re doing your best,” Jensen said of his wife back in 2014. “You need people like that, and Lori’s always been that person for me — ever since I was 18, she was there believing in me and knowing I could do it. Even when I had self-doubts, she didn’t.”
Jensen’s family man — nay, wife guy — persona has now exploded in truly spectacular fashion, along with his status as one of the world’s most powerful CEOs. But he does have company: he now joins a sordid line of tech billionaires to face public reckonings over infidelity.
Among those ranks are figures like Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder whose strange sexts to his then-mistress and now-wife, Lauren Sanchez Bezos, were leaked in 2019. (Who amongst us can forget the infamous line “I love you, alive girl?”) Then there’s Bill Gates, who had multiple affairs and chummed around with Jeffrey Epstein while married to Melinda French Gates, his wife of 27 years and philanthropic partner. Google cofounder Sergey Brin got divorced from his first wife, 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki, after striking up a relationship with a Google employee. (Brin and his second wife, Nicole Shanahan, also divorced after Shanahan reportedly had a sexual tryst with Brin’s former pal Elon Musk.) Speaking of Musk: he isn’t exactly a wife guy, but he has been married several times, has fathered a small army of children, and is reported to have impregnated one of his business lieutenants without telling his then-partner Claire “Grimes” Boucher.
Not all wife guys have fallen, though. And if there’s one tech industry wife guy to rule them all, it has to be Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook founder and his wife, Priscilla Chan, met as students at Harvard University. In 2024, to celebrate his love for his wife, Zuckerberg recorded a cover of T-Pain’s “Get Low,” which was apparently playing when they first met. Zuckerberg also built a 7-foot-tall statue of Chan, and implored others to join him in bringing back the “Roman tradition of making statues for your wife.” Chan, meanwhile, has stuck by Zuck through Congressional hearings, lawsuits, local jiu jitsu tournaments, and his blinged out fashion rebrand. They share two children and recently went as “burger night” for Halloween, which we have to admit was fun.
Meta and its CEO might be a magnet for business scandal, but on the personal front, the Zuckerberg-Chan union might just be the strongest of Silicon Valley’s most elite. We better not see you in Tom Ford leather, Zuck!
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Nigrán, Spain | November 12 2026 – UARX Space has achieved a major milestone for Spain’s space industry with the deployment of OSSIE-D, an Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) designed and manufactured entirely in Spain, with 75% of its components developed in-house by the company. Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, OSSIE-D was deployed using SAU&RON 24, UARX Space’s proprietary separation system. The achievement marks a world first, bringing together an orbital transfer vehicle and a separation system developed by the same company in a single mission.
The mission represents a significant advance in Spain’s space technology capabilities, demonstrating the ability to develop and integrate key technologies for in-space transportation and orbital operations. By combining its OTV with its own SAU&RON 24 separation system, UARX Space reinforces its integrated approach to spacecraft development, spanning the vehicle itself and the technology required for its deployment into orbit.
OSSIE-D also highlights the importance of collaboration between specialized companies across the European space industry. For this mission, DHV Technology designed, qualified and manufactured the vehicle’s complete electrical power subsystem, including the solar arrays, Power Conditioning and Distribution Unit (PCDU), main battery modules, SADA (Solar Array Drive Assembly) and additional supporting subsystems required to meet the mission’s power requirements.
“OSSIE-D represents a milestone for the Spanish aerospace industry and shows how collaboration between companies with complementary capabilities can turn ambitious missions into reality. DHV Technology has been a key partner, with its expertise, highly reliable solutions and team commitment making a significant contribution to the mission’s energy capabilities. This partnership also highlights the potential of the Spanish space sector to innovate and compete at both European and global level,” said Dr. Andrés Villa, CTO and Co-Founder of UARX Space.
Following launch, DHV Technology’s electrical power subsystem is operating nominally in orbit, starting from the generation of the power with the solar arrays, control and distribution with the PCDU and storage with the battery, including initial telemetry which confirms that the system is performing as expected. This represents an important milestone for DHV Technology’s engineering team and for the OSSIE-D mission as a whole.
“Seeing the full electrical power subsystem fully developed by DHV for OSSIE-D operating as expected in orbit is an important milestone for our team and for our collaboration with UARX Space,” said Dr. Vicente Díaz, Managing Director and Co-Founder of DHV Technology. “This achievement reflects the close cooperation between both engineering teams and the work invested throughout the design, manufacturing, testing and integration phases. We are proud to contribute to this mission and look forward to OSSIE-D continuing to deliver positive results for UARX Space and all the partners involved.”
Beyond supplying the electrical power subsystem, DHV Technology is using OSSIE-D as a platform to test innovative technological concepts in orbit. The results obtained during the mission will help increase the technological maturity of several of the company’s solutions, extending the value of the mission beyond its immediate operational objectives. These developments include novel electrical interconnection methods, improved solar panel deployment and hinge mechanisms, as well as advanced photovoltaic technologies.
The collaboration between UARX Space and DHV Technology underscores the importance of combining specialized engineering capabilities to deliver increasingly advanced space missions. While UARX Space leads the development of the OTV and its deployment architecture, DHV Technology’s electrical power subsystem provides a critical element for the vehicle’s operation while enabling the evaluation of new technologies under real space operating conditions.
OSSIE-D therefore represents progress on two fronts: it strengthens UARX Space’s capabilities and position in the in-space transportation sector, while providing an opportunity to validate technologies that could support future missions. The combination of an OTV developed in Spain, a proprietary separation system and a complete electrical power subsystem supplied by DHV Technology demonstrates the potential of Spain’s space industry to deliver increasingly complex technological projects.
My Hero Academia creator Kohei Horikoshi officially wrapped up the story in Japan on December 4, 2024, with the release of the final volume of the story. In the anime, the series reached its conclusion in 2025 and received extra releases, the last of which came on August 2, 2026, in the form of an OVA titled I Am a Hero Too, which is currently available to stream on Crunchyroll.
While My Hero Academia’s story has officially wrapped up with Izuku Midoriya receiving Hero Armor and becoming a Pro Hero once again, Kohei Horikoshi’s original ending for the story was actually quite different. It has been revealed by the author himself that he decided to change his ending for the series, which has come as a shock to many readers of the story. Kohei Horikoshi’s original ending would have been much worse for Izuku Midoriya and stripped away all hope from him, which is a darker touch that many fans would potentially have liked.
Kohei Horikoshi’s Original Ending Would’ve Left Deku Quirkless Forever
Image by Rei Penber created using My Hero Academia assets
One of the most important plot points that came into play at the end of My Hero Academia was the loss of One For All for Izuku Midoriya. Right from the get-go, many fans had predicted that Izuku would go on to lose the One For All forever at the end of the story. This became especially apparent when it was confirmed that Izuku Midoriya, as the ninth user of the One For All, was going to be the last user of this power to ever live. At some point, the One For All had to cease to exist, and that happened in the battle against Shigaraki Tomura, as Izuku probed for an opening to not only beat him but also attempt to rescue him.
In the end, Izuku lost the power of One For All and was successful in defeating Shigaraki. When the Final War ended, and the epilogue continued, My Hero Academia confirmed to us that Izuku still had some embers of One For All, just like All Might did after the events of the Quirk transfer at the beginning of the series. However, by the time of My Hero Academia chapter 430, these embers had burned out, and he was once again quirkless.
“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss it all. But as long as I can inspire others, then I’d say this is still the tale of how we became great Heroes. All of us, for all time…this is actually the tale of how we’ll keep reaching out to help at all times” — Izuku Midoriya becomes a teacher, My Hero Academia Chapter #430
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Following an 8-year timeskip, it was confirmed to us that Izuku Midoriya was actually a teacher at UA instead of being a Pro Hero, while all the other friends that he had served as powerful pro heroes. This was disappointing for some fans, but the disappointment was short-lived when, at the end of the series, Izuku was granted a hero armor by All Might. It was revealed that this armor was paid for by Izuku’s friends, particularly Bakugo Katsuki, and that its powers would allow him to become a Pro Hero once again. This served as the true ending of the series. My Hero Academia creator Kohei Horikoshi confirms that his original ending would have left Izuku Quirkless as a teacher forever instead of allowing him to become a pro hero once again.
Question: Chapter 1 ended with “This is the story of how I became the greatest hero”, and in chapter 324 that changed to “This is the story of how we all became the greatest heroes”. Then in chapter 430, the story ends with “This is the story of how we all continue to reach a hand out to others together”. Was this the plan from the beginning of the series?
Horikoshi’s answer: No! It wasn’t! I originally planned for it to end with Deku becoming a teacher and saying “You can be a hero!”. Having used up his powers but looking fully confident… like that. The reason it changed is that this series was no longer a story just about Deku and One For All.
In this series I was exploring “What does it mean to be the greatest hero?” and the answer this manga came to is that it means “reaching a hand out to others”, so I thought I would put the answer in writing, and that’s how the final monologue of chapter 430 became what it is now.
— Kohei Horikoshi reveals his true ending for Deku, My Hero Academia Guidebook
Why Horikoshi Changed His Mind And Gave Deku A Hero Armor
Image created by the author Rei Penber using official assets.
Horikoshi’s decision to make Izuku Midoriya a pro hero once again was his own. When an author begins planning a story, they often have one idea concerning its ending, but as the story continues, ideas change and newer plotlines form. When All Might was given Hero Armor to face off against All For One in the Final War arc, Kohei Horikoshi was probably inspired to do something similar for Izuku Midoriya. That is precisely what he ended up doing.
“I wanted to give you a special gift. The data from my fight against All For One opened up room for crazy possibilities. Technology has continued to evolve alongside Quirks. Take this to heart, kid. This too is a power you’ve earned, fair and square.” — All Might gives Deku his Armor, My Hero Academia Chapter #430
Furthermore, leaving Izuku without a Quirk at the end of the series would have been cruel to a certain degree. At the end of the day, he is the protagonist of the series and worked incredibly hard, much more than anyone else, to be worthy of One For All. For him to give up this power was already unfair to a certain degree, but to be left Quirkless while all the others continued their duties as Pro Heroes would have been even worse. Perhaps a part of the author felt bad about Izuku Midoriya and decided to give him this Hero Armor instead, and with it, he can once again stand tall as a powerful pro hero of Japan.
Deku’s Story Continues With New Anticipated Releases Coming In 2027
Image created by the author Rei Penber using official assets.
On August 2, 2026, it was officially confirmed to us in the most recent Crunchyroll release of My Hero Academia that Izuku Midoriya stands as the Number 4 Hero of Japan right now, with Bakugo Katsuki right behind him in Number 5. The world of My Hero Academia continues to expand even though there is no anime or manga release, but that could potentially change in December when Jump Festa 2027 is going to be held on December 19, 2026.
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My Hero Academia is going to get its own stage at the Super Stage Red event at Jump Festa, which is the biggest stage where major announcements are set to take place. As to what major announcement My Hero Academia will get, we do not know, but what we can say with absolute certainty is that there is a big surprise planned for the fans. Many fans hope for a revival of the series through a movie or any other form of continuation, and it is certainly a major possibility at this time, with Izuku’s journey still continuing. Kohei Horikoshi and Studio Bones could potentially collaborate once again to continue this journey forward, and that is something that we are eagerly waiting to see.
All chapters of My Hero Academia by Kohei Horikoshi are available to read via Manga Plus and Viz Media.
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