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Microsoft 365 issues are cutting people off from their email right now.
Microsoft 365 issues are cutting people off from their email right now.

Xbox Insiders can test new features starting today.

The FAA is expanding its $875 million AI-powered SMART system to all 22 air route traffic control centers nationwide after an initial rollout over Washington, DC. The system helped reroute 180 flights, saving an average of 10 minutes and 80 gallons of fuel per flight. Airline executives support the rollout, but the National Air Traffic Controllers Association says it was not involved in designing, testing, or implementing SMART.

Meta's consumer AI agent Muse can now place calls to U.S. businesses on behalf of users, available only to paid subscribers starting at $20 per month. The feature, initially tested in September, aims to handle calls people prefer not to make, though many businesses hang up on AI agents. Competitors Instinct and Google's Gemini offer similar capabilities.

Three Gen Z venture capitalists from Haus Fund hosted a black-tie peptide party aboard the WWII Liberty ship SS Jeremiah O’Brien to advocate for American-made peptides. The event follows a controversial HHS interim policy allowing certain unapproved peptides for compounding, despite FDA scientists stating insufficient evidence of safety or efficacy. Telehealth brand Hims & Hers is also launching Peptides Plus using a U.S.-based manufacturing facility, though experts warn American-made peptides will likely cost more and the policy may not last.

Drone and missile strikes have damaged data centers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East in 2026, disrupting cloud services for millions and permanently deleting some AWS customer data. The author will host a live conversation on November 17 at 1 pm ET with RUSI senior research fellow Joseph Jarnecki to discuss cloud resilience amid growing geopolitical risks.

Google is rolling out its Gemini 4 Hydrogen AI model to Search users globally, claiming it is the biggest improvement to Search yet. Hydrogen handles complicated multi-part questions and typos better, delivers visual responses and comparison tables in AI Mode, and completes tasks 2.5 times faster than Gemini 3.8 Flash.