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1. 🚫 Amazon Had Some Shopping Outages Today
Your impulse purchasing might have been impacted today. Amazon had a sizable spike in people reporting issues with checkout, search, and logging into its site and mobile apps for its Shopping and Music services. The company said it’s ‘working to resolve the issue’ as of 4pm ET today. (The Verge)
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3. 🚙 Rivian is Planning One of the Fastest EV Launches in U.S. History
Why not try? EV maker Rivian is planning one of the fastest launches of a new all-electric car in the U.S. with its forthcoming R2 SUV. If they’re successful, it would prove a strong start for a product that its founder and CEO has said is “maybe the most important thing we’ve launched to date.” (TechCrunch)
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5. 🧠 OpenAI Launched GPT-5.4 With Pro & Thinking
Welcome to another new OpenAI model. The AI leader just launched GPT-5.4, a new foundation model billed as “our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.” In addition to the standard version, GPT-5.4 is also available as a reasoning model (GPT-5.4 Thinking) or optimized for high performance (GPT-5.4 Pro). (TechCrunch)
6. 🧪 Hardware Testing Startup Nominal Hit $1Bn Valuation
There’s always money in the testing stand. Nominal, a startup offering software that helps hardware engineers test their designs, just announced a fresh $80 million Series B extension round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Founders Fund, in addition to its $75 million Series B round led by Sequoia in September. (TechCrunch)
7. 🎧 United Airlines Can Permanently Ban Passengers Who Don’t Wear Headphones
Good news for your next business trip: United Airlines has updated its “Contract of Carriage” to include a line that requires passengers to wear headphones while listening to audio and video content on flights. Which means United can refuse transport to or remove passengers at any point who listen to audio without wearing headphones. (The Verge)
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