🧬 Amodei: AI could cure cancer within a decade

✈️ United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights

👓 Google opens pre-orders for Gemini smart glasses

☁️ Microsoft outage takes down Outlook, Teams, and Copilot

🔓 Hackers steal thousands of Uber drivers’ license data

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Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic (the company behind Claude) predicted in a 42-minute IPO roadshow video that AI could make cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and mental illness relics of the past in less than a decade.

The prediction drew criticism from medical experts, including Germany's former health minister Karl Lauterbach, who argued that AI could improve treatments but couldn't realistically eliminate these diseases within ten years.

Amodei made the claim while pitching Anthropic to investors, without presenting supporting clinical evidence. Even Eli Lilly's CEO questioned the timeline. Apparently, curing cancer is now part of the IPO pitch.

United Airlines updated its Contract of Carriage to block unauthorized third-party AI agents from booking, buying, or managing trips. The ban covers AI assistants in browsers, social media, and travel-agency connections.

United cites privacy, account security, and possible conflicts with federal aviation rules. Violators risk canceled bookings, voided tickets, wiped MileagePlus miles, lost elite status, and legal action.

AI can still help you plan, as long as it never touches United’s site or your login. United isn’t giving up much either: it says it currently works with zero third-party AI agents.

Google opened pre-orders for its first Gemini-powered smart glasses, with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster frames from $395. They go on sale December 10 in the U.S. and South Korea, and work with iPhones.

Google is chasing Meta, which shipped 81% of AI glasses in the first half of 2026. Its pitch is privacy: Gemini only sees blurred bystander faces, and covering the recording light stops the camera.

Meta got so much privacy heat that it launched a camera-free model in September. Google is betting it can keep the camera, add some blur, and win the trust Meta couldn’t.

Microsoft is recovering from an outage that started Thursday with Outlook and Teams, then spread worldwide to Copilot, Defender, Intune, and cloud files. Kentik saw traffic return after about 18 hours.

Microsoft hasn’t named a cause, saying only that a large number of its servers unexpectedly went down. It reports no evidence of malicious activity, and engineers continue to investigate what failed.

No sign of a hack sounds reassuring, until you remember that means Microsoft broke its own cloud. It also follows September’s days-long outage, which Microsoft blamed on an authentication config issue.

Uber is notifying thousands of drivers that hackers stole their personal and driver’s license data in October. The hackers hit Fireworks AI, an Uber vendor, and used stolen credentials to reach Uber’s data.

Fireworks blames a financially motivated group that sells stolen access tokens for AI models. Filings so far cover nearly 7,900 drivers in Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Rhode Island, with more states pending.

Your AI vendor is now part of your attack surface. Notion lost data in the same Fireworks hack, and this marks Uber’s second known breach this year, after an Uber Freight incident.

A) Yes - 71% 🏆

B) No - 29%