AWS outage hits apps; X tries overlay links; GPT-5 mistake

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AWS outage hits apps; X tries overlay links; GPT-5 mistake

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Jose Montes de Oca

Oct 20, 2025

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Good morning. It’s Monday, October 20. Today we are covering:

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
X is testing a new way of opening links in posts to improve engagement
Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened

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