Tuesday was supposed to be just another day in enterprise IT. Instead, it delivered a masterclass in how modern infrastructure dependencies can cascade into continental-scale disruptions. From Brussels to San Francisco, the events of this week revealed both the fragility and resilience of our interconnected systems.
TL;DR
Microsoft Azure Belgium Central Goes Live: After three years of planning, Microsoft's sovereign datacenter region officially launched in Belgium, marking a €31.5B economic opportunity while Europe's infrastructure faces unprecedented security challenges.
EuroFiber Breach Exposes 3,600+ Organizations: Threat actors extracted SSH keys, VPN configs, and API credentials from the telecom provider's GLPI database, potentially compromising Airbus, Thales, Orange, and French government ministries in Europe's most severe supply chain attack.
Cloudflare Outage Takes Down Half the Internet: A mysterious traffic spike crippled ChatGPT, X.com, Spotify, and dozens of services for hours, demonstrating the catastrophic dependencies in our cloud infrastructure.
Google Ships Gemini 3 Pro Amid the Chaos: While infrastructure cracked globally, Google quietly launched its most intelligent model yet - 1501 Elo on LMArena, PhD-level reasoning, 1M token context, and "generative interfaces" that build custom UIs in real-time.
Bezos Returns as CEO at $6.2B AI Startup: Project Prometheus emerges from stealth with the Amazon founder taking his first operational role since 2021, targeting AI for physical engineering and manufacturing.
The Brief
🚨 IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED:
EuroFiber Supply Chain Breach
Do Now:
Rotate ALL credentials if you're a EuroFiber client or partner
Check for SSH keys, VPN configs, or API tokens stored in ANY ticket system
Initiate third-party incident response protocols immediately
Review GLPI instances - patch and remove from public internet
The breach affects 3,600+ organizations including critical infrastructure providers. ByteToBreach claims to have the complete GLPI database with operational crown jewels.
🇧🇪 Microsoft Azure Belgium Central: Sovereignty Meets Scale
Key Facts:
Official launch event November 18, 2025
Three availability zones for resilience
Expected €31.5B economic impact over 4 years
60,000+ new jobs projected
Part of $14.3B total European investment (including €4B France)
Why It Matters Now: Launch timing couldn't be more ironic - celebrating sovereignty infrastructure while EuroFiber, a key regional provider, faces its worst breach.
⚡ Cloudflare's Cascade Effect
Impact Map (November 18, 06:20 UTC):
ChatGPT: Down for 3+ hours
X.com: Intermittent failures globally
Spotify, Canva, League of Legends: Service disruptions
Even Downdetector went down (peak irony)
Root Cause: "Unusual traffic spike" to specific service - Cloudflare remains vague on details. Stock dropped 5% in pre-market trading.
🚀 Bezos Bets on Physical AI
Project Prometheus Details:
$6.2B funding (partly from Bezos)
Co-CEO: Vik Bajaj (ex-Google X, Verily)
Focus: AI for aerospace, automotive, manufacturing
~100 employees poached from OpenAI, DeepMind, Meta
First operational role for Bezos since leaving Amazon
The Angle: While everyone chases ChatGPT, Bezos is betting the real money is in AI that builds rockets, not chatbots.
🧠 Google Drops Gemini 3 Pro: Perfect Timing or Tone Deaf?
Performance Metrics That Matter:
1501 Elo on LMArena - Dethroning GPT-5.1 and Claude
37.5% on Humanity's Last Exam - PhD-level reasoning without tools
91.9% on GPQA Diamond - Graduate physics questions
23.4% on MathArena Apex - New SOTA for frontier models
1M token context window - Matching Gemini 2.5's scale
Beyond Benchmarks:
Generative Interfaces: Real-time custom UI generation for every query
Gemini Agent: Multi-step task orchestration across Google Workspace
"Vibe Coding": Zero-shot web UI generation from natural language
Deep Think Mode: Coming soon for Ultra subscribers
The Infrastructure Play: While Cloudflare was down and EuroFiber bled credentials, Google shipped. No fanfare, no "12 Days of Gemini" - just deployment across Search, Workspace, Vertex AI, and Android Studio. This is what infrastructure dominance looks like: shipping frontier models while competitors deal with outages.