Taiwanese prosecutors charge Tokyo Electron for failing to prevent staff from allegedly stealing TSMC trade secrets, indicting the company on several counts (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/taiwan-charg…
"the [Chinese] plan removes #ElectricVehicles from the list of strategic emerging industries. That move has been misread by some commentators as a retreat. It is better seen as a milestone of maturity. When an industry no longer needs preferential support or policy protection, it has crossed from experiment to normalcy"
#Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday
🔸as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics,
🔸expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers
🔸and stiff overseas competition
pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
🔥Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025 -- down 9% from a year earlier.
Chinese rival
Filings: after EA's buyout, Saudi Arabia's PIF would own 93.4% of EA, implying it needs to put up ~$29B, while Silver Lake and Affinity would own 5.5% and 1.1% (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/saudi-fund…
thank goodness we had a peaceful transfer of power
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/president-biden-rose-garden-speech-trump-election/76108284007/
Hi, it’s Al Franken.
I don’t usually send messages like this, so I’m hoping you’ll read to the end for a GREAT story.
Before that, though, I want to tell you about Peggy Flanagan.
She is unbelievably great and she’s running to keep Minnesota’s Senate seat blue.
Her end-of-month fundraising deadline is tonight so I’ll get to the point: Please donate now.
Rupert Murdoch admits in new Dominion filing that Fox knew election fraud conspiracy theories were all lies it spread for profit | Media Matters for America
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rupert-murdoch-admits-new-dominion-filing-fox-knew-election-fraud-conspiracy-theories-were
The race is on to succeed Gavin Newsom,
the California governor with presidential ambitions
whose terms runs out next year
– and it’s already a crowded field.
More than 95 candidates have so far submitted paperwork
indicating their intention to run,
though the official filing period doesn’t start until 9 February.
The field looks wide open,
with polling yet to indicate a clear frontrunner
and nearly half of voters describing their prefere…
Elizabeth Warren here — Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan told me I could reach out, because this is important.
Peggy is the partner I need to get things done in the Senate,
that’s why I have officially endorsed her campaign.
I know she will be a champion for Minnesotans in Congress.
Can you please pitch in $5 or anything you can to help power her campaign?
I’ll explain more below about why this is such a critical race.