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Microsoft bestätigt Probleme nach Juli-Updates für Windows 11 24H2
Microsoft räumt Probleme nach der Installation der Juli-Updates für Windows 11 24H2 ein – besonders für nicht persistente Installationen.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-20/former-google-chief-accused-of-spying-on-employees-through-account-backdoor
Holy sh*t
Ritter is accusing Schmidt of stealing business out from unde…

Former Google chief accused of spying on employees through account 'backdoor'
Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt was accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a former girlfriend and business partner of using a Gmail "backdoor" to spy on her and company employees.

The US DOE accelerates its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs (Don Clark/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/technology/national-laborat…

To Meld A.I. With Supercomputers, National Labs Are Picking Up the Pace
A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up.

❌ Ethics
❌ A moral leg to stand on
✅ Most deadly military in the world
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/media/trump-mbs-saudi-prince-abc-mary-bruce-oval-office

Analysis: Trump’s anti-press outburst hits differently with a Saudi prince by his side
President Trump frequently demonstrates his disdain for journalists. He expresses his admiration for authoritarians almost as often. Tuesday showed how intertwined those two instincts really are.

from my link log —
More tales about outages and numeric limits.
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/11/18/down/
saved 2025-11-21 https://

11 things GROK says Musk is better at than anyone.
https://gizmodo.com/11-things-grok-says-elon-musk-does-better-than-anyone-2000689254

11 Things Grok Says Elon Musk Does Better Than Anyone
Grok explained: "Jesus Christ's moral teachings provide profound spiritual guidance, yet Musk's achievements..."

Niemand redet über die Probleme die Ich mir ausdenke!!!

$473 million of hard earned tax dollars!
💰$172 million spent in Los Angeles since June
💰 ~$270 million for D.C. since June
💰 ~$15 million for Portland since September
💰>$3 million for Memphis since October
💰 ~$13 million for Chicago since October
https://…

Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.

What??
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/marjorie-taylor-greene-resign-trump-epstein-mtg.html

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/technology/google-ad-tech-closing.html<…

The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.

TIL you can use `ffprobe` to get the GPS location of an iPhone video like so:
```
ffprobe -i input.mov -print_format json -show_format -v quiet
```
The resulting JSON output contains a key `com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709` with the concatenated latitude, longitude, altitude, like so:` 46.6240 012.0345 1866.934/`
There's also a `com.apple.quicktime.location.accuracy.horizontal` key with the lat/lon precision in meters...
(This is great news for the m…

»Schweizer Firmen sehen kaum KI-Nutzen:
Nur ein kleiner Bruchteil der Schweizer Firmen generiert aktuell einen Kundennutzen aus KI, wie eine Umfrage von Red Hat zeigt. KI-Investitionen sollen zwar steigen, doch Fachkräftemangel, hohe Kosten und Schatten-KI bremsen die Vorhaben aus.«
Dies zeigt doch klar auf, dass KI kein Ersatz für Menschen ist, die ihr Ding können aber doch sind Schweizer meistens kritisch.
🧑‍🔧

✨ Chat with your Deleted Files?

BALD IST WEIHNACHTEN! 😃
#Kinder haben das mit dem Backen Fantasie drauf.
Werbung: Das Rezept ist aus meinem Weihnachtsplätzchenbuch, ISBN: 9783756855209
#plätzchenbacken #weihnachtsplätzchen

It’s important to put Ukraine’s current situation in the context of history. And it’s important to know that history is still controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor The past isn’t even past.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@Ann1944/115590607854450930

Hi #Berlin: Free Sideboard for pickup. 120cmx108cmx40cm, three doors, a small hole in the back for cables.

It’s fascinating to see the administration constantly trial efforts at normalizing its Nazi core:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/coast-guard-hate-crimes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Which means we have to *alwa…

Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents
A new servicewide policy recasts swastikas and nooses as “potentially divisive,” revises harassment provisions and deletes protections for transgender troops.

Red Bull Profi-Mountainbiker springt durch zwei fahrende autonome Scania-Lkw
Scania Autonomous Solutions können ihre selbstfahrenden Lkw präzise ansteuern. Das nutzten sie für einen Mountainbike-Stunt.

Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/20/gemini-3-nano-banana-pro/

Google rolling out Gemini 3-powered ‘Nano Banana Pro’ image gen, editing
Google is following the launch of Gemini 3 Pro with Nano Banana Pro. The image generation and editing model is officially Gemini 3 Pro Image.

Erste Instanz des Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz. Absolute Tragödie.

Hey everyone,
Today, @… and I had the pleasure of welcoming two new members to the Gaza Verified family.
They are:
• Ahmad (@…)
• Suad (@…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

from my link log —
Wavl trees.
https://ics.uci.edu/~goodrich/teach/cs165/notes/WeakAVLTrees.pdf
saved 2025-11-19 https://

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115581683201654524
Be careful out there everyone. I had my Samsung Galaxy in my car and someone broke in and left 2 more!

Thanks everyone for the Karak recommendation. Been playing that for a few hours now. Had to force a breakfast break on the little dungeoneer ;)

Smart Glasses ab 40 Dollar: VR-Hersteller DPVR stellt neue Modelle vor
DPVR steigt mit sechs Modellen in den Smart-Glasses-Markt ein. Das Einsteigermodell gibt es zum Kampfpreis von 40 US-Dollar.
https…

Sources: Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in its UK offices, following similar offers in several US divisions this year (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-offers-voluntary-buyouts-uk-employees-ve…

Google offers voluntary buyouts to UK employees
After offering teams in the US voluntary buyouts earlier this year, Google is now doing the same in the UK.

normale väter verschwinden wenn sie „milch holen” gehen, aber grüne väter hauen nicht einfach so ab, sie verschwinden beim hafermilch holen

With friends like Mozilla…
#AI

Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog
AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of  most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new way

from my link log —
How slide rules work.
https://amenzwa.github.io/stem/ComputingHistory/HowSlideRulesWork/
saved 2025-11-20 https:…

Steals your dairy products
Now it's nacho cheese!

How AI is pressuring Poland's economy, Europe's top location for global business services, as companies lay off staff in Krakow, the country's hub for BPO jobs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-2…

Große Änderungen beim Jugendschutz in Deutschland! 🔍 Die Bundesländer haben eine weitreichende Reform des Jugendmedienschutz-Staatsvertrags beschlossen, die direkte Auswirkungen auf alle digitalen Geräte haben wird.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11086704?wt_m…

I wouldn’t put it past these muppets to adopt Roman numerals to own the libs.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-mamdani-arabic-numerals-new-york-schools-11079540

Fact Check: Is Mamdani Introducing Arabic Numerals To New York Schools?
Arabic numerals are simply the digits 0 through 9—the standard number symbols used in every classroom in the United States.

from my link log —
Exploring the fragmentation of Wayland: an xdotool adventure.
https://www.semicomplete.com/blog/xdotool-and-exploring-wayland-fragmentation/
saved 2025-11-21

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Federato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M (InsurTech Analyst)
https://insurtechanalyst.com/2025/11/18/federato-launches-ai-n…

Wie ein französischer Richter von den USA digital abgeklemmt wurde
Nicolas Guillou wurde von den USA als Richter des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs sanktioniert. Die Auswirkungen bemerkt er vor allem im Digitalen.

Boycott Reebok – @…’s newsletter about tomorrow’s Day of Action.
https://tansyhoskins.org/boycott-reebok/

Boycott Reebok
International day of action against Reebok

Kollision mit der Erde vor 4,5 Milliarden Jahren: Theia war vorher ein Nachbar
Ein Protoplanet ist vor mehr als vier Milliarden Jahren in die Erde gestürzt und hat den Mond herausgeschlagen. Jetzt ist klar, woher der Protoplanet stammte.

rachelbythebay’s anecdotes reminded me of a few of my own https://lobste.rs/s/0squ96/more_tales_about_outages_numeric_limits

More tales about outages and numeric limits
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AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised $25M, after raising a $30M Series A in June, taking its total funding to $81M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/as-its-voice-dectation-app-takes-off-wispr-secures-25m…

As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch
Voice AI company Wispr is raising $25 million in funding merely months after its $30 million Series A.

Hey folks,
@… and I had the pleasure of welcoming two new families to Gaza Verified today.
They are:
• Nour (@…) – please send her some love as the genocidal Israeli army bombed a position near her home while w…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Meta Hyperscape: Fotorealistische 3D-Scans jetzt mit Multiplayer-Funktion
Bislang war es nur möglich, eigene Hyperscans zu besuchen. Jetzt führt Meta die Möglichkeit ein, andere Menschen in die VR-Umgebungen einzuladen.

Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/figure-ai-sued.html

Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'
A former engineer for Figure AI filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety.

Nothing like having a video call with someone from Gaza when a bomb goes off nearby :(
Fuck Israel and its ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
And fuck anyone who enables and supports it.

Münchner Robotik-Unternehmen Agile Robots zeigt seinen ersten humanoiden Roboter
Das Münchner Robotik-Unternehmen Agile Robots will bereits ab Anfang 2026 seinen ersten humanoiden Roboter in Bayern produzieren.

OpenAI expands group chats in ChatGPT globally to all logged-in users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, after piloting the feature in select regions (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/chatgpt-launches-group-chats-globally/

ChatGPT launches group chats globally | TechCrunch
The company sees group chats in ChatGPT as a way for people to coordinate trips, co-write documents, settle debates, or work through research together, while ChatGPT helps search, summarize, and compare options.

Nach großem Cyberangriff: US-Börsenaufsicht lässt Klage gegen Solarwinds fallen
Weil Solarwinds vor einer verheerenden Cyberattacke die eigenen Investoren getäuscht haben soll, ist die SEC vor Gericht gezogen. Nun komt der Rückzieher.

Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities, raised $26M across seed and Series A rounds led by a16z and General Catalyst, respectively (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/method-cyber-ai-venture-a16z

Exclusive: Cyber specialist Method Security raises $26 million
"America has a cyber resilience problem," CEO Sam Jones told Axios.

Datenschutz für Kinder im Digitalzeitalter: Datenschützer machen Vorschläge
Datenschützer fordern mehr Schutz für Kinder im digitalen Raum und machen Vorschläge – etwa für den Schutz der Privatsphäre und gegen manipulative Programme.

At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/google-says-it-must-dou…

Google must double AI compute every 6 months to meet demand, AI infrastructure boss tells employees
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure said the company has to race to build out compute capacity.

Rewe testet Lieferungen mit autonomem Fahrzeug
Die Supermarktkette Rewe bietet an, Einkäufe nach Hause zu liefern. In Bochum startet ein Pilotprojekt, in dem ein autonomes Fahrzeug die Lebensmittel ausfährt.
https://www.

Q&A with Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki on using face scans to verify age, having a chat function on Roblox, AI content moderation at scale, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/podcasts/hardfork-roblox-child-safety.html

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?

Onlinewerbung: Meta soll an spanische Medien 542 Millionen Euro bezahlen
Als Meta Usern nicht die Möglichkeit gewährte, gezielter Onlinewerbung einzeln zu widersprechen, war das ein Wettbewerbsverstoß, urteilt ein Gericht in Spanien.

Source: Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and CapitalG at a $11B valuation, less than two months after it announced a $300M fundraise at a $5B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/source-kalshis-valuatio…

Source: Kalshi's valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round | TechCrunch
The quickly growing prediction betting market raised fresh capital from Sequoia and CapitalG, according to someone familiar with the deal.

Unterwasser-Exoskelett reduziert Sauerstoffverbrauch beim Tauchen
Ein Unterwasserexoskelett kann die Muskelbelastung so weit reduzieren, dass der Taucher weniger Sauerstoff benötigt und Tauchflaschen länger halten.

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/technology/google-ad-tech-closing.html<…

The Fate of Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly Is Now in a Judge’s Hands
A judge queried lawyers about whether a breakup made sense during closing arguments on how to fix the tech giant’s dominance in online advertising.

"Kein Reboot": Amazon bestellt neue Stargate-Serie für Prime Video
Stargate gehört zu den bekanntesten Science-Fiction-Marken, lange gab es aber nichts Neues. Nun hat Amazon eine neue Serie für seinen Streamingdienst bestellt.

Finland-based NestAI raised €100M led by Finland's sovereign fund Tesi and Nokia to build AI products for defense applications, including for unmanned vehicles (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/finl

Finland's NestAI lands €100M, partners with Nokia to build AI for defense applications | TechCrunch
Finnish startup NestAI said it has raised €100 million to build "Europe's leading physical AI lab."

Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick promotes AI, including pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are cashing in on the AI projects (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/poli<…

Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Telekom und Vodafone müssen Pornhub und YouPorn vorerst nicht sperren

Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200 companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/21/goog

Google says hackers stole data from 200 companies following Gainsight breach | TechCrunch
Notorious hacking collective Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters takes credit for the breach that affected Salesforce customers’ data, and said it is planning another extortion campaign.

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitaler Rückfall in die 90er: US-Sanktionen treffen französischen Richter

A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, 50% use Instagram, 37% use TikTok, 32% use WhatsApp, 26% use Reddit, and 21% use X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/…

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

Telekom und Vodafone müssen Pornhub und YouPorn vorerst nicht sperren
Die Landesanstalt für Medien NRW darf zwei große Zugangsanbieter zunächst nicht zwingen, Webseiten eines in Zypern ansässigen Porno-Anbieters zu blockieren.

Sorcero, which makes AI agents for pharmaceutical companies to market new medications, raised a $42.5M Series B, bringing its total funding to $59M (Katherine Davis/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2025/11/21/sorcero-series-b-agen…

Exclusive: Sorcero raises $42.5M for agentic AI pharma marketing
A growing group of startups is harnessing AI in pharma.

Games: Bundesrat fordert schärferes Vorgehen gegen Abzocke
Die Länder verlangen, glücksspielähnliche Mechanismen wie Lootboxen bei Video- und Onlinespielen stärker zu reglementieren und etwa Alterschecks zu verschärfen.

AI workplace agents startup Genspark raised a $275M Series B at a $1.25B valuation and says it hit $50M in annualized revenue after pivoting from AI search (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025/11/20/genspark…

Genspark Joins The Unicorn Club With Latest Funding Round
The startup, which offers AI work productivity tools, got to $50 million in annualized revenue just five months after launching its suite of AI agents.

Kommentar zu weitreichenden EU-Plänen: Der trojanische Digital-Omnibus
Die EU will auf US-Wunsch den Datenschutz schleifen. Für uns will sie im Gegenzug ein Problem beheben, das sie selbst geschaffen hat, kommentiert Holger Bleich.

Numeric, which automates accounting workflows, raised a $51M Series B led by IVP, bringing its total funding to $89M, and says OpenAI and Brex are clients (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/11/19/numeric-51-million-acc…

Exclusive: Numeric raises $51M to automate accounting
Company connects close, cash and analytics in one data layer.

Zoll warnt: Black-Friday-Käufe aus dem Ausland können teuer werden
Vor Black Friday erinnert der Zoll an Einfuhrregeln. Bei Auslandsbestellungen fallen schnell Steuern an, bei Fälschungen droht Beschlagnahme

Sources: Meta plans to test an AI-powered personalized daily briefing, designed to compete with ChatGPT's Pulse, with some Facebook users in NYC and SF (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/21/meta-ai-powered-daily…

Meta is building an AI-powered morning brief in push to compete with ChatGPT
Meta is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized, AI-powered briefing of information relevant to their daily lives.

heise | heise Update vom 21. November 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende
Der wöchentliche Newsletter von heise dieses Mal mit Kreditkartenbetrug, VR-Brillen, Quantenphysik, E-Auto-Akkus und Fotobüchern.
https:/…

GE HealthCare acquires Intelerad, which sells cloud imaging software and digital workflow tools primarily to outpatient and ambulatory sites, for $2.3B (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/11/20/ge-healthcare-…

GE HealthCare to buy Intelerad for $2.3B
The move expands GE HealthCare into outpatient enterprise imaging.

Red Alert 2 im Browser: Fan-Projekt bringt Klassiker ins Web
Das Projekt Chrono Divide portiert Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 in den Browser. Multiplayer funktioniert bereits, die Kampagne ist noch in Arbeit.

Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/18/tho…

Exclusive: Thoma Bravo buys Java platform Azul
Azul battles Oracle in the Java marketplace.

Omen: Anduril, Archer und EDGE machen Tailsitter-Drohne serienreif
Anduril und das Flugtaxiunternehmen Archer Aviation feiern die Serienreife von Omen. Parallel läuft ein Rechtsstreit zwischen Archer und Joby Aviation.

KI-Update Deep-Dive: Besser texten mit KI
KI kann beim Schreiben helfen, doch oft ist das Ergebnis mittelmäßig. Wie man zu besseren Texten kommt, erklärt Anne-Kathrin Gerstlauer.
https://www.heise.de/…

Ubisoft delayed reporting its Q2 results after auditors found it improperly booked sales from a partnership as revenue, forcing it to restate its accounts (Daniel Zuidijk/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Olaf Scholz: Langer Verzicht auf LNG-Terminals war Fehler
Die jahrelange Abhängigkeit Deutschlands von russischen Energielieferungen sei ein Fehler gewesen, sagt Ex-Kanzler Scholz im Landtag in Schwerin.
https://ww…

After a delay, Ubisoft reports Q2 net bookings up 39% YoY to €490.8M, above €450M est., and expects Q3 bookings of €305M; Ubisoft resumed trading on November 21 (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um die Geschichte von Windows
Das Betriebssystem aus Redmond ist 40 geworden. Wir feiern den fensterlastigen Jubilar mit einem Nerdquiz. Machen Sie mit!

Der 90er-Jahre-Hit "Men in Black" kehrt als VR-Spiel zurück
Sony bringt die "Men in Black" in die Virtual Reality – mit neuer Story, neuen Aliens und klassischen Waffen.
https://www.

Samsung names mobile chief TM Roh as co-CEO and DX division head; Roh was serving as consumer business acting head since April after co-CEO Han Jong-Hee's death (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/samsung-el…

The SEC drops its 2023 case against SolarWinds and its CISO Tim Brown, which alleged they concealed vulnerabilities ahead of the Russia-linked 2020 cyberattack (Chris Prentice/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u

Stuut, which connects to CRM and other systems to automate management of accounts receivable, raised a $29.5M Series A led by a16z (Charlie Fink/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2025…

Stuut Raises $29.5 Million From Andreessen To To Fix Corporate Finance’s Most Thankless Job
Here are 170 characters, clean, neutral, and factual, no banned language: Stuut raises 28 million from Andreessen Horowitz to automate the tedious accounts receivable work that slows corporate cash flow, targeting overdue balances and manual tasks.

Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug discovery, raised $106M led by Bezos Expeditions and Altimeter, bringing its total funding to $150M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

Jeff Bezos Is Backing An AI Startup Aiming To Make Proteins Programmable
Profluent has raised $106 million to scale up use of its AI models for biology in drug development and agriculture.

Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters drive a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-conservative-youtube-stars-marketing-boom/

Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e087e732-5f71-4db3-b613-830f3cee313d

As OpenAI commits to spending $1.4T, creating a mesh of complicated deals, the startup does not disclose its auditor, and there is little information online (Louis Ashworth/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3cff198e-25e5-481a-bd34-e26941e1d12d

An overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as "AI eats the world": bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech FOMO, capex, Nvidia, US power backlogs, and more (Benedict Evans)
https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations

Presentations — Benedict Evans
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.

Letterboxd plans to launch the Letterboxd Video Store, a curated rental platform with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in December 2025 (Letterboxd)
https://letterboxd.com/journal/letterboxd-video-store/

Letterboxd Video Store: what you need to know about our new feature coming soon • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Coming in early December: Letterboxd Video Store, our latest feature to get you adding films to your watchlist and, crucially, checking them off. Here’s everything you need to know.

Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/airbnb-says-chief-technology-officer-balogh-to-depar…

Meta enters electricity trading to help accelerate the construction of new US power plants critical for its AI infrastructure buildout (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/meta-enters-power-trading-to-support-a…

Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Sources: the US has probed whether the products of China's Bitmain, which sells most of the world's Bitcoin-mining machines, pose risks of espionage or sabotage (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-21/chi…

New York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B valuation, for US and international expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/rapid…

Uber plans to launch sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a partnership with Starship, starting in UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-20…

General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

Sources: Chinese investment firm Capital Today bought ByteDance shares at a $480B valuation after a bidding war; ByteDance had a $330B valuation in September (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-20…