Iceberg Index: KI kann bereits 11,7 Prozent der US-Arbeitskräfte ersetzen
Ein neues Simulationstool des MIT zeigt: Aktuelle KI-Systeme könnten bereits 11,7 Prozent des US-Arbeitsmarkts ersetzen – vor allem in Verwaltung und Finanzen.

PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B , up from $9.24B in 2023 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/cnbc-china

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Foreign investors warm to China’s cheaper AI valuations despite fears of a U.S. bubble
For all the worries about a bubble in U.S. AI spending, capital flows into China's tech sector is far less, pushing startups to do more with less.

Daddy, what does fascism look like? https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/115617020135878264

:pacmanblinky:⁠:pacmanclyde:⁠:pacmaninky:⁠:pacmanpinky:⁠:pacman:

they're right behind me, aren't they?

Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law,
starting on Thanksgiving Day 1965
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-illustrated-version-of-arlo-guthries-alices-restaurant.html

The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic
Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition around here. Recorded in 1967, the 18+ minute counterculture song recounts Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law, starting on Thanksgiving Day 1965.

RE: #Mauve is but one of 140 (!) small satellites on that Falcon 9, collectively known as Transporter 15. What's interesting about the satellite is its commercial approach - you *buy* astronomical UV data: https://bssl.space/mauve/ and https://space.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/06/blue-skies-space-to-launch-mauve-satellite-demonstrating-a-new-model-for-delivering-space-science-data/ and https://www.science.org/content/article/startup-pioneers-subscription-service-space-based-astronomy

@… just started a #Loops channel and AFAIK this would be the first organization to be active on this quite new and experimental fediverse platform.

How Trump targeting these Democrats could backfire (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/26/democrats-trump-sedition-backfire-00670552
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p4#a251127p4

A bit of unintentional humor in an alphabetically sorted media library...

https://www.eunews.it/en/2025/11/26/belgium-rewards-ethical-hackers-who-uncover-government-it-vulnerabilities/
Belgium rewards ‘ethical hackers’ who uncover government IT vulnerabilities

Belgium rewards 'ethical hackers' who uncover government IT vulnerabilities
The Belgian Cyber Security Centre (CCB) launched #HackTheGovernment2025, a national initiative involving 71 professionals and students, aiming to strengthen the resilience of federal public services

Der "digitale Kolonialismus" kommt nach #Erfurt. Am 1.12.2025 wird @… im Augustinerkloster sein Buch "Digitaler Kolonialismus" vorstellen.

In interviews, creators including an actress and a director describe how they are adopting or rejecting AI tools and how they view career prospects in an AI era (Kai Williams/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/1…

“Go generate a bridge and jump off it”: How video pros are navigating AI
I talked with nine creators about economic pressures and fan backlash.

"Antarctic mountains could boost ocean carbon absorption as ice sheets thin"
#Antarctic #Oceans
https://

Antarctic mountains could boost ocean carbon absorption as ice sheets thin
Research led by polar scientists from Northumbria University has revealed new hope in natural environmental systems found in East Antarctica which could help mitigate the overall rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over long timescales.

Hat jemand Tipps für Restaurants in #Dresden? Nicht zu fein, aber lecker! Nur selbst gegessene Empfehlungen bitte 🤗 #fragFedi

Another reason why the EU is the best place to work and live, the US is no longer the land of the free.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/trump-green-card-interview-arrests.html?unlocked_article…

For Spouses of U.S. Citizens, Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs
Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation.

https://www.nytimes.com/badges/games/v1/bee.html?d=2025-11-26&l=iabeflx&p=180&r=Queen Bee&c=1a7f226c7b02ad15180ca21b79069101&smid=url-share

I got Queen Bee!
How many words can you make with 7 letters?

ウチ（社）に出入りしてる佐川さんも忙しすぎて死んでるのだわ
QT: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2066443.html

I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. It's just...I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade. That's all.

China is making trade impossible - https://on.ft.com/4p1B5eG via @FT

Mick Shots: 11-26-25 https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/mick-shots-11-26-25

Finally!
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/dutch-public-broadcaster-nos-quits-x-over-disinformation-2025-11-25/

Glad I've never bought a game on the Epic store, as I just grab the free ones, and will now continue to, as Tim Sweeney is garbage
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/according-to-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-gam…

According to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney - game stores don't need an AI label as it will be everywhere
With the increasing amount of games using AI, Epic Game's Tim Sweeney believes the AI messages on stores like Steam make no sense.

from my link log —
Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level.
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/25/constant-time-support-lands-in-llvm-protecting-cryptogra…

Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level
Trail of Bits developed constant-time coding support for LLVM 21 that prevents compilers from breaking cryptographic implementations vulnerable to timing attacks, introducing the __builtin_ct_select family of intrinsics that preserve constant-time properties throughout compilation.

George's corrupt Republican party finally gets its way and kills the election interference case against Donald Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/georgia-prosecutor-drops-trump-election-interference-case

william burroughs's "a thanksgiving prayer" (1986), as rendered in mondo 2000 #3. https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991/page/n9/mode/2up

This is so much "AI" reporting: Claims about potentials and/or threads. I'd just like to have grown-up conversations about tech again :(
"The actual current user base for evil chatbots is the cyber security vendors, who scaremonger how only their good AI can possibly stop this automated hacker evil!"
(Original title: AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!)

AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!
A chatbot is a wrapper around a large language model, an AI transformer model that’s been trained on the whole internet, all the books the AI vendor can find, and all the other text in the world. A…

In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL). https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20<…

Das #Gemüseturnier läuft noch, ich habe es als festhaltenswerten Fediverse-Moment trotzdem schon mal in mein Blog gepackt.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2025/11/kurz-…

Kurz: Gemüseturnier
Manchmal gibt es sie noch, die klassischen Netzmomente. Zum Beispiel auf Mastodon. Dort startete vor gut einem Monat der Account Gemueseturnir genau das (also, ohne den Tippfehler): ein Turnier mit mehreren Runden, um in Votings herauszukriegen, welches eigentlich "das" Gemüse ist. Aktuell läuft das

Mark Carney says that the center of gravity in the global economy is shifting.
He’s right.
US autohegemonicide makes the US less important. It already has.
Carney on when he last spoke to potus: https://youtube.com/shorts/tiFlQahla9I

So this is why you will only find cars with proprietary software in Geneva.
(Disclaimer: "GPL" stands for "Gaz de pétrole liquéfié" in French, or "Liquefied petroleum gas", and has nothing to do with the software license. This is just a funny sign. That's all. End of disclaimer.)

An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-study-

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

Die Schweiz zieht die Notbremse bei Cloud-Diensten! 🚨
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11093438?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Your daily reminder that antisemitism and support of the genocidal settler-colonial ideology of Zionism and of Israel are two very separate things.
Case in point, Nigel Farage (Zionist, friend of Israel, denies Israel’s committing genocide in Gaza):
“The level of disrespect, even abuse, that is now being shown to Israel is reaching astonishing proportions.” – Nigel Farage

Level of disrespect towards Israel reaching astonishing proportions, says Farage
Nigel Farage has slammed the decision of the UK representative at the UN Security Council for standing up for a minute’s silence for the late President Raisi, saying the move by the council was a 'kick in the teeth' for Israel. Speaking on GB News Nigel Farage said: “The level of disrespect, even ab...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@wonderofscience/115607019106477189
Also the name of @… whe…

Amazon Leo,
formerly Project Kuiper,
is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network,
aiming to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities beyond the reach of existing networks.
Our initial satellite constellation will include more than 3,000 spacecraft,
which we began deploying in April 2025 when we sent our first 27 satellites into space.
That mission was the first of more than 80 to deploy our constellation

Amazon Leo mission updates: Next launch with ULA set for December 15
Follow along for updates as Amazon Leo launches more than 80 missions to deploy its initial low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation.

A profile of Chen Tao, founder of Chinese AI circuit board company Victory Giant, which is up 530% in 2025 so far, giving Chen and his wife a $9.1B net worth (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/coupl…

heise | Günstiger Wärmepumpen-Strom: So halten Sie die Energiekosten klein
Ein Zähler oder zwei? Pauschaler oder prozentualer Rabatt? Wir vergleichen die neuen Optionen für Wärmepumpen-Strom und zeigen die Vor- und Nachteile auf.

A NASA mission that studied the interior of hurricanes collected its final data on Nov. 12, as the last two CubeSats in its fleet were powered down prior to re-entering Earth’s atmosphere: #TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats) mission originally consisted of four identical, milk carton-sized satellites that launched in May 2023.

"We knew Ningaloo’s coral bleaching was severe. But what we found 6 months later was still a shock"
#Coral #CoralReef #Environment

We knew Ningaloo’s coral bleaching was severe. But what we found 6 months later was still a shock
The heatwave in Western Australia last summer broke records. As marine scientists, we were deeply concerned about whether Ningaloo’s corals would survive. We were prepared for the worst, but what my colleague…

Deze levendige flat in Ternopil doet na een Russische aanval denken aan een massagraf.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/25/deze-

Deze levendige flat in Ternopil doet na een Russische aanval denken aan een massagraf
Oorlog in Oekraïne: Niet eerder maakten de inwoners van Ternopil de oorlog zo dichtbij mee. Nu moeten ze plots zeker dertig slachtoffers uit één enkele aanval verwerken. „Schrijf hierover. De wereld moet dit weten.”

Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today, and Vox Media join the Really Simple Licensing Collective AI licensing framework, which now has 50 partners to set AI terms (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/arena-group-buzzfeed…

Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co, Vox Media join RSL’s AI content licensing efforts
Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co and Vox Media are participating in the RSL Collective's efforts to license content to AI companies.

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…

"Farage has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other living politician. What might the country look like after a period with him in office?" Which says it all on why it is important to try to improve the UK economy
How to get the UK out of its economic hole - https://on.ft.com/4iq4UmP

When the Next Pandemic Comes, MAHA Says, You're on Your Own (David Wallace-Wells/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/opinion/maha-pandemic-public-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4U8.cTik.7D48v2q-NFap&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p7#a251127p7

A profile of "Rey", the admin of cybercriminal group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, a 15-year-old from Amman, Jordan who cooperated with European police since June (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/meet-rey-the-admin…

“The assault by the Trump administration on honest history is hitting everyone,”
A. S. Dillingham, a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a historian at Arizona State University, says.
This assault on history is particularly glaring this week,
as repression and censorship push teachers and politicians alike to acquiesce to the celebration of a sanitized falsehood
instead of using the Thanksgiving holiday as an opportunity to reckon with the dispossession…

The Thanksgiving Myth Hides the US’s Inability to Reckon With Its Own History
“I’m not against giving thanks. I’m against celebrating a falsehood,” says Choctaw historian A. S. Dillingham.

Cybersecuritybeeld Nederland 2025, wat me opviel in de tekst is dat de Cloud-act wel wordt genoemd maar FISA en Executive Order 12333 helemaal niet?
https://www.nctv.nl/documenten/2025/11/26/cybersecuritybeeld-nederland-2025

Cybersecuritybeeld Nederland 2025 | Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid
Het Cybersecuritybeeld Nederland 2025 (CSBN 2025) biedt inzicht in de digitale dreiging, de belangen die daardoor kunnen worden aangetast, de digitale weerbaarheid en digitale risico’s. 

A look at Journalist.net, a global marketplace that connects 10K freelance journalists with clients, from major newsbrands to creators (Freddy Mayhew/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishing-se…

Journalist.net: The platform enabling any publisher to draw on global newsroom
Journalist.net provides a simple way to find and pay freelance journalists.

Soyuz spacecraft blasts off for International Space Station with Russian and American crew (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/science/soyuz-spacecraft-blasts-off-international-space-station-with-russian-american-2025-11-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p5#a251127p5

Teslas größter Ladepark wird mit Solarstrom versorgt
Tesla hat einen Ladepark mit über 160 Ladepunkten fertiggestellt. Der Strom kommt tagsüber aus Solarmodulen und nachts aus Akkus.
https://www.

Taiwanese prosecutors search Intel VP Lo Wen-jen's homes days after TSMC alleged he leaked sensitive info, suggesting the government is deepening its probe (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-27/ex-…

Ex-TSMC Executive’s Homes Searched After Intel Dispute Deepens
Prosecutors have searched the homes of a former Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. executive accused of potentially leaking trade secrets to Intel Corp., suggesting the government is deepening a probe into the high-profile dispute.

Wow, if you search for signal messenger on DuckDuckGo using Chrome, the actual @… web site is the *third* entry following ads for “Signal Private Messenger – Free Download” that leads to the site appmaus.com and “Get Signal Messenger | Install Signal App” that leads to the site filelocations.com.
DuckDuckGo should be held criminally liable for anyone who…

The man suspected of shooting two National Guard members, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was once part of a C.I.A.-backed paramilitary group, one of several so-called Zero Units, according to Afghan and U.S. officials.
These units, formerly known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams, were trained to conduct night raids and clandestine missions across Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country. By the time the United States had withdrawn from Afghanistan in August 2021,
the units had offi…

Here’s a Look at the D.C. Shooting Suspect’s C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
The units were backed by the C.I.A. and trained to conduct missions in Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country.

Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia's stock falls 14% after a Bain Capital-backed entity sold $2.1B worth of shares at a discount, stoking AI valuation concerns (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26…

Chipmaker Kioxia Sinks After Bain-Backed Firm Discloses Selloff
Kioxia Holdings Corp.’s shares dived more than 14% after a Bain Capital-backed entity unloaded $2.1 billion of shares in the Japanese memory chipmaker at a discount, stoking concerns about the lofty valuations of global AI-related firms.

Spielzeug: EU-Parlament beschließt Sicherheitsregeln mit digitalem Produktpass
Alle in der EU verkauften Spielzeuge müssen laut neuer Verordnung einen digitalen Produktpass tragen, der die Einhaltung von Sicherheitsvorgaben bescheinigt.

The Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists condemns St. Paul police attacks on journalists; three photojournalists were hurt by less-lethal munitions (Minnesota SPJ)
https://www.mnspj.org/2025/11/26/mnspj-condemns-st-paul-police-attacks-on-journa…

Afghan Gunman Worked for CIA, Let In by Biden (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/11/27/afghan-gunman-worked-for-cia-n3809330
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p41#a251127p41

Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Aya (@…)
• Raghda (@…

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

Malaysia's Johor state, which has approved 51 data centre projects as of November, stops approvals for new low-tier data centers citing high water consumption (The Star)
https://www.thestar.com.my/metro/metro-news/2025/11/26/no-more-…

‘No more low-tier data centre approvals in Johor’
JOHOR will stop approving applications for Tier 1 and Tier 2 data centres due to their massive water consumption, which can reach up to 50 million litres a day.

EU rückt von Chatkontrolle ab
Die EU verzichtet im neuen Entwurf zur Bekämpfung von Kindesmissbrauch im Netz auf die Chatkontrolle. Stattdessen: Risikobewertungen und freiwillige Maßnahmen.
https://www.heise.de…

Mastodon announced fiscal sponsorship via WE AID,
a German nonprofit organisation that supports charitable projects within an established legal framework.
This partnership offers donors
tax-deductible contributions in Germany
and ensures verified integrity through WE AID’s oversight.
It also enables Mastodon to operate as a nonprofit entity,
strengthening the commitment to a user-first, community-driven platform,
free from algorithmic manipulation an…

Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
We're partnering with WE AID as our fiscal sponsor for donations in Europe.

Intelligence on U.S. Military's Boat Strikes Is Limited (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/politics/us-military-boat-strikes.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p45#a251127p45

Apologies, cleary visibility: 'private' in masto (Node.js Mastodon client) doesn’t mean private.
🤷‍♂️

Omnicom's acquisition of Interpublic Group formally closes; the all-stock deal gives Omnicom shareholders 60.6% of the company and IPG shareholders 39.4% (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/omnicom-ipg-deal

Omnicom becomes biggest advertising company
The IPG deal has closed in an era defined by scale, data and AI.

Australia passes a law requiring global streamers with 1M Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local outlay or 7.5% of revenue on Australian originals (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-streaming-quotas-sworn-into-law-…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.

Cherry gibt deutsche Produktion auf und will Kernsparte verkaufen
Der deutsche Hersteller Cherry steckt in der Krise. Die Peripheriesparte könnte an ein anderes Unternehmen gehen.
https://www.

Suspected Shooter Was in a 'Zero Unit' in Afghanistan. Here's What We Know. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/dc-shooting-suspect-afghanistan-cia-unit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p42#a251127p42

Australia passes its streaming content quotas law, which establishes local content spending requirements for global streamers with 1M Australian subscribers (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-streaming-quotas-sworn-into-law-12…

Australia’s Streaming Quotas Become Law: “A Landmark Day For Screen Storytelling”
Australia's streaming quotas have become law, with Netflix and others now required to spend on original local content.

In recent months, DDR4 and DDR5 RAM and SSD prices surged dramatically due to an ongoing AI chip shortage and panic buying; some RAM kits now cost 3x as much (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere
Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Cherry gibt deutsche Produktion auf und will Kernsparte verkaufen

Professor: Texas used to have universities (Jacob Beck/Dallas Morning News)
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2025/11/25/professor-texas-used-to-have-universities/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p46#a251127p46

Antenna: 57% of new Fox One subscriptions between its August 21 launch and October 31 came from Prime Video Channels, giving Fox One an edge over ESPN Unlimited (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/antenna-amazon-gives-fox-one-edge-over-es…

Antenna: Amazon Prime Video driving sign-ups to Fox One
Fox's decision to partner with Amazon for sales of Fox One helped it grow faster than ESPN Unlimited, according to Antenna.

Naver agrees to acquire Dunamu, which runs South Korea's biggest crypto exchange Upbit, in a $10.3B all-stock deal; Upbit has 80% market share in South Korea (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/naver-to…

D.C. Shooting Suspect 'Could Not Tolerate' the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/us/national-guard-dc-shooting-suspect-cia-afghanistan.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p44#a251127p44

Reliance, Brookfield, and Digital Realty's joint venture Digital Connexion plans to invest $11B by 2030 to build a 1 GW data center in India's Visakhapatnam (Sanjai P R/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A profile of Disney Chief Creative Officer Jared Bush, appointed in September 2024, who is trying to reclaim Disney's animation magic, ahead of Zootopia 2 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/business/disney-zootopia-2-jared-bush…

Disney’s ‘Zootopia 2’ Will Be a Test for Jared Bush
Jared Bush is trying to make the heart of the media empire beat more consistently. “Zootopia 2” will be a test.

Airbnb-CEO und Altman-Freund hält ChatGPT für nicht bereit
Brian Chesky möchte seinen Dienst, Airbnb, noch nicht an ChatGPT als App anbinden – das sei nicht robust genug.
https://www.

China's top economic planning agency warns about the risk of a bubble forming in the booming humanoid robotics industry; 150 manufacturers operate in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-27/…

Officials criticize Biden vetting, but Afghan shooting suspect was granted asylum under Trump (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/officials-criticize-biden-vetting-afghan-shooting-suspect-was-granted-asylum-2025-11-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p47#a251127p47

Eight more newspapers, including the Los Angeles Daily News, sue OpenAI and Microsoft, saying they violated copyright by using their content to train AI models (Pat Maio/Daily News)
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/11/26/8-mor

8 more newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging stolen content used in AI apps
Eight newspapers including the L.A. Daily News and San Diego Union-Tribune seek more than $10 billion in damages.

JPYC gibt an den Yen gekoppelten Stablecoin heraus
In Japan ist eine neue Kryptowährung gestartet. Sie ist an die Landeswährung gekoppelt.
https://www.heise.de/news/JPYC-gibt-an-den

Tidalwave, whose AI agents automate mortgage docs checks and give real-time multilingual feedback to borrowers, raised a $22M Series A led by Permanent Capital (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/21/tidalwave-raises-22-million-se…

Tidalwave raises $22 million Series A to improve the mortgage process with AI
Tidalwave, which builds agentic AI for mortgage origination, has now raised its $22 million Series A, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/clover-security-funding-wiz-crowdstrike-no…

Exclusive: Wiz founders back AI security agent startup
Clover Security provides agentic tools that help companies embed security throughout their products and ensure that their products remain secure during their lifecycle.

The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/anthropic-google-cloud-quantum-xch…

Exclusive: Anthropic CEO called to testify on Chinese AI cyberattack
The request comes weeks after Anthropic said China used Claude Code in an espionage campaign.

Point One Navigation, which develops precise location tech, raised a $35M Series C led by Khosla Ventures, a source says at a post-money valuation of $230M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/this-khos…

This Khosla-based startup can track drones, trucks, and robotaxis, inch by inch | TechCrunch
Point One Navigation, now valued at $230 million, is building out well beyond automotive.

Counterpoint: Apple is set to overtake Samsung as the world's largest smartphone maker for the first time since 2011, lifted by the success of iPhone 17 models (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Didi reports Q3 revenue up 8.6% YoY to ~$8.28B and a ~$211M net income, up from ~$127M in Q3 2024; international revenue up 35% YoY to ~$558M with a ~$240M loss (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china…

Sources: Vietnam's recent Huawei and ZTE 5G equipment deals bolster its ties with China following US tariffs, but could undermine US trust in Vietnam's networks (Francesco Guarascio/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/huawei

Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Defense Startup Quantum Systems Triples Valuation to €3 Billion
Quantum Systems, a German drone maker backed by Peter Thiel, boosted its valuation to €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in a new funding round as the defense startup plans to increase production capacity of unmanned aerial systems.

Jefferies: Tether, which said it held 116 tons of gold in September, is "the largest holder of gold outside central banks", buying 26 tons in Q3 and 24 in Q2 (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)

Uber starts deploying fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the UAE in December 2024 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/828685/uber-weride-robotaxi-fully-driverless-u…

Uber’s robotaxi service in UAE now includes fully driverless vehicles
Uber and WeRide announced that some of its robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, UAE, would be fully driverless.

Q&A with Sportable co-founders Dugald Macdonald and Peter Husemeyer on their sensor-based sports tech that generates data for teams, leagues, and broadcasters (Samuel Agini/Financial Times)

The UK proposes a "no gain, no loss" tax rule for crypto lending and liquidity pools in DeFi, deferring capital gains tax until a true economic disposal occurs (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/11/27/uk-p…

Analysis: since 2023, data center power demands have delayed 15 coal plants' retirements; the Trump administration has ordered two power plants to remain open (Ariel Wittenberg/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/27/a

Alibaba starts selling Quark S1, its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, for ~$537 in China, and plans to release international versions in 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-27/ali…

Dell, HP, and other tech companies are warning of potential memory-chip supply shortages in the coming year due to demand from the buildout of AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/te…

OpenAI's data center partners are set to rack up nearly $100B in debt; sources say banks may lend another $38B to Oracle and Vantage to build more OpenAI sites (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5605d086-289e-4b5f-803b-4c13666976a5

Sources: South Korean authorities suspect North Korean hacking group Lazarus of the $30M Upbit hack, which used methods resembling those of a 2019 Upbit theft (Kang Yoon-seung/Yonhap News Agency)
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20251128003952320?section=national/nation…

How Motorola, which spun out its struggling smartphone business in 2011, successfully refocused on critical communication equipment, giving it a $60B market cap (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

Motorola Ditched RAZR Phone for Radios in $60 Billion Turnaround
Since spinning off its handset business, dealmaking has helped grow Motorola Solutions into a company worth more than $60 billion.