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Sources: key White House officials are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the annual defense policy bill (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/white-house-block-bill-restricting-ai-chip-expo…

Scoop: White House moves to block bill restricting AI chip exports
Key White House officials are pressing lawmakers to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the defense policy bill.

Störungen von GMX und WEB.DE
Seit Mittwochmorgen gibt es Störungen bei den E-Mail-Diensten von GMX und WEB.DE. Entspannung deutet sich bereits an. Die Ursachen sind unklar.
https://www.heise.de/news/Stoerungen-v…

❌ 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.

»KI überall — Windows 11 macht sich gerade noch unbeliebter als Windows 8:
Wir finden: Microsoft sollte erst einmal andere Baustellen in Windows 11 beenden, bevor durch KI-Unsinn weitere hinzukommen.«
Ich kritisiere Windoof so wie KI seit jeher und doch ist mensch immer wieder mal dazu verpflichtet es zu nutzen. Ich überlasse deren Kritik mal diesem verlinkten Artikel.
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KI überall: Windows 11 macht sich gerade noch unbeliebter als Windows 8 - Golem.de
Wir finden: Microsoft sollte erst einmal andere Baustellen in Windows 11 beenden, bevor durch KI-Unsinn weitere hinzukommen.

Morgen in #Karlsruhe:

Scoop: U.S. secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/ukraine-peace-plan-trump-russia-witkoff
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p7#a251119p7

when a freedomcel says something so surveillancephobic you gotta hit them with the palantir stare

Black Friday: Vergünstigungen für macOS-Nutzer
Zum diesjährigen vorweihnachtlichen Shopping-Tag sind auch wieder diverse Mac-Softwaretitel für weniger zu haben. Ein Überblick.
https://www.heise…

The White House sends out a press release calling ABC News "a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network" and cataloging perceived offenses (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/trump-abc-mary-bruce-attack-1236623924/

After Donald Trump’s Attack On Correspondent Mary Bruce, White House Goes After ABC Again With “Fake News” Press Release
The release came after Trump lashed into correspondent Mary Bruce.

Brock Purdy's productive return, Jared Goff's miserable Sunday night: Week 11 Quick Outs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6817211/2025/11/19/nfl-week-11-purdy-goff-quick-outs/

✨ Chat with your Deleted Files?

Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
Great interview with #Mamdani on his new book #Uganda , #nationalism and everything else in

I added 3 more pre-order options:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-order-digital-accessibility-ethics.html#CtA
If you have other suggestions, please share so I can update it. I tend to prefer non-Amazon options.
I also linked The S…

Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics”
Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet gathered 36 authors across 10 countries and a commonwealth to write 32 chapters about ethics in digital accessibility. I am one of those 36 authors. The painting on the cover was created by Ana Maria Vidalon, a Spanish-speaking artist with a disability originally…

I'm not a litigator but I'm pretty sure you don't want to be the reason why a hearing in federal court becomes "excruciatingly awkward".
-- Josh Chafetz
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/lindsey-halligan-officially-more-stu…

Lindsey Halligan Officially More Stupid Than You Imagined
This 8647 case is being handled in a very 6-7 manner.

おおきなさば
:mackerel:
https://www.irasutoya.com/2014/02/blog-post_1834.html

Microsoft, Nvidia und Anthropic: Milliarden-Deal für KI
Microsoft, Nvidia und Anthropic haben einen Milliarden-Deal angekündigt. Die Partnerschaft bindet Anthropic enger an die beiden Konzerne.
https://www.

FTC v. Meta: TikTok's rise undermined the FTC's antitrust case and helped Meta avoid a breakup; Judge Boasberg said the tech landscape has "changed markedly" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-google-antitrust-t…

Technology Is Fast and the Courts Are Slow
Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.

A peace deal 'as soon as this week' (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/11/19/a-peace-deal-as-soon-as-this-week-00658623
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p6#a251119p6

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

The 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award disqualified two books citing AI-made covers; their publisher says AI's rise has put the industry in "uncharted waters" (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/books/new-zealand-ocham…

These Books Were Judged by Their A.I. Covers, and Disqualified
A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher’s books because they had A.I.-generated covers. The publisher and the designer pushed back.

Apple druckt Apple-Watch-Gehäuse aus recyceltem Titan
Statt nur für das Prototyping verwendet Apple spezielle 3D-Printer nun für die Herstellung von Apple-Watch-Gehäusen. Das Material ist wiederaufbereitet.
https://w…

»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.
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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!

You probably don’t need `aria-label` for that thing.
It doesn’t auto-translate:
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/11/aria-label-does-not-translate.html
It’s code smell:

aria-label Does Not Translate
As of my 25 July 2025 update at the end of this post, aria-label auto-translation support is less spotty than when I first wrote this post, but still unreliable. It does, actually. Sometimes. One of the big risks of using ARIA to define text content is that it often gets…

A massive WhatsApp security flaw exposed the phone number of almost every user on the planet
– despite the fact that parent company Meta had been alerted to the vulnerability way back in 2017.
Security researchers were able to use what they described as a “simple” exploit to extract a total of 3.5 billion phone numbers from the messaging service …
The researchers say that if the same exploit had been used by bad actors, the result would have been “the largest data leak in …

WhatsApp security flaw exposed 3.5B phone numbers – inc yours
A massive WhatsApp security flaw exposed the phone number of almost every user on the planet – despite the fact...

NetEase says 2M people played martial arts game Where the Winds Meet in the 24 hours after its global release, as Chinese companies' cultural influence expands (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/china-conn

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: China’s homegrown games capture overseas players as its cultural influence expands
In a big year for Chinese cultural exports, a new video game is the latest to win a global audience.

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.

All four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/florida-no…

Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.

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.

c’t Apple-Kaufberater: Tests zu iPhone, iPad, Mac & mehr
Wer viel Geld für ein Apple-Produkt in die Hand nimmt, möchte gut beraten sein: Welches Modell ist die richtige Wahl? Das klärt der c't Apple-Kaufberater.

11/19/25 ☀️ AM: ... President Donald Trump and House Republicans thought ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/111925-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p5#a251119p5

Steals your dairy products
Now it's nacho cheese!

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.

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.

MLB finalizes deals with NBC/Peacock, Netflix, and ESPN; sources: NBC/Peacock pays ~$200M/year, Netflix pays $50M/season, ESPN maintains $1.65B over three years (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6820362/2025/11/19/mlb-t…

MLB lands new media deals with NBC, Netflix and ESPN as league restructures TV future: Sources
The three-year agreements were a direct result of ESPN opting out of the final three seasons of its contract in February.

Endpoint-Manager Tanium kommt auf Mobilgeräte von Apple
Bislang unterstützt die Tanium-Plattform vor allem Server, Desktops und Notebooks. Die Plattform kennt nun auch mobile Endpoints – und beginnt mit Apple.
http…

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Block expects gross profit to increase in the mid-teens YoY through 2028, reaching ~$15.8B, with adjusted operating income growing ~30% YoY; XYZ closed up 7.56% (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/block-unveils-3-y…

Block's stock pops 9% on gross profit forecast, 3-year financial outlook
Block laid out long-term financial targets, projecting annual gross profit growth in the mid-teens through 2028.

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.

OpenAI announces ChatGPT for Teachers, designed for K-12 educators and school districts, and says it will be free to K-12 educators in the US through June 2027 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/openai-chatgpt-for-teachers-k-12-educators.html…

OpenAI rolls out 'ChatGPT for Teachers' for K-12 educators and districts
ChatGPT for Teachers will be free to K-12 educators in the U.S. through June 2027

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

heise | Bahn-Chaos und Verspätungen: Warum die Sanierung der Gleise allein nicht hilft
Überall wird bei der Bahn gebaut. Doch an vielen Problemen des Schienennetzes ändert das langfristig wenig. Warum das so ist und was man besser machen könnte.

Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?

Link auf linksunten.indymedia: Durchsuchung bei Journalist war verfassungswidrig
Vor zweieinhalb Jahren sorgte eine Razzia bei @… aus Freiburg und dessen Angestellten für Aufsehen. Das Vorgehen war verfassungswidrig.

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.

Gericht stärkt EU den Rücken: Amazon scheitert mit Klage gegen DSA-Einstufung
Amazon scheitert mit seiner Klage gegen die DSA-Einstufung. Die EU darf Tech-Konzerne mit über 45 Mio. Nutzern besonderen Pflichten unterwerfen.

Investors pulled $523M from BlackRock's IBIT bitcoin ETF on Tuesday, its largest single-day outflow since launch; BTC fell ~30% from its October all-time high (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bitcoin (BTC) Slide Spurs Record Withdrawals From BlackRock’s IBIT
Investors pulled more than half a billion dollars from BlackRock Inc.’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, the largest single-day outflow since the fund’s debut, marking the latest blow to a digital-assets market already short on confidence.

Robotaxis von Zoox sind in San Francisco im Einsatz
Die Amazon-Tochter Zoox startet mit seinen Robotaxis in San Francisco. Vorerst ist der Dienst aber noch eingeschränkt.
https://www.heise.…

Yann LeCun is departing Meta; sources: Meta plans to partner with LeCun on his new startup, which will be focused on world models (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/meta-ai-s-lecun-to-announce-exit-s…

Niederlande geben Kontrolle über Chip-Firma Nexperia ab
Durchbruch im Konflikt um die Lieferung von Chips für die Autoproduktion. Die Niederlande lenken ein und senden ein positives Signal nach Peking.
https://www.…

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…

LAP1-B: Nächster Kandidat für Galaxie aus Sternen der allerersten Generation
Sterne der sogenannten Population III waren laut Simulationen riesig und kurzlebig. Nun gibt es erneut einen Kandidaten einer Galaxie, die aus solchen besteht.

Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-launch-prediction-market-po…

Coinbase to Launch Prediction Market Powered by Kalshi
Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events such as elections and sports, according to two people familiar with the matter. The market will be powered by prediction market company Kalshi and will put Coinbase in a booming but increasingly ...

Japan: Drohnen vergrämen Bären mit Hundegebell und Feuerwerkskörpern
Die zunehmende Anzahl von Bären in Japan stellt ein Problem für die Bevölkerung dar. Die Stadt Hida setzt Drohnen ein, um Bären fernzuhalten.

Vorerst kein neues Android-XR-Headset: Google kündigt Vereinbarung mit Lynx
Lynx will Anfang 2026 ein neues Mixed-Reality-Headset mit breitem Sichtfeld vorstellen, muss aber überraschend auf Googles Betriebssystem Android XR verzichten.

Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product for US users next week in partnership with PayPal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/perplexity-ai-online-shopping-paypal.html

Perplexity AI announces free product to streamline online shopping
Perplexity AI announced it will roll out a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week

Foveated Rendering: Gratis-Tool bringt Eye-Tracking-Feature auf PC-VR-Headsets
Ein Gratis-Tool aktiviert Foveated Rendering auf zahlreichen PC-VR-Headsets und spart dadurch Rechenleistung bei aufwendigen VR-Spielen.
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Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% to $51.2B, and net income up 65% to $31.9B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Nvidia shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue, forecast
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said sales for the company's current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, are "off the charts."

"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.

Larry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from the OpenAI board, after a US House committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/epstein-larry-summers-openai

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board amid Epstein revelations
Summers said this week he would step back from public commitments amid the latest Epstein news.

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.

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.

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.

CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/technology/ai-research-chinese-talent.html

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research
Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.

Fox News hires Palantir to build tools that help journalists produce stories across Fox platforms and social media; Fox won't use AI to generate editorial copy (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/fox-news-palantir-ai-newsroom-tools
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Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools
Fox News and Palantir have built three main tools to improve efficiency.

Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $2.47B, vs. $2.46B est., forecasts Q2 revenue in line with est., and agrees to buy Chronosphere for $3.35B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/palo-alto-networks-panw-q1-2026-earnings-r…

Palo Alto tops earnings expectations, announces Chronosphere acquisition
The cybersecurity company said in July it would by Israeli cybersecurity provider CyberArk for $25 billion.

Meta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume buying startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a slowdown under Lina Khan (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-ruling-silicon-valley…

Meta’s Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping
To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta’s antitrust win may change that thinking.

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.

Doppel, which makes an AI social engineering detection service, raised a $70M Series C led by Bessemer at a $600M valuation, up from $205M in May (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/19/exclusi

Exclusive: Doppel raises $70 million Series C at more than $600 million valuation to fight AI-powered social engineering attacks
Bessemer-backed Doppel has raised its $70 million Series C, valuing the company at $600 million, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Guardio, which helps detect malicious code created with AI tools, raised $80M led by ION Crossover, and says it has 500K paying users and $100M in ARR in 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/security-startup-guardio-n…

Security startup Guardio nabs $80M from ION Crossover Partners | TechCrunch
Guardio is leveraging its experience building browser extensions and apps that scan for malicious and phishing sites to build a tool that looks for artifacts in code and websites made with vibe coding tools.

Function Health, a health tracking tech company, raised a $298M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $350M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/19/funct…

Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Function, which offers blood testing and medical imaging services, recently raised $298 million in a Series B round led by Redpoint Ventures at a valuation of $2.5 billion.

AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/19/alphaxiv-raises-7m-funding-be…

AlphaXiv raises $7M in funding to become the GitHub of AI research - SiliconANGLE
AlphaXiv raises $7M in funding to become the GitHub of AI research - SiliconANGLE

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.

Meta release SAM 3, a model for detection, segmentation, and tracking of objects in images and video, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/19/me

Meta's new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D - SiliconANGLE
Meta's new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D - SiliconANGLE

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.

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.

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.

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.

The EU's General Court dismisses Amazon's request to remove its designation as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA; platforms with 45M users qualify (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/…

Boston Dynamics says its robot dog Spot is used by 60 US and Canadian bomb squads and SWAT teams, with ~2K units deployed globally, five years after its debut (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: US officials are privately saying they might not levy semiconductor tariffs soon, as the Trump administration takes a more cautious approach with China (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trumps-semiconductor-ta…

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.

The Dutch government suspends its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner; a Dutch minister says the move is "a show of goodwill" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Dutch Hand Back Control of Chinese-Owned Chipmaker Nexperia
The Dutch government suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner and defusing a standoff with Beijing that had begun to hamper automotive production around the world.

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.

Crypto miners like IREN are pivoting to AI data centers amid the AI boom; IREN's stock, down to ~$1 in 2022, is up 300% in 2025, giving it a $13B market cap (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/e…

Epic Games partners with Unity to bring games made with Unity Engine to Fortnite in 2026, part of Epic's longterm vision to make Fortnite into an open metaverse (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/823233/for

Fortnite is getting Unity games
Epic Games is teaming up with Unity to bring games made using Unity’s engine into Fortnite.

Alphabet's stock rose as much as 6.9% on Wednesday, its biggest gain since early September, amid a wave of glowing reviews for Gemini 3 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/alphabet-…

Ubisoft says it will release results for the fiscal first half before trading opens on November 21, after unexpectedly postponing their publication last week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/ubisoft…

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…

Sources: ID verification startup Incode is in preliminary talks to raise between $150M and $300M at a valuation of up to $3B, up from a $1.25B valuation in 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/id…

Sources: UMG, WMG, and Sony Music have licensed their works to Klay, which is building a streaming service that will let users remake songs using AI tools (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-2…

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…

Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging the adoption of device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes (Jason Parham/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/pornhub-is-urging-tech-giants-to-e…

Pornhub Is Urging Tech Giants to Enact Device-Based Age Verification
The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn, as US and UK laws have caused its traffic to plummet.