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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.
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Filings: Meta spent the most on US lobbying in Q3, spending $5.8M, followed by Amazon, Google, Apple; Anthropic, Nvidia, and a16z hit $1M for the first time (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/tech-lobbying-insights-q3

Meta tops spending again as AI lobbying heats up
Big Tech companies are still outspending companies focusing purely on AI and hardware.

Frontline report: Russia has lost over 1% of all men in the country to its war in Ukraine - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/21/frontline-report-2025-12-21/

Holy shit

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/12/21/documents-reveal-harvard-salient-complaint/

Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that later became central to the board’s decision to suspend the magazine.

@… I’m working through them!!

'nacht allerseits, und schönes wochenende, trotz allem!

Interviews with two dozen people show how Israeli soldiers targeted a Gaza hospital stairwell in August that its military knew was a hub for news organizations (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/21/gaza-hospital-strike-jour…

How Israeli strikes that killed 5 journalists at a Gaza hospital unfolded
The strikes on Nasser Hospital fit what military and legal experts said has been a pattern of reckless targeting and weaponeering by Israeli forces in Gaza.

oh no
Don’t use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/ai-chatbots-unreliable-biased-advice-voters-dutch-watchdog

Chart of the week: Will Ukraine’s central bank weaken the hryvnia?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/chart-of-the-week-will.html

Ist halt laut, wenn Dein Wohnort in der #wattpampa in der Einflugschneise vom Grossflugbetrieb liegt.
🪿🪿🪿

Der #Windkraft-Ausbau in #Deutschland zieht spürbar an: Im ersten Halbjahr 2025 stieg der Zubau an #Onshore-Anlagen um 67 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahr.
Dennoch bleibt Tempo entscheidend.…

Windkraft in Deutschland: Der entscheidende Aufwind
Windenergie ist ein zentrales Zugpferd der deutschen Energiewende. Nach Jahren schleppenden Ausbaus zeigen die politischen Beschleunigungsmaßnahmen erste Erfolge.

Expect deep cuts in PhD admissions throughout the US, including biomedical programs.
The current model of PhD training and the current financial climate are simply not compatible.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/…

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.

Trump, corruption in plain sight.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE8.A-BQ.iixOJRNKHFTL&…

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
Senior department officials who were defense lawyers for the president and those in his orbit are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout, underscoring potential ethical conflicts.

Ich habe im Auto jetzt immer eine Fernsehkamera und Scheinwerfer dabei, damit ich straffrei Gafferfotos machen kann. Außerdem kann ich die dann an ARD und RTL verkaufen.

A small change of plan since I wrote this, we're off this afternoon with a good weather window
Settling in..
It's been a busy few days at Wasa station but we've been settling in with various trainings and some tantalising hints of interesting data ...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/20/settling-in/

After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/21/after-clergy-arrests-religious-pushback-to-ice-expands-in-chicago/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p115#a251021p115

no autoconf. i do not think you are truly sorry.
you will suffer for your sins

[BLOG] bibacrt https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/12/21/bibacrt/

Wenn dein Unternehmen “Kuhbonbon” heißt und dein Logo eine Kuh ist, steht das natürlich auch auf deinen veganen Produkten. Ich finde ja die vegane Karamellsoße von denen super. https://kuhbonbon.de/shop/veganes-karamell/kuhbonbon-vegan-caramel-165g

These days, anti-GenAI screeds cross my radar every week. Even when I agree with what they’re saying (I often do), they’re mostly saying the same things. So, FWIW, here’s one with a fresh PoV: https://going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/on-ai-and-the-golem/
With an entertain…

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- A Very Christmas Radical: Jonathan Harvey
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Kate and Gillian explore radical music for the festive season.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ngbd

Happy #Solstice ! For those of us in the northern hemisphere where I live, this is #WinterSolstice … the shortest day of the year and therefore the darkest in terms of light. We all know that the days only get longer from here on out… and we are excited!
For my friends in the southern …

December solstice - Wikipedia

Stumbled across this again

Vor 20 Jahren brachte das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit die Broschüre „Vorrang für die Anständigen – Gegen Missbrauch, ‚Abzocke‘ und Selbstbedienung im #Sozialstaat“ heraus. Kurz vor der Bundestagswahl 2005, #HartzIV war schon durch. In der Broschüre fanden sich keine Statist…

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.

Sister of Epstein victim reported him in 1996, but FBI failed to investigate, files reveal | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/21/epstein-fbi-maria-farmer-annie-farmer

Sachsen will Handy-Verbot am Steuer mit Kameras und Drohnen durchsetzen
Eine geplante Novelle des sächsischen Polizeigesetzes soll den Einsatz moderner Überwachungstechnik im Straßenverkehr ermöglichen und Autofahrer disziplinieren.

Veeam snaps up Securiti in $1.7B deal to bolster cyber-resilience portfolio
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/10/21/veeam-buying-securiti/

Veeam snaps up Securiti in $1.7B deal to bolster cyber-resilience portfolio – Blocks and Files
Veeam confirms it is buying Securiti, the cybersecurity startup founded by serial entrepreneur Rehan Jalil, with a $1.725 billion price tag.

The Kremlin is disrupting negotiations, while Ukrainian drones are destroying Russian factories!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/the-kremlin-is-disrupting-negotiations.html

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.

US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say (Dorothy Sedovic/KKTV-TV)
https://www.kktv.com/2025/10/21/us-marshal-shot-during-immigration-enforcement-operation-la-reports-say/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p114#a251021p114

Donald Trump, the most Florida Man ever, was elected president.
If you asked an LLM to write a Carl Hiaasen novel, you might get Trump:
a hacky, unimaginative version of the wealthy, callous, scheming grifters of the Hiaasenverse.
Back in 2020, Hiaasen wrote Trump into Squeeze Me,
a tremendous and madcap addition to his canon:
Fever Beach is the first Hiaasen novel since Squeeze Me,
and boy, does Hiaasen ever have MAGA's number.
The book revol…

I have elevated to a new plane of open source existence

The NYT announces the addition of a TikTok-like Watch tab to its app, featuring a mix of short-form, scrollable, vertical news videos, available October 22 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/new-york-times-watch-tab-tiktok-nyt-app

NYT to debut new TikTok-like "Watch" tab in its app
It's part of a broader effort to bring all of its journalism across mediums into a single destination.

Datenvolumen in deutschen Handynetzen wächst um 30 Prozent
Video-Chats und Streaming sind Alltag. Das wirkt sich auf die Netze aus, die immer mehr Volumen bewältigen müssen.
https://www.

BREAKING: Ukraine strikes Russian chemical plant with long-range Storm Shadow missiles, military says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/breaking-ukraine-strikes-russian-chemical.html

Google joins attacks on Britain over free speech online
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/21/google-joins-attacks-on-britain-over-free-speech-online/

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…

CIA playing 'most important part' in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say (Aram Roston/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/us-strikes-caribbean-cia-role
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p117#a251021p117

@… INVISIBLE WORK!!

YouTube launches its likeness detection tech, letting eligible creators in its Partner Program request the removal of AI-generated content with their likeness (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/youtubes-likeness-d…

YouTube’s likeness detection technology has officially launched | TechCrunch
YouTube's likeness detection technology is now available. Creators can request the removal of AI content using their face and voice.

American Diplomacy- 2025 Style
'I don’t like you either. And I probably never will,” the US president, Donald Trump, tells Australian ambassador Kevin Rudd at the White House cabinet room table.
https://www.

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…

Check out today's Metacurty for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters claims dossiers on US officials including NSA employees
--EU cops bust up illegal SIM-box service,
--Russia's COLDRIVER uses two new backdoors,
--Korea preps financial consumer data protection bill,
--76K WatchGuard Firebox network security appliances are exposed on the web,
--Attackers target OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studi…

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters claims dossiers on US officials including NSA employees
EU cops bust up illegal SIM-box service, Russia's COLDRIVER uses two new backdoors, Korea preps financial consumer data protection bill, 76K WatchGuard Firebox network security appliances are exposed on the web, Attackers target OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio with GlassWorm malware, much more

US General: Strikes on Kaliningrad and Sevastopol are a matter of hours #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/us-general-strikes-on-kaliningrad.html

Altnerative ship fuels make waves in Pacific Northwest ports • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/21/altnerative-ship-fuels-make-waves-in-pacific-northwest-ports/

OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Atlas web browser, available initially for macOS (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/openai-atlas-new-ai-web-browser-release-date

OpenAI is launching a web browser called Atlas
The moves come as traffic from bots is expected to surpass that from humans.

@… appropriately contrite!

Förderstedt bringt den Saft! Deutschlands größter Batteriespeicher kommt. 🔌📍
Ab dem 4. November 2025 baut das deutsch-norwegische Unternehmen Eco Stor dort den aktuell größten Batteriespeicher Deutschlands.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10786438?wt_mc=sm…

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.

It is horrific, This "peace plan" means that we are fighting for nothing, giving our lives for nothing.
“I have no words, because this is a proposal to capitulate to an enemy that is destroying civilians, that is killing people,”
https://www.

To Many Ukrainians, U.S. Peace Plan Looks Like ‘Capitulation’
While the White House has cautioned that the proposal is still in “flux,” its contours reflect maximalist demands made by Russia throughout the war that Ukraine has consistently rejected.

Sweden detains sanctioned Russian vessel linked to weapons transport: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/21/sweden-detains-sanctioned-russian-vessel.html

Where is the footage Jeffrey Epstein secretly recorded of people in his houses?!
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/where-is-the-footage-jeffrey-epstein

DraftKings acquires predictions platform Railbird as it prepares to launch its mobile platform DraftKings Predictions in the coming months (Contessa Brewer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/draftkings-railbird-predictions-platform-acquisition.htm…

DraftKings acquires predictions platform Railbird
The sports betting giant is preparing to launch a new platform in the coming months called DraftKings Predictions.

Pretty wild that GitHub Contribution Graphs don’t count responding to or closing issues as Activity (though *opening* issues counts 🥸)

Sources: WBD has rejected a $24-per-share takeover bid from Paramount Skydance, and people inside WBD expect a fourth bid from David Ellison imminently (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/media/wa

Warner Bros. Discovery rejects $24-a-share takeover bid fom Paramount Skydance: sources
On Tuesday, WBD disclosed that it has received “unsolicited interest” from prospective acquirers and said it was open to a sale.

Russia has no intention of actually ending its aggression, says Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/21/russia-has-no-intention-of.html

Making sense of the trial and conviction of a judge who stood up to Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/making-sense-of-the-trial-and-conviction-of-a-judge-who-stood-up-to-trump/

Netflix reports Q3 revenue up 17% YoY to $11.51B, matching est., operating margin below est. due to Brazilian tax dispute expense; NFLX drops 5% after hours (Sarah Whitten/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/netflix-nflx-earnings-q3-2025.html

Netflix shares drop after streamer misses earnings estimates, citing Brazilian tax dispute
Shares of Netflix plummeted after the company posted a third-quarter earnings miss after the closing bell Tuesday.

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.

KREMLIN IN SHOCK: €90bn for Ukraine, strikes on Russia’s shadow fleet, AFU push in Kupiansk: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/21/kremlin-in-shock-bn-for.html

Dario Amodei addresses "inaccurate claims" about Anthropic's policy stances after David Sacks said the "real issue" is "Anthropic's agenda to backdoor Woke AI" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/anthropic-ceo-trump-s…

Anthropic CEO disputes Trump AI czar David Sacks' claims that company is 'woke'
The company has faced repeated criticism from David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as President Donald Trump's AI and crypto czar, in recent days.

A US judge orders Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, and Adam Mosseri to testify in the "first bellwether trial" over child social media safety, set for January (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/21/meta-instagram-snap-social-media-chi…

Zuckerberg, Mosseri and Spiegel ordered to testify in child social media safety trial
Mark Zuckerberg will need to testify at the first trial over the adverse effects of social media on younger users, a Los Angeles judge ruled Monday.

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?

ChipAgents, which is developing an agentic AI platform to automate chip design and verification, raised a $21M Series A led by Bessemer (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/21/chipagents-scores-21m-transform-semicondu…

ChipAgents scores $21M to transform semiconductor design with agentic AI - SiliconANGLE
ChipAgents scores $21M to transform semiconductor design with agentic AI - SiliconANGLE

Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-…

Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.

A look at Amazon's Sparrow, Cardinal, Proteus, and other warehouse robots, taking over roles like selecting and picking items, carrying shipping carts, and more (Karen Weise/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/amazon-robotics-automa…

The Robots Fueling Amazon’s Automation
Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses.

YouTube launches its likeness detection tech, letting eligible creators in its Partner Program request the removal of AI-generated content with their likeness (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/youtubes-likeness-d…

YouTube’s likeness detection technology has officially launched | TechCrunch
YouTube's likeness detection technology is now available. Creators can request the removal of AI content using their face and voice.

Serval, which uses agentic AI models to automate IT service management for clients like Perplexity and Mercor, raised a $47M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/serval-raises-4…

Serval raises $47 million to bring AI agents to IT service management | TechCrunch
Serval is using agentic AI models to automate IT service management, but the company has a unique approach that takes advantage of agentic AI’s powers while avoiding many of its pitfalls.

First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, as browser agents remain confusing, with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/21/introducing-chatgpt-atlas/

Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
Last year OpenAI hired Chrome engineer Darin Fisher, which sparked speculation they might have their own browser in the pipeline. Today it arrived. ChatGPT Atlas is a Mac-only web browser …

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.

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-…

A group of PE firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4B including debt (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta forms a JV with Blue Owl to fund the $27B, 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, its largest ever private capital deal; Meta will retain a ~20% equity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-forms-joint-ventu…

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.

TikTok quietly changed its policies to make it easier to share user data with government and regulatory authorities, and weakened promises to inform users (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2025/10/21…

TikTok Won’t Say If It’s Giving ICE Your Data
Changes to TikTok's policies make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with governments. TikTok did not respond to questions about the changes.

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

CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crowdstri…

Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/sierras-revenue-flex

Sierra's revenue flex
ARR is the new AI startup recruiting pitch. Also: Harvey's Winston Weinberg this week on ACCESS.

Filing: Satya Nadella's total pay for fiscal 2025 rose nearly 22% YoY from $79.1M to $96.5M, including $84.2M in stock awards; MSFT is up ~23% so far in 2025 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/satya-nadell

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: The US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers who were suspended in July misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph, which he failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/21/c

A South Korean court dismisses a K-pop-related stock manipulation case against Kakao founder Brian Kim; prosecutors had sought a 15-year prison sentence (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/billionaire-kakao…

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…

Sources: Anthropic is in discussions with Google about a deal that would provide Anthropic with computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/anth…

Lagos-founded payments startup Moniepoint raised $90M at a $1B valuation, after raising $110M in October 2024, and says it processes $250B yearly transactions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/visa-…

Findem, an AI-powered talent acquisition startup, raised $51M in equity and debt, including a $36M Series C led by SLW, taking its total funding to $105M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/findem-funding-ai-powered-hiring-re…

Exclusive: Findem Lands $36M Series C To Supercharge AI-Powered Hiring 
Findem is just one of more than a dozen startups at the intersection of AI and recruitment globally that has raised venture capital in 2025.

CoreWeave says it won't increase its $9B offer for data center provider Core Scientific, despite opposition to the deal from major Core Scientific shareholders (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-2…

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…

Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Sources: Apple's foldable iPad with an 18" screen faces engineering challenges tied to weight, features, and display tech, pushing its debut to 2029 or later (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Anrok, which helps software companies automate sales tax compliance, raised a $55M Series C at a $525M valuation, up from $250M after raising $30M in April 2024 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Brian Chesky says Airbnb didn't integrate its app with ChatGPT because ChatGPT integrations aren't "quite ready" yet, and he advised Sam Altman on ChatGPT apps (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple challenges the DMA in the EU's General Court, saying it "imposes hugely onerous and intrusive burdens" at odds with Apple's rights in the EU marketplace (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Polymarket and Kalshi surpassed $2B in notional trading volume in the week ending Oct. 19, exceeding the previous peak during the 2024 US presidential election (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair says the platform has paid out $25B to creators since its founding in 2016; OnlyFans takes a 20% fee on subscriptions and content sales (Rose Henderson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Documents: OpenAI has more than 100 ex-investment bankers paid $150 per hour to train its AI to build financial models as part of its secretive Project Mercury (Omar El Chmouri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/21/shield-ai-ukraine-defense-tech-gary-steele/

Shield AI took its drones from the ‘Batcave’ to the battlefield. Now the $5.6 billion defense-tech startup’s new CEO says it’s at an inflection point
After eight months spent tweaking its surveillance drone in Ukraine, demand for Shield AI’s V-BAT is ramping up in Europe and Asia.

Sources: Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT plans a Shanghai IPO as soon as Q1 2026, targeting an up to ~$42B valuation and aiming to raise between ~$2.8B and ~$5.6B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Texas Instruments reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.74B, vs. $4.64B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and profit below estimates; TXN drops 6% after hours (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/chipmaker