Tootfinder

BPI: the UK music industry had its 11th straight year of growth in 2025; album sales rose 4.9% YoY to 210.3M, aided by the Oasis reunion and Taylor Swift vinyls (Rob Davies/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/

„Policymakers need to set clear emissions targets and stronger financial incentives for use of lower emission materials, while industry must establish common standards for easier adoption of these materials into value chains.“
Jens-Peter Saul
CEO, #Ramboll

Jens-Peter Saul: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2025
Find out why Jens-Peter Saul is on TIME's 2025 list of the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action.

The Property Management Podcast With That Property Mum
The go-to show for busy women in the crazy property management industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/property-management/

Sources: McKinsey and other top consultancies freeze graduate pay offers in 2026 for the third year, as AI reshapes the industry and threatens its pyramid model (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2b15601b-8d02-4abe-a789-7862874042be

🌈 Bacteria spin rainbow-colored, sustainable textiles
#bacteria

Bacteria spin rainbow-colored, sustainable textiles
In the future, clothes might come from vats of living microbes. Reporting in the journal Trends in Biotechnology, researchers demonstrate that bacteria can both create fabric and dye it in every color of the rainbow—all in one pot. The approach offers a sustainable alternative to the chemical-heavy practices used in today's textile industry.

«Given that the amount of money banks make from the average sale of one vial is approximately $1,200, the industry has less than zero interest in voluntarily putting a halt to their less-than-ethical practices. It’s been proven time and time again that, without anything reining them in, they will choose profit over all else.»
What happens if industries "self-regulate" 🫠
The Profit Motive Has Corrupted the Fertility Industry
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-profit-motive-has-corrupted-the-fertility-industry

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata
<…

Weasel words from Colesworth. Food security is more important than their profits. # FoodSecurity
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-01/federal-government-…

Buy Australian campaign aims to save dwindling domestic food manufacturing industry
Experts warn that Australian food manufacturing is under threat as shoppers turn to cheaper imported items, but the federal government is trying to promote locally grown produce.

Not buying a gas hog...
Stellantis resurrects $100,000 Ram TRX V-8 pickup truck amid industry deregulation
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/01/ram-trx-v8-pickup-truck.html

"Only nine countries doing well on municipal waste recycling, EU auditors say"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Recycling

EU countries falling behind on municipal waste recycling, auditors say
The European Court of Auditors says a frail recycling industry, poor funding management and insufficient funds are all major obstacles.

Es una religión
“It’s a religion. We believe in technology. Technology is God. It’s really hard to push back against it. People don’t want to hear it.”
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time.
MIT Tech. Review:
https://www.

Solar panels and crops growing together? It's called agrivoltaics, and it just got a major boost.
DC-based Okovate acquired startup Fundusol to integrate Stanford & Carnegie Mellon tech that optimizes solar arrays for different crops using genetic algorithms. The goal: make solar farming economically viable for rural communities across the US.

Agrivoltaic Company Okovate Acquires Stanford University & Carnegie Mellon Tech Startup - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Agrivoltaics have been the name of the game in the past few years in the solar power industry. On the surface, it seems simple — find farmland that could benefit from co-location with solar power plants, and then plop some ... [continued]

Sad to hear that Andy Drinkwater passed away before Christmas.
Top tier SEO who I met several times and was an inspiration to myself and many others.
https://www.seroundtable.com/andy-drinkwater-rip-40675.html

In 2025, 126 media industry people were killed globally, the US had 170 reports of assaults on journalists, and Trump's government increasingly attacked media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/press-freedom-2025-me…

A rough year for journalists in 2025, with a little hope
By most measures, 2025 was a rough year for those who care about freedom of the press. It's likely to be the deadliest year on record for journalists and media workers across the world. The number of assaults on reporters spiked in the United States. As is by now familiar, the ranks of people working as journalists continues to thin. The president of the United States continues to berate many who ask him questions, sometimes in harshly personal terms. Outside of name-calling, the second term of…

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata
<…

❓ Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/can-two-amazons-survive-invisible-e-waste-is-poisoning-the-world/

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world
“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch company that works with the electronics industry to increase global recycling. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge we are unable to manage it. Most of our e-waste ends up in city centres. Informal workers extract what […]

how the japanese #music industry has resisted being totally hollowed-out by streaming, by @…. https://

IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply (Zak Killian/Tom's Hardware)

IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market
Memory shortages are expected to have a serious impact on the PC and smartphone market.

A look at the rising popularity of virtual K-pop stars, usually created by artists wearing motion sensor suits, and the labor rights questions they raise (Michelle Kim/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/metaverse-kpop-idols/

The metaverse is rewriting the rules of who can be a K-pop star
In an industry studded with megastars like BTS and Blackpink, virtual idols are building powerful new fandoms even while their true identities remain obscured.

The failed White House / GOP strategy on AI is to stop federal bills and try to stop state bills.
This resulted in two things the tech industry didn’t want:
1. Patchwork of state AI laws
2. Public backlash
Any AI LLM could have devised a better strategy
-- @tedlieu.bsky.social

Talking Aussie Farming
Each episode features candid conversations with farmers, innovators, policymakers, and industry leaders shaping the future of food and farming...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/talking-aussie-farming/

The entire medical extraction industry can burn in hell, and any politico that stands in the way of national single payer Healthcare should be impeached and banned from public office forever.
It's a national disgrace exceeded only by Trump himself.
#uspol

Award-Winning Documentary On India’s Dairy Industry Removed By YouTube #AnimalRights

Award-Winning Documentary On India's Dairy Industry Removed By YouTube
Maa Ka Doodh,' an award-winning documentary on India’s dairy industry, has been removed by YouTube due to alleged violation of its policies

"Chocolate could disappear by 2050. Could this climate-resistant alternative take its place?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Chocolate

Meet the scientists saving the chocolate industry from climate change
As cocoa production plunges, scientists have turned to a climate-resilient plant to save the chocolate industry.

"Étonnamment [?], les temps de réaction lors de l'utilisation d'écrans au volant sont pires que ceux d'une personne ivre ou sous l'emprise de stupéfiants. Pas étonnant que 90 % des conducteurs détestent utiliser les écrans tactiles dans les voitures. L'industrie automobile revient enfin Š la raison."

We need to merge #cloudflare with #aws so that this industry ~~fails~~ wins harder next time.

We think the industry turned away from design, but most people have simply never seen design done before, so they don't believe it's possible.
We need to show them, and we can't sit around waiting for permission.
If we want to prove that design isn't just decoration, we need to stop doing decorative work. Think backwards from valuable goals, and direct your energy down the path that leads you towards that value, rather than "just words" or "just pic…

Big Tech got almost everything it wanted from President Trump, as he backs policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered, worrying some conservatives (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/technol<…

From A.I. to Chips, Big Tech Is Getting What It Wants From Trump
The president has backed policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered. The mutually beneficial alliance is causing concern among some conservatives.

Job cuts across TV, film, broadcast, news, and streaming in the first 11 months of 2025 grew 18% YoY to 17K ; news suffered 2,254 job cuts, down about 50% YoY (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/entertainment-media-l…

Entertainment and Media Layoffs Up 18% With Over 17,000 Jobs Slashed in 2025
A wave of consolidation, AI-driven change and cost-cutting pushed entertainment and media layoffs sharply higher in 2025

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata
<…

From Greta's book. 🎯

The whole #VFX industry is relying on Python. We should chip in.
https://hachyderm.io/@nedbat/115447871878351122

Copypasta from LinkedIn:
Recent blogs by KnowledgeRights21 blaming copyright and the creative industry for knowledge hampering instead of, for example, the enormous bureaucracy in place in Horizon Europe / European Commission grants is really something.
Don't get me wrong, I think #copyright should be reformed and in its current form is indeed strange - why can we copyright research articles for example?
1/3

I LOL everytime some two-bit hack realizes that Google's monopoly on search was a bad idea & whines about 'the quality of Google's search' - blaming it on 'AI'.
Tell me you don't know anything about the search & AI industry WITHOUT telling me you don't know anything about the search & AI industry.

Interesting article about EU car-industry,
https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2025/how-buy-european-rules-can-help-save-europes-car-industry

“Additional direct manufacturing costs do not fully explain the higher prices of electric cars outside China. [..] in Germany, the retail price difference is more than double the manufacturing cost difference.”
https://www.iea.org/reports/what-next-for-the…

Executive summary – What Next for the Global Car Industry – Analysis - IEA
What Next for the Global Car Industry - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

AI use of water and energy is an issue. And the industry's bloviating smokescreens don't help us understand the issue.
All of the ways companies cause GHG gas emissions - from direct emissions on site to emissions from power generation off-site to emissions in their supply chain & from product usage are addressed in the #GreenhouseGasReportingProtocol .

AI use of water and energy is an issue. And the industry's bloviating smokescreens don't help us understand the issue.
All of the ways companies cause GHG gas emissions - from direct emissions on site to emissions from power generation off-site to emissions in their supply chain & from product usage are addressed in the #GreenhouseGasReportingProtocol .

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
RUSSIA’S FOOD INDUSTRY CRISIS: EMPTY TABLES, CLOSED DOORS, FALLING DEMAND Vlog 1268: War in #Ukraine
The number of #cafés

Was in Japan übrigens so nebenbei zum Thema gemacht wird:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqy86IAJPZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially operate with support from Japanese staff and are expected to work independently after several months. Industry leaders hope the move will stabilize bus services and ensure passenger safety. Public understanding and continued training will be important as Japan adapts to workforce shortages in essential public services. @YAHOO"
85 likes, 11 comments - japandaily_jp on December 24, 2025: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially ope…

Big Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials (Corporate Europe Observatory)
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/big-tech-lobby-budgets-hit-re…

Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory
New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.

Bite Size
we look to bring you ideas and insight into the Foodservice industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Uruguay just proved the impossible is possible: they flipped their entire economy to 98% renewable energy in just two years—and slashed poverty in the process.
The secret? They turned crisis into opportunity, made the economic case for clean energy, and sold excess power to neighbors for profit.
No fossil fuel industry to fight made it easier, but the lessons are universal.

The Way Things Are Is Not the Way They Have to Be
Award-winning journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata shows that ‘Another World Is Possible’.

Since the GENIUS Act's passage in July, the total value of stablecoins circulating rose from ~$250B to $300B , as they become the "respectable" face of crypto (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-memecoins/

In Cryptoland, Memecoin Fever Gives Way to a Stablecoin Boom
In a year that began with a memecoin trading frenzy, stablecoins have emerged as the respectable face of the crypto industry.

«Stars, downloads, and dependency counts were always proxies for quality and trustworthiness. When the manipulation stayed artisanal, the signal held up well enough. Now that package management underpins most of the software industry, the numbers matter for real decisions: government supply chain requirements, investor due diligence, corporate procurement. The numbers are worth manufacturing at scale, and a prediction market would just make the arbitrage efficient»
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/27/how-to-ruin-all-of-package-management.html

Gravis Robotics, which adds cameras, sensors, and AI to heavyweight construction machines so they can operate autonomously, raised $23M led by IQ and Zacua (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/28/gravis-robotic…

Exclusive: Gravis Robotics raises $23M to tackle construction’s labor shortage with AI-powered machines
The Swiss startup is aiming to automate construction equipment as the industry faces a severe shortage of skilled operators and surging demand.

I think that this should indeed be public knowledge as we already pay for this with public money via the universities. The same is not true for the creative industry, including many individual artists that need to make a living off these creative works. But instead of addressing this issue of copyright (the fact that people don't have access to knowledge that is generated with their money) the blogposts are instead complaining that #AI should be exempted?
2/3

"the Journal argued that the recent decision by the Jim Beam distillery to halt production at its Claremont, Kentucky facility for all of 2026 can be chalked up to Trump's tariffs."
Trump is actively causing 'harm' to this deep-red state's key industry: WSJ - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-harm-red-state/

"What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything."
#DeepSeaMining
https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/w…

What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything.
Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists and Indigenous peoples.

'Reduce, reuse, recycle' is corporate gaslighting—the real change must come from the fossil fuel industry https://phys.org/news/2025-10-reuse-recycle-corporate-gaslighting-real.html

'Reduce, reuse, recycle' is corporate gaslighting—the real change must come from the fossil fuel industry
"Reduce, reuse, recycle." For more than 50 years, those three Rs have been the world's go-to environmental mantra.

Sources: Intel may start shipping a portion of Apple's lowest-end M chips as early as 2027; Apple is evaluating Intel's 18A process for the chip production (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/1994422001952555318

郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) on X
Intel expected to begin shipping Apple’s lowest-end M processor as early as 2027 There have long been market rumors that Intel could become an advanced-node foundry supplier to Apple, but visibility around this had remained low. My latest industry surveys, however, indicate that

Why does Trump want Greenland? “National security.”
Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.”
Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.”
Why does #Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.”
The pattern is ... not subtle.
☑️ For the

For the White House, ‘national security’ is becoming the answer to every question
Donald Trump and his team have a go-to tactic intended to shut down debate over their goals. It's not working.

Google has one enormous advantage over all other AI players in the industry. It can offer "AI-modus" to the billions of people already using Google Search. And yes, AI-modus can be bad, full of faults, but it improves and gets better. For many questions it is "good enough" probably. Also it is just one-click away for most people on a site they already visit regularly. This way Google will create another unhealthy market dominance i am afraid.

Seems like there are 2 kinds of reviews for "House of Dynamite" (Netflix). Either it's amazing or it's a misfire.
It had me glued to the screen which rarely happens with Netflix movies nowadays. I liked it.
But it's interesting to see that the movie industry seems to gloss over the fact that Donald Trump exists in just the same way as they glossed over the fact that there was a pandemic.

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/…

YouTube says it paid out $8B to the music industry in the 12 months to June 2025, up from $6B in 2022 and $4B in 2021 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/youtube-paid-out-8b-to-the-music-industry-in-12-months/

YouTube paid out $8B to the music industry in 12 months | TechCrunch
The milestone marks a new record for the platform, as YouTube’s annual music industry payout increased by $2 billion since 2022.

Nvidia and HPE plan to build two new Vera Rubin-based supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, for national security and scientific research (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, total of seven new supercomputers — announcement comes on heels of AMD's recent supercomputer wins
Vera Rubin forges into supercomputers.

«The tech industry is being taken over by merchants of services, and the Open Source community is starting to depend on them. We've seen this coming, with GitHub being a startup, bought by Microsoft which is now pushing AI. They are the means of production.»
And FLOSS would be doing well to divest from the industrial-owened means of production sooner rather than later.
What AI is doing to developers - (not) my ideas
https://notmyidea.org/what-ai-is-doing-to-developers.html

💸 UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/02/uk-charging-industry-could-face-100m-bill-under-business-rate-changes

UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes
Industry bodies say proposals will force site closures, slow investment and cost drivers up to £300 a year more

Fossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fossil-fuel-industry-climate-false.html

Fossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests
Many so-called low-carbon projects promoted by major oil and gas companies—including hydrogen, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsetting—operate as false solutions that not only fail to effectively reduce emissions, but also prolong the lifespan of fossil fuel infrastructures, entrench environmental injustices, and reinforce the political and economic power of the very industry responsible for the climate crisis.

US FEC filings and public statements: a handful of crypto super PACs have amassed ~$263M ahead of the 2026 midterms; Fairshake remains the biggest at $141M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/crypto…

AgriDetective
I'm an Australian mixed farmer, a communications consultant, former journalist and someone who really wants to build the understanding of the Australian ag industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/agridetective/

"South Korea sets 3.5 million heat pump target in national decarbonization push"
#SouthKorea #Energy #HeatPumps

South Korea sets 3.5 million heat pump target in national decarbonization push
The South Korean government says it will deploy incentives, legal changes and industry backing to scale heat pump adoption nationwide, aiming to cut emissions from fossil fuel–dependent heating by the mid-2030s.

How leaders of the MAHA movement benefit from anti-science advocacy and promise profits to industry | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/how-leaders-of-the-maha-movement-benefit-from-anti-science-advocacy-and-promise-profits-to-industry

Microsoft says it supports the OpenAI board moving to form a public benefit corporation and recapitalization, and now holds a ~$135B OpenAI Group PBC investment (Microsoft)
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10/28/the-next-chapter-of-the-m…

The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership - The Official Microsoft Blog
Since 2019, Microsoft and OpenAI have shared a vision to advance artificial intelligence responsibly and make its benefits broadly accessible. What began as an investment in a research organization has grown into one of the most successful partnerships in our industry. As we enter the next phase of this partnership, we’ve signed a new definitive...

Solid Yarns
Solid Yarns shares the stories behind collaborations between First Nations artists and industry partners...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/solid-yarns/

"EU carmakers to comply with 90% emissions reduction by 2035 as full combustion engine ban scrapped"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Cars

EU-made combustion cars to comply with 90% emissions reduction by 2035
The remaining 10% of emissions will need to be compensated for by using low-carbon steel 'Made in the EU' or sustainable fuels. The EU executive revoked the 2035 ban on the sale of new cars and vans powered by diesel or petrol after pressure from some EU countries and the automotive industry.

A look at NY's RAISE Act, requiring AI companies to publish safety protocols and disclose serious incidents, as its co-sponsor is targeted by a pro-AI super PAC (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/raise-act-new-yo…

Here's what's in the RAISE Act, a state-level AI bill opposed by Trump and industry leaders
The RAISE Act would require large AI companies to publish safety and risk protocols and disclose serious safety incidents. 

Facing disruption from GenAI, the $250B Indian IT industry has adapted by focusing on preparatory work AI requires, such as data cleanup and system integration (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/indian-it-firms-are-doing-fine

The AI Revolution Needs Plumbers
How Indian IT learned to stop worrying and sell the AI shovel

Press Engine: 1,200 video game journalists left the industry in the past two years; including amateur, part-time, and freelance writers, 4,000 left since 2023 (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/m

More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years
According to Press Engine data, the global pool of games journalists has shrunk by 25%

"The Billie Eilish Upcycled Merch Program Saves 280,000 T-Shirts From Landfills"
#Fashion #Textiles #Clothes

The Billie Eilish Upcycled Merch Program Saves 280,000 T-Shirts From Landfills | Happy Eco News
The Billie Eilish upcycled merch program with Universal Music Group transforms warehouse waste into 280,000 sustainable concert t-shirts. This groundbreaking initiative diverts decades of unwanted merchandise from landfills, creates European fan products, and establishes the music industry's most ambitious environmental project while inspiring other labels to adopt circular fashion practices

Sources: a new network of super PACs plans to raise ~$50M to counter the Leading the Future super PAC and back candidates who prioritize AI regulations (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/politics/ai-super-pac-anthropic.html

Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry
As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry’s influence.

Soccerscene
Australia's leading football business magazine for the domestic and international industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/soccerscene/

Dell reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $27.01B, vs. $27.13B est., Infrastructure Solutions revenue up 24% to $14.1B, and Client Solutions revenue up 3% to $12.5B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/dell-earnings-report-q3-2026.html

Dell misses on revenue, offers strong forecast driven by AI sales
Dell is an important bellwether for the health of the AI infrastructure industry as one of the top vendors for systems based around Nvidia graphics processors.

Nvidia says it is "delighted by Google's success" and it has "made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google", but "Nvidia is a generation ahead" (@nvidianewsroom)
https://x.com/nvidianewsroom/status/1993364210948936055

NVIDIA Newsroom (@nvidianewsroom) on X
We’re delighted by Google’s success — they’ve made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google. NVIDIA is a generation ahead of the industry — it’s the only platform that runs every AI model and does it everywhere computing is done. NVIDIA offers greater

Drinks At Work With Sam Bygrave
Talks to those who have built — or are building — rewarding and creative careers in the drinks industry, from bar owners to spirits marketers, brand ambassadors, distillers, writers and more...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/drinks<…

Whispers In The Wings
This podcast is a must-listen for stage managers, theatre enthusiasts, and anyone aspiring to pursue a career in the industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/whispers-in-the-wings/
<…

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.5 is "harder to trick with prompt injection than any other frontier model in the industry" but isn't "immune" to such attacks (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Anthropic’s new model is its latest frontier in the AI agent battle — but it’s still facing cybersecurity concerns
Claude Opus 4.5 is out today.

Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
https://econom…

Concern over misuse extent even as WhatsApp bans 1 cr numbers a month
The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations. Officials are discussing with WhatsApp how to curb this, as the platform's refusal to share banned numbers hinders efforts to combat cyber fraud and scams.

President Trump signs an EO establishing the "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research and shorten discovery timelines "from years to days or even hours" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/trump-ai-genesis-mission-doe-chris-wright<…

Trump orders wide-ranging "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research
It seeks to encourage government data sharing with industry, academia and other scientific institutions.

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, which streamlines crypto wallet setup, authentication, and onboarding for 50M accounts, for ~$90M (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1zemqprel

Fireblocks acquires Dynamic, a16z-backed wallet platform, for $90 million
The Israeli digital asset firm, valued at $8 billion, broadens its platform amid industry-wide stablecoin momentum. 

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (James Vincent/Harper's)
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/12/kicking-robots-james-vincent-humanoids/

Kicking Robots, by James Vincent
Humanoids and the tech-­industry hype machine

Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $800M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/galbot-raises-over-300m-467245

Chinese humanoid robot developer Galbot raises $300m at $3b valuation
The financing will accelerate the adoption of the robots across different use cases.

Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-ads-push-starts-taking-shape<…

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.
As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.

Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost "sold out" due to AI demand (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technolog…

Rampant AI demand throws the memory chip market into turmoil
Supply constraints spark warnings of price rises and launch delays for consumer electronics

Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Trump Pardon of Binance’s Changpeng Zhao Is Rewriting Crypto History
The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/features/825207/semiconduct…

The new silicon valley (literally)
The US wants to make its own chips again. Will it bring back manufacturing jobs? Or guzzle up too much water in the desert? Can the semiconductor industry avoid repeating the same mistakes it made in Silicon Valley?  

Kargo, which uses cameras and sensors to inspect pallets in a warehouse and provide accurate inventory data, raised a $42M Series B led by Avenir (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2025/12/22/warehouse-tech-kargo-42m-…

Warehouse industry tech firm Kargo raises $42M Series B
The sub-sector has become increasingly popular with investors.

China is racing ahead of the rest of the world in the adoption of robovans, despite limitations like slow speeds; Neolix has deployed 10,000 robovans so far (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

China races ahead in robovans even as autonomous delivery challenges remain
Neolix says it has deployed 10,000 of the self-driving vehicles in industry milestone

HCLSoftware, a subsidiary of Indian IT company HCLTech, agrees to acquire business intelligence company Jaspersoft from Cloud Software Group for $240M in cash (Urvi Malvania/Financial Express)
https://www.financialexpress.com/business/i…

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’.

In a letter, the SIA urges the USPTO to drop a plan to impose annual patent fees of 1% to 5% based on government-assessed value, replacing the flat-fee model (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Chipmaking industry pushes back on U.S. Patent Office considering imposing annual fee based on assessed value — “tax on innovation” draws strong opposition from Semiconductor Industry Association
The federal government wants a bigger slice of the semiconductor pie through patents.

Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October (Ted Litchfield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus…

Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.

Taiwan's minister Wu Cheng-wen says the US won't impose "punishing" tariffs on Taiwan, after a "consensus" that Taiwan would support the US chip industry (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/28648c5f-5dcf-4300-9074-b1b0ef4704fd

A look at how China gained control over global rare earth supply through state support, domestic industry consolidation, acquiring US companies, and more (Jon Emont/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/how-chin…

More than 500 writers, actors, and technologists launch the Creators Coalition on AI to push standards for how AI is trained and used across creative industries (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

Hollywood Insiders Unite to Fight for Future of Industry With Launch of Creators Coalition on AI
The organization, which published four distinct goals and a call to action while gathering hundreds of signatories, hopes to act as a central coordinating hub to upgrade industry systems and institutions.

The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/11/s…

Two Trump Appointees Confirmed to Take Over Core Crypto Regulators CFTC, FDIC
In a package of confirmations, the U.S. Senate approved Mike Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to run the FDIC, both with major potential reach into crypto.

Investigation: $28B in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/crypto-exchanges-dirty-money.html

The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’
As President Trump has championed crypto and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major crypto exchanges.

Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised a $100M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up from $830M in March (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/insurance-platform-nirvana-val…

Exclusive: AI Insurance Startup Nirvana Nearly Doubles Valuation To $1.5B with $100M Series D
Nirvana Insurance, an AI-based commercial insurance platform for the trucking industry, has raised a $100 million Series D round at a $1.5 billion valuation, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. The raise comes just over nine months after the startup raised $80 million in a Series C round of funding at an $830 million valuation.