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China is upset that Australia accused it of spying.
Beijing launches unusually personal attacks at ‘irresponsible’ ASIO boss Mike Burgess over new China speech

Beijing launches unusually personal attacks at ‘irresponsible’ ASIO boss Mike Burgess over new China speech
Beijing has accused Australia’s domestic spy boss of ‘spreading disinformation’ and ‘sowing division and confrontation’ after he again warned against Chinese hackers.

Watchdogs say fraudsters are extorting small businesses for hundreds of dollars each by posting or threatening to post phony one-star reviews on Google Maps (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/…

Small Businesses Face a New Threat: Pay Up or Be Flooded With Bad Reviews
Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star reviews on Google Maps. Then they’re asked to pay up.

Disney says it plans to "invest approximately $24B in content across Entertainment and Sports in fiscal 2026, an increase of $1B compared to the prior year" (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Disney to Increase Content Spending by $1 Billion Next Year
The company says it expects to spend $24 billion in content in fiscal 2026, an increase from $23 billion in 2025.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, which mandates safety protocols for AI chatbot companions, the first state law to regulate such AI chatbots (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/13/california-becomes-firs…

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch
SB 243 is designed to protect children and vulnerable users from harms associated with use of AI companion chatbots.

Condé Nast employees rallied in New York to protest recent firings and suspensions following Teen Vogue layoffs; NY AG Letitia James joined the rally (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ny-ag-letitia-james-dema…

NY AG Letitia James rallies for fired Condé Nast workers, telling the company 'I'll see you in court'
NY Attorney General Letitia James joined a Condé Nast union rally, protesting recent firings that followed a staff confrontation with HR.

Blowback over posts about the death of Charlie Kirk has prompted companies to be more aggressive about monitoring employees' social media activity (Taylor Telford/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/13/employer-crackdown-so…

How companies are cracking down on workers’ social media activity
Fervor over employee posts about Charlie Kirk’s death is leading companies to adjust policies and step up monitoring of workers’ online conduct.

Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center using Nvidia's Blackwell chips, a major effort in its push for sovereign AI and chip industry innovation (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/ta…

Taiwan opens sovereign AI data center with Nvidia-powered supercomputer
Plans to expand capacity of Tainan hub sixfold by 2028 in partnership with Japan's NTT

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how innovation and technological progress helps economic growth (Eshe Nelson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/business/nobel-prize-economics.html…

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt Share Nobel in Economics
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said.

Netflix is shifting its video game strategy to focus on popular titles like Pictionary, Boggle, and Tetris, playable on TVs with smartphones as controllers (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/business/media/netflix-video-game-tv.ht…

Netflix Is Bringing Video Games to Users’ TVs
The company is shifting its video game strategy to focus more on popular games you already know, such as Pictionary and Boggle.

Parisians and BHV Marais staff protest Shein's 1,000-square-meter store, set to open November 1, as France tries to curb the company's presence in the country (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/shein-retail-store-paris-back…

Parisians Protest Shein’s First Physical Store
As the Chinese online fast-fashion retailer prepares to open a physical space in a venerable department store, France pushes to stem the company’s presence in the country.