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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 (www.wired.com)
2025-11-21 Google Microsoft Apple

Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000+ employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-21 Layoffs

Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-11-20

Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick promotes AI, including pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are cashing in on the AI projects (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-20 AI

A study of mental health conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI: they often failed to recognize signs of conditions and offered general advice (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-20 AI

Uber plans to launch sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a partnership with Starship, starting in UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-20 Europe Uber Robot

Microsoft and Qualcomm launch Windows updates to improve Arm gaming, including a refreshed Xbox app; Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Control Panel optimizes games (www.theverge.com)
2025-11-20 Microsoft Xbox

A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-20 Spain

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-20 YouTube

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 (t.co)
2025-11-20 Startup

Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI (t.co)
2025-11-20 Trump AI Republican

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 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-20 AI Oracle Nvidia AMD

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 (www.ben-evans.com)
2025-11-20 AI Nvidia

Letterboxd plans to launch the Letterboxd Video Store, a curated rental platform with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in December 2025 (letterboxd.com)
2025-11-20

Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-20 China Hong Kong Taiwan Alibaba Salesforce Slack

Sources: Chinese investment firm Capital Today bought ByteDance shares at a $480B valuation after a bidding war; ByteDance had a $330B valuation in September (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-20 China

Q&A with former Xbox boss Peter Moore on the Xbox 360 launch, his new book Game Changer, competition with Sony, the origins of the modern console war, and more (www.eurogamer.net)
2025-11-20 Sony Xbox Qihoo

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-20 Europe AI Poland

How scientists are exploring the use of quantum sensors, developed by startups like Q-CTRL, as a secure GPS alternative with military and civilian applications (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-20 Startup Quantum GPS

Proctorio Settles Curious Lawsuit With Librarian Who Shared Public YouTube Videos (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-11-20 YouTube

China's transport, logistics, and ride-hailing sectors are accelerating the mass adoption of autonomous vehicles, threatening the jobs of millions of drivers (on.ft.com)
2025-11-20 China Autonomous Car Logistics

How the AI Act became a case study for critics who say the EU puts regulation ahead of innovation, as the European Commission postpones a key part of the law (www.ft.com)
2025-11-20 Europe AI

Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini to become a sort of robot OS (www.wired.com)
2025-11-20 Google Robot Boston Dynamics

Quantum Teleportation Between Photons From Two Distant Light Sources Achieved (science.slashdot.org)
2025-11-20 Quantum

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 (arstechnica.com)
2025-11-20 Microsoft

Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-20 Nvidia

Shipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 vs. 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-11-20 Taiwan AI

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 (siliconangle.com)
2025-11-20 AI

Google opens an AI infrastructure hardware engineering hub in Taipei, its biggest outside of the US, to develop and test tech to be deployed in its data centers (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-20 Google AI

A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, a co-founder of crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M+ in illegal transactions (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-20

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