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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)

Google Fi plans an AI call quality feature to filter out background sounds like wind next month, and will bring full RCS support on the web in December (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

Apple Vision Pro M5 review: everything looks sharper, especially virtual desktop mode, and the Dual Knit band is comfortable, but the headset still costs $3,500 (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)

ChatGPT Atlas features an agent mode to let ChatGPT automate web-based tasks on behalf of users, available for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Apple MacBook Pro 14 (M5) review: feels the same as M4 with a speed upgrade and still good value for money with great battery life, but only a modest update (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Atlas web browser, available initially for macOS, and "coming soon" to Windows, iOS, and Android (Ina Fried/Axios)

Samsung rolls out a Perplexity TV app, which works alongside Samsung's Vision AI Companion, on its 2025 TVs; 2023 and 2024 TV models will get it later this year (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Galaxy Digital reports Q3 net income up 1,546% QoQ to $505M and total assets up 27% QoQ to $11.5B, including $1.9B in cash and stablecoins and $3.2B in equity (Blockworks)

Tether, the world's largest issuer of stablecoins, says it has hit 500M users; the supply of USDT nears ~$182B while Circle's USDC has ~$75B in circulation (RT Watson/The Block)

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)

HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Threat intel company Dataminr plans to acquire cybersecurity threat intel provider ThreatConnect for $290M; Dataminr raised $85M in convertible funding in March (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)

Oakley Meta Vanguard review: the smart glasses combine headphones, sunglasses, and a camera, plus Garmin integration, but the camera specs aren't too impressive (Adrienne So/Wired)

iPad Pro (M5, 2025) review: amazing performance, hardware remains unbeaten, and iPadOS is getting more Mac-like, but still too pricey for a secondary computer (David Pierce/The Verge)

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)

Carbon accounting authority Greenhouse Gas Protocol proposes its first update in a decade to tighten its rules, threatening US giants like Amazon and Meta (Kenza Bryan/Financial Times)

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)

The US government issues new guidelines on its $100K H-1B visa fee, saying it will apply only to new visa applicants outside the country, not all new applicants (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform to let crypto companies quickly raise capital, for ~$375M, marking Coinbase's eighth acquisition in 2025 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

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)

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)

Nexos.ai, which helps companies adopt AI tools by acting as a middleman between employees and AI systems, raised a €30M Series A co-led by Index and Evantic (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Analysis: agencies have hired hundreds of thousands of "chatters" to impersonate 4M+ OnlyFans creators, as many Filipino chatters struggle with mental health (Michael Beltran/Nikkei Asia)

Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models (Michael Beltran/Rest of World)

To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)