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Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to promote its Copilot chatbot; Sensor Tower says Copilot has had 99M downloads since launch, far below ChatGPT's 1.4B (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after nearly 10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (Joe Tidy/BBC)

Amazon's House of David Season 2 had 350 to 400 AI-generated shots, up from 70+ in Season 1, using 10 to 15 tools from companies like Runway, drawing criticism (Kat Tenbarge/Wired)

Amazon expands its low-cost Haul service to 25 regions globally, rebrands it as Amazon Bazaar in some markets, and holds a sales event on November 10 and 11 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

ABI: UK insurers paid out £197M+ in cyber claims in 2024, up from £60M in 2023; malware and ransomware-related claims were 51% of the total, up from 32% in 2023 (Lee Harris/Financial Times)

A group of lawyers has documented 533 cases of AI misuse in legal filings, including fabricated case law citations; judges and bar associations permit AI use (Evan Gorelick/New York Times)

TSMC reports October sales rose 16.9% YoY, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 38%+ YTD (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Rumble says it will acquire German AI infrastructure company Northern Data in an up to $970M deal, set to close in Q2 2026; both companies are backed by Tether (Billy Gray/Wall Street Journal)

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says he aims to give "normal people" exposure to private AI companies via Robinhood Ventures' fund with 5+ "best in class" companies (Financial Times)

A YouGov survey estimates 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, about 200K people more than in 2023 (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)

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)

A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily (Rya Jetha/The San Francisco Standard)

Apple removes two of the most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in China, citing orders from the country's Cyberspace Administration (Wired)

Draft documents: the European Commission plans to relax some privacy laws, including the GDPR, to boost AI growth and cut red tape for businesses in Europe (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)

Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, is likely driving layoffs in the tech sector (Gary N. Smith/Fast Company)

EchoTik estimates TikTok Shop sold $19B worth of products globally in Q3, nearing eBay's $20.1B, with US sales accounting for between $4B and $4.5B, up 125% QoQ (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

A bitcoin and ether selloff is tanking shares of crypto treasury companies like Strategy and BitMine; Strategy's valuation is down from ~$128B in July to ~$70B (Wall Street Journal)

A look at Rigetti Computing and D-Wave Quantum, whose shares have surged over 1,900% in the past year as the potential of quantum computing captivates investors (Felice Maranz/Bloomberg)

Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers find and build proposals for government contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Catalyst Investors (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search indexes for law firms that plug into AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41M Series A at a $300M valuation (Alicia Park/Forbes)

The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese-made Yutong electric buses can be remotely deactivated; Norway found that Yutong can render buses inoperable (Financial Times)

Cold-storage crypto wallet demand is soaring, as hardware wallet maker Ledger reports its best year ever, with "triple-digit millions" in 2025 revenue so far (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

A look at Apple's plans to enhance satellite connectivity in its products, Siri's Gemini upgrade, new 2026 Macs, a Health+ service, and the future of Fitness+ (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)

Israel-based RAAAM, whose "GCRAM" on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17.5M Series A led by NXP (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 (Sebastian Pellejero/Reuters)

Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial AI and robotics company; Mind Robotics raised a $115M seed led by Eclipse (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

Swedish investment firm EQT agrees to invest $930M in Douzone Bizon, a South Korea-based provider of ERP and business software to SMBs, for a 37.6% stake (Atharva Singh/Reuters)

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)

As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm (Janne Knodler/Bloomberg)

Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally (Peter Landers/Wall Street Journal)

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)

A look at Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors, two little-known boutique banks that have helped finance the Trump family's flurry of crypto deals this year (George Steer/Financial Times)

OpenAI, Alphabet, and Perplexity offering free access to their paid tiers in India suggests the country may be the biggest and safest bet for broad AI adoption (Mihir Sharma/Bloomberg)

Apple Music's growth may be stymied by the lack of a free tier as a funnel; Midia: on a weekly level, 43% of consumers used Spotify and 16% turned to Apple (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more (Brie Wolfson/Colossus)

In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior researcher told a state-run conference he was pessimistic about AI's impact on humanity (Reuters)

CoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from October's $4.4T peak, on track to erase its 2025 gains; crypto ETFs had $700M of net outflow over the past week (Bloomberg)

Vast Data, which develops data storage tools, inks a $1.17B AI deal with CoreWeave; Vast Data, valued at $9.1B in 2023, said it reached $200M ARR by Jan. 2025 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Nasdaq had its worst 5-day run since April, falling 3% for the week as the combined market value of eight most valuable AI-related stocks fell by about $800B (Financial Times)

A US judge declares a mistrial after a jury couldn't reach a verdict on two brothers charged in 2024 for allegedly stealing $25M in crypto from Ethereum traders (Bloomberg)

Google introduces Nested Learning, a new ML approach for continual learning that views models as nested optimization problems to enhance long context processing (Google Research)

Sources: Samsung is in talks with Barclays to launch a consumer credit card in the US; it's also exploring a high-yield savings account, BNPL product, and more (AnnaMaria Andriotis/Wall Street Journal)

France's Finance Ministry halts the suspension proceedings of Shein that was initiated on November 5 after Shein withdrew illicit products from its platform (Inti Landauro/Reuters)

In a letter on October 27, OpenAI asked the Trump administration to expand a 35% Chips Act tax credit to help lower the cost of AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)

Both Baumol effect and Jevons paradox may apply to the AI supercycle, as services with AI productivity gains get cheaper, while those without AI become costlier (Alex Danco/a16z)

Unit 42: "commercial grade" spyware called Landfall, likely zero-click, was used in a hacking campaign aimed at Samsung Galaxy phones in the Middle East (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)

Sources: Roelof Botha was ousted by senior Sequoia partners amid concerns about his "imperial style" leadership, AI investment strategy, and internal clashes (George Hammond/Financial Times)