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The UK proposes an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would let "authorized testers" proactively assess AI models for their ability to generate CSAM (BBC)

Menulog, acquired by Just Eat in 2015, plans to shut down in Australia on November 26, leaving Uber Eats and DoorDash as the country's main food delivery apps (Tegan Jones/SmartCompany)

South Korea's KT launches a sovereign cloud for Korean enterprises built on Azure, with encrypted in-memory computing and strict local data governance (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald)

Sources: the Chinese government is intervening in how SMIC allocates its chip output, prioritizing Huawei amid US export restrictions on advanced chips (Wall Street Journal)

Australia's spy chief Mike Burgess says Chinese state hackers probed telecom networks and critical infrastructure; Australia lost $8B+ in 2024 to espionage (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)

The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks, including regulating companies providing services to private and public sector organizations (Catarina Demony/Reuters)

Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 (Financial Times)

Google unveils new features for Pixel phones, including AI-powered notification summaries, notification prioritization, and AI photo edits in Messages (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

SoFi launches SoFi Crypto, saying it is the first nationally chartered bank in the US to offer crypto trading to consumers, rolling out in phases (James Hunt/The Block)

China says the December 2020 theft of 127,272 bitcoin, now worth ~$13B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian is likely a "state-level hacker operation" led by the US (Bloomberg)

CoreWeave closed down 16% after CEO Mike Intrator admitted delays at a data center developer that Jim Cramer implied may be Core Scientific; CORZ fell 10%+ (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Threads adds new features for podcasters, as it tries to become the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Coinbase confirms that it has called off acquisition talks with stablecoin infra startup BVNK; reports previously put the acquisition price around $2B (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a "secure, fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)

AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average more than 35% and AI data center revenue growth will average 80% over the next three to five years (Ian King/Bloomberg)

ElevenLabs launches Iconic Voice Marketplace for licensing AI versions of famous voices, including Michael Caine's; Matthew McConaughey invests in the company (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Sony says PlayStation 5 has sold a total of 84.2M units since launch, including 3.9M units sold in Q2, up from 3.8M a year ago (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)

Amazon says ads on Prime Video reach 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

A UK judge sentences a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a $5.6B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K BTC (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)

Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Brave CBO Brian Brown says the company passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1 and its browser had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Lighter raises $68 million at a $1.5 billion valuation as VC bets flood back into perp DEX infrastructure: report (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Amsterdam-based Wonderful, which helps companies manage client-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email in any language, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (Steven Scheer/Reuters)

A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100+ actresses and 25TB+ of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds invested ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl ramps up its AI bet (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Sea reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $6B, above $5.65B est., a $375M net income, below $433M est., and Shopee revenue up 35% YoY to $4.3B and GMV up 28% YoY (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)

Nebius signs a ~$3B, five-year deal to provide Meta with AI infrastructure and reports a $100.4M net loss in Q3, up from $39.7M in Q3 2024; NBIS is up 250%+ YTD (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

Oura CEO Tom Hale says the Finnish smart ring startup expects "maybe close" to $2B in sales in 2026, is on track for $1B in 2025, and has "no news on an IPO" (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)

Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

Microsoft says it will spend $10B to build a data center park in Sines, Portugal, in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)

An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds (Financial Times)

How US-based ACE, led by the MPA, took down illegal sports streamer Streameast, which had 136M global users per month, £4.9M in ad revenue, and ~£150K in crypto (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)

Sources: Apple may add a second camera to the next iPhone Air, possibly set for spring 2027 alongside the iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e, to address user complaints (The Information)

How China ramped up its AI development from spring 2024 to catch the US, including via relaxed regulations, huge government funding, and a domestic chip focus (Wall Street Journal)

Asahi says shipment levels are at just 10% of normal after a cyberattack in early October, and it is processing orders manually, ahead of a busy December period (Bloomberg)

A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal (Reuters)

Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150+ iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, in Apple's first fashion deal since Hermès' in 2015 (Vogue)

SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est. (David Keohane/Financial Times)

Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Google, Temasek, and Bain: private funding for SE Asia's digital economy grew 15% YoY to $7.7B in the year to June, below 25% global growth and 2021's $27B peak (Jun Yuan Yong/Reuters)

Bengaluru-based digital lending startup Finnable raised about $28.19M in August 2025 co-led by Z47 and TVS Capital, bringing its total raised to about $60.9M (Alenjith K Johny/The Economic Times)

Sony reports Q2 revenue up 4.6% YoY to ~$20.3B, net profit up 6.7% to ~$2.02B, 3.9M of PS5 units sold, and raises FY operating profit forecast by 7.5% to ~$9.3B (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)

Financial documents: Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, above $46.2M est., and net loss of $159.5M, up from $90.2M in Q3 2024; GEMI drops 5%+ (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of AI models providing automatic speech recognition capabilities for more than 1,600 languages (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts (CRN)