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Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Boston-based Teradar, which aims to launch a solid-state sensor for autonomous cars in 2028 that it says can outperform lidar and radar, raised a $150M Series B (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

An analysis of 47K publicly shared ChatGPT chats: ~10% were related to emotional support, ChatGPT's responses started with "yes" 10x more than "no", and more (Washington Post)

Maryland-based autonomous military vehicle software startup Forterra raised $238M, including $50M in debt, led by Moore Strategic Ventures at a $1B+ valuation (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride says it will go public in H1 2026 via a SPAC, valuing the company at $1.8B, and reports ~$43.3M in 2024 revenue (Paul Berger/Wall Street Journal)

Michael Burry's warning that hyperscalers are underestimating AI chip depreciation shows that tech investors may have forgotten how much depreciation can hurt (Chris Bryant/Bloomberg)

IBM unveils two quantum computers, Loon and Nighthawk, that it says feature unprecedented qubit connectivity designs aiming to enable error-free computations (Karmela Padavic-Callaghan/New Scientist)

Amazon says it is rolling out a tougher approach to combat illegal sports streaming on Fire TV Stick devices, aiming to block apps that stream pirated content (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)

D-Matrix, which develops AI inference chips, raised $275M co-led by Bullhound, Triatomic, and Temasek at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $450M (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Google files a lawsuit in the SDNY against China-based hackers who it says run the Lighthouse platform for "phishing services", ensnaring 1M and stealing $1B+ (Financial Times)

JD.com says it had record sales during China's Singles' Day event, without giving transaction values, despite Chinese deflation; Alibaba hasn't released data (Jacob Gu/Bloomberg)

German chipmaker Infineon reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to €3.94B, vs. €3.91B est., a €231M net profit, and expects 2026 sales growth as AI demand keeps booming (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: software-focused PE firm Vista plans significant workforce cuts in the coming years as it uses AI to compile presentations, aggregate data, and more (Financial Times)

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi criticizes UK crypto promotion rules requiring clear risk warnings, saying they hinder retail investors by slowing fund movement (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Foxconn reports Q3 revenue of $66.3B, in line with est., net profit up 17% YoY to $1.86B, above $1.63B est., and expects Q4 results to "remain favorable" (CNBC)

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)