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TikTok Shop expands into luxury retail, offering items such as Hermes' $11,000 handbags, primarily sold by secondhand resellers using AI to verify authenticity (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to start building a second plant in Hokkaido in fiscal 2027, aiming to make advanced 1.4nm chips as early as 2029 (Nikkei Asia)

Klarna launches KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin, running on Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo blockchain, aiming to "reduce costs" in international payments (Pritam Biswas/Reuters)

China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as the world's manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI "dark factories" (Brian Spegele/Wall Street Journal)

A look at how tech executives use "delay, deny, and deflect" when pressed on user safety and what it means for journalism, as shame loses power over public life (Casey Newton/Platformer)

X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI"; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)

X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$35B, vs. ~$34.5B est., Chinese e-commerce revenue up 16% YoY, and net income down to ~$3B, as it boosts cloud spending (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

TSMC sues former VP Lo Wen-jen, who left to join Intel, alleging a high likelihood that he leaked secrets to Intel after a two-decade career at TSMC (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Polish antitrust office UOKiK is probing whether Apple's ATT limits third-party data collection in mobile ads while giving Apple's own ads service an advantage (Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk/Reuters)

A look at NY's RAISE Act, requiring AI companies to publish safety protocols and disclose serious incidents, as its co-sponsor is targeted by a pro-AI super PAC (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

A job listing shows Google is developing a new Android-based "Aluminium OS" that is "built with AI at the core", potentially as a ChromeOS replacement for PCs (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

India's November 21 labor law grants legal status to millions of gig workers, but their benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro over third-party tools like Cursor, aiming to gather feedback for improvement (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's "dynamic view" option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February (Bloomberg)

How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

Trump signs an EO establishing the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents (David Shepardson/Reuters)

Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future launches a $10M media campaign to push Congress to craft a national AI policy that will override a patchwork of state laws (CNBC)

The US DOJ settles its case against RealPage, which it accused of building algorithms that allowed landlords to illegally collude to drive up rental prices (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)

Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying "Unlike Enron, Nvidia does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue" (Tae Kim/Barron's Online)

Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Sources: Google begins pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on using its TPUs in their data centers; Meta could spend billions (The Information)

Trump orders wide-ranging "Genesis Mission" to boost AI research (Axios)

Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports (Emilio Parodi/Reuters)

A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word "cameo" for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo (Jaures Yip/CNBC)

Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 4.4% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.21B est., enterprise revenue up 6.1% YoY to $741.4M, and a Q4 revenue forecast above estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Sources: Paris-based Pennylane, which makes accounting software, is discussing a $200M investment led by TCV at a $4.25B valuation, up from €2B in April (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Anthropic says Opus 4.5 outscored all humans on a take-home exam it gives to prospective performance engineering candidates, within a prescribed two-hour limit (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Anthropic prices Claude Opus 4.5 at $5/1M input and $25/1M output tokens, much cheaper than Opus 4.1 at $15/$75 but still pricier than GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.5 is "harder to trick with prompt injection than any other frontier model in the industry" but isn't "immune" to such attacks (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Anthropic unveils two Claude Code upgrades: a new plan mode that creates more precise plans, and support for Claude Code in the Claude desktop app (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

Sources: Apple cut dozens of sales roles to streamline sales to businesses, schools, and governments; Apple says the changes affect "a small number of roles" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Anthropic says the Claude app can now keep a chat going indefinitely, automatically summarizing earlier context when it hits its context window limit (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

How the US' annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, which the company says is "the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use" (Anthropic)

Grindr ends talks on a $3.46B take-private deal by shareholders Ray Zage and James Lu, who own 60%+ of Grindr, citing uncertainty over the deal's financing (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM designed for computer use, available as an experimental release on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)

The US DOD and the intelligence community awarded Enabled Intelligence a seven-year, up to $708M data labeling contract in September, beating out Scale AI (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)

Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic)

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity (Eric Revell/Fox Business)

Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they have settled on a design for OpenAI's device, speaking to Laurene Powell Jobs; Ive says it could debut in "less than" two years (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Amazon begins previewing its Amazon Leo satellite internet system for a select group of customers, ahead of a wider public rollout planned for 2026 (Loren Grush/Bloomberg)

Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

NYC-based Opti, an enterprise identity security service that uses AI to analyze user, system, and access relationships, raised a $20M seed led by YL Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Revolut reaches a $75B valuation in its latest share sale led by Coatue, Greenoaks, and others, up from $45B in 2024, making it Europe's most valuable startup (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg)