Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, saying it is “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use” and “meaningfully better at everyday tasks”
Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today. It's intelligent, efficient …
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
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated artificial …
Sources: Google begins pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on using its TPUs in their data centers; Meta could spend billions
Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business.
X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not “censorship” of viewpoints
from the it's-almost-as-if-there-are-some-bad- actors-online dept — For the last few years, Matt Taibbi …
Klarna launches KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin, running on Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo blockchain, aiming to “reduce costs” in international payments
Swedish fintech firm Klarna (KLAR.N) on Tuesday said it will launch a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, becoming …
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
Opus 4.5 was responsible for most of the work across 20 commits, 39 files changed, 2,022 additions and 1,173 deletions in a two day period. … Forums: r/BetterOffline : Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluat...
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
I have a simple method for my own AI rankings: product delight. That is, when I use the various services from the players in AI …
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”
A series of prominent stock sales and allegations of accounting irregularities have put Nvidia NVDA +2.05% in the middle …
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
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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
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. sued a former executive who left to work for Intel Corp., saying there is a high likelihood …
Nvidia says it is “delighted by Google's success” and it has “made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google”, but “Nvidia is a generation ahead”
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X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle
www.404media.co/americas-pol... @casuallylucid : “The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a f*ck about this.” — Our attention is the product — There...
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
Google wants to replace ChromeOS with Aluminium OS, its new, Android-based operating system for PCs. — •
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
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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”
To blunt Trump's push to reclaim global manufacturing, China's factories and ports are learning to make and export more goods faster …
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
Poland's anti-monopoly office UOKiK is investigating whether Apple (AAPL.O) is restricting competition in the mobile advertising market through …
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
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. posted better-than-projected 34% growth in its cloud business, offsetting a plunge in profit …
Polymarket says it received an amended US CFTC designation, letting it operate a prediction market in the US with a fully regulated exchange structure
Polymarket's amended CFTC designation paves the way for the prediction-market platform to formally reopen in the U.S. with a fully regulated exchange structure.
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
I. — On Friday, the Hard Fork team published our interview with Roblox CEO David Baszucki.
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 : X: @danshipper , @shakeelhashim , and @claudeai Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com and @chicagomike X: Dan Shipper / @danshipper : the thing that makes Opus 4.5 special is yo...
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
New York is 3,000 miles away from the tech hub of Silicon Valley, but in recent weeks, the state has inserted itself into the center …
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
Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’
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
Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it as the saying goes. Forums: r/technology : AI super PAC launches $10 million campaign pushing ‘uniform’ national policy
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
it found all of the best Black Friday deals in minutes John-Anthony Disotto / TechRadar : ChatGPT's new shopping tool is the AI personal shopper I've always wanted - but for now, humans are still bett...
TikTok names veteran government affairs executive Ziad Ojakli as its head of public policy for the Americas, replacing longtime policy lead Michael Beckerman
TikTok on Tuesday named veteran government affairs executive Ziad Ojakli as its new head of public policy for the Americas, replacing longtime policy lead Michael Beckerman.
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 :
Amazon begins previewing its Amazon Leo satellite internet system for a select group of customers, ahead of a wider public rollout planned for 2026
Leo Ultra is an enterprise-grade terminal with 400 Mbps upload speeds iClarified : Amazon Rebrands Project Kuiper to ‘Amazon Leo’, Debuts Gigabit Satellite Antenna [Video] Stevie Bonifield / The Verge...
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 :
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
Key BTC (BTC) Trading Signal Today Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal : The Largest Bitcoin ETF Is Posting Record Outflows Liz Napolitano / CNBC : BlackRock's iShares bitcoin fund sees record exodus a...
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 :
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
brace yourselves Sai Krishna / Android Headlines : Spotify Could Soon Get Expensive For US Subscribers Paul Resnikoff / Digital Music News : Rumblings of a Spotify US Price Increase Intensify — But Ma...
TikTok Shop expands into luxury retail, offering items such as Hermes' $11,000 handbags, primarily sold by secondhand resellers using AI to verify authenticity
TikTok is moving into luxury retail, part of an effort to expand its TikTok Shop marketplace into a high-end shopping destination …
Kraken launches a Mastercard-powered debit card with 1% cashback and multi-asset spending in the UK and EU as part of a global rollout of its Krak money app
James Hunt / The Block :
Cerrion, which develops AI video agents that detect and resolve production line issues in real time, raised an $18M Series A led by Creandum
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu :
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
Amazon suggested its engineers eschew AI code generation tools from third-party companies in favor of its own …
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 :
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
research and development on node to begin next year
Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 4.4% YoY to $1.23B, above $1.21B est., enterprise revenue up 6.1% YoY to $741.4M, and a Q4 revenue forecast above estimates
Brody Ford / 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
“... a marvel of financial engineering: Meta Platforms is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet...
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 :
Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on November 24 as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports
Emilio Parodi / Reuters :
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 :
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