11:55 PM • | Brian Fung / CNN: As part of its proposed remedies, the US DOJ says Google should be required to syndicate its US search results to other rival search engines for the next decade |
11:22 PM • | Michael Liedtke / Associated Press: Filing: DOJ asks judge to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from favoring Google's search engine, ban default search deals on iOS and other devices |
10:40 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases a free online course for K-12 teachers to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms, but some educators remain skeptical about the technology |
10:00 PM • | Rod McGuirk / Associated Press: Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for violations |
9:20 PM • | Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Neuralink receives approval from Canada to launch clinical trials of its brain implants and plans to run its first non-US trial with Toronto Western Hospital |
7:50 PM • | Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: Google researchers introduce AlphaQubit, a machine-learning decoder that surpasses existing methods in identifying and correcting quantum computing errors |
7:00 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Adtech company The Trade Desk announces Ventura, a smart TV operating system, and plans to partner with TV manufacturers for its rollout, expected in H2 2025 |
6:10 PM • | Claudia Assis / MarketWatch: Palo Alto Networks reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $2.14B, vs. $2.12B est., and projects FY 2025 sales in line with estimates; PANW drops ~5% after hours |
4:55 PM • | Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $942.09M, vs. $898.46M est., unveils a deal with Anthropic to bring Claude to Cortex AI; SNOW jumps 18%+ after hours |
4:31 PM • | Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance: Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to $35.1B, vs. $33.2B est., Data Center revenue up 112% to $30.8B, vs. $29B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates |
3:30 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: xAI has told investors it raised $5B in a funding round valuing it at $50B and that its revenue has reached $100M on an annualized basis |
3:20 PM • | Hayden Field / CNBC: Menlo Ventures: business spending on generative AI hit $13.8B in 2024, up from $2.3B in 2023; OpenAI's marketshare in enterprise AI declined from 50% to 34% |
3:00 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Chinese AI company DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, a “reasoning” AI model that it claims is competitive with OpenAI's o1, and plans to open source it |
2:15 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Threads begins rolling out the ability to create custom feeds globally, giving users options beyond “For You” and “Following” feeds |
1:50 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Trump's team is talking with the crypto industry over whether to create a White House post dedicated to cryptocurrency policy and is vetting candidates |
1:40 PM • | Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: US prosecutors charge five alleged members of the Scattered Spider hacking group for their role in the hacks of 29+ individuals and theft of $11M+ in crypto |
1:30 PM • | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: DCG founder Barry Silbert announces a subsidiary called Yuma to help build decentralized AI services called “subnets” on the Bittensor blockchain network |
1:15 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: French AI startup H, which raised a $220M seed in May 2024, announces its first product, Runner H, an “agentic” AI model, available in private beta |
12:45 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Meta unveils new Messenger features, including audio and video voicemail, AI backgrounds for video calls, and hands-free calling and messaging via Siri |
12:20 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming to existing Xbox game libraries, letting Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers stream 50 supported games they already own |
11:45 AM • | Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentives for GlobalFoundries, meaning it can start receiving federal funding for facilities in Vermont and New York |
11:05 AM • | Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon unveils the $400 Echo Show 21, an upgrade to the Echo Show 15 from 2022, with a 21" 1080p display and auto-framing camera, and updates the Echo Show 15 |
10:43 AM • | Sarah Wynn / The Block: A US judge sentences FTX co-founder Gary Wang to “time served”, meaning no jail time; Wang pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud charges after FTX collapsed |
10:30 AM • | Rest of World: GSMA: 4.6B people are now connected to mobile internet, or 57% of the world; mobile subscriber growth fell to 160M in 2023, from 200M per year from 2015 to 2021 |
9:45 AM • | Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: Vista sells a minority stake in IT infrastructure monitoring startup LogicMonitor to investors in a deal valuing it at ~$2.4B; LogicMonitor also raised $800M |
8:20 AM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: Belgium-based Odoo, which develops open-source enterprise resource planning software, hit a €5B valuation in a secondary share round led by CapitalG and Sequoia |
8:10 AM • | Victoria Song / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Watch FE review: looks like the Watch 7 and has similar health features, but has the guts of 2021's Watch 4, poor battery life, and one size only |
7:10 AM • | Meytal Vaizberg / Globes Online: Israeli enterprise data security startup Cyera raised a $300M Series D led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures at a $3B+ valuation, up from $1.4B in April 2024 |
6:40 AM • | David Streitfeld / New York Times: How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits |
6:15 AM • | Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google reportedly see diminishing generative AI training returns, a market hype break may be useful, just as with previous innovations |
5:55 AM • | Mia Sato / The Verge: Google tightens its rules against “parasite SEO” content, or articles that have little to do with the website's focus, after cracking down on “reputation abuse” |
5:35 AM • | Bloomberg: SMIC's Shanghai-listed shares are up 120% from a September 2024 low, outperforming Nvidia and TSMC, on an expected boost from China's chip self-reliance push |
5:00 AM • | Richard Milne / Financial Times: Klarna's US IPO listing is another deep blow to Europe, where the lack of a complete single market is pushing EU startups to choose US exchanges for their IPOs |
4:30 AM • | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: ProRata, which plans to debut an AI search engine in December, inks licensing deals with DMG and others; sources: DMG bought a stake valuing ProRata at ~$130M |
4:15 AM • | Wired: An investigation reveals how phone coordinates collected by US data broker Datastream expose the movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany |
4:00 AM • | Financial Times: How AI breakthroughs like diffusion models, visual language models, and liquid neural networks are transforming the way robots learn to move and pick up skills |
2:35 AM • | Sharon Goldman / Fortune: How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google |
2:20 AM • | Yoshua Bengio / Financial Times: AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says models like OpenAI's o1 could accelerate research on AI itself and calls for more urgent AI model regulation to protect the public |
2:10 AM • | Nikkei Asia: TechInsights: China's chip self-sufficiency rate rose from ~14% in 2014 to 23% in 2023 and is expected to hit 27% in 2027, as China rushes to boost chip supply |
2:00 AM • | Bloomberg: Lisbon-based Tekever, which builds surveillance drones that act as the communication and navigation hub for swarms of smaller drones, raised a €70M Series B |
1:50 AM • | Anna Gross / Financial Times: Mark Parsons, who led the axed £800M UK supercomputer project, warns that the UK, which no longer has a machine ranked in the top 50, risks falling behind |
1:40 AM • | Bloomberg: The US-led crypto rally is leaving its mark in Asia: Bhutan's bitcoin holdings reached $1.1B, 36% of its GDP, South Korea's increased trading activity, and more |
1:05 AM • | Jonathan Greig / The Record: A US Government Accountability Office report says four of six cybersecurity recommendations the agency made to the TSA since 2018 have still not been addressed |
12:10 AM • | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Trump Media now has a $6B+ market cap despite struggling to build a profitable revenue stream; Similarweb says site visits fell 20% MoM to 10M in October 2024 |
11:50 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: SuperAnnotate, which provides tools for fine-tuning, iterating, and evaluating AI training datasets, raised a $36M Series B led by Socium Ventures |
11:25 PM • | Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker: Strava updates its API terms to prohibit third parties from using any data in AI models or similar apps, including to show a user's Strava data to other users |
11:00 PM • | Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, can access “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1 |
10:20 PM • | Daniel Carvalho / Bloomberg: Shanghai-based satellite company SpaceSail plans to offer internet in Brazil in 2026, after launching its first 18 satellites in August and 18 more in September |
9:25 PM • | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Roboflow, which provides open-source tools for developers to build computer vision models, raised a $40M Series B led by GV |
8:00 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Spectro Cloud, which offers a Kubernetes management service for enterprises, raised a $75M Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives |
7:45 PM • | Mishaal Rahman / Android Police: Google ships the first Android 16 developer preview, far ahead of schedule compared to the past decade, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving OEMs more time |
6:50 PM • | Cory Weinberg / The Information: Source: Databricks tells investors it aims to raise $7B to $9B at a ~$61B valuation, to cash out employees that hold RSUs and cover the staff taxes it would owe |
6:40 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Sony launches PlayStation Portal cloud streaming in beta, letting PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers in 30 countries stream select PS5 games in 720p or 1080p |
6:20 PM • | Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Coinbase plans to delist wBTC next month, as Justin Sun gains influence over the wBTC protocol; Coinbase launched its wrapped bitcoin, cbBTC, in September 2024 |
6:00 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Amazon says Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers in the US, the UK, and Canada can now listen to one audiobook per month from Audible for free, to counter Spotify |
5:30 PM • | Bloomberg: Qualcomm expects its automotive and IoT businesses to drive combined revenues of $22B by FY 2029, including $8B from automotive chips and $4B from PC chips |
5:15 PM • | Reuters: A bipartisan US congressional commission on US-China relations proposes a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AGI systems |
4:30 PM • | Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as Commerce Secretary |
4:25 PM • | CJ Haddad / CNBC: After a report that Trump's “Department of Government Efficiency” is considering a free tax-filing app, Intuit shares closed down 5.1% and H&R Block down 8.2% |
4:05 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google ships first developer preview of Android 16 to speed up feature rollouts |
3:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Source: Microsoft signs a deal with News Corp's HarperCollins to use nonfiction titles to train an unannounced AI model; HarperCollins says authors can opt out |
2:15 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google rolls out a “memory” feature for Gemini Advanced subscribers for the web app that remembers a user's interests and preferences |
1:55 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta forms a new product group to build AI tools for the 200M businesses that use its apps, led by Clara Shih, who most recently was Salesforce AI's CEO |
1:15 PM • | Sam Sabin / Axios: CrowdStrike finds another China-linked group breaching telecommunications networks, in SEA and Africa, since at least 2020, to spy on texts and call metadata |
1:00 PM • | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Robinhood agrees to acquire TradePMR, a custodial and portfolio management platform for registered investment advisors, in a ~$300M deal set to close in H1 2025 |
12:10 PM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Kong, which helps customers manage APIs, raised a $175M Series E co-led by Tiger Global and Balderton at a $2B valuation, taking its total raised to $345M |
12:06 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky says it now has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on November 13, and the app has been #1 in the US App Store since November 13, per Appfigures |
11:50 AM • | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Niantic says it is using data generated by Pokémon Go players to create a large geospatial model, or LGM, that can navigate the physical world and power robots |
11:20 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Sources: Apple has started selling its own ad inventory for Apple News; publishers will get a 70% cut of the ad revenue generated by Apple within their articles |
10:30 AM • | Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: Microsoft says it has the largest enterprise AI agent ecosystem, with 100K+ orgs making or editing AI agents in Copilot Studio and “2x growth in just a quarter” |
10:07 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Smart ring maker Oura raised a $75M Series D from medical device company Dexcom at a $5B+ valuation, up from $2.55B in April 2022 |
9:50 AM • | Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Rox, which is developing AI-powered agents for salespeople, raised $50M across seed led by Sequoia and Series A led by General Catalyst |
9:40 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Networking chip startup Enfabrica raised a $115M Series C led by Spark Capital and unveils a 3.2TB-per-second accelerated compute fabric of ACF SuperNIC chip |
9:05 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft unveils the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module, its new in-house security chip |
9:00 AM • | Danielle Abril / Washington Post: Microsoft debuts an AI interpreter in Teams in limited preview that can simulate speaker voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages |
8:58 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft and Atom Computing plan to ship quantum computers with 1,000+ physical qubits to enterprises in 2025 and detail a 24 entangled logical qubits record |
8:54 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces Zero Day Quest, a Black Hat-like hacking event at its Redmond HQ in 2025 that it says will be the largest of its kind, and opens submissions |
8:52 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft plans to bring the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to Meta's Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview, promising only “seconds” to connect |
8:50 AM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Microsoft unveils Azure AI Foundry to help customers build AI apps, including an SDK, tools for deploying AI agents, and a portal that replaces Azure AI Studio |
8:44 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft debuts the Windows Resiliency Initiative to help avoid another CrowdStrike-like incident, and a Quick Machine Recovery feature for fixing PCs remotely |
8:43 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils the $349 Windows 365 Link, a mini PC for its Windows 365 cloud service running a “super hardened version of Windows”, shipping in April 2025 |
7:35 AM • | Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: The UK CMA clears Google's partnership with Anthropic, finding that Google has not gained “material influence” over the AI startup, following a formal probe |
7:10 AM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: Instagram says it is testing letting users reset the algorithmic suggestions that power Feed, Reels, and Explore, and the update “will soon roll out globally” |
6:35 AM • | Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: Sources: US officials are racing to deliver billions in CHIPS Act funding to Intel and others before Biden leaves office; nearly $30B is tied up in negotiations |
6:15 AM • | Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: Super Micro hires BDO USA as its new independent auditor and files a plan to come into compliance with the Nasdaq's listing requirements; SMCI jumps 20%+ |
6:00 AM • | Peter Eavis / New York Times: US federal data shows nearly 1.8M human warehouse workers, up 30% since early 2020, despite automation efforts, as robots struggle at crucial, simple tasks |
5:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Huawei is designing its next two Ascend chips around a 7nm architecture, meaning its marquee chips will be stuck with aging tech until at least 2026 |
5:25 AM • | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Sources: Alibaba, ByteDance, and Meituan have been expanding their AI teams in Silicon Valley in recent months, despite US efforts to stymie Chinese companies |
5:10 AM • | Ian King / Bloomberg: Google and Nvidia say Google's Quantum AI unit will use Nvidia's Eos supercomputer to speed up the design of quantum components by simulating quantum physics |
4:55 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Sony is in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the Japanese media powerhouse behind the Elden Ring game, in the coming weeks; Kadokawa had a ~$2.7B market cap |
4:20 AM • | Bruna Horvath / NBC News: Social media users criticize Coca-Cola over an AI-generated Christmas video; many creatives say it is distasteful to use AI tech instead of the work of artists |
4:05 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2024, down from $47B in 2023, with only $3B in IPO value and $10B in M&A through mid-November |
2:05 AM • | Mark Wilson / Fast Company: An interview with Meta's heads of design for wearables Joshua To and Michelle Pujals on Orion's design, aiming to make Orion the AirPods of AR, and more |
12:40 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is developing “transparent” generative AI video tools, raised a $70M seed co-led by General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures |
10:30 PM • | Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: Bluesky is booming partly due to not being hindered by bad ad tech, AI slop, throttled links, or largely hostile user experiences, unlike some of its big rivals |
9:10 PM • | Jason Del Rey / Fortune: Memo: Amazon employees find there is too much of a delay between asking the new LLM-based Alexa a question and getting a response or seeing it complete a task |
8:40 PM • | Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has raised its offer to invest in Indonesia from about $10M to almost $100M, in a bid to persuade the government to lift its iPhone 16 sales ban |
7:00 PM • | NBC News: The US Library of Congress says hackers accessed some email communications between congressional offices and library staff between January and September 2024 |
6:35 PM • | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Internal doc: Amazon held talks on handling tasks on the LLM-powered Alexa with Uber, Ticketmaster, Vagaro, OpenTable, Grubhub, Instacart, Fodors, and Thumbtack |
6:15 PM • | Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: Amazon and SpaceX argued that the NLRB, which found issues at both companies, is unconstitutional; 5th US Circuit judges questioned the speed of their charges |
5:50 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Perplexity debuts a shopping feature that offers product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro subscribers in the US, plus a merchant program |
5:31 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: DOJ antitrust officials plan to ask a judge to force Google to sell Chrome, license Search data, uncouple Android from Search and Google Play, and more |
5:30 PM • | CNN: Two Baltic Sea internet cables, connecting Lithuania with Sweden and Finland with Germany, were suddenly disrupted, sparking concerns about Russian sabotage |
5:15 PM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions |
5:05 PM • | Philip Stafford / Financial Times: Sources: Trump Media is nearing an all-share purchase of Intercontinental Exchange's crypto trading platform Bakkt; DJT closed up 16.65% and BKKT up 162.46% |
5:00 PM • | Kylie Robison / The Verge: A look at emails between Elon Musk and Sam Altman from OpenAI's early days, discussing its Microsoft partnership, fundraising, staff compensation, AGI, and more |
4:55 PM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Mistral adds web search, image generation, Canvas for editing, and more to its Le Chat chatbot, and unveils Pixtral Large, a 124B-parameter multimodal model |
4:35 PM • | Umar Shakir / The Verge: Telegram updates “mini-apps” to be able to run full screen and be pinned to homescreens; devs can now add subscription plans, a “gift” sending feature, and more |
4:25 PM • | Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: The US sentences Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, who helped launder the 2016 Bitfinex hack proceeds, to 18 months in prison; her husband got a five-year sentence |
3:20 PM • | Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: Source: Google is working on a multi-year project to fully migrate Chrome OS to Android, to better compete with the iPad |
3:10 PM • | Rob Pegoraro / PCMag: Brendan Carr claims Big Tech “worked with marketing, ad, & ‘fact checkers’ to punish free speech outlets” and asks tech leaders about NewsGuard partnerships |
2:45 PM • | Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: Trump's new FCC nominee promises to bring Project 2025-style governance to media |
1:35 PM • | Elizabeth Passarella / New York Times: Musk asked X users to try “submitting x-ray, PET, MRI or other medical images to Grok for analysis” weeks ago; many have, and HIPAA protections may not apply |
12:30 PM • | Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: Goldman Sachs says it is reaching out to potential partners about plans to spin out its digital-assets platform within 12 to 18 months |
11:50 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules, over antitrust issues from 2021 when it removed a way to opt out of sharing WhatsApp data with Meta companies |
10:15 AM • | Pew Research Center: News influencers survey: 21% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more |
8:30 AM • | Bloomberg: MicroStrategy bought ~51,780 bitcoin for ~$4.6B between November 11 and November 17, its largest purchase since starting in 2020, and now holds $29B+ in bitcoin |
7:40 AM • | Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: in 2023, US VCs returned $26B worth of shares back to investors, the lowest amount since 2011, and invested $60B more than they collected, a record |
7:10 AM • | Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Roblox debuts new parental controls and gatekeeping features, like letting parents link accounts to a child's and banning text chat for under 13s outside games |
6:50 AM • | Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt trials its digital wallet in Belgium to let 7M citizens receive social services and share data with businesses, as he worries about AI |
6:30 AM • | New York Times: How Substack is betting on politics content and recruiting stars like Nate Silver, as profits remain elusive; sources: Elon Musk sought to buy it in April 2023 |
6:10 AM • | Bloomberg: Xiaomi reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to ~$12.8B, above ~$12.4B est., and a ~$738.5M net income, above ~$653M est., and expects smartphone and EV growth in 2025 |
5:55 AM • | Reuters: Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that help hire iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender, and marital criteria and its name from job ads |
5:35 AM • | Financial Times: Samsung unveils a ~$7.2B share buyback plan, its first since 2017, aimed at boosting its stock, which is down 30%+ in 2024 amid concerns over Chair Lee Jae-yong |
4:40 AM • | Oliver Darcy / Status: Q&A with The Verge EIC Nilay Patel on a likely FCC Chair Brendan Carr, Elon Musk's alliance with Donald Trump and how it threatens the First Amendment, and more |
4:10 AM • | Bloomberg: How Wall Street is preparing to cash in on AI hysteria; analysis: delivering on AI's promise will require $1T+ for data centers, electricity, and comms networks |
2:15 AM • | Financial Times: Chinese smartphone makers are ramping up efforts in Europe to grab market share from Apple and Samsung with foldables, advanced cameras, and superfast chargers |
12:40 AM • | Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: Edison: 31% of US weekly podcast listeners aged 13 and up say they use YouTube the most to listen to podcasts, passing Spotify at 27% and Apple Podcasts at 15% |