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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=28db0b1a31&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI pilots group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan, letting up to 20 users create profiles and prompt ChatGPT in a shared space</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=aa67f845ad&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Group chats in ChatGPT are now piloting in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. A new way to collaborate with friends, family, or coworkers and ChatGPT in the same conversation. [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f70c0f1491&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Mozilla says it is building AI Window, an opt-in Firefox feature that includes an AI assistant and lets users pick their preferred model, but gives few details</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ce686d458f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Microsoft & Amazon supporting the GAIN Act has little to do with China The goal is to reduce the number of customers for Nvidia More customers for Nvidia hardware gives more power to Jensen Jensen propped up neoclouds to reduce hyperscaler influence If GAIN gets passed, then expect Jensen to prioritize neoclouds more He has the balance sheet for that [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=62cd9013d9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Reasons Amazon, Microsoft agree to export control: • American tech are already fighting for production capacity at TSMC. • No reason to reserve capacity for China's Nvidia chip that hinders US needs. • Chinese tech can rent from American they don't need to own [image]</a>
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artificial intellgence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f8cbc2173b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released “in Q1 sometime”, later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Theo Wayt / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b55c5d3153&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7f927d7fd4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Alibaba halves Qwen3-Max's prices, from $0.861 to $0.459 per 1M input tokens and $3.441 to $1.836 per 1M output tokens for API users, amid China's AI price wars</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Vincent Chow / </span><span class="pub_name">South China Morning Post</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=573af10229&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their “AI-driven impact”, which will be a “core expectation” of their performance from 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jyoti Mann / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5e38d84d29&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Baidu's stock closed down 7.21% in Hong Kong on November 14 after Ernie 5.0 underwhelmed investors, denting hopes for the company to regain ground lost to peers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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data centers
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d5c7cd209b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says it plans to invest $40B through 2027 in three new data centers in Texas, including one co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6f3cdd7eba&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are struggling to balance AI's growing energy demands with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 or sooner</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emily Forgash / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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cryptocurrency
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=67da6e78d4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Bitfarms says it will wind down its BTC operations and pivot to AI infrastructure, after reporting Q3 net loss up 92% YoY to $46M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Logan Hitchcock / </span><span class="pub_name">Decrypt</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e364981c70&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to “dramatically” expand its lending to commodities traders after extending ~$1.5B worth of credit to the sector</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e8fd1fc2ea&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Draft plans: the EU is pushing to let markets regulator ESMA oversee all crypto businesses and authorize new ones, shifting oversight from national regulators</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=aeb1133f9f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Digital asset treasuries increasingly rely on in-kind contributions, with sponsors using their own crypto instead of cash, shifting risk to retail investors</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Suvashree Ghosh / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=79ae3b0390&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google proposes ad tech changes to settle a €2.95B EU antitrust fine, including boosting interoperability across its ad tech services, but still plans to appeal</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samuel Stolton / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9e452c2c8a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Bernie Pazanowski / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg Law</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=25b29a59de&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A Berlin court rules that Google must pay €465M and €107M to German price comparison sites Idealo and Producto, in damages for market abuse; Google will appeal</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=87e83a00ba&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Tether is in talks to lead a €1B funding round in Neura Robotics, valuing the startup at €8B-€10B, as Tether seeks to expand its investment portfolio</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a5c9aea04d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of ~$6B, up from $1.8B in July when it raised a $200M Series A</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Iain Martin / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0882b364a7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tess Bennett / </span><span class="pub_name">Australian Financial Review</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=019cdb8077&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">CloudX, which uses Anthropic's Claude to automate testing mobile ad pricing and optimizing inventory for publishers, raised a $30M Series A led by Addition</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Trishla Ostwal / </span><span class="pub_name">Adweek</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0afc621e45&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Oracle's stock is down nearly 30% in the past month, more than rivals, reversing $250B+ in market value gains after its OpenAI deals announcement in September</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9c5812c150&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Economic Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d176e22e1d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Waymo partners with Moove and Baidu's ApolloGo partners with Lyft to roll out robotaxis in 2026 in London, the first place Chinese and US robotaxis will compete</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jiahui Huang / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=573e71e014&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Opera says in the 12 months ending with October, it saw a 88% surge in daily active iOS users across Europe, partly due to the changes mandated by the DMA</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marcus Mendes / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a76b53b5ae&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Indian payment startup Pine Labs' stock closed at ~$2.83, up 13.5% from its ~$2.49 IPO price, after a ~$440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Soumyajit Saha / </span><span class="pub_name">Nikkei Asia</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5505354308&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve claims it denied discounts to conservative religious nonprofits; OpenAI and Asana also made deals</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jeff Green / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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