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November 12, 2025, 10:00 AM
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Liv McMahon / BBC:
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  —  The UK government will allow tech firms and child safety charities to proactively test artificial intelligence tools …
Catarina Demony / Reuters:
The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks, including regulating companies providing services to private and public sector organizations  —  Britain plans to strengthen its public services' defences against cyberattacks, requiring companies that provide services …
Financial Times:
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+  —  Tech giant aims to dismantle the ‘Lighthouse Enterprise’, which it claims has tricked 1mn victims out of $1bn
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs launches Marble, its first world model to let users turn prompts, photos, and other media into editable 3D environments, after a beta  —  World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, is launching its first commercial world model product.
Robert Hart / The Verge:
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  —  Google says Private AI Compute maintains privacy while tapping cloud resources.
Chris Bryant / Bloomberg:
Michael Burry's warning that hyperscalers are underestimating AI chip depreciation shows that tech investors may have forgotten how much depreciation can hurt  —  Costing tens of thousands of dollars each, Nvidia Corp.'s pioneering AI chips make up a hefty chunk of the $400 billion …
CNBC:
Foxconn reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$66.3B, matching est., net profit up 17% YoY to ~$1.86B, vs. $1.63B est., and expects Q4 results to “remain favorable”  —  Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit jumped 17% …
Bloomberg:
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  —  China's cybersecurity agency accused the American government of orchestrating the theft about $13 billion worth of Bitcoin …
Financial Times:
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  —  Software-focused buyout shop will use technology to trim roles making investor presentations and aggregate data
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
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  —  A staggering 97% of listeners cannot distinguish between artificial intelligence-generated and human-composed songs …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Airbnb plans to launch a three-month pilot on January 5 to let guests order groceries via Instacart within its app for rentals in Phoenix, Orlando, and LA  —  Airbnb Inc. is testing a new service with Instacart that will let guests at some US rentals order groceries through the home-sharing app ahead of and during their stay.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google unveils new Pixel phone features, including AI-based notification summaries, notification prioritization, and Gemini Nano-powered photo edits in Messages  —  Google announced its November software update for Pixel phones, called Pixel Drop — a quarterly feature release that brings …
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET:
Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Google Photos, including a “Help me edit” feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts
James Hunt / The Block:
SoFi debuts SoFi Crypto, saying it is the first nationally chartered bank in the US to offer consumers BTC, ETH, and other crypto trading, rolling out in phases  —  - SoFi has launched SoFi Crypto to offer crypto trading for consumers, the first directly integrated crypto offering under its national bank charter.
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan / New Scientist:
IBM unveils two quantum computers, Loon and Nighthawk, that it says feature unprecedented qubit connectivity designs aiming to enable error-free computations  —  IBM revealed two new quantum computers, called Loon and Nighthawk - the qubits they use are connected in newly intricate ways …
Financial Times:
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  —  Sony is launching a cut-price model of its flagship PlayStation 5 to be sold only in Japan, in an inflation-busting move to boost sales …
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Sony says the PlayStation 5 has sold a total of 84.2M units since its launch in November 2020, including 3.9M units sold in Q2, up from 3.8M in Q2 2024

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From Mediagazer

John Koblin / New York Times:
The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
A look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
CoreWeave's stock closed down 16.31% after CEO Mike Intrator noted delays at a data center provider that Jim Cramer implied is Core Scientific; CORZ fell 10%+
More: Benzinga and Runtime
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta adds new Threads features for podcasters, as it tries to make the social network the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Coinbase confirms that it called off acquisition talks with UK-based stablecoin infrastructure startup BVNK; a report had put the deal price at $1.5B to $2.5B
Ian King / Bloomberg:
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
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ElevenLabs launches an Iconic Voice Marketplace for licensing AI versions of famous voices, such as Michael Caine's; Matthew McConaughey invested in the startup
Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg:
A UK judge sentences a Chinese woman to 11 years and eight months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a ~$5.6B investment scheme; the UK seized 61K BTC
David Keohane / Financial Times:
SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est.
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