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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 — Collaborate with others, and ChatGPT, in the same conversation. — Try in ChatGPT(opens in a new window)

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Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:

A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI, accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI — Apple Inc. and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X Corp. and xAI accusing the companies of conspiring …

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X: @marionawfal, @reuterslegal, and @business. Bluesky: @realjmw. Forums: MacRumors Forums

OpenAI:

OpenAI adds GPT-5.1 to its API, featuring a “no reasoning” mode and extended prompt caching with up to 24-hour retention for faster responses at a lower cost — Today we're releasing GPT‑5.1 in the API platform, the next model in the GPT‑5 series that balances intelligence …

More: WinBuzzer, ZDNET, Neowin, Blockchain.News, Simon Willison's Weblog, and The Decoder

X: @cb42733859, @flavioad, @laksh_officiall, @openaidevs, @openaidevs, @stevenheidel, @openaidevs, @openaidevs, @sama, and @openaidevs. LinkedIn: Raj Pathak. Forums: Hacker News

Elissa Welle / The Verge:

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 — You will be able to chat with the browser's AI assistant in the new AI Window. … Another day, another AI browser.

More: The Mozilla Blog, eWeek, Moneycontrol, Axios, The Hans India, Mozilla Connect, Digit, Digital Trends, It's FOSS, Livemint, Business Standard, The Register, Tech in Asia, OMG! Ubuntu, WinBuzzer, Engadget, How-To Geek, and Thurrott

LinkedIn: Ajit Varma and Anthony Enzor-DeMeo

Mastodon: @elilla@transmom.love, @patrick_h_lauke …, and @dtgeek@mastodon.social

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Amazon and Anthropic join Microsoft in backing the GAIN AI Act, which would require US chipmakers to meet local demand before export; Nvidia opposes it — Legislation would give tech leaders preferential access to chips — WASHINGTON—Amazon.com is joining Microsoft …

More: The Decoder, Reuters, Watcher Guru, Tech in Asia, Proactive, TipRanks Financial, WinBuzzer, Livemint, and Benzinga

X: @macromicrome and @wsjtech. Forums: r/StockMarket

Thomas Ricker / The Verge:

Meta plans to launch WhatsApp third-party app integration in Europe “over the coming months”, which is required by the DMA, starting with BirdyChat and Haiket — Coming ‘soon’ with end-to-end encryption enabled. — Meta is on the cusp of launching third-party integration …

More: Meta Newsroom, TechCrunch, Thurrott, Engadget, MacRumors, CyberInsider, Neowin, and Android Central. X: @firstsquawk

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:

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 — Google has offered to tweak its ad tech products to settle a European Union order after a near-€3 billion ($3.4 billion) …

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Financial Times:

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 — Larry Ellison's software company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts

More: Fortune, CNBC, and Yahoo Finance. Forums: Hacker News

Reuters:

Sources: Samsung raised some memory chip prices by 30% to 60% compared to September, amid shortages, likely adding to stress for companies building data centers — - Samsung hikes prices of server chips by 30% to 60% — Steep price hikes seen adding to stress for data infrastructure firms

More: Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, PhoneArena, and Tech in Asia

The Economic Times:

India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent — India has officially notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, establishing a framework for data processing, protection, and governance.

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Ashley Capoot / CNBC:

Cursor says it has crossed $1B in annualized revenue, has 300+ employees, and its in-house models “generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world” — Artificial intelligence startup Cursor on Thursday announced it has closed a $2.3 billion funding round …

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LinkedIn: Thiru Subramaniam. Bluesky: @beardywheat

Bloomberg:

Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in early talks to raise funding at a ~$50B valuation, more than quadruple from July and could rise to $55B-$60B — Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, is in early talks …

More: Implicator.ai, Tech Funding News, StrictlyVC, The Economic Times, Reuters, Newcomer, and The Information

Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @caseynewton, and @rswestmore.land. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to

Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal:

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 — Whoever takes the lead in London may get a head start rolling out robotaxis elsewhere — The robotaxi race is on.

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Bloomberg:

Draft plans: the EU is pushing to let markets regulator ESMA oversee all crypto businesses and authorize new ones, shifting oversight from national regulators — The European Union's executive arm is pressing for its markets regulator to get new powers to oversee all crypto businesses operating in the bloc …

More: Cryptonews, Blockonomi, and Coinpedia Fintech News

Bloomberg:

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 — Baidu Inc. shares fell by the most in seven months as the newest version of its artificial intelligence model underwhelmed investors …

More: Yahoo Finance, Tech in Asia, Seeking Alpha, and InfoWorld

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:

CloudX, which uses Anthropic's Claude to automate mobile ad pricing and inventory optimization for publishers, raised a $30M Series A led by Addition — CloudX, a mobile ad startup founded by former adtech executives from MoPub and MAX, raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding.

Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt:

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 — Bitcoin miner Bitfarms will end its Bitcoin operations in the coming years, shifting focus to providing infrastructure for growing AI demand.

More: The Block, Pulse 2.0, Cryptonews, Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, and Bloomberg

Bloomberg:

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 — Stablecoin giant Tether Holdings SA plans to expand “dramatically” in lending to commodities traders …

More: Cryptonews. LinkedIn: Anna Irrera

Tess Bennett / Australian Financial Review:

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 — Artificial intelligence infrastructure start-up Firmus Technologies has tripled its valuation to $6 billion in two months …

More: DatacenterDynamics, Reuters, Bloomberg, Reuters, Firmus, Tech in Asia, Tech Funding News, From transactions to CX, SmartCompany, Capital Brief, and Australian Financial Review. LinkedIn: Firmus Technologies

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:

An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg on lessons from AOL, the rise of esports, turning around EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic, helping Zynga, and more — An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg about a career focused on turnarounds, from EA's KOTR to Zynga and now to Unity.

X: @mbromberg and @nepali_investor. LinkedIn: Matthew Bromberg

Emily Forgash / Bloomberg:

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 — Energy-hungry data centers test industry's commitment to go carbon-zero by 2040 — Weeks after ChatGPT was unleashed …

More: TechCrunch and Implicator.ai

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post:

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 — The new pricing strategy reflects heightened competition in China's foundational model market

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or “self-contained” experiences built with web tech like HTML5 — Apple announced on Thursday the launch of a new developer program, the Mini Apps Partner Program …

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Bluesky: @maxpatten and @kosso.co.uk

Mastodon: @johnvoorhees@mastodon … and @lapcatsoftware@mastodon …. Forums: Slashdot

Reuters:

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 — Google (GOOGL.O) must pay the German price comparison platform Idealo approximately 465 million euros ($542 million) …

More: TechCrunch

Soumyajit Saha / Nikkei Asia:

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 — MUMBAI — Shares of financial tech company Pine Labs made their debut on India's main bourses on Friday, opening 9.5% above the price …

More: TechCrunch, Entrackr, Inc42 Media, Tech in Asia, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg, and Times of India

Ina Fried / Axios:

Anthropic open sources a method to score AI model political evenhandedness; Gemini 2.5 Pro got 97%, Grok 4 96%, Claude Opus 4.1 95%, GPT-5 89%, and Llama 4 66% — Anthropic is releasing an open source method to evaluate the political “evenhandedness” of AI chatbots, the company said Thursday.

More: The Verge and Anthropic

X: @ahall_research, @alignpoe, @anthropicai, @ihatepythonx, and @inafried. Bluesky: @chicagomike

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