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OpenAI:
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)
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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) …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Baidu unveils Ernie 5.0, an AI model to process and generate text, images, audio, and video, claiming it beats GPT-5-High and Gemini 2.5 Pro on some benchmarks  —  The goal: to position as a global contender in the increasingly competitive enterprise AI market.
Bloomberg:
Baidu stock fell as much as 9.8% in Hong Kong on Friday after its latest AI model Ernie 5.0 fails to impress investors  —  Baidu Inc. shares fell by the most in seven months as the newest version of its artificial intelligence model underwhelmed investors, denting hopes for it to regain ground lost to peers.
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) …
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 …
Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post:
Alibaba halves Qwen3-Max 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  —  Alibaba Group Holding …
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
Google DeepMind unveils SIMA 2, a video-game-playing agent built on top of Gemini to navigate and solve problems inside 3D virtual worlds like Goat Simulator 3  —  Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in a wide range of 3D virtual worlds.
The Information:
Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers  —  OneTrust, a nine-year-old startup that benefited from a wave of European and U.S. laws regulating how companies collect and share website data …
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Bloomberg:
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to expand its lending to commodities traders “dramatically” after extending ~$1.5B worth of credit to the sector  —  Stablecoin giant Tether Holdings SA plans to expand “dramatically” in lending to commodities traders …
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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David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US FCC officially orders early license reviews of eight Disney-owned ABC stations, in LA, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, and more

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Sources: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro has decided to keep ESPN within Disney for now, rather than spinning it off

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
The CW and ESPN agree to let ESPN stream ~800 hours of CW sports per year; the CW and Roku plan to stream CW entertainment to The Roku Channel in Fall 2026

More News

Paul Tenorio / The Athletic:
Apple and Major League Soccer agree to make all MLS games available on Apple TV for no extra charge from 2026, ending the MLS Season Pass subscription
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Netflix shifts its video game strategy to focus on popular titles like Pictionary, Boggle, and Tetris, playable in its app on TVs using phones as controllers
Bloomberg:
Ubisoft delays publishing its H1 financial results on the day they were due and requests that its shares be halted from trading until then; UBI is down 47%+ YTD
Elissa Welle / The Verge:
Google says all NotebookLM users will get access to Deep Research in the service within a week; users get to choose between two research styles: fast or deep

Earlier Picks

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire:
Amazon renames Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo, a nod to “low Earth orbit”; Amazon has so far launched 150+ satellites as part a constellation set to have 3,200+
Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic says China's state-sponsored hackers used its tools to automate 80% to 90% of a September hacking campaign that targeted corporations and governments
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Verizon plans to cut ~15,000 jobs, its largest workforce reduction yet, and transition ~200 stores into franchised operations, seeking to reduce costs
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