Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors
Techmeme
November 14, 2025, 12:25 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

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)
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 …
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.
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 …
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) …
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 …
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.
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.
Iain Martin / Forbes:
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  —  The Stockholm-based startup that uses AI to code apps and websites for its users is in talks to raise a new round at triple its last valuation from just four months ago.
More: The Daily Upside and Inc
Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
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  —  CloudX, a mobile ad startup founded by former adtech executives from MoPub and MAX, raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding.
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 …

Sponsor Posts

Soxton:
Fast, affordable law for startups  —  Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better.  We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts.  Join the waitlist for early access!
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics  —  Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards.  Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Zoho Mail MCP: Make your inbox work for you  —  Maya is the head of operations at a 500-person B2B software company.  She's sharp, she's busy, and she starts every morning the same way-with her coffee, laptop, inbox.Not to work.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data  —  Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

The Upstarts Podcast:
 Writer's May Habib: Building AI Tools For Corporate 'Normal People' The Labs Leave Behind
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
The Nick, Dick and Paul Show:
 A Nick, Dick, and Paul Buffet!
Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo, and Paul Kedrosky pull back the curtain on AI, startups, and the future rushing toward us, all with healthy dose of irreverence.
Subscribe to The Nick, Dick and Paul Show.
Big Technology Podcast:
 Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Great Chat:
 How much data do we actually want about our bodies?
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Training Data:
 Memory and Continual Learning: Engram's Dan Biderman and Jessy Lin
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
 AI's Mythos Moment: Rishi Sunak on preparing governments for AI
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:25 PM ET, November 14, 2025.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

From Mediagazer

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
Sources: Hasbro is asking child actors on Peppa Pig to sign contracts letting their voices be used for AI; a group of agents condemns the terms

Reuters:
Sources: Sky has agreed on terms to buy ITV's broadcast and streaming unit in a £1.6B deal, which will include ITV Studios acquiring Sky's Love Productions

Bloomberg Law:
Publishers that collectively own nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their products without permission or payment

More News

Dave Lee / Bloomberg:
Sundar Pichai proved to be the “wartime CEO” that Google needed after ChatGPT's launch, making the company an AI leader, in part by empowering Demis Hassabis

Earlier Picks

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
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
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%
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”
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
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
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
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter