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Bloomberg:
Yann LeCun says he is leaving Meta at the end of 2025 to build a new startup and continue his “Advanced Machine Intelligence research”, with Meta as a partner  —  Yann LeCun, an artificial intelligence pioneer who runs a research lab at Meta Platforms Inc., told employees …
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Ex-US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from OpenAI's board, after a US House Committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein  —  Former Treasury secretary and Harvard president Larry Summers has resigned from the OpenAI board, he and the company told Axios …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 62% YoY to $57.01B, vs. $54.92B est., Data Center revenue up 66% to $51.2B, and net income up 65% to $31.9B  —  - CNBC Councils  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Supply Chain Values  — Ad Choices  — News Tips  —  Got a confidential news tip?
Bloomberg:
The Dutch government suspends its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner; a Dutch minister says the move is “a show of goodwill”  —  The Dutch government suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, handing back control to its Chinese owner …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The US, the UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting provider Media Land, which provided services to cybercrime marketplaces and ransomware groups  —  Today, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia announced sanctions targeting Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) …
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, saying it is “significantly better” at “long-horizon reasoning” and is the first model it has trained for Windows environments  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Codex Max processes massive workloads through improved context handling.
The Verge:
The EU proposes changes to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and watering down a key part of the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure  —  The EU folds under Big Tech's pressure. … After years of staring down the world's biggest tech companies and setting the bar …
Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times:
AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia  —  The firm's Indian-American CEO Amit Jain, an IITian who was formerly with Apple, told ET that the domain the company operated …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok says it will test letting users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed, and more advanced AI-generated content labeling tech  —  TikTok, an app that was once just a place for user-generated content, is launching a new setting that lets users choose …
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters:
Crypto exchange Kraken says it confidentially filed for a US IPO; on November 18, Kraken said it raised $200M at a $20B valuation, up 33% in under two months  —  Crypto exchange Kraken said on Wednesday it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users  —  Feature debuts after streamer introduced text-based AI recaps last year … Now Amazon is using AI to add sight, sound and motion to the mix.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic Games partners with Unity to bring Unity Engine-made games to Fortnite in 2026, part of Epic's long-term vision to make Fortnite into an “open metaverse”  —  Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. … Epic Games is teaming up with arguably …
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
AI music platform Suno raised $250M led by Menlo Ventures at a $2.45B valuation, up from ~$500M in 2024, and says its annual revenue has reached $200M  —  Startup has raised $250 million and says annual revenue has reached $200 million  —  Suno, an AI music platform in which users …
New York Times:
Meta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume buying startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a slowdown under Lina Khan
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Adobe says it will acquire NYSE-listed Semrush, which helps companies run search engine optimization as AI use rises, for $1.9B in cash, paying $12 per share  —  Semrush helps businesses from Amazon to TikTok with search-engine optimization and marketing  —  Adobe struck a $1.9 billion deal …
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips  —  Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia …
matt shumer:
Gemini 3 hands-on: a fundamental improvement on daily use, extremely fast, Antigravity IDE is a powerful launch product, and its personality is terse and direct  —  Gemini 3 is a fundamental improvement on daily use, not just on benchmarks.  It feels more consistent and less “spiky” than previous models.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: key White House officials are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the annual defense policy bill  —  Key White House officials are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the annual defense policy bill …
New York Times:
CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025  —  Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Meta release SAM 3, a model for detection, segmentation, and tracking of objects in images and video, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D  —  Meta Platforms Inc. today is expanding its suite of open-source Segment Anything computer vision models with the release of SAM 3 and SAM 3D …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
US senators introduce the Algorithm Accountability Act, amending Section 230 to hold social platforms liable if their algorithms cause foreseeable physical harm  —  A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms.
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
Investors pulled $523M from BlackRock's IBIT bitcoin ETF on Tuesday, its largest single-day outflow since launch; BTC fell ~30% from its October all-time high  —  Investors pulled more than half a billion dollars from BlackRock Inc.'s iShares Bitcoin Trust, the largest single-day outflow since …
Reuters:
Sources: US officials are privately saying they might not levy semiconductor tariffs soon, as the Trump administration takes a more cautious approach with China  —  - Officials see potential delay in semiconductor tariffs  — White House official denies policy change

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From Mediagazer

Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: Netflix is interested in acquiring Lionsgate and took a look at Roku, but a Roku deal would have faced tougher antitrust scrutiny than Fox's

CBC News:
Canada's CBC, which began televising NHL games in 1952, will no longer show NHL games after it was unable to reach a new sublicense deal with Rogers Sportsnet

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Consultancy Madison & Wall estimates a combined Fox and Roku would capture 14% of all US TV ad revenue and 16% of US streaming ad revenue

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Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
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Matthew Prince / Cloudflare:
Cloudflare says “a change to one of our database systems' permissions” caused the November 18 outage, not “a cyberattack or malicious activity of any kind”
Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg:
President Trump says the US needs a “Federal Standard” to govern AI oversight “instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes”, or China will catch up
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