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November 22, 2025, 1:00 AM

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David McCabe / New York Times:
A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing  —  Judge Leonie M. Brinkema is on the clock.  —  The federal judge, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances  —  US officials are having early discussions on whether to let Nvidia Corp. sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China …
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Sources: the White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state AI laws, following bipartisan backlash  —  The White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on artificial intelligence through lawsuits …
Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle:
Waymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026  —  California officials have quietly opened the door to one of the largest geographic expansions of autonomous ride-hailing the state has ever seen.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform  —  Google has confirmed that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain hack.
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached  —  American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has confirmed that an insider shared screenshots taken on internal systems with unnamed threat actors.
Anthropic:
Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to “reward hack” by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research  —  In the latest research from Anthropic's alignment team, we show for the first time that realistic AI training processes can accidentally produce misaligned models1.
Bloomberg:
Meta enters electricity trading to help accelerate the construction of new US power plants critical for its AI infrastructure buildout  —  Meta Platforms Inc. is venturing into the complex world of electricity trading, betting it can accelerate the construction of new US power plants …
New York Times:
Q&A with Roblox CEO David Baszucki on the chat function, AI-powered age estimation via face scans, accusations of compromising child safety for growth, and more  —  This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform.
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand  —  Google 's AI infrastructure boss told employees that the company has to double its compute capacity every six months in order to meet demand for artificial intelligence services.
Rani Molla / Sherwood News:
Alphabet's stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google's Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers  —  The internet giant has a lot going for it right now.  —  Google parent Alphabet hit a record closing high of $299.66 today …
Gianluca Semeraro / Reuters:
Italy's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies  —  Italy's competition authority said on Friday it had closed a probe it had launched last year over Google's (GOOGL.O) …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: China's Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026  —  It has also told some potential investors that it will aim for an initial public offering in the second half of next year
Daniel Zuidijk / Bloomberg:
Ubisoft delayed reporting its Q2 results after auditors found it improperly booked sales from a partnership as revenue, forcing it to restate its accounts  —  Ubisoft Entertainment SA said it will use money from a Tencent Holdings Ltd. investment to pay off debt after the video-game publisher breached …
Leo Marchandon / Reuters:

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