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Pritam Biswas / Reuters:
Klarna launches KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin, running on Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo blockchain, aiming to “reduce costs” in international payments  —  Swedish fintech firm Klarna (KLAR.N) on Tuesday said it will launch a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, becoming …
@nvidianewsroom:
Nvidia says it is “delighted by Google's success” and Google “made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google”, but “Nvidia is a generation ahead”  —  We're delighted by Google's success — they've made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google. NVIDIA is a generation ahead of the industry — it's the only platform that runs every AI model and does it everywhere computing is done. NVIDIA offers greater
The Information:
Sources: Google begins pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on using its TPUs in their data centers; Meta could spend billions
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with Ilya Sutskever about model jaggedness, why we are moving beyond the “age of scaling”, SSI's plan to straight-shot superintelligence, AGI, and more  —  “These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people.  It's a very fundamental thing."  —  Transcript
Brian Spegele / Wall Street Journal:
China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as the world's manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI “dark factories”  —  To blunt Trump's push to reclaim global manufacturing, China's factories and ports are learning to make and export more goods faster …
More: eWeek.  Forums: r/China
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not “censorship” of viewpoints  —  from the it's-almost-as-if-there-are-some-bad- actors-online dept  —  For the last few years, Matt Taibbi …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
Polymarket says it received an amended US CFTC designation, letting it operate a prediction market in the US with a fully regulated exchange structure  —  Polymarket's amended CFTC designation paves the way for the prediction-market platform to formally reopen in the U.S. with a fully regulated exchange structure.
Fortune:
Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M+; PitchBook: Fordefi was last valued at $83M  —  Paxos, the veteran stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure firm, is leaning further into DeFi.  On Tuesday, the company announced …
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
TSMC sues former VP Lo Wen-jen, who left to join Intel, alleging a high likelihood that he leaked secrets to Intel after a two-decade career at TSMC  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. sued a former executive who left to work for Intel Corp., saying there is a high likelihood …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Trump signs an EO establishing the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents  —  President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated artificial …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output  —  I have a simple method for my own AI rankings: product delight.  That is, when I use the various services from the players in AI …
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
A job listing shows Google is developing a new Android-based “Aluminium OS” that is “built with AI at the core”, potentially as a ChromeOS replacement for PCs  —  Google wants to replace ChromeOS with Aluminium OS, its new, Android-based operating system for PCs.  —  •
Financial Times:
Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7  —  Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev, raised a $120M Series C led by Ribbit at a $1.45B valuation, bringing its total funding to $295M  —  - Harmonic raises third funding in 14 months from insiders  — Focus on AI's math and reasoning capabilities

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

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Bloomberg:
Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal:
How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions
Tae Kim / Barron's Online:
Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying “Unlike Enron, Nvidia does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue”
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year
Eric Revell / Fox Business:
AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity
Loren Grush / Bloomberg:
Amazon begins previewing its Amazon Leo satellite internet system for a select group of customers, ahead of a wider public rollout planned for 2026
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