Techmeme
November 25, 2025, 12:05 PM

Top News

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 …
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.  —  •
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: eWeekForums: 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:
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 …
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 …
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 …
Anthropic:
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
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”  —  A series of prominent stock sales and allegations of accounting irregularities have put Nvidia NVDA +2.05% in the middle …
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Alibaba reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to ~$35B, vs. ~$34.5B est., Chinese e-commerce revenue up 16% YoY, and net income down to ~$3B, as it boosts cloud spending  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. posted better-than-projected 34% growth in its cloud business, offsetting a plunge in profit …
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  —  Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
TikTok names veteran government affairs executive Ziad Ojakli as its head of public policy for the Americas, replacing longtime policy lead Michael Beckerman  —  TikTok on Tuesday named veteran government affairs executive Ziad Ojakli as its new head of public policy for the Americas, replacing longtime policy lead Michael Beckerman.
More: Reuters
Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
TikTok Shop expands into luxury retail, offering items such as Hermes' $11,000 handbags, primarily sold by secondhand resellers using AI to verify authenticity  —  TikTok is moving into luxury retail, part of an effort to expand its TikTok Shop marketplace into a high-end shopping destination …
James Hunt / The Block:
Kraken launches a Mastercard-powered debit card with 1% cashback and multi-asset spending in the UK and EU as part of a global rollout of its Krak money app  —  - Kraken is launching a Mastercard-powered debit card with 1% cashback and multi-asset spending across the UK and EU as part of a phased global rollout of its Krak money app.
More: DL News and Kraken Blog

Sponsor Posts

Okara:
Meet Okara, the AI platform that doesn't train on your data  —  Chat with 30+ open-source models (Llama, Kimi, Qwen, DeepSeek) through encrypted infrastructure.  Used by teams handling proprietary code and strategy.
Soxton:
AI-powered 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!
Zoho:
ERP software from the builders of world-class products  —  Every business starts with a vision.  Sustaining it is a more rigorous and complex pursuit.It lives in reconciled books, accurate inventory, and predictable cash flow.
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.

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI's $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple's AI Wearable Pin
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.
Hard Fork:
Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude's New Constitution
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Access:
Home robots are coming faster than you think, with Sunday's Tony Zhao
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
The Nick, Dick and Paul Show:
An Intro to Data Centers
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.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois from Khosla Ventures
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Special Edition: Key findings from the Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
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.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:05 PM ET, November 25, 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.

More News

Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal:
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:

Earlier Picks

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Ben Dickson / VentureBeat:
Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET:
Eric Revell / Fox Business:
Loren Grush / Bloomberg: