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November 26, 2025, 2:50 PM

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Reuters:
EU states agree on a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM; states now negotiate with EU lawmakers  —  A web camera is seen in front of the displayed words “Child Pornography” in this illustration t  - EU says big tech must tackle online child abuse
Bloomberg:
Naver agrees to acquire Dunamu, which runs South Korea's biggest crypto exchange Upbit, in a $10.3B all-stock deal; Upbit has 80%+ market share in South Korea  —  Naver Corp. agreed to acquire Dunamu Inc., operator of South Korea's biggest crypto exchange Upbit, in an all-stock deal valued …
Jenny Che / Bloomberg:
The EU says its regulators asked Shein for documents on measures to prevent the exposure of minors to inappropriate content and the circulation of illegal items  —  Shein is under pressure from the European Union to curb sales of childlike sex dolls and weapons on its third-party marketplace …
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July  —  The regulator began probing Meta over its WhatsApp AI messaging tool in July  —  Italy's competition regulator has broadened …
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
In recent months, RAM and SSD prices have surged due to a shortage of memory chips caused primarily by the ongoing AI boom; some RAM kits now cost 3x as much  —  Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.  —  It's not a bad time to upgrade your gaming PC.
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Counterpoint: Apple is set to overtake Samsung as the world's largest smartphone maker for the first time since 2011, lifted by the success of iPhone 17 models  —  Apple Inc. will retake its crown as the world's largest smartphone maker for the first time in more than a decade …
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
MIT and Hugging Face study: the share of downloads of Chinese-made open AI models rose to 17% in the past year, surpassing US developers' 15.8% share, a first  —  Beijing-backed technology gains ground as American giants hold fast to ‘closed’ AI strategies  —  China has overtaken the US …
Linda Lew / Bloomberg:
Pony AI's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 6.7% after it said its Guangzhou operations had broken even per car, as it targets a 3,000+ global robotaxi fleet in 2026  —  Pony AI Inc. shares rose for a third day in Hong Kong trading, arresting a steep decline since listing three weeks ago …
Angela Yang / NBC News:
Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT gave a teen who died by suicide information about suicide methods, arguing that he misused ChatGPT  —  The family of Adam Raine filed a lawsuit against the AI company in August.  On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that is not responsible for the teen's death.
Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal:
Aggressive traders on Robinhood, whose stock has more than tripled in 2025, are central to the company's success, as critics liken the environment to a casino  —  Brokerage co-founded by Vlad Tenev makes exotic investments available to ordinary investors, seeing aggressive traders as key to company's success
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Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal:
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site  —  The village of Caledonia, Wisconsin, sandwiched between Chicago and Milwaukee along Lake Michigan, is dotted with corn and soybean fields …
Joe Schulz / WPR:
Bloomberg:
Some food bloggers warn Google's AI Overviews and AI food pictures are burying their real, tested recipes, setting home cooks up for disaster this Thanksgiving  —  Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures  —  Eb Gargano has been writing recipes …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia says it is “delighted by Google's success” but “Nvidia is a generation ahead”, after a report that Meta could use Google's TPUs in its data centers  —  Nvidia on Tuesday said its tech remains a generation ahead of the industry, in response to Wall Street's concerns …

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