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November 26, 2025, 10:15 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, and will now negotiate with EU lawmakers  —  A web camera is seen in front of the displayed words “Child Pornography” in this illustration taken October 21, 2025.
Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:
The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit for accessing social media without parental consent and holds CEOs personally liable for violations  —  Call comes as several EU countries prepare to restrict social media for kids.  —  The European Parliament on Wednesday called …
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
S&P downgrades the ability of Tether's USDT to maintain its peg to the US dollar to “weak”, the lowest rating, citing exposure to high-risk assets such as BTC  —  The ability of Tether's USDT stablecoin to maintain its peg to the US dollar has been downgraded to the lowest rating …
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
The Information:
Sources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy corporate data management and security startup Veza for $1B+ in a deal as early as next week  —  ServiceNow, an IT and HR software provider, is in advanced talks to buy five-year-old security startup Veza for more than $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage  —  The House Homeland Security Committee has asked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to testify at a Dec. 17 hearing on how Chinese state …
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 …
Reuters:
Intel denies allegations in a TSMC lawsuit that VP Wei-Jen Lo likely leaked trade secrets after retiring from TSMC and joining Intel  —  Intel (INTC.O) on Thursday denied allegations by Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) that one of the U.S. firm's executives, Wei-Jen Lo, had leaked trade secrets.
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 …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Uber starts deploying fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the UAE in December 2024  —  The robotaxis, which are designed by WeRide, will be restricted to Yas Island, a popular tourist destination in Abu Dhabi.
Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood plans to launch a futures and derivatives exchange with Susquehanna in 2026 and acquires MIAXdx, which clears and executes derivatives trades  —  The new exchange will help Robinhood offer additional prediction contracts tied to sports, elections and other future events

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The Wrap:
Valnet settles a defamation suit with The Wrap that sought $64.5M after a judge threw out most of the central claims of defamation based on three 2025 articles

Denise Petski / Deadline:
Amazon Prime Video sets November 20 for the premiere of “Melania, The Series”, the two-episode follow-up to Brett Ratner's “Melania” documentary

The Athletic:
Sources: SNY cancels Sportsnite and Baseball Night in New York and lays off much of its editorial staff; it keeps pregame and postgame shows for Mets and Jets

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Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
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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
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
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode
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
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