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November 28, 2025, 2:05 PM

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Reuters:
The EC says it got notification from Apple that Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet DMA thresholds; Apple says the services should not be called “gatekeepers”  —  The European Commission said on Friday that Apple's (AAPL.O) Apple Ads and Apple Maps likely meet the thresholds to be considered …
Bloomberg:
China's top economic planning agency warns about the risk of a bubble forming in the booming humanoid robotics industry; 150+ manufacturers operate in China  —  China's powerful economic-planning agency warned of the risks of a bubble forming in the country's humanoid robotics industry …
@mingchikuo:
Sources: Intel may start shipping a portion of Apple's lowest-end M chips as early as 2027; Apple is evaluating Intel's 18A process for the chip production  —  Intel expected to begin shipping Apple's lowest-end M processor as early as 2027 There have long been market rumors that Intel could become an advanced-node foundry supplier to Apple, but visibility around this had remained low. My latest industry surveys, however, indicate that
Financial Times:
OpenAI's data center partners are set to rack up nearly $100B in debt; sources say banks may lend another $38B to Oracle and Vantage to build more OpenAI sites  —  Cloud companies and developers rely on lossmaking start-up to repay huge loans  —  OpenAI's data centre partners are on course …
Reuters:
CME Group says futures trading on its markets, including for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, was halted on November 28 due to a cooling issue at CyrusOne's data centers  —  An outage at the world's biggest exchange operator, CME Group, has halted trade on its currency platform …
Alex Forbes-Calvin / GamesIndustry.biz:
Kang Yoon-seung / Yonhap News Agency:
Sources: South Korean authorities suspect North Korean hacking group Lazarus of the $30M+ Upbit hack, which used methods resembling those of a 2019 Upbit theft  —  North Korean hacking group Lazarus is suspected to be behind a recent breach of around 45 billion won (US$30.6 million) …
Jesse Whittock / Deadline:
Australia passes a law requiring global streamers with 1M+ Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local outlay or 7.5% of revenue on Australian originals  —  Legislation requiring the likes of Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max to spend a portion of their local earnings on original Australian content …

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