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November 25, 2025, 6:50 PM

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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 …
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Warner Music and AI music generator Suno strike a deal, settling previous litigation; Suno will launch licensed AI models and will acquire WMG's Songkick  —  Warner Music Group and AI music generator Suno have struck what they call a “first-of-its-kind partnership”.
Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
Documents: AI music startup Suno has spent $32M on compute power and just $2,000 on data, such as music, to train its model since January 2024  —  Suno has raised $250 million in a quest to become a “verticalized” creation, social media and streaming service, according to investment documents obtained by Billboard.
Pritam Biswas / Reuters:
Klarna unveils KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin, currently in testing on Stripe and Paradigm's Tempo blockchain for a planned launch on the mainnet in 2026  —  Swedish fintech firm Klarna (KLAR.N) on Tuesday said it will launch a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, becoming the latest major payments company …
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
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 …
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  —  ChatGPT has an impressive voice mode that offers a very natural, conversational flow.  The latest update to ChatGPT now combines voice mode with the main text mode by default.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Dell reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $27.01B, vs. $27.13B est., Infrastructure Solutions revenue up 24% to $14.1B, and Client Solutions revenue up 3% to $12.5B  —  Dell reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that missed Wall Street expectations for revenue, but the company forecasted …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
HP reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $14.6B, forecasts FY 2026 profit below est., and plans to cut 4,000-6,000 jobs through FY 2028; HPQ drops 5%+ after hours  —  HP Inc. gave a profit outlook for current year that fell short of estimates and the company said it will cut 4,000 …
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.  —  •
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:
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

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