Tech

Kuaishou reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$5B and net profit up 37% YoY to ~$632M, above ~$588M est., driven by ad growth and its Kling AI video generator (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-19 AI

Sources: South Korean antitrust officials visited Arm's Seoul offices as part of ongoing scrutiny of its licensing practices, following Qualcomm's complaint (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-19 Korea

CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-19 China AI

UK bank Lloyds agrees to acquire UK startup Curve, which offers digital wallets, in a deal set to close in H1 2026; Sky News reported Lloyds is set to pay £120M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-19 Startup

Fox News hires Palantir to build tools that help journalists produce stories across Fox platforms and social media; Fox won't use AI to generate editorial copy (www.axios.com)
2025-11-19 AI

The Dutch government suspends its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, restoring control to its Chinese owner; a Dutch minister says the move is “a show of goodwill” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-19 China Netherlands

Boston Dynamics says its robot dog Spot is used by 60+ US and Canadian bomb squads and SWAT teams, with ~2K units deployed globally, five years after its debut (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-19 Robot Canada Boston Dynamics

A look at Huawei's efforts to build an independent Chinese chip supply chain; through vehicles like Hubble, it has invested in 60+ chip companies since 2019 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-11-19 China

10 Superstitious Beliefs That Once Consumed Entire Cultures (listverse.com)
2025-11-19

A look at Tsinghua University, which leads China's AI innovation, with 4,986 AI patents between 2005 and 2024, alumni behind startups like DeepSeek, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-19 China Startup AI

As TSMC readies its €10B Germany plant for 2027, its Taiwanese suppliers say they're struggling with the EU's complex permitting, labor, and environmental rules (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-19 Germany Taiwan

Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $44B in 2025, up from $41B in 2024; tech now makes up 15% of Europe's GDP, up from 4% in 2016 (sifted.eu)
2025-11-19 Europe Startup GDP

Brookfield Asset Management is targeting $10B for its new AI infrastructure fund and has already raised $5B from its balance sheet, Nvidia, and other investors (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-19 AI Nvidia Asset

Man Who Cryogenically Froze Late Wife Sparks Debate By Dating New Partner (science.slashdot.org)
2025-11-19

TikTok is rolling out new digital well-being features like an affirmation journal and says it will also give users badges for limiting their daily screen time (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-19

xAI's Grok 4.1 tops benchmarks in emotional intelligence, while its model card also shows a marked increase in sycophancy compared to Grok 4 (i10x.ai)
2025-11-19 Intelligence

TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-19 AI

UK online grocer Ocado's stock closed down 17.4% on November 18 after its US partner Kroger said it would close three automated warehouses in January 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-19

Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B valuation, up from the $113B it reported after merging with X in March 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2025-11-19

Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore, collaborating with institutions across the Asia-Pacific in education, public services, and more (deepmind.google)
2025-11-19 Google Asia AI Singapore Education

US Backs Three Mile Island Nuclear Restart With $1 Billion Loan To Constellation (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-11-19

A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit (www.thewrap.com)
2025-11-19 AI

Chinese Spies Are Trying To Reach UK Lawmakers Via LinkedIn, MI5 Warns (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-11-19 China LinkedIn

Mexico Partially Lifts Longstanding Website Ban On Tor Network (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-19 Mexico Ban

In a lawsuit, California-based TP-Link says Netgear orchestrated a smear by planting false claims with journalists and influencers about TP-Link's China ties (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-19 China California

Gen Z Officially Worse At Passwords Than 80-Year-Olds (it.slashdot.org)
2025-11-19

Cloudflare says the November 18 outage was caused by a change to one of its “database systems' permissions”, not by “malicious activity of any kind” (blog.cloudflare.com)
2025-11-19 Database

Cloud-Native Computing Is Poised To Explode (slashdot.org)
2025-11-19

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers (www.anthropic.com)
2025-11-19 Microsoft

Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who is its co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in July 2021 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-19 Amazon Startup AI Jeff Bezos

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