New York Times:
A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat  —  As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China's battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.

It's a good thing that we already know a second season of Pluribus is on the way. Because the season finale for the show - a sci-fi drama on Apple TV, helmed by Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan - made it clear that things are just getting started. The episode brought together a number of […]

John Koblin / New York Times:
YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even  —  At Nancy Ann Ling's house in Central Texas, the TV generally goes on around 5 a.m., and Mrs. Ling flips over to the same app each day: YouTube.

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Bitcoin miners that are retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up ~90% YTD even as bitcoin has slumped  —  The pivot to AI has lifted a bitcoin-mining ETF by around 90% this year, even as bitcoin itself has slumped.  —  It's harder than ever to mine bitcoin.

Politico:
Over the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU over Big Tech regulations  —  “It's telegraphing that we've looked at this deeply, we think there's a problem, we're looking at tools to address it and we're looking …