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Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)

Joan Verdon / Forbes:
Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B  —  Joan Verdon is a veteran retail reporter based in Northern New Jersey.  —  Consumers spent record amounts online on Black Friday …

Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data (Nadeem Badshah/The Guardian)

Nadeem Badshah / The Guardian:
Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data  —  Immediate software change on ‘significant number’ of jets to result in disruption to half the worldwide fleet

Sources: Micron plans to invest $9.6B in Japan to build a production facility for next-gen HBM memory chips beginning in 2026, with shipments expected in 2028 (Ryo Mukano/Nikkei Asia)

Ryo Mukano / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Micron plans to invest $9.6B in Japan to build a production facility for next-gen HBM memory chips beginning in 2026, with shipments expected in 2028  —  TOKYO — U.S. semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology will invest 1.5 trillion yen ($9.6 billion) to build a production facility …

Pangram Labs: ~21% of the 75,800 peer reviews submitted for ICLR 2026, a major ML conference, were fully AI-generated, and 50%+ contained signs of AI use (Miryam Naddaf/Nature)

Miryam Naddaf / Nature:
Pangram Labs: ~21% of the 75,800 peer reviews submitted for ICLR 2026, a major ML conference, were fully AI-generated, and 50%+ contained signs of AI use  —  By - Miryam Naddaf 0  —  Miryam Naddaf is a science writer based in London.  —  Search author on:  —  PubMed Google Scholar

A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)

Daniela Dib / Rest of World:
A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community  —  A growing Chinese techie community in Nuevo Polanco is fueling a boom in restaurants and markets to serve them.