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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 (Itsuro Fujino/Nikkei Asia)

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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 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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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 (New York Times)

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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 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)

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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 (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)

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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 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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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 (Christopher Ort/i10X)

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Meross’ radar presence sensor ditches the cord and adds Matter-over-Thread support

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TikTok plans to test letting users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed, and will add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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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 (Reuters)

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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 (Wall Street Journal)

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Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore, collaborating with institutions across the Asia-Pacific in education, public services, and more (Lila Ibrahim/Google DeepMind)

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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 (Tess Patton/The Wrap)

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Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT

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In a lawsuit, US-based TP-Link says Netgear orchestrated a smear campaign by planting false claims with journalists and influencers about TP-Link's China ties (Bloomberg)

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Apple Succession Planning

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iOS 26.2: Third-Party Voice Assistants in Japan

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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" (Matthew Prince/Cloudflare)

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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 (Anthropic)

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