Sources: Samsung raised the prices of some memory chips by 30%- 60% compared to September, amid shortages, adding to stress for companies building data centers (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung-hikes-memory-chip-prices-by-up-60-shortage-worsens-sources-say-2025-11-14/
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Sources: Samsung raised some memory chip prices by 30% to 60% compared to September, amid shortages, likely adding to stress for companies building data centers
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Meta plans to launch WhatsApp third-party app integration in Europe "over the coming months" as required by the DMA, starting with BirdyChat and Haiket (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
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WhatsApp is launching third-party chat integration in Europe
BirdyChat and Haiket will be first to offer it.
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Meta plans to launch WhatsApp third-party app integration in Europe “over the coming months”, which is required by the DMA, starting with BirdyChat and Haiket
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Google proposes ad tech changes to address a €2.95B EU antitrust fine, including enhancing interoperability across its ad services, but still plans to appeal (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/google-offers-ad-tech-tweaks-in-3-billion-eu-antitrust-fight
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Google proposes ad tech changes to settle a €2.95B EU antitrust fine, including boosting interoperability across its ad tech services, but still plans to appeal
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An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg on lessons from AOL, the rise of esports, turning around EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic, Zynga, more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
An Interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg About Turnarounds – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
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An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg on lessons from AOL, the rise of esports, turning around EA
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Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73, up 9.5% from the ~$2.49 IPO price, after a $440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed (Soumyajit Saha/Nikkei Asia)
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Indian fintech Pine Labs rises in trading debut after $440m offering
Payments company had earlier slashed IPO over valuation concerns
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Indian payment startup Pine Labs
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Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing more than $250B in market value gains following the announcement of its OpenAI deals in September (Financial Times)
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How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-13/big-tech-s-climate-strategists-feel-strain-from-escalating-ai-power-demands
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How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are struggling to balance AI
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Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)
Firmus Technologies: Oliver Curtis’ AI infrastructure start-up triples valuation to $6 billion
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Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September
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Sources: Amazon and Anthropic support the GAIN AI Act which would give US buyers first priority on advanced AI chips; Microsoft publicly supported it in October (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-and-microsoft-back-effort-that-would-restrict-nvidias-exports-to-china-21e29e01?st=A8NkxM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Sources: Amazon and Anthropic join Microsoft in backing the GAIN AI Act, which would require US chipmakers to meet local demand before export; Nvidia opposes it
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OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; up to 20 users can be invited to prompt ChatGPT in a shared space (OpenAI) https://openai.com/index/group-chats-in-chatgpt
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OpenAI pilots group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan, letting up to 20 users create profiles and prompt ChatGPT in a shared space
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