An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more (Anika Collier Navaroli/The Tech Policy Press Podcast)
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Through to Thriving: Protecting Our Privacy with Chris Gilliard
Tech Policy Press fellow Anika Collier Navaroli in conversation with Critical Internet Studies Institute privacy researcher and advocate Chris Gill...
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An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X
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Chinese chipmaker Cambricon's revenue surged 500%+ in the past year and its stock jumped 765%+ in two years, as China pushes local chips amid US sanctions (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-16/us-sanctions-propel-chinese-ai-prodigy-to-23-billion-fortune
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Chinese chipmaker Cambricon
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FT's Tim Cook retirement story could be a "trial balloon" from people close to him, if Cook makes the decision to leave on a high note after Q1 earnings report (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
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Might Tim Cook retire as CEO of Apple in early 2026? There are signs...
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Tokyo-based Turing, which is developing an AI model for self-driving vehicles, raised a $99M Series A, sources say at a ~$388M valuation (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/ai-startup-turing-secures-denso-s-backing-at-388-million-value
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Tokyo-based Turing, which is developing an AI model for self-driving vehicles, raised a ~$99M Series A, sources say at a ~$388M valuation, nearly 4x from 2024
By Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are exploring future lunar and orbital AI data centers which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/now-tech-moguls-want-to-build-data-centers-in-outer-space-a8d08b4b?st=aK2n8a&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai have each discussed building lunar and orbital AI data centers to leverage constant solar power and bypass regulations
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BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating "phantom debt" (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
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As Capital One co-founder Nigel Morris watches his BNPL investments from the other side of the table, he seems to understand the warning signs bett...
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Empower: US BNPL use has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren
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Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly leaning on Google's new DeepMind prediction model, though questions about its methods remain (Eric Holthaus/The Guardian)
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How Google’s DeepMind tool is ‘more quickly’ forecasting hurricane behavior
‘Less expensive and time consuming’ model helps with fast and accurate predictions, possibly saving lives and property
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US National Hurricane Center forecasters are increasingly leaning hard on Google
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Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms (Nikkei Asia)
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Sakana AI takes crown as Japan's most valuable unicorn
AI developer valued at $2.63bn in latest funding round
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Tokyo-based Sakana AI raised a ~$135M Series B from MUFG, Khosla, Macquarie, NEA, Lux, and others at a ~$2.6B valuation, becoming Japan
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A look at Flighty, a flight-tracking app that often beats airline updates; downloads went up 3x when the FAA cut air traffic during the US government shutdown (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/flighty-app-flight-cancellations-delays-900a8aad?st=hKDKk8&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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A look at flight-tracking app Flighty, which often beats airlines
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Samsung, SK Group, and others announce billions in domestic investment after US-South Korea trade deal; Samsung plans to invest $310B and SK Group pledged $88B (Kim Tong-Hyung/Associated Press)
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Samsung and other South Korean firms pledge larger domestic investments after US tariff deal
Samsung Electronics and other major South Korean companies have announced new domestic investment plans.
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Samsung, SK Group, and others announce billions in domestic investments after the US-South Korea trade deal; Samsung plans to invest ~$310B and SK pledged ~$88B
By Kim Tong-Hyung / Associated Press. View the full context on Techmeme.