Boston Dynamics says its robot dog Spot is used by 60+ US and Canadian bomb squads and SWAT teams, with ~2K units deployed globally, five years after its debut (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-18/boston-dynamic-robot-dogs-increasingly-used-by-police-departments
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Boston Dynamics says 60+ US and Canadian bomb squads and SWAT teams use its robot dog Spot, with ~2,000 units in operation globally, five years after its debut
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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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Huawei's web of chipmaking firms scales up independent supply chains
Affiliates invest in takeovers and capacity buildups in line with China's national ambitions
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A look at Huawei
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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) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-18/china-s-tsinghua-university-is-beating-us-in-the-race-for-ai-patents?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MzUyMzA1MywiZXhwIjoxNzY0MTI3ODUzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNVhaVDBHUTFZVEIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.9GZX9DNQ6zsJD7iPMnSx7jyyBHlMTeCn3jDWeyEkLS8
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A look at Tsinghua University, which leads China
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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)
Europe’s Chip Dreams Confront Business Realities
European chipmakers need TSMC’s help to grow their own semiconductor supply chain, but the chip giant’s Taiwanese suppliers find Europe a tough...
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As TSMC readies its €10B Germany plant for 2027, its Taiwanese suppliers say they
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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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10 key findings from Atomico’s State of European Tech report
Sifted combed through the 183 charts in this year’s edition to pick out the most important bits
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Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $44B in 2025, up from $41B in 2024 and $43B in 2023; tech now makes up 15% of Europe
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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) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/brookfield-is-raising-10-billion-for-new-ai-infrastructure-fund-e345eaa2
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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
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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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TikTok will now give you badges for limiting your doomscrolling | TechCrunch
TikTok is adding new digital well-being tools like an affirmation journal, a background sound generator, and badges for using the app within limits.
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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
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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)
Grok 4.1 Tops EQ-Bench: Empathy vs Sycophancy Trade-Off
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TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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TikTok will let you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see | TechCrunch
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can ch...
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TikTok says it will test letting users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed, and more advanced AI-generated content labeling tech
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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) https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/ocado-get-250-million-krogers-planned-closure-some-automated-facilities-2025-11-18/
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UK online grocer Ocado
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