Sources: key White House officials are pressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to keep AI chip export restrictions to China out of the annual defense policy bill (Maria Curi/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/white-house-block-bill-restricting-ai-chip-exports
Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Yann LeCun is departing Meta; sources: Meta plans to partner with LeCun on his new startup, which will be focused on world models (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/meta-ai-s-lecun-to-announce-exit-startup-as-soon-as-this-week
Nokia unveils a new strategy, including plans to split its high-growth AI operations into a separate unit from its telecoms business; Nokia's shares fall 7% (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
Investors pulled $523M from BlackRock's IBIT bitcoin ETF on Tuesday, its largest single-day outflow since launch; BTC fell ~30% from its October all-time high (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/bitcoin-btc-slide-spurs-record-withdrawals-from-blackrock-s-ibit
Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-launch-prediction-market-powered-kalshi
Sources: US officials are privately saying they might not levy semiconductor tariffs soon, as the Trump administration takes a more cautious approach with China (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trumps-semiconductor-tariff-plan-likely-delayed-officials-say-2025-11-19/
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, saying it is "significantly better" at "long-horizon reasoning" and is the first model it has trained for Windows environments (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
OpenAI announces ChatGPT for Teachers, designed for K-12 educators and school districts, and says it will be free to K-12 educators in the US through June 2027 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)