Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
As OpenAI commits to spending $1.4T, creating a mesh of complicated deals, the startup does not disclose its auditor, and there is little information online (Louis Ashworth/Financial Times)
An overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as "AI eats the world": bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech FOMO, capex, Nvidia, US power backlogs, and more (Benedict Evans)
Letterboxd plans to launch the Letterboxd Video Store, a curated rental platform with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in December 2025 (Letterboxd)
Sources: Chinese investment firm Capital Today bought ByteDance shares at a $480B valuation after a bidding war; ByteDance had a $330B valuation in September (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)
Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforces-slack-stop-direct-service-china-farm-alibaba
How AI is pressuring Poland's economy, Europe's top location for global business services, as companies lay off staff in Krakow, the country's hub for BPO jobs (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-20/poland-economy-under-pressure-from-ai-and-soaring-wages
How scientists are exploring the use of quantum sensors, developed by startups like Q-CTRL, as a secure GPS alternative with military and civilian applications (Mike Cherney/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-pentagon-cant-trust-gps-anymore-is-quantum-physics-the-answer-d7b2d4e6?st=jZBTyB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Q&A with former Xbox boss Peter Moore on the Xbox 360 launch, his new book Game Changer, competition with Sony, the origins of the modern console war, and more (Robert Purchese/Eurogamer.net)
China's transport, logistics, and ride-hailing sectors are accelerating the mass adoption of autonomous vehicles, threatening the jobs of millions of drivers (Edward White/Financial Times)