Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000+ employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/verizon-begins-laying-off-more-than-13-000-employees-b227641f?st=apxffE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000+ employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs
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Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging the adoption of device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes (Jason Parham/Wired)
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Pornhub Is Urging Tech Giants to Enact Device-Based Age Verification
The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn, as US and UK laws have ca...
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Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging that they adopt device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes
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Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times (David Ingram/NBC News)
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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront β€” a neo-Nazi forum β€” dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
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Cornell University researchers: Grokipedia cites sources deemed “generally unreliable” or “blacklisted” by Wikipedia, like neo-Nazi sites Stormfront and VDare
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Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick promotes AI, including pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are cashing in on the AI projects (New York Times)
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.
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Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pushes AI data centers, including by pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are profiting from them
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Uber plans to launch sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a partnership with Starship, starting in UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-20/uber-teams-with-starship-to-begin-offering-robot-deliveries-in-europe
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Uber says it will launch Uber Eats sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a new Starship partnership, starting with UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December
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Microsoft and Qualcomm launch Windows updates to improve Arm gaming, including a refreshed Xbox app; Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Control Panel optimizes games (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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Windows on Arm is now ready for gaming thanks to some big changes
Fortnite is even available on Windows on Arm now
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Microsoft and Qualcomm release Windows updates to improve gaming on ARM, including a refreshed Xbox app; Qualcomm
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A study of mental health conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI: they often failed to recognize signs of conditions and offered general advice (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/teens-seek-mental-health-help-from-chatbots-thats-dangerous-says-new-study-24d06f8d?st=U8fEZ2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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A study of teen mental health chatbot conversations: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI often failed to recognize signs of conditions and gave general advice
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A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/spanish-court-orders-meta-pay-550-mln-digital-media-companies-2025-11-20/
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A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations
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Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters drive a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-conservative-youtube-stars-marketing-boom/
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Analysis: YouTube
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The US DOE accelerates its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs (Don Clark/New York Times)
To Meld A.I. With Supercomputers, National Labs Are Picking Up the Pace
A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giant...
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The US DOE accelerates its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs
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