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
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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
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/
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/
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)