Sources: Apple cut dozens of sales roles to streamline sales to businesses, schools, and governments; Apple says the changes affect "a small number of roles" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/apple-aapl-cuts-jobs-across-its-sales-organization-in-rare-layoff
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Sources: Apple cut dozens of sales roles to streamline sales to businesses, schools, and governments; Apple says the changes affect “a small number of roles”
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Anthropic says Claude can now keep a chat going indefinitely, automatically summarizing earlier context when it hits its context window (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
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Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 with new Chrome and Excel integrations | TechCrunch
Anthropic has launched Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model, with new integrations into Chrome and Excel.
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Anthropic says the Claude app can now keep a chat going indefinitely, automatically summarizing earlier context when it hits its context window limit
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How the US' annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-u-s-economy-became-hooked-on-ai-spending-4b6bc7ff?st=vVAu16&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, which the company says is "the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use" (Anthropic) https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5
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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, saying it is “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use” and “meaningfully better at everyday tasks”
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Grindr ends talks on a $3.46B take-private deal by shareholders Ray Zage and James Lu, who own 60%+ of Grindr, citing uncertainty over the deal's financing (Kritika Lamba/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/grindr-special-committee-ends-talks-take-private-proposal-2025-11-24/
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Grindr ends talks on a $3.46B take-private deal by shareholders Ray Zage and James Lu, who own 60%+ of Grindr, citing uncertainty over the deal
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Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM designed for computer use, available as an experimental release on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat) https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsofts-fara-7b-is-a-computer-use-ai-agent-that-rivals-gpt-4o-and-works
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Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM designed for computer use, available as an experimental release on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry
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The US DOD and the intelligence community awarded Enabled Intelligence a seven-year, up to $708M data labeling contract in September, beating out Scale AI (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/scale-ai-loses-to-smaller-upstart-in-bid-for-us-intel-work
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Enabled Intelligence won a seven-year data-labeling contract with a $708M ceiling for the US DOD and intelligence community in September, beating out Scale AI
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OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
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ChatGPT's new shopping research tool is fast, fun, and free - but can it out-shop me?
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, OpenAI has introduced a new tool that it hopes will help you find just what you're looking for.
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OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer
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Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings (Aleksandra Sagan/The Logic)
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Shopify rocked by sales fraud scandal that led to ultimatums and firings - The Logic
Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing. When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the conse...
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Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings
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Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu) https://tech.eu/2025/11/21/dutch-online-grocery-store-picnic-raises-430m/
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Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024
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