Dell, HP, and other tech companies are warning of potential memory-chip supply shortages in the coming year due to demand from the buildout of AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)
S&P downgrades the ability of Tether's USDT to maintain its peg to the US dollar to "weak", the lowest rating, citing exposure to high-risk assets such as BTC (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/tether-stablecoin-stability-rating-reduced-to-weak-at-s-p
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents (Paresh Dave/Wired)
The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit for accessing social media without parental consent and holds CEOs personally liable for violations (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/italys-competition-watchdog-broadens-whatsapp-ai-policy-probe-64c904cd
In an October 7 letter, the Pentagon informed lawmakers that Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/pentagon-cited-alibaba-on-china-military-aid-in-oct-7-letter
The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage (Sam Sabin/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/anthropic-google-cloud-quantum-xchange-house-homeland-hearing
EU member states agree a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM; states now negotiate with EU lawmakers (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/eu-states-back-away-forcing-big-tech-detect-remove-child-pornography-2025-11-26/
The EU says its regulators asked Shein for documents on measures to prevent the exposure of minors to inappropriate content and the circulation of illegal items (Jenny Che/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/shein-faces-eu-pressure-to-restrict-sales-of-sex-dolls-weapons
France says it plans legal complaints against AliExpress and Joom over the sales of childlike sex dolls; Temu, Wish, eBay, and more are also under investigation (Financial Times)