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India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
2025-11-14 12:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Baidu stock fell as much as 9.8% in Hong Kong on Friday after its latest AI model Ernie 5.0 fails to impress investors (Bloomberg)
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Alibaba halves Qwen3-Max prices, from $0.861 to $0.459 per 1M input tokens and $3.441 to $1.836 per 1M output tokens for API users, amid China's AI price wars (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
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After a backlash, Google reverses plans to require all Android app developers to verify their identities with government ID and pay fees from 2026 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
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Draft plans: EU is pushing for market regulator ESMA to get supervision and authorization powers over crypto firms, shifting oversight from national regulators (Bloomberg)
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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to expand its lending to commodities traders "dramatically" after extending ~$1.5B worth of credit to the sector (Bloomberg)
2025-11-14 11:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google proposes ad tech changes to address a €2.95B EU antitrust fine, including enhancing interoperability across its ad services, but still plans to appeal (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
2025-11-14 10:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Samsung raised the prices of some memory chips by 30%- 60% compared to September, amid shortages, adding to stress for companies building data centers (Reuters)
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Meta plans to launch WhatsApp third-party app integration in Europe "over the coming months" as required by the DMA, starting with BirdyChat and Haiket (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
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An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg on lessons from AOL, the rise of esports, turning around EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic, Zynga, more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
2025-11-14 09:51 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73, up 9.5% from the ~$2.49 IPO price, after a $440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed (Soumyajit Saha/Nikkei Asia)
2025-11-14 06:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
2025-11-14 05:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing more than $250B in market value gains following the announcement of its OpenAI deals in September (Financial Times)
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Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September (Tess Bennett/Australian Financial Review)
2025-11-14 03:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; up to 20 users can be invited to prompt ChatGPT in a shared space (OpenAI)
2025-11-14 01:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Amazon and Anthropic support the GAIN AI Act, which would give US buyers first priority on advanced AI chips, joining Microsoft; Nvidia opposes it (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
2025-11-14 02:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mozilla says it is building AI Window, a Firefox feature that will include an AI assistant and let users choose the model, but offers few additional details (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
2025-11-14 01:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
2025-11-14 00:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers (The Information)
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 in the API, featuring a "no-reasoning" mode and extended prompt caching with up to 24-hour retention to generate faster responses (OpenAI)
2025-11-13 23:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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