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Techmeme - 2025-11-14T20:25:49-05:00

Sources: Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400M led by B Capital at a $5B pre-money valuation (The Information) - 2025-11-14T20:25:00-05:00

X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web (Karissa Bell/Engadget) - 2025-11-14T19:05:01-05:00

Digital asset treasuries increasingly rely on in-kind contributions, with sponsors using their own crypto instead of cash, shifting risk to retail investors (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-14T18:25:00-05:00

Opera says in the 12 months ending with October, it saw a 88% surge in daily active iOS users across Europe, partly due to the changes mandated by the DMA (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac) - 2025-11-14T17:30:00-05:00

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - 2025-11-14T17:05:01-05:00

Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A (Bernie Pazanowski/Bloomberg Law) - 2025-11-14T16:55:01-05:00

Filing: Berkshire Hathaway discloses a $4.3B stake in Alphabet in Q3, a surprising move given Warren Buffett's reluctance toward high-growth, tech-driven stocks (Yun Li/CNBC) - 2025-11-14T16:35:04-05:00

Google says it plans to invest $40B through 2027 in three new data centers in Texas, including one co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-14T16:20:01-05:00

Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released "in Q1 sometime", later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025 (Theo Wayt/The Information) - 2025-11-14T16:06:36-05:00

Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their "AI-driven impact", which will be a "core expectation" of their performance from 2026 (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider) - 2025-11-14T15:45:01-05:00

Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve claims it denied discounts to conservative religious nonprofits; OpenAI and Asana also made deals (Jeff Green/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-14T15:30:01-05:00

JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid, covering 95%+ of third-party data pulls, and will receive payment for access to customer data (Hugh Son/CNBC) - 2025-11-14T14:40:00-05:00

WH national security memo: Alibaba provides tech support for China military's "operations" against targets in the US; Alibaba says it is "complete nonsense" (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times) - 2025-11-14T13:45:01-05:00

Sources: Tether is in talks to lead a €1B funding round in Neura Robotics, valuing the startup at €8B-€10B, as Tether seeks to expand its investment portfolio (Financial Times) - 2025-11-14T13:35:00-05:00

Germany approves legislation granting Interior Ministry new powers to ban Chinese tech suppliers from critical infrastructure sectors like energy and transport (Sam Clark/Politico) - 2025-11-14T13:25:01-05:00