- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Germany approves legislation granting Interior Ministry new powers to ban Chinese tech suppliers from critical infrastructure sectors like energy and transport (Sam Clark/Politico)
- Samsung Galaxy XR review: matches some of the Vision Pro's hardware features at half the price, but has an uncomfortable headband and less precise hand tracking (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of ~$6B, up from $1.8B in July when it raised a $200M Series A (Iain Martin/Forbes)
- CloudX, which uses Anthropic's Claude to automate testing mobile ad pricing and optimizing inventory for publishers, raised a $30M Series A led by Addition (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
- Waymo partners with Moove and Baidu's ApolloGo partners with Lyft to roll out robotaxis in 2026 in London, the first place Chinese and US robotaxis will compete (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)
- Publicly traded Bitcoin miner Bitfarms says it will wind down its BTC operations and pivot to AI infrastructure after posting a net loss of $46M in Q3 (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
- A Berlin court rules that Google must pay €465M and €107M to German price comparison sites Idealo and Producto, in damages for market abuse; Google will appeal (Reuters)
- 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)
- 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)
- India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
- 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)
- Draft plans: EU is pushing for market regulator ESMA to get supervision and authorization powers over crypto firms, shifting oversight from national regulators (Bloomberg)