Journals

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India’s November 21 labor law has granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive  —  India has granted legal status to millions of gig and… Read More »India’s November 21 labor law has granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro over third-party tools like Cursor, aiming to gather feedback for improvement  —  Amazon suggested its engineers eschew AI code generation tools from third-party… Read More »Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro over third-party tools like Cursor, aiming to gather feedback for improvement (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Google is starting to bridge OpenAI’s product moat, like with Gemini’s “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output  —  I have a simple method for my own AI rankings: product… Read More »Google is starting to bridge OpenAI’s product moat, like with Gemini’s “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29  —  Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health… Read More »Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

Bloomberg: Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February  —  Exchange-traded funds investing in Bitcoin are heading for their worst month of outflows… Read More »Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February (Bloomberg)

Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: How Meta’s financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions  —  Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some… Read More »How Meta’s financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

David Shepardson / Reuters: Trump signs an EO establishing the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents  —  President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to… Read More »Trump signs an EO establishing the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents (David Shepardson/Reuters)

CNBC: Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future launches a $10M media campaign to push Congress to craft a national AI policy that will override a patchwork of state laws  —  A super PAC backed by the artificial intelligence industry on… Read More »Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future launches a $10M media campaign to push Congress to craft a national AI policy that will override a patchwork of state laws (CNBC)

Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: The US DOJ settles its case against RealPage, which was accused of building algorithms that allowed landlords to illegally collude to drive up rental prices  —  The Justice Department has settled its case against… Read More »The US DOJ settles its case against RealPage, which was accused of building algorithms that allowed landlords to illegally collude to drive up rental prices (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)

Tae Kim / Barron’s Online: Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying “Unlike Enron, NVIDIA does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue”  —  A series of prominent stock sales and allegations of… Read More »Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying “Unlike Enron, NVIDIA does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue” (Tae Kim/Barron’s Online)