Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M — The start-up is now valued at about $8 billion as it pushes to add new customers, including those outside law firms.
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times: A look at “TSMC Village” in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings an influx of skilled workers from Taiwan who face challenges like adapting to a sprawling suburbia — Skilled workers from Taiwan engaged in the chip industry have found ways to ease the transition to America while making an imprint on Greater Phoenix.
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times: Chip giants' efforts to turn Phoenix into a US hub may hinge on training local workers; an estimated 115K local chip jobs are set to be created in four years — The success of efforts to turn Phoenix into a dominant center of semiconductor manufacturing may hinge on efforts to train local workers.
Peter S. Goodman / New York Times: How TSMC, Intel, and Amkor are transforming Phoenix into the US' chip hub, investing tens of billions and showing the difficulties of large-scale US projects — The transformation of Phoenix into a semiconductor hub by Taiwan's TSMC illustrates the difficulties of large-scale projects in the United States.
Cade Metz / New York Times: A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate and complete specific tasks, like booking flights — This summer, lawyers at United Airlines noticed that someone had built an almost perfect replica of the company's website.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in October 2025, making its co-founders billionaires — The fund-raising effort, the company's third this year, values it at $11 billion, and comes amid stiff competition in the increasingly popular industry.
Tim Balk / New York Times: New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10+ states are considering similar bills — The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.
David Streitfeld / New York Times: A profile of Paulina Borsook, as her 2000 book Cyberselfish, warning about Silicon Valley's love for “techno-libertarianism”, finds a resurgence in interest — Even Silicon Valley dislikes Silicon Valley. — More than two-thirds of residents agreed in a 2024 poll …
New York Times: Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted — SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase.
New York Times: Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick promotes AI, including pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are cashing in on the AI projects — Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.
Don Clark / New York Times: The US DOE accelerates its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs — A.I. has added urgency to the U.S. national laboratories that have been sites of cutting-edge scientific research, leading to deals with tech giants like Nvidia to speed up.
New York Times: Meta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume buying startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a slowdown under Lina Khan — To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta's antitrust win may change that thinking.
New York Times: FTC v. Meta: TikTok's rise undermined the FTC's antitrust case and helped Meta avoid a breakup; Judge Boasberg said the tech landscape has “changed markedly” — Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed at rapid digital changes to blunt government efforts to rein in its power.
New York Times: CEIP study: 87 of the top 100 Chinese AI researchers who were working in the US in 2019 are still doing research at US universities or companies in 2025 — Although some Silicon Valley executives paint China as the enemy, Chinese brains continue to play a major role in U.S. research.
New York Times: Investigation: $28B+ in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto — President Trump has started his own cryptocurrency business and vowed to make the United States the world's “crypto capital.”
Cade Metz / New York Times: Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 — Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.
Heather Knight / New York Times: A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern — At Delirium, a dive bar in San Francisco's Mission District, the décor is dark, the drinks are strong, and the emotions are raw.
Neil Vigdor / New York Times: At a Moscow demo, anthropomorphic robot AIDOL, one of the first in Russia, face-planted; organizers dragged the machine away and covered it with a black drape — The robot, known as AIDOL, staggered onstage during a technology showcase in Moscow. Organizers blamed the mishap on calibration and lighting issues.
Francesca Regalado / New York Times: A Chinese-born businessman who the US and China say ran one of SE Asia's largest scam compounds was extradited to China, three years after his Thailand arrest — China and the United States say She Zhijiang, a Chinese-born businessman, ran a major scam compound in Myanmar. He was arrested in Bangkok in 2022.
Adam Leventhal / The Athletic: Amazon says it is rolling out a tougher approach to combat illegal sports streaming on Fire TV Stick devices, aiming to block apps that stream pirated content — Amazon is rolling out a tougher approach to combat illegal streaming, with the United States-based tech company aiming …
Adam Leventhal / The Athletic: How US-based ACE, led by the MPA, took down illegal sports streamer Streameast, which had 136M global users per month, £4.9M in ad revenue, and £150K in crypto — Online reaction to the news about September's takedown of Streameast, the world's largest illegal sports streaming platform, was instructive.
Niko Gallogly / New York Times: Gamma, which uses AI to help create presentations, social media posts, websites, and more, raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation and reports 600K+ paying users — The five-year-old start-up, which has just 52 employees and is profitable, is now valued at $2.1 billion by investors including Andreessen Horowitz.
Evan Gorelick / New York Times: A group of US lawyers document 509 cases of AI misuse in legal filings so far in 2025, including fabricated citations; judges and bar associations permit AI use — More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some colleagues are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors.
Adam Leventhal / The Athletic: A YouGov survey estimates 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, about 200K people more than in 2023 — Illegal streaming of football is on the rise in the UK and most fans want the Saturday 3pm blackout lifted, a new podcast released by The Athletic has revealed.
Kashmir Hill / New York Times: Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death suits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions — Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.
Reggie Ugwu / New York Times: Some podcasters are embracing AI voice clones from ElevenLabs and other startups, aiming to augment, translate episodes, and even replace in-studio performances — Are A.I. replicas a boon for productivity or a betrayal of the bond with listeners? — Benjamin Boster's plan was simple.
Anatoly Kurmanaev / New York Times: How the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto — President Nicolás Maduro's opponents hope a new period of economic pain will finally topple his government.
Noam Scheiber / New York Times: A profile of Aaron Greenspan, who has spent years on a crusade to expose what he believes are financial problems at Tesla and at big tech companies — In 2018, Aaron Greenspan was a 30-something tech entrepreneur wondering what he should do with the several million dollars in his pocket.
Keith Bradsher / New York Times: After Trump and Xi's meeting, China says it will suspend its rare earth export controls issued on October 9 for one year, but says nothing about earlier limits — China has suspended export controls announced this month, but was conspicuously silent about rules imposed earlier, which are snarling global supply chains.
New York Times: President Trump and Xi Jinping agree a yearlong truce that rolls back many contentious tariffs and retaliatory measures; the current deal expired on November 10 — China agreed to suspend for a year some of its limits on exports of rare earth metals, while the U.S. halved its fentanyl-related tariffs.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: Livestream marketplace Whatnot raised $225M at an $11.5B valuation, after raising $265M at a $4.97B valuation in January, taking its total funding to $968M — The start-up is among the biggest names in a fast-growing part of e-commerce that is effectively a kind of QVC for the TikTok era.
Steven Adler / New York Times: An ex-OpenAI staffer of four years says it isn't doing enough to protect users, especially those with mental health issues, and needs to offer more than words — I've read more smut at work than you can possibly imagine, all of it while working at OpenAI. — Back in the spring of 2021 …
New York Times: How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle — In northwest Saudi Arabia near the Red Sea, a planned $5 billion data center would provide enough computing muscle for coders …
Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Bill Ready, who became Pinterest's CEO in 2022, about changes during his tenure, winning over Gen Z, Pinterest's business model, AI content, and more — Bill Ready, the company's chief executive, is shifting the virtual pinboard platform toward shopping and things that “make you feel better.”
Zachary Small / New York Times: Microsoft plans to bring its Halo franchise to the PlayStation for the first time with the launch of a 25th‑anniversary remake of Halo: Combat Evolved in 2026 — As part of a strategic shift away from exclusivity, Microsoft is bringing Halo to Sony's competing console for the first time.
Niki Kitsantonis / New York Times: Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations — Start-ups are booming in the European Union, but experts say bureaucracy keeps them from expanding across borders.
Adam Leventhal / The Athletic: UEFA joins the MPA-led anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the first sports governing body to join the group, which has 50+ members — UEFA has become the first sports governing body to join the world's largest anti-piracy coalition, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE).
Karen Weise / New York Times: A look at Amazon's Sparrow, Cardinal, Proteus, and other warehouse robots, taking over roles like selecting and picking items, carrying shipping carts, and more — Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They're the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company's warehouses.
New York Times: Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K+ jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations — Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: OpenEvidence, which makes an ad-supported AI chatbot for medical practitioners, raised $200M at a $6B valuation, up from $3.5B after raising $210M in July — The three-year-old artificial intelligence start-up has drawn investor attention, and money, as its use among doctors, nurses and others skyrockets.
Michael Paulson / New York Times: Ariel Emanuel's new company MARI acquires NYC- and London-based theater ticketing app TodayTix from PE firm Great Hill; TodayTix sells ~10M tickets per year — The ticketing company is already a significant player in the two big theater markets of New York and London.
New York Times: Tech companies' data center building spree is hurting communities globally; Synergy: nearly 60% of the 1,244 largest data centers as of June were outside the US — As tech companies build data centers worldwide to advance artificial intelligence, vulnerable communities have been hit by blackouts and water shortages.
Julia Black / New York Times: A profile of Katherine Boyle, an a16z partner and a friend to JD Vance, as Silicon Valley increasingly adopts her views, including embracing defense tech — Katherine Boyle, an influential venture capitalist who is a friend of the vice president, thinks the country's path forward involves …
Andy Newman / New York Times: Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles — After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World's Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
Natallie Rocha / New York Times: The AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up by the most in the US over the past year, as AI companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees — The artificial intelligence gold rush has pushed San Francisco's residential rents up by the most in the nation …
Ryan Mac / New York Times: Online loans marketplace LendingTree says CEO and Chairman Doug Lebda died at 55 in an ATV accident on his family's farm; Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996 — Mr. Lebda died on Sunday after an all-terrain vehicle accident on his family's North Carolina farm, a company spokeswoman said.
Eshe Nelson / New York Times: Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how innovation and technological progress helps economic growth — Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate …
New York Times: Parisians and BHV Marais staff protest Shein's 1,000-square-meter store, set to open November 1, as France tries to curb the company's presence in the country — As the Chinese online fast-fashion retailer prepares to open a physical space in a venerable department store, France pushes to stem the company's presence in the country.
Stephen Witt / New York Times: Interviews with security researchers about AI's potential for large-scale destruction, as experts remain divided and global regulatory frameworks lag — How much do we have to fear from A.I., really? It's a question I've been asking experts since the debut of ChatGPT in late 2022.
Heather Knight / New York Times: Marc Benioff says President Trump is “doing a great job” and believes National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco to help reduce crime in the city — Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services.