Browsing: November

Technology

Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as an inflection point for coding, burnout from managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny’s Newsletter)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 4, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI buys TBPN, SpaceX’s IPO for $2 trillion? Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure The Big Technology…

Technology

SoftBank’s stock is down about 48% since November 3, as the extent of its involvement in OpenAI comes under increased scrutiny; On Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% following Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 9, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Sierra is getting ahead in the AI race | Co-founder Bret Taylor Grit explores what it…

Technology

Suno CEO and Co-Founder Mikey Shulman Says Music Company AI Has Reached 2 Million Paid Subscribers and $300 Million ARR; pitch deck: it had 1 million paying subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 27, 2026

Kristin Robinson / Billboard: Suno CEO and Co-Founder Mikey Shulman Says Music Company AI Has Reached 2 Million Paid Subscribers…

Technology

Sources: Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus project raises tens of billions to buy companies affected by AI; it was valued at ~$30 billion in November 2025 when it raised $6.2 billion (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 27, 2026

Financial Times: Sources: Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus project raises tens of billions to buy companies affected by AI; it was valued…

Technology

Binance says it will convert $1 billion of stablecoin reserves held in its SAFU into bitcoin over the next 30 days, as BTC falls to its lowest level since November (Danny Park/The Block)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 30, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Where will we go when the robots take over, with Sari Azout from Sublime A show about…

Technology

Tesla says it agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI for preferred stock as part of xAI’s Series E, despite a shareholder vote in November that failed to gain approval (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Is AI killing software? — With Bret Taylor The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind…

Technology

Billionaire Tom Steyer, running for California governor, says he will vote for the one-time 5% tax on billionaires’ wealth if it makes it onto the November ballot (Eliyahu Kamisher/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 26, 2026

Eliyahu Kamisher / Bloomberg: Billionaire Tom Steyer, running for California governor, says he will vote for the one-time 5% tax…

Technology

by the end of 2025, Claude Code’s ARR had increased by at least another $100 million from the $1 billion reported in November, representing 12% of Anthropic’s total ARR (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell explains Claude’s new constitution The future is already…

Technology

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering more than 285 million views on YouTube since November 2025 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 18, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Are Google’s Geminis winning?, Drama of thinking machines, The potential of Claude Cowork The Big…

Business & Money

Commercial real estate transactions slow again in November

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 15, 2026

A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new…

ASEAN, China unlikely to finalize South China Sea Code of Conduct at next summit – Radio Free Asia

Heat maps show North Korea’s largest greenhouse at less than half capacity – Radio Free Asia

Balikatan 2026 exercises will highlight Manila’s ‘more active defense posture’ – Radio Free Asia

North Korean agents use fake identities to apply for tech jobs – Radio Free Asia

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

FDA Speeds Up Research on Psychedelic Drugs Following Trump Order

Spirit Airlines’ money ‘won’t last very long’

Nike cuts 1,400 jobs in second round of layoffs this year

Trump administration decides to reclassify cannabis

Regeneron signs drug pricing deal with Trump, will offer hearing loss treatment for free

Trump falls asleep during Oval Office event as his decline deepens

Hakeem Jeffries calls Trump the stupidest president in history

Republicans attempt to overturn election after Virginia backfires Trump’s Gerrymander

RFK Jr. looked completely crazy during Senate hearing

Investigation opened into Kash Patel’s alleged drinking

Meta announces deal to use “tens of millions” of Amazon’s Graviton chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models, amid Nvidia chip shortage (Ina Fried/Axios)

Norway plans to ban children from using social media until age 16; government says it will present bill to parliament by end of 2026 (Terje Solsvik/Reuters)

EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: Around 49% of consumers have used AI in the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)

Trump threatens to “impose significant tariffs on the UK” if he does not scrap his digital services tax, which he sees as unfairly targeting US tech companies (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)

Sources: AI coding company Cognition in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation of $25 billion, up from $10.2 billion announced in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

Browsing: November

Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as an inflection point for coding, burnout from managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny’s Newsletter)

SoftBank’s stock is down about 48% since November 3, as the extent of its involvement in OpenAI comes under increased scrutiny; On Monday, SoftBank fell 9.8% following Stargate delay reports (Financial Times)

Suno CEO and Co-Founder Mikey Shulman Says Music Company AI Has Reached 2 Million Paid Subscribers and $300 Million ARR; pitch deck: it had 1 million paying subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

Sources: Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus project raises tens of billions to buy companies affected by AI; it was valued at ~$30 billion in November 2025 when it raised $6.2 billion (Financial Times)

Binance says it will convert $1 billion of stablecoin reserves held in its SAFU into bitcoin over the next 30 days, as BTC falls to its lowest level since November (Danny Park/The Block)

Tesla says it agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI for preferred stock as part of xAI’s Series E, despite a shareholder vote in November that failed to gain approval (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

Billionaire Tom Steyer, running for California governor, says he will vote for the one-time 5% tax on billionaires’ wealth if it makes it onto the November ballot (Eliyahu Kamisher/Bloomberg)

by the end of 2025, Claude Code’s ARR had increased by at least another $100 million from the $1 billion reported in November, representing 12% of Anthropic’s total ARR (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering more than 285 million views on YouTube since November 2025 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Commercial real estate transactions slow again in November