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The user base of generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in China had reached 230 million by June 2024, highlighting the country's widespread adoption of generative AI-driven upgrades across various industries.
Source: https://english.news.cn/20241201/4f1070c8a12c44d7b108272126aa8d38/c.html
Black Friday spending in U.S. retail stores was muted this year in contrast to a more robust rise online, as bargain-hungry Americans skipped stores in favor of their phones and laptops, according to data from Mastercard and other data providers.
The world's thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team. The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging uses that extremely thin strands of material, called nanofibers, have in medicine and industry.
Credit: Beatrice Britton / Adam Clancy
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-chemists-world-thinnest-spaghetti.html
SpaceX launches fifth mission for NRO’s proliferated architecture . ‘The U.S. government’s largest-ever satellite constellation continues to grow’
https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-fifth-mission-for-nros-proliferated-architecture/
Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investor and close collaborator, Microsoft, to prevent OpenAI and other named defendants from engaging in what Musk’s counsel claims is anticompetitive behavior 
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average notched record closing highs in a shortened Black Friday session, lifted by technology stocks such as Nvidia., while retail was in focus as the holiday shopping season kicked off.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/futures-inch-up-ahead-shortened-black-friday-session-2024-11-29/
Sources close to Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, said the company may spend over $10 billion on a nearly 25,000-mile project. Meta would reportedly own 100% of the cable's capacity, per TechCrunch.
A coalition of Canada's biggest news outlets is suing OpenAI, the maker of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, alleging the company is illegally using news articles to train its software.
NASA performed a scientific mission earlier this year, surveying Greenland's massive ice sheet to test the limits and capabilities of its Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar technology. The agency didn't expect to "see" anything interesting down there, yet they rediscovered a long-abandoned base built by the US during the Cold War.
Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/105763-nasa-got-new-view-secret-cold-war-base.html
Big Tech corporations on Friday hit out at a landmark Australian law that bans youths under the age of 16 from accessing social media, saying the law was "rushed" through parliament.
O2 users will have suspected scam and nuisance calls flagged to them before they pick up the phone via a new AI-powered tool, the mobile operator has said.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/o2-launches-aipowered-scam-call-detection-tool-b2655021.html
As a ceasefire the U.S. helped broker between Israel and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah came into effect Wednesday, President Biden said his administration would quickly launch "another push" with international partners to secure a deal to end the even deadlier war in the Gaza Strip.
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-ceasefire-hezbollah-biden-new-push-war-hamas-gaza/
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday opened London's first Google-funded AI Campus which aims to help young people develop skills in the rapidly developing technology.
Japan's space agency aborted an engine test for the Epsilon S rocket on Tuesday after it exploded and caught fire, a repeated failure that will likely push the rocket's debut launch beyond the March-end target and delay the national space programme.
Spotify is getting support for Google’s Gemini Extensions, which will allow users to search for and play music using the generative AI assistant with natural language requests.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/24306815/google-gemini-spotify-extension-rollout-android
Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies unveiled its Mate 70 smartphone series on Tuesday, bolstering its premium smartphone comeback while showcasing its own operating system that looks to cleanly break away from U.S. technology.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/huawei-launches-mate-70-smartphone-2024-11-26/
The U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday it was finalizing a $7.86 billion government subsidy for Intel, down from $8.5 billion announced in March after the California-based chips maker won a separate $3 billion award from the Pentagon. 
Orangr will enlist OpenAI and Meta to fine-tune AI large language models (LLMs) to translate regional African languages for the French telecoms operator, it said on Tuesday.
The United States (US) government is looking to introduce a new series of sanctions affecting at least 200 domestic chip makers in China,
Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for a new use: allowing a person to control a robotic arm using just their thoughts. 
https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-robotic-arm-controlled-by-mind/