Business and Enterprise: AI News Week Ending 11/28/2025

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Claude for Excel | Claude https://www.claude.com/claude-for-excel

Amazon cut thousands of engineers in its record layoffs, filings show https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html

Amazon to invest up to $50 billion to strengthen American leadership in AI and supercomputing https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-ai-investment-us-federal-agencies

Amazon to spend up to $50 billion on AI services for U.S. government https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/amazon-to-spend-up-to-50-billion-on-ai-services-for-us-government.html

Foxconn to spend up to $3 billion a year on AI, chair sees China EV shakeout https://finance.yahoo.com/news/foxconn-spend-3-billion-ai-230148283.html

Musk’s xAI to close $15 billion funding round in December https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/musk-xai-funding-december.html

OpenAI and Foxconn collaborate to strengthen U.S. manufacturing across the AI supply chain | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/openai-and-foxconn-collaborate/

Nvidia says its GPUs are a ‘generation ahead’ of Google’s AI chips https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/nvidia-says-its-gpus-are-a-generation-ahead-of-googles-ai-chips.html

We’re delighted by Google’s success — they’ve made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google. NVIDIA is a generation ahead of the industry — it’s the only platform that runs every AI model and does it everywhere computing is done. NVIDIA offers greater”” / X https://x.com/nvidianewsroom/status/1993364210948936055?s=20

Introducing shopping research in ChatGPT | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-shopping-research/

Introducing shopping research, a new experience in ChatGPT that does the research to help you find the right products. It’s everything you like about deep research but with an interactive interface to help you make smarter purchasing decisions. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1993018357432586391

We’re launching shopping research in ChatGPT, a new way to discover, compare, and choose the right products without endless tabs. Describe what you need, and ChatGPT builds a personalized buyer’s guide in minutes – with smart clarifying questions, in-depth research, and easy https://x.com/nickaturley/status/1993043580961927637

Excited to share shopping research with the world! Shopping is fun but time consuming, with countless websites, retailers, brands, review pages, and more playing a role. We trained a new model and built a new product around it to make shopping better. Give it a try!”” / X https://x.com/johnohallman/status/1993019193189712341

Shopping research — deep research to find exactly the right product for you:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1993039769732018426

Perplexity says its AI personal shopper ‘puts you first’ | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/829019/perplexity-ai-personal-shopper-paypal

Shopping That Puts You First https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/shopping-that-puts-you-first

Today we’re rolling out virtual try-on to all Perplexity Pro and Max subscribers. Upload a photo to create your digital avatar and virtually try on clothes while shopping on Perplexity. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1993760113988170165

Today, we’re launching a new personalized shopping experience in Perplexity. Users now enjoy curated product recommendations with Instant Buy powered by @PayPal. https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1993349903192674681

Very excited to launch shopping research just in time for the holiday season + proud of the team for this crazy sprint! It’s a fun new way to help you find the best products for high-consideration purchases. Shopping research is powered by a version of GPT-5R mini that we”” / X https://x.com/isafulf/status/1993028101639704617

fyi we made Claude for Excel is now live for all Max, Team, and Enterprise users. Opus 4.5 makes it meaningfully better at complex spreadsheet tasks. https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1993349203935084861

The Iceberg Index: Measuring Workforce Exposure Across the AI Economy https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25137

McKinsey Cuts About 200 Tech Jobs, Shifts More Roles to AI – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26/mckinsey-cuts-about-200-tech-jobs-shifts-more-roles-to-ai?_bhlid=b9babea17c337993143b9b766f38ed2ebaac6584

LlamaSheets | AI Parsing and Extraction for Spreadsheets https://www.llamaindex.ai/blog/announcing-llamasheets-turn-messy-spreadsheets-into-ai-ready-data-beta

Announcing LlamaSheets in beta 🔥 Transform your messy spreadsheets into AI-ready data with our newest LlamaCloud API 📊 LlamaSheets (in beta) is a specialized API that automatically structures complex spreadsheets while preserving their semantic meaning and hierarchical https://x.com/llama_index/status/1993362324070318286

Estimating AI productivity gains \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/research/estimating-productivity-gains

The main lesson of the past few weeks is that the Big Four US labs all seem to have figured out a path forward in continuing the exponential pace of LLM improvement, at least in the near future. As a result, agents continue to advance in coding & in office tasks like PowerPoint”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1993062450938425820

As one of the authors of the original “jagged frontier” paper, I think this undersells how jagged AI is (& likely will be) at even the level of individual jobs: having a couple of critical tasks that AI can’t do creates deep bottlenecks especially as shape of frontier is unknown.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1993686155389206584

This result implies a doubling of the baseline labor productivity growth trend–placing our estimate towards the upper end of recent studies. And if models improve, the effect could be larger still. https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1993305330869223463

HP to cut about 6,000 jobs by 2028, ramps up AI efforts | CNN Business https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/tech/hp-layoffs-ai-efforts

Launch Week Recap: Monetization Infrastructure for AI | Metronome blog https://metronome.com/blog/launch-week-recap-monetization-infrastructure-for-ai

LLM | Business Model & Unit Economics – by FD – Robonomics https://robonomics.substack.com/p/llm-unit-economics?r=3hcp4

Point One Navigation Raises $35 Million Series C https://pointonenav.com/news/point-one-navigation-raises-35-million-series-c-to-define-the-future-of-precise-location-and-physical-ai/

Source: Kalshi’s valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/source-kalshis-valuation-jumps-to-11b-after-raising-massive-1b-round/

Some of the most interesting challenges posed by AI are to organizational structures: how does AI alter the economies of scope that determine firm boundaries? How do they change transaction costs? Efficiency/creativity trade-offs? Figuring this out is key to benefiting from AI.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1992250331225624597

our latest AI Jam: a day of mentoring 1,000 small business owners to build AI tools tailored to their needs — from professional services such as accounting and law firms, to restaurants, caterers and food trucks, to retailers like clothing and convenience stores, to creative https://x.com/gdb/status/1992013098161766720

We launched a new API today to let you parse any Excel sheet in a structured table. Take a look at this example on core production costs 🌽: 1️⃣ The table is located at the center of the sheet with headers, footnotes, and a hierarchical column layout 2️⃣ We get back a structured https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1993419298900263243

OpenAI 🤝 Foxconn: https://x.com/gdb/status/1992128523327484102

Review of Deep Seek OCR | 90/30 Club https://lukeatkins.me/90_30_Club/posts/deepseekocr/

As many of you have heard through rumors or recent media articles, I am planning to leave Meta after 12 years: 5 years as founding director of FAIR and 7 years as Chief AI Scientist. The impact of FAIR on the company, on the field of AI, on the tech community, and on the wider world has been spectacular. The creation of FAIR is my proudest non-technical accomplishment. https://www.threads.com/@yannlecun/post/DRQL7I2jlco

HunyuanOCR Usage Guide – vLLM Recipes https://docs.vllm.ai/projects/recipes/en/latest/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanOCR.html

Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanOCR https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/HunyuanOCR

tencent/HunyuanOCR · Hugging Face https://huggingface.co/tencent/HunyuanOCR

We are thrilled to open-source HunyuanOCR, an expert, end-to-end OCR model built on Hunyuan’s native multimodal architecture and training strategy. This model achieves SOTA performance with only 1 billion parameters, significantly reducing deployment costs. ⚡️Benchmark Leader: https://x.com/TencentHunyuan/status/1993202595264131436

Great to see more compact OCR models landing in open source lately — and HunyuanOCR is a standout: a strong, versatile 1B model with impressive real-world coverage. The vLLM community already provides Day-0 support, so you can try it right away: https://x.com/vllm_project/status/1993291230558716237

Building an AI-Native Engineering Team https://developers.openai.com/codex/guides/build-ai-native-engineering-team/

Just launched two major updates for ChatGPT app builders: 👨‍💻 What makes a great ChatGPT app — a new guide on capability selection and conversation- & discovery-first design. 🧩 New Apps SDK UI component library — ChatGPT-native building blocks to help teams move faster on UI.”” / X https://x.com/coreyching/status/1993317895766487197

SoftBank Invests $3B Into OpenAI Modular Data Center Factory

SoftBank Commits $3B to Transform Ohio EV Plant Into Factory for OpenAI Data Centres

SoftBank to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Factory for OpenAI Data Centers — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/softbank-invest-3-billion-factory-openai-data-centers

GPT-5.1 Pro: “feels like a step toward models that think and communicate more like real colleagues, with better domain expertise, intuition, and judgment, along with increased empathy and communication skill””” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1992646559285330392

I don’t think it is insane to project that the leading AI service reaches 80% of the subscriber level of the leading music service in 5 years. (Whether OpenAI is the leading service in 5 years is part of the question, but they are today)”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1993697415140942303

OpenAI dumps Mixpanel after analytics breach hits API users • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/27/openai_mixpanel_api/

We’ve raised $50 million in Series A funding from DST Global Partners, @nvidia (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), @redalpine , @prosusventures , and @Moonfire_VC , following our $7.35M seed round from @frst_vc , @Moonfire_VC , and @redalpine just a few months earlier, to build the https://x.com/FlexionRobotics/status/1991523176728449268

Tesla Co-Founder Straubel’s Battery Startup Redwood Fires Dozens – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/tesla-co-founder-straubel-s-battery-startup-redwood-fires-dozens?_bhlid=0057e70edc08d17a7548abd75247890b91bd0fa3