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This is the weekend edition of Daily Tech Headlines for the week ending Friday, November 28, 2025. I'm Sara Lane. Let's catch up on a bit of breaking news and essential news over the past several days. Analyst Ming Chi Kuo wrote on X Friday that Apple may use intel as a second source foundry for its lowest end M series processor used in the MacBook Air, iPad Air and iPad Pro starting as early as Q2 of 2027. Kuo says Apple has an NDA with Intel and early access to its 18AP process, with updated PDKs arriving in early 2026. Apple has pushed for US manufacturing and supply chain diversification, though TSMC is still Apple's main advanced node partner. Chinese startup Deepseek says its new deep seq math v2 model hit gold medal performance on the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad, the 2024 Chinese CMO and scored 118 out of 120 on the Putnam, well above top human results. The system generates and verifies its own proofs using a layered verifier and meta verifier approach without external tools. Deep Seq has published full technical details on Deep Seq Math v2's performance. Google's long running effort to merge Android and Chrome OS seems likely codenamed Aluminum os, according to a recent spotted and now deleted job listing. We which described Aluminum as an Android based OS with AI built in meant for a range of products from entry level laptops to premium hardware. Android head Sameer Samat has already confirmed that Google is building a unified platform expected next year. Sunday Robotics has hired more than 10 former Tesla employees as it builds its Memo home robot, including veterans from Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot and Autopilot programs. Co founder Tony Zhao, a former Autopilot intern, unveiled memo on November 19, showing that it handled household tasks like loading a dishwasher and folding laundry. The startup now has around 50 employees and joins a growing group of companies developing advanced home robots, including 1X, which introduced its Neo robot back in October. Major tech companies including Dell and HP are bracing for memory chip supply shortages and significant price increases in the coming year, driven by the huge demand for chips used in AI infrastructure. Counterpoint research forecasts a 50% jump in memory module prices through the second quarter of next year, which would raise manufacturing costs for electronics. Both Dell and HP are planning to increase product prices, with HP also considering reducing the amount of memory in some products and securing more suppliers to manage the rising costs, as memory makes up an estimated 15 to 18% of a typical PC's cost. Apple was the only major smartphone brand to see growth during China's Singles Day, with iPhone17 demand boosting its sales by 3% year over year and giving it a 26% market share. Excluding Apple, overall smartphone prices dropped by 5% while reflecting some consumer caution despite the festival reaching 1.7 trillion yuan in total sales. Xiaomi took the second largest share at 17% despite a sales decline, while Huawei saw the biggest drop to a 13% share after missing the sales window for its Mate 80 flagship. Ars Technica reviewed the tiny vinyl, a new 4 inch record format that fits standard turntables with manual tonearms and and holds up to 4 minutes per side like a 45 but newer. Ars says the records reproduce a variety of genres but are quieter and slightly more distorted than 12 inch LPs. They also won't play on automatic or most suitcase style turntables. The takeaway Tiny Vinyl is small, lightweight and cute, fun for casual listeners, but it's limited compatibility and modest sound quality. Quality are dings. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues that digital storefronts should drop made with AI tags, claiming that that disclosure is soon going to be pointless as AI becomes standard in game development. Sweeney's opinion is shared by Nexon CEO Jung Hung Lee. They feel the disclosure is only relevant for rights concerns like in art licensing. Steam recently walked back some rules to allow most AI developed games with disclosure, and some indie developers are actively using an AI free label as a marketing strategy. If you had some funny Thanksgiving meals this season, blame AI. Bloomberg reports that food bloggers say AI generated recipes and images are overtaking search results and social feeds, causing real creators to lose traffic and revenue. They argue that Google's AI overviews Pinterest recommendations and and Facebook content and those of the like offer impossible recipes that resemble human created content, which misleads, cooks and reduces clicks to original sites. Some bloggers also say they've seen their work just straight up copied, altered by AI and then reposted elsewhere. For more analysis of the tech news of the day and the week, subscribe to dailytechnews show.com you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I'm Sarah Lane. Thank you for listening. Enjoy your weekend and we'll talk to you Monday.