It’s not just Google’s Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for this year around the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S.

No, today the German AI startup Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2, a new image generation and editing system complete with four different models designed to support production-grade creative workflows.

TSMC has launched a lawsuit against its former Vice President, Wei-Jen Lo, who left the company after 21 years in July and joined Intel. The Taiwanese firm has accused its former executive of leaking confidential information to its rival.

TSMC filed the lawsuit in the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court. According to a statement from the semiconductor giant, the filing is based on the terms of Lo’s contract with the company, including the non-compete agreement he signed, and regulations such as the Trade Secrets Act.

Wisconsin election clerks referred 46 instances of suspected fraud and voting irregularities to prosecutors related to the November 2024 presidential election, a report released this week showed, representing a tiny fraction of the more than 3.4 million ballots cast.

In total, 127 cases of potential fraud or irregularities covering several elections were referred to prosecutors between Sept. 13, 2024, and Nov. 5, 2025, the Wisconsin Elections Commission report made public on Wednesday showed.

With Black Friday around the corner, OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT’s shopping capabilities just in time to make spending your money even easier. Starting today, the company has begun rolling out shopping research, a new feature inside of ChatGPT designed to simplify the process of comparing different products.

The tool is available to all ChatGPT users, including those with free accounts, with the company offering nearly unlimited usage through the holidays. As long as you’re logged into your OpenAI account, you can try out the new experience by selecting ”Shopping research” from the + menu. ChatGPT will also automatically route prompts it determines would be best served by the new model OpenAI has trained to answer commerce-related questions. For instance, if you type, ”find the quietest cordless stick vacuum for a small apartment,” ChatGPT will know what to do.

One of the most common AirTag use cases is for tracking luggage, and Apple shipped a great feature in the last year that helps airlines recover lost luggage faster. Now, per a report at travel publication Skift, that feature has just gotten a key upgrade.

Japan is intensifying its campaign to rejoin the top tier of the semiconductor industry, and Hokkaido has emerged as the center of that push. The island – better known for dairy farms, ski resorts, and summer flower fields – is now home to one of the world’s most ambitious chip-building efforts: Rapidus, a government-backed foundry venture aiming to produce 2-nanometer logic chips at scale.

The political and financial stakes are unusually high. Tokyo has committed roughly $12 billion to Rapidus so far, on top of tens of billions of dollars in broader semiconductor subsidies, with additional support from domestic heavyweights including Toyota, SoftBank, and Sony.