Apple’s AI leadership, Costco’s tariff lawsuit, Cyber Monday Shopify outage and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

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Major Microsoft Teams Performance Update Rolling Out in January 2026

Microsoft is splitting the Teams calling stack into a new background process on Windows to cut launch times and improve reliability in busy meetings.
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Extract Powerful Insights Without Reading the Full Book

Make continuous learning part of your routine with intelligent summaries designed for modern professionals.
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Amazon Music’s 2025 Delivered is now here to compete with Spotify Wrapped

Amazon Music’s 2025 Delivered introduced new badges for listeners to show off. For example, the “Headliner” badge recognizes fans who fall in the top percentage of an artist’s listeners.

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Nvidia-backed $4 billion AI startup announces major London expansion

U.S.-based Luma AI is targeting 200 hires in the U.K. by early 2027 as a wave of North American tech companies eye European growth.

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YouTube’s new AI deepfake tracking tool is alarming experts and creators

A YouTube tool that uses creators’ biometrics to remove AI-generated videos also allows Google to train its AI models on that sensitive data, experts told CNBC.

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Holiday Returns: What IT and Business Teams Need to Prepare for

Holiday returns create a second operational peak that tests IT systems, workflows, and cross-team coordination. With 17% of all holiday sales expected to come back in 2025, teams need a structured plan to manage load, prevent fraud, and keep return workflows stable from December through February.
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India plans to verify and record every smartphone in circulation

The Indian government has ordered smartphone makers to preinstall its Sanchar Saathi app on all devices, a move that is raising fresh privacy concerns.

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Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium nabs $70M seed

Gradium, a startup spawned out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday.

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Kalshi introduces tokenized prediction versions through Solana

Kalshi has made the move to introduce tokenized predictions on the public blockchain platform Solana, meaning people can buy and sell these versions.
The company, which is a prediction market, announced that these tokenized versions are now live through an X post which was published on 1 December. Tokenization is when a digital version of a financial asset is created, with this really growing in popularity during the NFT craze of 2021.
The prediction market company has explained why it has decided to go down this route, saying “tokenization is the endgame.” They continued to say “it is non-custodial, instant, and crypto native.”

Kalshi Solana
Thousands of markets. Now tokenized. pic.twitter.com/HkrAHZMH0Y
— Solana (@solana) December 1, 2025

In a blog post, the young company expanded: “Under the hood of DFlow and Jupiter, a hybrid RFQ system atomically executes trades onchain powered by the deepest prediction market liquidity layer in the world.
“This structure gives builders and traders a fast, transparent, and fully programmable way to interact with real world events.”
Kalshi launches Builder Codes and $2M+ in grants
As well as this announcement, Kalshi Builder Codes have also been launched which allow anyone to “permissionlessly monetize applications built on top of our global liquidity pool.” There are $2M+ in builder grants which are now open, with builders able to earn fees and rewards that scale with volume across applications like pro trading terminals, weather sites and climate dashboards, AI agents, analytics tools, and more.

The ultimate moat for any exchange is liquidity.
Kalshi is the only prediction market in the world that aggregates onchain and offchain, US and international into one giant liquidity pool.
Tokenization is the endgame: non-custodial, instant, and crypto-native. https://t.co/TKqtUdZSRR pic.twitter.com/aaG2L6BvFs
— John Wang (@j0hnwang) December 1, 2025

The head of crypto for Kalshi, John Wang, added to the initial social media post, saying “the ultimate moat for any exchange is liquidity. Kalshi is the only prediction market in the world that aggregates onchain and offchain, US and international into one giant liquidity pool.”
Since the news has been published, Solana have shared a number of Kalshi-related posts and teased that there are more than 80 announcements queued up ahead of its conference in Abu Dhabi next weekend.
Featured Image: Via Solana X post
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