One-Minute Daily AI News 11/29/2025

1. AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending.[1]
2. StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-R1: A New Audio LLM that Finally Benefits from Test Time Compute Scaling.[2]
3. Musk’s xAI to build small solar farm adjacent to Colossus data center.[3]
4. Are you balding? There’s an AI for that.[4]

Sources;

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-consumers-spent-118-billion-black-friday-says-adobe-analytics-2025-11-29/

[2] https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/11/29/stepfun-ai-releases-step-audio-r1-a-new-audio-llm-that-finally-benefits-from-test-time-compute-scaling/

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/26/musks-xai-to-build-small-solar-farm-adjacent-to-colossus-data-center/

[4] https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/26/are-you-balding-theres-an-ai-for-that/