TradeUP Thursday

November. 13, 2025

Today’s Editions

  • What’s the real cost of America’s shutdown?
  • Can the grid keep up with AI’s power surge?
  • Is China’s AI catching up to the U.S.?
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IN THE HEADLINES

Trump Signs Bill to End Record 43-Day Shutdown

President Trump late Wednesday signed a funding bill reopening the U.S. government after the longest shutdown in history. The 43-day closure furloughed over 1 million federal workers and disrupted flights at major airports. The bill funds operations through January 2026, but partisan rifts over healthcare and spending remain deep.

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Anthropic, Microsoft Announce $50B AI Data Push

Anthropic unveiled a $50 billion plan for new AI data centers in Texas and New York, while Microsoft builds linked hubs in Atlanta and Wisconsin. Together they’ll run on hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips. Industrywide, AI data centers leased over 7.4 GW of U.S. capacity last quarter — more than all of 2024 combined.

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China’s AI Startups Rewire Memory to Beat Chip Crunch

As U.S. chip access tightens, China’s Moonshot AI and Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen3-Next are developing “hybrid attention” models that cut computational costs by over 50% without losing accuracy. Their algorithmic breakthroughs may help China’s AI keep pace despite hardware limits.

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House Votes to End 43-Day Shutdown, But Recovery Will Take Weeks

On late Nov. 12, the House passed a 222–209 bill to end the longest U.S. government shutdown in history, with President Trump signing it soon after. More than 1 million federal employees are expected back within 24 hours, though pay delays could last several days. Air travel disruptions at 40 major airports may continue into next week, and SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans will restart gradually as states reauthorize payments. Full normalcy could take until Thanksgiving.

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