TikTok is assembling a super app piece by piece. Its newest addition is Must Eat, an in app restaurant guide drawn from more than 40 million posts and comments, filterable by city, cuisine, price and rating, putting it against Yelp and Google Maps. TechCrunch’s survey of the buildout notes TikTok Shop reached 15.82 billion dollars of US sales in 2025 on eMarketer figures, a Brazil fintech licence application reported by Reuters in March, hotel booking through TikTok GO since May, and a payments feature in development reported by Bloomberg in August.
Saudi Arabia reports near total internet adoption. The General Authority for Statistics’ ICT Access and Usage Statistics for 2026 put internet use at 99.6 percent of individuals aged 15 to 74 in the Kingdom. It is an official primary release and a reminder that Gulf connectivity saturation is a ceiling condition for platform growth metrics in the region, not a target still being approached.
Google will fund water infrastructure for its Malaysian data center. The company committed 160 million dollars to develop a water treatment plant for its planned data center in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Datacenter Dynamics reported. The item is owned as a full story by the infra-deals beat today and is recorded here for completeness of the technology record.
Alphabet is preparing a euro note offering. A preliminary 424B5 prospectus supplement dated November 2, 2026 (accession 0001193125-26-442515) covers floating rate euro notes and six fixed rate euro tranches, subject to completion with principal amounts and coupons blank in the preliminary filing. It is a financing item owned by the rates and infra-deals beats; it is noted here because it extends the pattern of megacaps funding AI capital spending in the euro market.
Britain’s driverless rollout has a questions problem. The Institute for Driverless Transport, drawing on more than 30 conversations with councils, operators, unions, insurers and others, published research asking what happens to professional driving as an employment safety net and what fallback exists if an autonomous vehicle supplier fails or withdraws. Wayve and Uber have launched rides in London with safety drivers aboard, TfL licensed operators in August on condition a human driver is present, and Waymo, Baidu, Pony.ai and Verne are preparing or testing services in London and Manchester.
Germany gains a small edge facility. Nexspace will develop a 4 megawatt data center outside Munich, Datacenter Dynamics reported, a reminder that below the gigawatt headlines the European market continues to add regional capacity in single digit megawatt increments.
A fast charging battery claim worth watching. Dr Rachid Yazami, developer of the graphite anode, showed a lithium iron phosphate cell from his startup KVI charging from 10 to 70 percent in 3.7 minutes and to full in seven minutes using a stepwise voltage method, The Register reported in its Asia brief. Japanese flying vehicle maker SkyDrive has signed up to test the technology. The figures are the company’s test results, not independently verified.