UK energy company Drax partners with Brookfield and neocloud Radiant to develop an AI data center in North Yorkshire, targeting 100MW of capacity by Q1 2028 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: UK energy company Drax partners with Brookfield and neocloud Radiant to develop an AI data center in North Yorkshire, targeting 100MW of capacity by Q1 2028  —  Brookfield is targeting a massive artificial intelligence data center in the north of England, as Europe scrambles to develop infrastructure …

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How Alex Bores' Who Decides seeks to make AI safety a standard Democratic position, like being pro-choice, in 2028, as tech-funded rivals vie for influence (David Freedlander/New York Magazine)

David Freedlander / New York Magazine: How Alex Bores' Who Decides seeks to make AI safety a standard Democratic position, like being pro-choice, in 2028, as tech-funded rivals vie for influence  —  In early November, in that exceedingly brief window between the midterm election and presidential-primary season …

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OpenAI partners with Cathedral to test its security defenses and revamps its Security Bug Bounty program, including quadrupling rewards for critical findings (OpenAI)

OpenAI: OpenAI partners with Cathedral to test its security defenses and revamps its Security Bug Bounty program, including quadrupling rewards for critical findings  —  We're planning our next internal security sprint at OpenAI, bringing new researchers and security partners together with our own teams …

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Sources: Nvidia verbally told cloud compute clients to sell 51%+ of their services to non-Chinese companies, imposing new limits on China's access to AI chips (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia verbally told cloud compute clients to sell 51%+ of their services to non-Chinese companies, imposing new limits on China's access to AI chips  —  Nvidia is ordering its data centre partners to reduce exposure to Chinese customers in a move that further restrains China's ability …

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Google expands Dreambeans to India, its first market outside the US, offering AI-generated visual stories from users' digital activity in 13 local languages (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Google expands Dreambeans to India, its first market outside the US, offering AI-generated visual stories from users' digital activity in 13 local languages  —  Google has launched its experimental AI app Dreambeans in India, its first market outside the U.S., as the company looks to tap …

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Sources: Huawei told some clients that a large share of its upcoming flagship AI chip, Ascend 960DT, will run largely on HBM made by Samsung and SK Hynix (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Huawei told some clients that a large share of its upcoming flagship AI chip, Ascend 960DT, will run largely on HBM made by Samsung and SK Hynix  —  For an illustration of how porous U.S. restrictions on the shipment of AI chips to China can be, consider a technique that has begun …

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Larridin, which helps companies track how AI affects employee output and identifies areas for better AI adoption, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Ventures (Aditi Bharade/Business Insider)

Aditi Bharade / Business Insider: Larridin, which helps companies track how AI affects employee output and identifies areas for better AI adoption, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Ventures  —  Companies went all in on AI this year, and are now reckoning with heavy bills.  One startup wants to get under the hood and figure out which ones are worth it.

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Salesforce announces plans to acquire Cresta, a provider of AI-powered contact center automation software; source: Salesforce agreed to pay $2.7B for Cresta (The Information)

The Information: Salesforce announces plans to acquire Cresta, a provider of AI-powered contact center automation software; source: Salesforce agreed to pay $2.7B for Cresta  —  Salesforce extended its recent shopping spree, announcing on Monday plans to acquire Cresta, a nine-year-old provider of AI-powered contact center automation software.

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John Ternus says Apple expects memory costs to increase into December and beyond; Apple's inventory grew to $14.54B in Q4, up 31.1% QoQ and 154.3% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: John Ternus says Apple expects memory costs to increase into December and beyond; Apple's inventory grew to $14.54B in Q4, up 31.1% QoQ and 154.3% YoY  —  Apple's stockpiling of inventory, particularly computer memory, continued in its fiscal fourth-quarter, according to earnings reported Monday.

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Match Group reports Q3 revenue fell 3% YoY to $891M, below estimates, and total paying users fell 5% to 13.8M; Q4 forecast has adjusted EBITDA below estimates (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Match Group reports Q3 revenue fell 3% YoY to $891M, below estimates, and total paying users fell 5% to 13.8M; Q4 forecast has adjusted EBITDA below estimates  —  Match Group Inc. disappointed investors after posting weaker-than-expected quarterly revenue and forecasting adjusted earnings …

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Trajectory, which is developing AI model post-training tools for nontechnical customers, raised a $45M Series A led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Trajectory, which is developing AI model post-training tools for nontechnical customers, raised a $45M Series A led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation  —  Whether developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, or built on open-source alternatives, current AI models share a critical limitation …

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Anthropic S-1 claims it may "imminently meet" its RSI threshold and may fail to identify "significant acceleration" in its development until after it's occurred (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Anthropic S-1 claims it may “imminently meet” its RSI threshold and may fail to identify “significant acceleration” in its development until after it's occurred  —  While much attention has focused on the updated financials Anthropic revealed in its revised S-1A on Monday …

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Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin halts withdrawals after a breach involving $46M+ in assets, per Arkham; Tether froze 4.5M+ USDT in response (Jason Shubnell/The Block)

Jason Shubnell / The Block: Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin halts withdrawals after a breach involving $46M+ in assets, per Arkham; Tether froze 4.5M+ USDT in response  —  The exchange paused deposits and withdrawals after the incident, while Tether froze more than 4.5 million USDT linked to the attacker.

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Sources: institutional investors told Anthropic that its IPO valuation should be around $1.5T to $1.6T, down from estimates of $2T, citing a tech stock selloff (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: institutional investors told Anthropic that its IPO valuation should be around $1.5T to $1.6T, down from estimates of $2T, citing a tech stock selloff  —  Institutional investors who plan to buy shares in IPO show concern following a selloff in tech stocks

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Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, iCloud, and more, grew 10% YoY to $31.57B, vs. $31.58B est. (Loree Seitz/The Wrap)

Loree Seitz / The Wrap: Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, iCloud, and more, grew 10% YoY to $31.57B, vs. $31.58B est.  —  The tech conglomerate beat Wall Street expectations with revenue hitting $114.48 billion  —  Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...

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Apple Q4: iPhone up 17% YoY to $57.58B, vs. $56.54B est., Mac up 24% to $10.8B, iPad down 10% to $6.2B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 8% to $8.3B (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple Q4: iPhone up 17% YoY to $57.58B, vs. $56.54B est., Mac up 24% to $10.8B, iPad down 10% to $6.2B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 8% to $8.3B  —  Apple sees Q4 revenue climb 12% year over year  —  Last year, for its fourth fiscal quarter, Apple reported $102.47 billion in revenue …

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Apple reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $114.48B, vs. $113.39B est., China revenue up 21% to $17.5B, vs. $18.9B est., in John Ternus' first earnings report (Apple)

Apple: Apple reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $114.48B, vs. $113.39B est., China revenue up 21% to $17.5B, vs. $18.9B est., in John Ternus' first earnings report  —  September quarter records for total company revenue, iPhone revenue, and EPS Services revenue reaches new all-time high CUPERTINO …

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Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 96% YoY to $2.31B, above $2.18B est., US commercial revenue up 148% YoY to $984M, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance to ~$8.53B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palantir reports Q3 revenue up 96% YoY to $2.31B, above $2.18B est., US commercial revenue up 148% YoY to $984M, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance to ~$8.53B  —  Palantir beat Wall Street's third-quarter estimates after the bell on Monday, with U.S. commercial revenue topping government …

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Roku reports Q3 revenue up 24% YoY to $1.5B, Platform revenue up 23% to $1.3B, ad revenue up 23% to $727.4M, and subscription revenue up 23% to $580.9M (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety: Roku reports Q3 revenue up 24% YoY to $1.5B, Platform revenue up 23% to $1.3B, ad revenue up 23% to $727.4M, and subscription revenue up 23% to $580.9M  —  For the third quarter, Roku handily topped Wall Street earnings expectations, with top-line growth of 24% to $1.50 billion in revenue.

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Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math (Rikiya Takehi)

Rikiya Takehi: Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math  —  TL;DR … If you were asked to handcraft a neural network that plays Go, what would you do?  If you were handed raw neural network weights …

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Memo: Linux distribution vendor SUSE is laying off ~10% of its employees, saying "automation and AI are fundamentally shifting how software companies operate" (Liam Proven/The Register)

Liam Proven / The Register: Memo: Linux distribution vendor SUSE is laying off ~10% of its employees, saying “automation and AI are fundamentally shifting how software companies operate”  —  One in ten employees at SUSE are facing the chop due to “automation and AI,” according to a memo dispatched by management …

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OpenAI launches the Grid Protectors Program, a US effort for its future data center campuses to reduce electricity demand when the grid is under strain (OpenAI)

OpenAI: OpenAI launches the Grid Protectors Program, a US effort for its future data center campuses to reduce electricity demand when the grid is under strain  —  Today we're launching the Grid Protectors Program, a national effort to support affordable, reliable electricity for families and businesses in the communities where we build.

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Tutor, which is training a frontier robot foundation model and builds AI warehouse robots, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z, taking total funding to $117M (John Werner/Forbes)

John Werner / Forbes: Tutor, which is training a frontier robot foundation model and builds AI warehouse robots, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z, taking total funding to $117M  —  This voice experience is generated by AI.  Learn more. … When you look at some of what robotics companies are doing today …

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DeepSeek releases a "creator mode" that allows users of DeepSeek Harness to create custom plugins, like a 3D model renderer and a video editing workbench (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: DeepSeek releases a “creator mode” that allows users of DeepSeek Harness to create custom plugins, like a 3D model renderer and a video editing workbench  —  DeepSeek has unveiled a new option to quickly create custom plugins that help users to tackle a range of complex tasks …

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Anthropic confirms new Claude Code limits "to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game", saying IP infringement violates its usage policy (Bruno Ferreira/Tom's Hardware)

Bruno Ferreira / Tom's Hardware: Anthropic confirms new Claude Code limits “to steer it away from recreating someone else's specific game”, saying IP infringement violates its usage policy  —  Meanwhile, we now have direct reports of reverse engineering efforts being blocked, while online complaints grow.

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Israeli startup 42AI, which is developing a "behavioral world model" that tries to predict human behavior, emerges from stealth with a $62.5M seed (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Israeli startup 42AI, which is developing a “behavioral world model” that tries to predict human behavior, emerges from stealth with a $62.5M seed  —  Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?

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Amended S-1: Anthropic says it has purchase commitments and lease agreements of $895.4B, "substantially all of which is related to compute and infrastructure" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Amended S-1: Anthropic says it has purchase commitments and lease agreements of $895.4B, “substantially all of which is related to compute and infrastructure”  —  Anthropic reported updated financials as part of an amended Form S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday …

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Putin orders owners of non-state data centers to reserve 10% of capacity for Russia's IT infrastructure after Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian facilities (Reuters)

Reuters: Putin orders owners of non-state data centers to reserve 10% of capacity for Russia's IT infrastructure after Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian facilities  —  Russian owners of non-state data centres will be required to reserve 10% of their capacity to help keep Russia's IT infrastructure running …

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A profile of OpenAI VP Charles Porch, an ex-Instagram executive who is rehabilitating AI's image across Hollywood and the media, including via celebrity dinners (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)

Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine: A profile of OpenAI VP Charles Porch, an ex-Instagram executive who is rehabilitating AI's image across Hollywood and the media, including via celebrity dinners  —  Charles Porch is rich, super-connected, and tasked with getting celebrities (and everyone else) to not hate AI so much.

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Sources detail Anthropic's compute deal spree: 3.5GW+ of expected capacity in 2026, diversifying beyond Nvidia's AI chips to Amazon, Google, and AMD, and more (New York Times)

New York Times: Sources detail Anthropic's compute deal spree: 3.5GW+ of expected capacity in 2026, diversifying beyond Nvidia's AI chips to Amazon, Google, and AMD, and more  —  Illustration by Mark Harris; Photographs by Thea Traff for The New York Times, AJ Mast for The New York Times, Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times, Getty Images

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Filings: Oracle is selling $10B in common stock and $10B in bonds, as it rushes to get financing for its data center buildout and chip purchases; ORCL falls 5%+ (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)

Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: Filings: Oracle is selling $10B in common stock and $10B in bonds, as it rushes to get financing for its data center buildout and chip purchases; ORCL falls 5%+  —  The software company is selling $10 billion in common stock and $10 billion in bonds  —  Oracle plans to raise $20 billion …

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Sources: Apple is developing a tabletop robot with a 9" screen and a swiveling arm, set for release in 2027 or 2028 for ~$1,000, as John Ternus pushes robotics (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

Aaron Tilley / The Information: Sources: Apple is developing a tabletop robot with a 9" screen and a swiveling arm, set for release in 2027 or 2028 for ~$1,000, as John Ternus pushes robotics  —  Apple's new CEO John Ternus wants the company to get serious about robots, but judging by Apple's plodding progress …

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S-1 update: Anthropic reports Q3 revenue up 12x YoY to nearly $17B, a $23.3B net loss, up from $12.1B in Q3 2025, and operating expenses up 292% YoY to $17.5B (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: S-1 update: Anthropic reports Q3 revenue up 12x YoY to nearly $17B, a $23.3B net loss, up from $12.1B in Q3 2025, and operating expenses up 292% YoY to $17.5B  —  Anthropic PBC disclosed a twelve-fold increase in quarterly revenue while revealing that it intends to spend more than $895 billion …

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Memo: Alphabet is issuing €6B in euro-denominated debt across seven tranches, attracting €17B+ in demand; Alphabet sold €9B of bonds in six tranches in May 2026 (Reuters)

Reuters: Memo: Alphabet is issuing €6B in euro-denominated debt across seven tranches, attracting €17B+ in demand; Alphabet sold €9B of bonds in six tranches in May 2026  —  Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) is selling €6 billion ($6.7 billion) of bonds on Monday …

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Email: OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs on desktop for select users before rolling it out widely; Codex "will remain a separate experience" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Email: OpenAI plans to merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs on desktop for select users before rolling it out widely; Codex “will remain a separate experience”  —  The ChatGPT desktop app can be a confusing piece of software, given that there are ChatGPT and Codex sections, and within the former, there are Chat and Work tabs.

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Elon Musk says the cost of serving Grok Bot was "unsustainably high relative to revenue", in response to subscribers complaining about SpaceX's usage limits (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)

Siladitya Ray / Forbes: Elon Musk says the cost of serving Grok Bot was “unsustainably high relative to revenue”, in response to subscribers complaining about SpaceX's usage limits  —  Topline  —  Elon Musk acknowledged on Sunday that the cost of running SpaceX's AI agent Grok Bot was “unsustainably high” …

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Fan fiction site AO3 says it could take two to four weeks to restore service after a security incident; AO3 hosts 18M+ works and has 11M+ registered users (Bruce Gil/Gizmodo)

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo: Fan fiction site AO3 says it could take two to four weeks to restore service after a security incident; AO3 hosts 18M+ works and has 11M+ registered users  —  “Black October” comes for the fan fic.  —  The popular fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline Thursday, and its millions of users are freaking out.

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A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process (Rivka Galchen/New Yorker)

Rivka Galchen / New Yorker: A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process  —  A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades.  Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.

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How SF's AI boom is reshaping dating: founders treat first dates as interviews, use tech terms like "conversion rate" to track dates, and pay coaches $5K/month (Emmy Martin/New York Times)

Emmy Martin / New York Times: How SF's AI boom is reshaping dating: founders treat first dates as interviews, use tech terms like “conversion rate” to track dates, and pay coaches $5K/month  —  San Francisco's A.I. boom has drawn a wave of young ambitious people who are now reshaping the city's dating life.Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times

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NAND maker Kioxia's shares fell up to 15% on Monday after its cautious Q3 outlook disappointed investors, raising concerns that AI-driven growth may be slowing (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: NAND maker Kioxia's shares fell up to 15% on Monday after its cautious Q3 outlook disappointed investors, raising concerns that AI-driven growth may be slowing  —  Kioxia Holdings Corp.'s shares fell by their most in three months after the Japanese memory maker's cautious outlook inflamed concerns …

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YC details multi-agent tests in games like Minecraft, where agents exhibit emergent capabilities, forming roles, hierarchies, and complex coordination patterns (YC Labs)

YC Labs: YC details multi-agent tests in games like Minecraft, where agents exhibit emergent capabilities, forming roles, hierarchies, and complex coordination patterns

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Bites, whose AI tools deliver personalized training to frontline workers via WhatsApp, SMS, Slack, and other channels, raised a $40M Series A led by PeakSpan (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: Bites, whose AI tools deliver personalized training to frontline workers via WhatsApp, SMS, Slack, and other channels, raised a $40M Series A led by PeakSpan  —  The platform turns company procedures into short, branded videos delivered through WhatsApp, Teams and other familiar channels.

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The Hague-based Braid, whose API lets companies sell eSIM mobile plans under their own brand via 600+ carriers, raised a ~$38M Series A led by Octopus Ventures (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)

Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: The Hague-based Braid, whose API lets companies sell eSIM mobile plans under their own brand via 600+ carriers, raised a ~$38M Series A led by Octopus Ventures  —  Braid, a Dutch company that enables enterprises to launch their own branded mobile connectivity, has raised €34.13 million ($38 million) in a Series A funding round.

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SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an agentic capability benchmark measuring 11 domains, including chip design, cybersecurity, and RSI; Opus 5.5 tops with a 12% score (SemiAnalysis)

SemiAnalysis: SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an agentic capability benchmark measuring 11 domains, including chip design, cybersecurity, and RSI; Opus 5.5 tops with a 12% score  —  A comprehensive benchmark spanning RSI, hardware design, cyber, bio, finance, legal, quant trading, chip design, software engineering, materials science, and alignment

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Casap, whose AI tools automate dispute and anti-fraud operations for banks, raised a $56M Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $90M (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Casap, whose AI tools automate dispute and anti-fraud operations for banks, raised a $56M Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $90M  —  Credit card fraud is hardly new, but the nature of that fraud is undergoing a major shift.  In the past, nearly all scams …

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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung vows $15.97B for AI, chips, physical AI, and data centers in the country's 2027 budget, nearly twice the 2026 amount (Reuters)

Reuters: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung vows $15.97B for AI, chips, physical AI, and data centers in the country's 2027 budget, nearly twice the 2026 amount  —  South Korean President Lee Jae Myung vowed on Monday to make bold investments in artificial intelligence to boost …

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AI-powered medical search engine Vera Health, which says it is used by 800,000+ clinicians in 190 countries, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: AI-powered medical search engine Vera Health, which says it is used by 800,000+ clinicians in 190 countries, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures  —  Artificial Intelligence funding round series A venture capital (VC)  —  Clinical artificial intelligence search engine Vera …

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Midstream Health, whose AI tools help 250 hospitals recover revenue from rebates and vendor and payer underpayments, raised a $20M Series A led by Valtrius (Will Maddox/Axios)

Will Maddox / Axios: Midstream Health, whose AI tools help 250 hospitals recover revenue from rebates and vendor and payer underpayments, raised a $20M Series A led by Valtrius  —  Midstream Health, an AI financial system for hospitals, raised a $20 million Series A round to expand its platform …

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Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation (Tim Keary/Forbes)

Tim Keary / Forbes: Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation  —  This voice experience is generated by AI.  Learn more. … The SaaSpocalypse has become one of the most controversial topics in enterprise tech.

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Broccoli AI, which sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies, raised a $22M Series A and a $30M Series B; a source says it is valued at $300M (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: Broccoli AI, which sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies, raised a $22M Series A and a $30M Series B; a source says it is valued at $300M  —  When Marcelle Flowers' staff told her that two students were waiting at the counter of her Sacramento plumbing shop, she grabbed her wallet.

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