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Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the company at ~€8B; Vinted says it expects 2025 revenue to cross €1B+, up from €813M in 2024 (Financial Times)

Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could va...

Financial Times: Sources: Vinted is exploring a share sale that could value the ...

Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three&year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)

Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven...

Valida Pau / The Information: Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, d...

A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)

A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in ...

Heather Knight / New York Times: A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked out...

Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white&hat hackers report modest gains from AI&aided hacking (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack...

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberatta...

The current AI strategies of China and the US are complementary, as unlike the US, China isn't "AGI&pilled" yet, focusing on embodied AI and open source models (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

The current AI strategies of China and the US are compl...

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: The current AI strategies of China and the US a...

Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third&party AI providers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to ...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to...

COP30 in Brazil & the Global South: Tackling climate change without the US

COP30 in Brazil & the Global South: Tackling climat...

The week, we head to Belem in Brazil where COP30, the UN's annual climate summit...

Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their "AI&driven impact", which will be a "core expectation" of their performance from 2026 (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)

Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their ...

Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on ...

Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to resolve claims it denied discounts to conservative religious nonprofits; OpenAI and Asana also made deals (Jeff Green/Bloomberg)

Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to r...

Jeff Green / Bloomberg: Microsoft signs a deal with a legal advocacy group to re...

JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid, covering 95%+ of third&party data pulls, and will receive payment for access to customer data (Hugh Son/CNBC)

JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, li...

Hugh Son / CNBC: JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid...

Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing more than $250B in market value gains following the announcement of its OpenAI deals in September (Financial Times)

Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, re...

Financial Times: Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing ...

How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net&zero carbon emissions (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing th...

Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing ...

Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73, up 9.5% from the ~$2.49 IPO price, after a $440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed (Soumyajit Saha/Nikkei Asia)

Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~...

Soumyajit Saha / Nikkei Asia: Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted...

The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging unfairly high App Store fees; a lawyer calculates damages at £1B (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling ...

Sam Tobin / Reuters: The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling that...

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or "self&contained" experiences built with web tech like HTML5 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a red...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a re...

Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company Helix Nano to focus on preventing AI&enabled bioweapons development, raised a $15M seed led by OpenAI (Deepa Seetharaman/Reuters)

Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company He...

Deepa Seetharaman / Reuters: Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics compan...

The hard task of rebooting the US government after 43&day shutdown

The hard task of rebooting the US government after 43&d...

After President Donald Trump signed a bill into law on Wednesday that funds the ...

A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy, including OpenAI, data center investments, neocloud renting, GitHub Copilot, MAI models, and the Maia chip (SemiAnalysis)

A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy, including Ope...

SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy, including OpenAI, data c...

Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, Copilot, Microsoft AI, the hyperscale business, the OpenAI partnership, capex, sovereign AI efforts, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for AGI, ...

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with Satya Nadella on business models for...

Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, quietly opening to some users, and says it's fully functional with select users betting on real contracts (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)

Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, quietly...

Denitsa Tsekova / Bloomberg: Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, qui...

Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) hands&on: better hardware and software, Alexa+ is an improvement, but no camera cover and ads are coming later (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) hands...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ...

Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or ~2,000 employees, after completing its $35B acquisition of engineering design firm Ansys earlier in 2025 (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or...

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, o...

Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless rides on freeways, available 24/7 in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles for users who opt in (Zoe Thomas/Bloomberg)

Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driv...

Zoe Thomas / Bloomberg: Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer drive...

Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan&only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 (Financial Times)

Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan&only PlayStation 5 Digita...

Financial Times: Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Editio...

Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probed telecom networks and critical infrastructure; Australia lost $8B+ last year to espionage (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)

Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probed...

Kirsty Needham / Reuters: Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probe...

The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks, including regulating companies providing services to private and public sector organizations (Catarina Demony/Reuters)

The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cy...

Catarina Demony / Reuters: The UK proposes laws to protect public services from ...

Senators pass shutdown&ending bill, lifting US and European markets

Senators pass shutdown&ending bill, lifting US and Euro...

After US senators managed to pass a bill that could end what has been the longes...

A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrig...

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 3...

Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are investing ~$3B in a New Mexico&based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl expands into AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are inv...

Miles Kruppa / The Information: Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds ...

Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage customer&facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (Steven Scheer/Reuters)

Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage...

Steven Scheer / Reuters: Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage...

Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, vs. $46.2M est., net loss of $159.5M, up from $90.2M a year ago; GEMI drops 5%+ after hours (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY t...

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY t...

Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of AI models providing automatic speech recognition capabilities for more than 1,600 languages (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognitio...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Meta introduces Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recogni...

Sachin Katti, Intel's CTO and AI officer, says he is leaving the company to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip&Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts (CRN)

Sachin Katti, Intel's CTO and AI officer, says he is le...

CRN: Sachin Katti, Intel's CTO and AI officer, says he is leaving the company to...

An interview with Ukrainian cyber&crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after spending ~10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (Joe Tidy/BBC)

An interview with Ukrainian cyber&crime kingpin Vyaches...

Joe Tidy / BBC: An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Pench...

Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on "the woke left and the woke right", being patriotic, the Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on "the woke left a...

Steven Levy / Wired: Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the w...

Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to help boost its Copilot chatbot; Sensor Tower says Copilot has 99M downloads since launch, far below ChatGPT's 1.4B (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)

Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to help boost...

Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to help boo...

Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers find and build proposals for government contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Catalyst Investors (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its custo...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its custome...

Zurich&based DeepJudge, which builds customized search indexes for law firms that plug into AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41M Series A at a $300M valuation (Alicia Park/Forbes)

Zurich&based DeepJudge, which builds customized search ...

Alicia Park / Forbes: Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search ind...

The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese&made Yutong electric buses can be remotely deactivated; Norway found that Yutong can render buses inoperable (Financial Times)

The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese&mad...

Financial Times: The UK is investigating whether ~700 of its Chinese-made Yutong...

Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help ...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to hel...

The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT&5's $5,679 (Sebastian Pellejero/Reuters)

The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10...

Sebastian Pellejero / Reuters: The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier mode...

Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand&alone industrial AI and robotics company; Mind Robotics raised a $115M seed led by Eclipse (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand&alone ind...

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone in...

Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally (Peter Landers/Wall Street Journal)

Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience a...

Peter Landers / Wall Street Journal: Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider ...

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joi...

Jonathan Burgos / Forbes: Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are jo...

As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI&powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self&harm (Janne Knodler/Bloomberg)

As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI...

Janne Knodler / Bloomberg: As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of ...

In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior researcher told a state&run conference he was pessimistic about AI's impact on humanity (Reuters)

In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's succes...

Reuters: In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior rese...

CoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from October's $4.4T peak, on track to erase its 2025 gains; crypto ETFs had $700M of net outflow over the past week (Bloomberg)

CoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from Octobe...

Bloomberg: CoinGecko: crypto market cap falls to $3.5T from October's $4.4T peak...

An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in&person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more (Brie Wolfson/Colossus)

An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely ...

Brie Wolfson / Colossus: An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely ...

Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972.9K and a net loss of $55M, up from $19M in Q3 2024; its stock is down 70% from a January high (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to $972....

Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Trump Media reports Q3 net sales down 3.8% YoY to...

Neobank Mercury says it has hit $650M in annualized revenue, up from $500M by end of 2024, and has been GAAP profitable on net income and EBITDA for three years (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Neobank Mercury says it has hit $650M in annualized rev...

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Neobank Mercury says it has hit $650M in annualized r...

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