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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9fb3b17f6e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI says it is developing a “different ChatGPT experience” for teens and plans to use age-prediction tech to bar kids under 18 from the standard version</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f9808209f7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">... Some of our principles are in conflict, and we'd like to explain the decisions we are making around a case of tensions between teen safety, freedom, and privacy. ... We realize that these principles are in conflict and not everyone will agree with how we are resolving that conflict. These are difficult decisions, but after talking with experts, this is what we think is best and want to be transparent in our intentions.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6f2e0f2c80&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Really important to see @OpenAI under @sama prioritizing teen safety over growth. A good standard being set for the whole space. Setting the teen safety model as the default for users is a BIG deal. We can build AI informed by our values. That is up to US! </a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=305aa80f46&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Sam Altman and OpenAI are fully on board with Facebook's strategy of announcing relevant fixes of issues within 24hrs of hearings to examine harms from them. Make sure to also listen to NYT The Daily podcast this morning. [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e96d335bbc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">China says the US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the US-agreed framework includes “licensing the algorithm and other IP rights”</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e30f2a066b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">“It's the ultimate Taco trade,” said one US adviser close to the deal, referring to the acronym “Trump always chickens out”. “After all this, China keeps the algorithm.”</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ea4e1039a5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Of course. That is the nature of Putinization. Nationalize the expenses and privatize the profits. Personal interests over national interests every time.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1e92750f94&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">So the terms of the TikTok deal are: — The CCP gets to continue programming the app with no oversight — Trump allies get to capture the financial upside Total sell-out of the national interest for corrupt purposes. [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ba82b511ca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: under the US-China framework, a US investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and a16z would hold an ~80% stake in TikTok's US business</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1ddf7bc3af&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Trump extends the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok's US operations until December 16, the fourth such extension; a deal is expected to be finalized soon</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=042ccd62da&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">AP2 is built on broad industry support. We're collaborating with 60+ orgs, including: American Express, Ant International, Ayden, Coinbase, Etsy, Forter, Intuit, JCB, Mastercard, Mysten Labs, Paypal, Revolut, Salesforce, ServiceNow, UnionPay International, Worldpay, and more. [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6f7ce91ea1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Bringing Bitcoin to AI agents payments: I always believed that if AI had to pick between human-controlled networks and assets, vs. a code-controlled neutral and open network and asset, it would ofc pick the latter to net-settle value A2A. Glad to explore this with @Google!</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f7f473af79&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft announces a $30B investment in the UK over four years to support AI infrastructure and ongoing operations, including $15B to build a supercomputer</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tom Warren / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f06ea61352&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google plans to invest £5B in the UK for AI, energy, R&D, and more over the next two years, expecting to add 8,000+ jobs a year at businesses across the country</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mauro Orru / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bee24cd597&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube unveils new generative AI tools for Shorts, including a custom version of Veo 3 called Veo 3 Fast, which includes sound, and an Edit with AI feature</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aisha Malik / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=829686fa42&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube announces AI tools for podcasters, including one that turns video podcasts into clips and another that creates video for audio-only podcasts</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=981f626560&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube says it has paid out $100B+ to creators over the last four years and the number of YouTube channels making over $100K from TV screens has jumped 45% YoY</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zach Vallese / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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</div>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e90e2f4d4f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B+ Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jackie Davalos / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a9e0e65cb4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nothing raised a $200M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $450M+, and says it had $1B in total sales in early 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ivan Mehta / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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</div>
</div>
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IPOs
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c10fd0a63f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: StubHub is pricing its US IPO at $23.50/share after marketing a range of $22-$25, giving it an $8.6B market cap, and will trade under the ticker STUB</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=310d4c28dc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Filing: cloud cybersecurity software startup Netskope raised its IPO price range to $17-$19 per share, up from $15-$17, aiming to raise $908.2M, up from $812.6M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Bailey Lipschultz / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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M&A
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=08ce1583a2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">HR software provider Workday agrees to acquire Sana, an AI startup specializing in workplace tools, for $1.1B; the transaction is set to close before January 31</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nicholas G. Miller / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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</table>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c688cb875e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Chip design software maker Cadence agrees to acquire Stockholm-based Hexagon's design and simulation software business for ~$3.18B in cash and stock</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nathan Owens / </span><span class="pub_name">Manufacturing Dive</span>)</span>
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</table>
</div>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1ea7f0986c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Apollo Global is exploring a sale of AOL in a deal that could value AOL at around $1.5B; Apollo bought AOL in 2021 as part of its $5B Verizon deal</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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Artificial Intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7c951c3802&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft adds automatic AI model selection to Visual Studio Code; it primarily favors Claude Sonnet 4 over GPT-5 or GPT-5 mini for paid GitHub Copilot users</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tom Warren / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=70a61879a0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Study: Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek can be easily used to create phishing emails targeting the elderly, despite being trained to refuse</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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Wearables
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<div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story">
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=735f0e1e65&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple Watch Series 11 review: slightly better battery and Sleep Score is intuitive, but the most exciting updates are coming to older watches through watchOS 26</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Victoria Song / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;">
<li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5a7fb8c62a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple Watch Ultra 3 review: a more significant upgrade than the Ultra 2, with emergency SOS via satellite, 5G, a 42-hour battery life, and a bigger display</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zac Hall / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</span>)</span>
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<li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=194cdfb504&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple Watch SE 3 review: great value for $249, with an always-on display and 5G connectivity, but an outdated design and no ECG or hypertension alerts</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kate Kozuch / </span><span class="pub_name">Tom's Guide</span>)</span>
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</table>
</div>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5e05bb98b9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek is strengthening its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making “Hypernova”, through a spate of dealmaking</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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Streaming
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4c54dd4ee6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube unveils new livestreaming features, including letting creators transition between public and members-only streams, and ads that run next to the stream</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lauren Forristal / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=05c7ca9737&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube unveils new ways for creators to earn with brand deals and the Shopping program, including letting them swap out brand sponsorships in longform videos</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aisha Malik / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=04ea29ea5f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube plans to expand its likeness detection tech to all Partner Program creators in the next months; creators can opt in by uploading an image of their face</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kerry Flynn / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=391548817b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">YouTube responds to concerns from creators about drops in views, pointing out that ad blockers can “impact the accuracy of reported view counts”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Schoon / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Google</span>)</span>
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personnel changes
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d0fca28998&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spending; he left xAI in July</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">MacKenzie Sigalos / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=95e5bf6c51&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Online services marketplace Fiverr lays off 30% of its workforce, or about 250 people, as part of a restructuring to become “an AI-first company”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zaheer Kachwala / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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funding deals
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=17971af06f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dyna Robotics, which is building an AI foundation model for robotics, raised a $120M Series A led by Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jackie Davalos / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7a2d8f518c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Invisible Technologies, a Scale AI rival that helped train ChatGPT, raised $100M, sources say at a $2B+ valuation, and says that sales doubled to $134M in 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dina Bass / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<td style="padding:5px 10px 0;">
<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=89d4050e6a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Seon, which uses AI to detect and prevent fraud, raised an $80M Series C led by Sixth Street Growth, bringing its total funding to $187M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Duncan Riley / </span><span class="pub_name">SiliconANGLE</span>)</span>
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