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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=70324d344a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI and AWS sign a seven-year deal in which OpenAI will pay $38B for AI compute, including training its models using Amazon's data centers and using its CPUs</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9fbc87728b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Amazon deal represents only 6.5% of the aggregate value of these three OpenAI deals unveiled since September. That's tiny. Oracle: $300 billion over five years (WSJ) Microsoft: $250 billion in additional Azure orders Amazon: $38 billion over seven years</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=61742ac462&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Brad Smith on the MS blog with the numbers. 'These licenses enable us to ship the equivalent of 60,400 additional A100 chips, in this instance involving Nvidia's even more advanced GB300 GPUs.' [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=08afb2cec8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Brad Smith, Microsoft's president: “You cannot get those export licences unless you're able to meet the requirements that have been imposed by the US government... We earned it by satisfying very stringent cyber security, physical security and other security requirements.”</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=58befe2a6c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Microsoft is investing $15.2 Billion USD in the UAE by 2029 to drive technology, talent, and trust. This reflects a shared vision for AI innovation, economic growth, and ensuring that the benefits of AI are diffused broadly. Microsoft is committed to the future of the UAE and the strong ties between our two nations.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=91fc0efb47&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This is remarkable. And not in a good way. When asked by 60 Minutes about the CZ pardon, Trump replies: “I don't know who he is. I know he got a four-month sentence or something like that. And I heard it was a Biden witch hunt.”</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=77a0b6d24a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Trump says Nvidia's Blackwell chips would not be available to “other people”; in August, Trump suggested he might allow sales of a scaled-down version to China</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alexandra Alper / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</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=2f7f6f6d10&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Court docs: in a deposition, Ilya Sutskever discussed conflicts at OpenAI that he sent to board members before Sam Altman's firing, his OpenAI exit, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rocket Drew / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</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=5fea891728&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">After Elon Musk said on X that Sam Altman “stole a nonprofit”, Altman replied he turned what Musk “left for dead into what should be the largest nonprofit ever”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lauren Edmonds / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</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=57021f7c98&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft signs a five-year, ~$9.7B deal to buy AI compute capacity from Sydney-based IREN, giving Microsoft access to Nvidia's GB300 in IREN's Texas facility</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b424dd84c7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Japanese trade association CODA, representing Studio Ghibli, Square Enix and others, demands that OpenAI stop using their copyrighted content to train Sora 2</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Stevie Bonifield / </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=164543ab1a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple releases version 26.1 of its full family of OSes, including a “tinted” option for the Liquid Glass design to reduce transparency and increase contrast</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">John Voorhees / </span><span class="pub_name">MacStories</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=879c37d346&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple refreshes the web version of the App Store, letting users view and search for apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, TV, Watch, and Vision</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chance Miller / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</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=39efadd36c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says only biological beings are capable of consciousness and “it would be absurd to pursue research” into AI consciousness</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Salvador Rodriguez / </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=273881d40c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Trump decided not to discuss Nvidia's AI chip exports to China during his October 30 meeting with Xi Jinping following opposition from his top advisers</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=760e473bdf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">At APEC, Xi Jinping proposed a World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization for global AI regulation; Chinese officials: it could be based in Shanghai</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e3fa8af66a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic announces a deal with Cognizant, under which Cognizant will deploy Claude to its 350,000 employees and co-sell Claude models to its business customers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Belle Lin / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</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=73c640e754&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers: OpenAI's o1 analyzes languages as well as a human expert, including inferring the phonological rules of made-up languages without prior knowledge</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Steve Nadis / </span><span class="pub_name">Quanta Magazine</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=e44f9a7e28&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cisco launches Unified Edge, an all-in-one system designed to help retail stores, health care facilities, and factories use AI with a single equipment rack</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=87841cd93d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Some podcasters are embracing AI voice clones from ElevenLabs and other startups, aiming to augment, translate episodes, and even replace in-studio performances</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Reggie Ugwu / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</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=97039c4b4a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Katie Deighton / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</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=0330d57dbc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">arXiv says it will step up its moderation of CS review papers not vetted by an academic journal or a conference, after a surge in AI-generated papers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matthew Gault / </span><span class="pub_name">404 Media</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=0a1f1a7bcd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Steven Levy / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</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=2bf7c55d79&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Q&A with LexisNexis CEO Sean Fitzpatrick on AI doing legal work, document drafting, attorneys inevitably losing their licenses over “sloppy use of AI”, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nilay Patel / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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data centers
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0ad76c8ef4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">In an interview, Satya Nadella says Microsoft faces a power shortage, but not a compute one, which could leave “chips sitting in inventory that I can't plug in”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jowi Morales / </span><span class="pub_name">Tom's Hardware</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=42130872da&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Lambda announces a multibillion-dollar agreement with Microsoft for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia chips; the specific deal value was not disclosed</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jaures Yip / </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=499c150d08&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">DeFi protocol Balancer says its V2 Composable Stable Pools suffered an exploit, which security experts estimate resulted in total losses worth about $128M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ryan S. Gladwin / </span><span class="pub_name">Decrypt</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=35b9a89996&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Crypto.com strikes a deal with Hollywood.com to let users make predictions related to movies, actors, shows, and awards</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rob Golum / </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=dd8caa741a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How Facebook Dating, launched in 2019, has become a surprise hit with 21M+ daily users, vs. Hinge's ~15M, a sign of how Facebook has been reinventing itself</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Eli Tan / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</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=157980fca7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TikTok announces its first ever TikTok Awards show in the US; the live event will take place on December 18 and will be streamed on the TikTok app and on Tubi</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=5f53502b26&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Proofpoint says it has “high confidence” that hackers are working with organized crime groups to infiltrate trucking and freight companies to steal cargo</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emily Forgash / </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=afe2c7b4ff&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US federal prosecutors allege that three cybersecurity professionals carried out ransomware attacks on at least five US companies in 2023 using ALPHV ransomware</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matt Kapko / </span><span class="pub_name">CyberScoop</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=85bcf9b1da&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria is stepping down after 11 years, replaced by Cloudflare President of Product & Engineering Chirantan Desai, effective November 10</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=e05cd2b4c0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Deel names ex-Credit Karma CEO Joe Kauffman as CFO ahead of a potential IPO; Philippe Bouaziz, Deel's ex-CFO and CEO Alex's father, becomes executive chair</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Michael Roddan / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</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=59f65934f6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Hong Kong-based crypto investor and blockchain developer Animoca Brands says it will go public on the Nasdaq via a reverse merger with Currenc Group in 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Olga Kharif / </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=2675a349e6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The UK CMA says it will open an in-depth investigation into Getty and Shutterstock's proposed merger after their offered remedies did not fully address concerns</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=59928212bd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Indian digital payments company Pine Labs prices its IPO at $2 to $2.5/share, valuing it at $2.9B at the top end of the range, down from a $5B valuation in 2022</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=5a6de54ef7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Pony AI plans to raise ~$863M in its Hong Kong IPO on November 6 by selling 48.3M shares at ~$17.88 each, below its October 31 Nasdaq close at $18.68</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=167f9f8c42&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Hippocratic AI, which offers healthcare AI agents, raised a $126M Series C led by Avenir at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.64B in January</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Heather Landi / </span><span class="pub_name">Fierce Healthcare</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=7958e6ca54&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Augmented Intelligence, which is building neuro-symbolic AI models, raised $20M in a bridge SAFE round at a $750M valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$60M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Carl Franzen / </span><span class="pub_name">VentureBeat</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=0a674e1592&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NY-based Teleskope, which offers smaller LLMs fine-tuned for specific security problems, raised a $25M Series A led by M13, taking its total funding to $32.2M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Leo Schwartz / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</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=33eca12bf6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cologne-based Octonomy, which helps companies deploy AI for complex workflows, raised a $20M seed led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total funding to $25M</a></span>
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