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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c13d3e6aab&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI coding startup Cursor raised a $2.3B Series D co-led by Accel and Coatue at a $29.3B valuation, after raising a $900M Series C at a $9.9B valuation in June</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4f9a04fddb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@yuchenj_uw:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f596dd15ef&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Cursor is almost certainly the fastest company in history to reach $1B in ARR. GPT-5.1 did research and generated the following graph to show how long it took these companies to go from founding to $1B ARR. [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1e70852ce3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@pitdesi:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5aa9307169&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Cursor at $1B of rev, $30B val. FTX did $200k of the $400k pre-seed, then sold it for cost ($200K) in April 2023! Cursor started out as an AI tool for CAD before pivoting to software dev. Anyone know the valuation at pre-seed? How much did FTX miss out on?</a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b51eda5765&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@bytebot:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0c6920eee5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This is frankly nuts. Total raised for Cursor is now $3.373 billion. MySQL, arguably more important software raised a total of under $40 million. This isn't even spend on AI - it's external API providers for much of the work.</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=b2fca00a2d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cursor says it has crossed $1B in annualized revenue, has 300+ employees, and its in-house models “generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world”</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=745b1ab8c7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@mattcassinelli:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=59b77e8c0f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple just legitimized Mini Apps in a big way with this new Partner Program. I have recently been skeptical about these kind of vibecoding apps out of concern for platform support, but this is a massive step in the right direction: </a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=359dae1ac0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">...If Apple can provide an architecture for Mini Apps to integrate with App Intents & provide real system features, all my concerns are gone and this will be incredible. I also like “Mini Apps” as an official name</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a4ca20e3d7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The 15% rate only applies if the things sold work only in a single mini-app. That's Apple forcing each nini-app to be its own walled garden, and to rule out the kind of outfit, emote, and music interoperability enabled by the Fortnite creator economy. </a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dd511e3c28&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">...We're also rolling out agentic features for shopping in Search. When you're tracking the price of an item from eligible merchants and it drops below your budget, agentic checkout can handle buying it on the retailer site securely on your behalf (and with your permission, of course). [video]</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=20b74735e7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic says China's state-sponsored hackers used its tools to automate 80% to 90% of a September hacking campaign that targeted corporations and governments</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=78cd347c05&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Leaker Evan Blass details Samsung's upcoming “Galaxy Z TriFold” phone: a 6.5" cover display, a 10" inner display, a 200MP main camera, and a 5,437mAh battery</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Thomas Ricker / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</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=feecae41ec&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Europol, Eurojust, and others dismantle 1,025 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infostealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet, in the latest Operation Endgame phase</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sergiu Gatlan / </span><span class="pub_name">BleepingComputer</span>)</span>
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<table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
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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=1e65cb5182&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google DeepMind unveils SIMA 2, a video-game-playing agent built on top of Gemini to navigate and solve problems inside 3D virtual worlds like Goat Simulator 3</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Will Douglas Heaven / </span><span class="pub_name">MIT Technology Review</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=8842fa863a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says it will allow “experienced users” to install Android apps made by unverified developers, following backlash against new sideloading restrictions</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mishaal Rahman / </span><span class="pub_name">Android Authority</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=b34fb70ae4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Verizon plans to cut ~15,000 jobs, its largest workforce reduction yet, and transition ~200 stores into franchised operations, seeking to reduce costs</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=a41e010828&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The EU opens a DMA investigation into Google for allegedly demoting news outlets with content from commercial partners, which Google says is an anti-spam policy</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samuel Stolton / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</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=34017d8197&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 in the API, featuring a “no-reasoning” mode and extended prompt caching with up to 24-hour retention to generate faster responses</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">OpenAI</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=65884dcaf4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A deep dive into Microsoft's AI strategy: its OpenAI deal, data center investments, neocloud renting, GitHub Copilot, its MAI models, its Maia chip, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">SemiAnalysis</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=67cff39baa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dwarkesh Patel / </span><span class="pub_name">Dwarkesh Podcast</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=9477e1e17b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says all NotebookLM users will get access to Deep Research in the service within a week; users get to choose between two research styles: fast or deep</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Elissa Welle / </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=64a3cde786&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic open sources a method to score AI model political evenhandedness; Gemini 2.5 Pro got 97%, Grok 4 96%, Claude Opus 4.1 95%, GPT-5 89%, and Llama 4 66%</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ina Fried / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</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=629415cec9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Baidu unveils Ernie 5.0, an AI model to process and generate text, images, audio, and video, claiming it beats GPT-5-High and Gemini 2.5 Pro on some benchmarks</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=d1a2d65027&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Baidu unveils two AI chips: the M100 for efficient MoE inference, coming in early 2026, and the M300 for training super-large multimodal models, coming in 2027</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Jiang / </span><span class="pub_name">South China Morning Post</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=438844e7a4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Alibaba plans to rename its AI app Tongyi to Qwen in the coming months to mimic ChatGPT and add agentic AI shopping features for platforms like Taobao</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Luz Ding / </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=a7bd489ae5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Madlin Mekelburg / </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=0f1579b380&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sundar Pichai proved to be the “wartime CEO” that Google needed after ChatGPT's launch, making the company an AI leader, in part by empowering Demis Hassabis</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dave Lee / </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=dbab06ed2e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Maryland will use Claude across its agencies to help residents apply for food aid, Medicaid, and more, and deploy Percepta tools to speed up housing permits</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maria Curi / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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earnings
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d6c24729f3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$27B, above ~$26.6B est., net profit up 19% YoY to ~$8.9B, above ~$8B est., and domestic game revenue up 15% YoY</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sherry Qin / </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=324fa17902&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">StubHub reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $468.1M, vs. $452M est., gross merchandise sales up 11% to $2.43B; STUB drops 5%+ after hours</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Annie Palmer / </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=c54c0cf8c5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to ~$42.1B, above ~$41.4B est., and net income down 55% YoY to ~$745M, as it competes in meal delivery and fast commerce</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=353e5515af&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SMIC reports Q3 revenue up 9.7% YoY to $2.38B, above $2.35B est., and net profit up 29% YoY to $191.8M, above $161.2M est., as analog chip demand rises</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sherry Qin / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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social networks
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4716130703&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta overhauls Facebook Marketplace, adding collections, collaborative buying, reactions, comments, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations</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=1d30dd2c80&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">LinkedIn rolls out AI-powered people search to LinkedIn Premium subscribers in the US, with plans to expand it to other countries in the coming months</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2cca936725&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TikTok launches Bulletin board, which lets brands and creators share public, one-to-many messages to their followers, similar to Instagram's broadcast channels</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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gaming
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1b35bf5eaf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Ubisoft delays publishing its H1 financial results on the day they were due and requests that its shares be halted from trading until then; UBI is down 47%+ YTD</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ec42bdefa5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Valve says the company is “no longer manufacturing” its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, released in 2019 for $999, after unveiling the Steam Frame</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </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=49356a1529&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Netflix shifts its video game strategy to focus on popular titles like Pictionary, Boggle, and Tetris, playable in its app on TVs using phones as controllers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nicole Sperling / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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streaming
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b002e7df27&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple and Major League Soccer agree to make all MLS games available on Apple TV for no extra charge from 2026, ending the MLS Season Pass subscription</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Paul Tenorio / </span><span class="pub_name">The Athletic</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=4647821321&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spotify starts rolling out Recaps, an AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what users have listened to so far, in beta on iOS for select English audiobooks</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Elissa Welle / </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=62ac3dba12&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Grayscale files for an IPO, reporting $203.3M in net income on $318.7M in revenue for January to September 2025; the DCG unit has ~$35B in AUM and 40+ products</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Isabelle Lee / </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=a0291dd1a4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Polymarket starts live testing its US exchange, first with select users, and says it is fully functional in beta, with some users placing bets on real contracts</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Denitsa Tsekova / </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=a425c2a654&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Salesforce acquires Tel Aviv-based Doti AI for $100M; Doti had raised $7M and its Work AI tool lets enterprises securely access internal knowledge in real time</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Meir Orbach / </span><span class="pub_name">CTech</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=bbda3fc183&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=2ec3c1d722&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in early talks to raise a new round of funding at a roughly $50B valuation, potentially rising to $55B-$60B</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=848b5996d2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: xAI raised $15B, adding $5B to the $10B it reportedly raised in September at a $200B valuation; Elon Musk replies “false” to an X post about the report</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=927b620219&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Philadelphia-based grocery delivery company Gopuff raised $250M led by Eldridge Industries and Valor Equity at an $8.5B valuation, down from $15B in 2021</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ivan Levingston / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial 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=4a5205f72d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">London-based BNPL startup Zilch raised $176.7M in equity and debt led by KKCG at the same $2B valuation as for its 2022 funding, after raising $127M in 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aisha S Gani / </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=89b7399765&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Exowatt, which aims to use concentrated solar power to generate 1¢ per kWh electricity for data centers, raised a $120M Series A from a16z, Sam Altman, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tim De Chant / </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=dfb6a834ab&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dresden-based chip startup Ferroelectric Memory raised €100M, including €77M in equity led by HV Capital and DTCF, to commercialize energy-saving memory chips</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Christina Kyriasoglou / </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=dbf87fa29f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Alembic, which offers AI-powered data analytics for marketers, raised a $145M Series B led by Prysm and Accenture at a $645M valuation, up from $49M in 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Patrick Coffee / </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=7c0214ddf7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">GC AI, which provides in-house corporate legal teams with AI tools, raised a $60M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners and Northzone at a $555M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sara Merken / </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=0e75cf5c48&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Foxglove, which is building a data and observability platform for robotics companies, raised a $40M Series B led by Bessemer, taking its total funding to $58M+</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Steve Crowe / </span><span class="pub_name">The Robot Report</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=8627faedcc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Attentive.ai, which makes Beam AI for automating preconstruction workflows, raised a $30.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $48M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Amit Chowdhry / </span><span class="pub_name">Pulse 2.0</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=43f5ec1651&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">San Diego-based Fabric8Labs, which uses electrochemical additive manufacturing to create chip-cooling plates for data centers, raised $50M led by NEA and Intel</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Colin Campbell / </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=2996715765&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company Helix Nano to focus on blocking creating biological weapons powered by AI, raised a $15M seed led by OpenAI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Deepa Seetharaman / </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=7af55e298c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon renames Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo, a nod to “low Earth orbit”; Amazon has so far launched 150+ satellites as part a constellation set to have 3,200+</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kurt Schlosser / </span><span class="pub_name">GeekWire</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=c7006286ab&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OnePlus debuts the $900+ OnePlus 15, with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a 7,300mah battery, and a 6.78" 165Hz screen; the US government shutdown delays a US debut</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=6920068ad2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The UK CAT refuses to let Apple appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging “excessive and unfair” App Store fees; lawyers: the damages are £1B+</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=6005255610&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AIDOL, one of the first anthropomorphic robots in Russia, face-planted at a demo in Moscow; organizers dragged the robot away and covered it with a black drape</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=9407f5a301&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Even Realities' G2 glasses hands-on: lighter than the G1 at 36g, subtle notifications that cross the eye line, and a “passive wearable” akin to the Apple Watch</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Fernando Silva / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</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=0a8f85a1e7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">European carmaker officials say they face “devastating” chip shortages after the Netherlands' Nexperia takeover and are scrambling to find alternative sources</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=815cb4cfe4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An investigation traces how Shanghai-based AI startup INF Tech accessed advanced Nvidia chips at an Indosat data center in Jakarta, despite US export controls</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Stephanie Stacey / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Salvador Rizzo / </span><span class="pub_name">Washington Post</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=6d166e16e2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Thailand extradites a Chinese-born businessman to China who the US and China say ran one of Southeast Asia's largest scam compounds, after arresting him in 2022</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Francesca Regalado / </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=54620b0f9a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: French authorities fully lifted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's travel ban on November 10 and removed a requirement to regularly check in at a police station</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=a0f539794c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Indian messaging app Arattai, which officials back as a domestic WhatsApp alternative; Arattai maker Zoho says it had 350K daily sign-ups in October</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Oliver Whang / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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