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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=eb1c121cfb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7ae4b8812a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Gemini 3 Pro Image only has an 8 percent error rate when generating text OpenAI's model is at 38% [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6de45ed42c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@sundarpichai:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=08e379f1b0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">You went 🍌🍌 for Nano Banana. Now, meet Nano Banana Pro. It's SOTA for image generation + editing with more advanced world knowledge, text rendering, precision + controls. Built on Gemini 3, it's really good at complex infographics - much like how engineers see the world:) [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4de26af24e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Nano Banana Pro is wild. Here's my favorite use case so far: take papers or really long articles and turn them into a detailed whiteboard photo. It's basically the greatest compression algorithm in human history. [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=22a95ecf45&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nano Banana Pro is great at following instructions, generates interim “thought images”, and makes full infographics with well-rendered text from a short prompt</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=dc7f02a1cf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Great to see Google driving new interoperability features between Android and iOS. This makes all devices better for all users!</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d364e3163c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This isn't another Beeper situation, as this is Google themselves doing it. Apple and Google do have a moderately friendly relationship, mostly. Apple is about to use Gemini for Apple Intelligence. And Google Search is still the default on the iPhone.</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=7966723c65&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Adi Robertson / </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=c5c2204279&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI partners with Foxconn to design and develop data center server racks to be manufactured in the US; Foxconn will produce cabling, power systems, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Seth Fiegerman / </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=76ceabc1ff&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as “AI eats the world”: bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech has FOMO, capex, Nvidia, US power backlogs, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Benedict Evans</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=bc9283ada7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia and Google launch the GeForce Now Fast Pass to let Chromebook owners stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic Preston / </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=e505b2bc55&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft and Qualcomm release Windows updates to improve gaming on ARM, including a refreshed Xbox app; Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Control Panel optimizes games</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=73f02fa449&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Circana: EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025's fastest-selling physical game</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Vlad Savov / </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=39f8d049c4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Q&A with former Xbox boss Peter Moore on the Xbox 360 launch, his new book Game Changer, competition with Sony, the origins of the modern console war, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Robert Purchese / </span><span class="pub_name">Eurogamer.net</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=9035eaad08&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Joe Miller / </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=a3db0f4afb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How the AI Act became a case study for critics who say the EU puts regulation ahead of innovation, as the European Commission postpones a key part of the law</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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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=aa40920b06&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Allen Institute for AI, or Ai2, unveils Olmo 3 models that it says outperform open models like Stanford's Marin and commercial open-weight models like Llama 3.1</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Todd Bishop / </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=ff9039e097&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI says GPT-5 has demonstrated the ability to accelerate scientific research workflows but can't run projects or solve scientific problems autonomously</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Radhika Rajkumar / </span><span class="pub_name">ZDNET</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=b0f1d9c4c6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US DOE accelerates its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Don Clark / </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=42bad918b4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google opens an AI infrastructure hardware engineering hub in Taipei, its biggest outside of the US, to develop and test tech to be deployed in its data centers</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=5a89ac89ee&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI server shipments from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 compared to 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Hideaki Ryugen / </span><span class="pub_name">Nikkei Asia</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=54e85194b6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Goodin / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</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=71d4c40693&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A study of teen mental health chatbot conversations: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI often failed to recognize signs of conditions and gave general advice</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Georgia Wells / </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=22e1b19111&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How AI is pressuring Poland's economy, Europe's top location for global business services, as companies lay off staff in Kraków, the country's hub for BPO jobs</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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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=bfe5b8ea48&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pushes AI data centers, including by pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are profiting from them</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=5498e156cf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: SoftBank plans to invest up to $3B to remodel an EV plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI's forthcoming US data centers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sri Muppidi / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</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=1038b74511&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: UMG, WMG, and Sony Music have licensed their works to Klay, which is building a streaming service that will let users remake songs using AI tools</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lucas Shaw / </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=b2be29e703&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Letterboxd says it will launch rental platform Letterboxd Video Store, curated with undistributed festival standouts, restorations, and more, in early December</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Letterboxd</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=799894dbcf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters are driving a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads</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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robotics
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f321e0344a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading a dishwasher, and plans to launch in beta in 2026</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Will Knight / </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=47cb8056cb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini becoming a sort of robot OS</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Will Knight / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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autonomous vehicles
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3d14d929eb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber says it will launch Uber Eats sidewalk robot deliveries in Europe via a new Starship partnership, starting with UK cities Leeds and Sheffield in December</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Natalie Lung / </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=f35ad1d9f4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">China's transport, logistics, and ride-hailing sectors are accelerating the mass adoption of autonomous vehicles, threatening the jobs of millions of drivers</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Edward White / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</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=30e23d4037&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Internal memo: Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says the company will begin notifying the 13,000+ employees impacted by its largest-ever round of layoffs</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Patience Haggin / </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=cc418cc06b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in its UK offices, following similar offers in several US divisions this year</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Hugh Langley / </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=bb324edb6e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence raised $600M led by CapitalG at a $5.6B valuation, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Lux, Thrive, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Shirin Ghaffary / </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=d4643f5b7f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Numeric, which automates accounting workflows, raised a $51M Series B led by IVP, bringing its total funding to $89M, and says OpenAI and Brex are clients</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ryan Lawler / </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=514e1858d5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI voice dictation startup Wispr Flow raised $25M led by Notable Capital, after raising a $30M Series A in June, taking its total funding to $81M</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=60139c3874&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Method Security, which specializes in dual-use cyber capabilities, raised $26M across seed and Series A rounds led by a16z and General Catalyst, respectively</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Colin Demarest / </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=f444b58f2f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug discovery, raised $106M led by Bezos Expeditions and Altimeter, bringing its total funding to $150M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Amy Feldman / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</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=ff62bf8445&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI workplace agents startup Genspark raised a $275M Series B at a $1.25B valuation and says it hit $50M in annualized revenue after pivoting from AI search</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Anna Tong / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</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=303fe0eba7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Stuut, which connects to CRM and other systems to automate management of accounts receivable, raised a $29.5M Series A led by a16z</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Charlie Fink / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</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=55db4c07a8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Function Health, a health tracking AI tech startup, raised a $298M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total funding to $350M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kate Park / </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=1788fb5d36&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Source: Twenty, which uses AI to help hackers for the US military penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $38M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Margi Murphy / </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=6c54ef3748&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mike Wheatley / </span><span class="pub_name">SiliconANGLE</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=66a80da5db&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Lenovo reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $20.45B, above $20B est., net profit down 5% YoY to $340M, below $382M est., but adjusted net profit up 25% YoY to $512M</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">P.R. Venkat / </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=332a5c8387&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Gloo, which develops AI tools for Christian churches and counts Pat Gelsinger as executive chair, closed up 1% in its Nasdaq debut after raising $73M in its IPO</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">George Steer / </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=10cd58eda9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A US judge sentences William Lonergan Hill, who co-founded crypto mixer Samourai Wallet, to four years in prison for laundering $200M+ in illegal transactions</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=ea8c0dd083&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, which is double the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Anissa Gardizy / </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=bf83c34159&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging that they adopt device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jason Parham / </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=47fef1f167&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February 2026</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=678c22b7f8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Cornell University researchers: Grokipedia cites sources deemed “generally unreliable” or “blacklisted” by Wikipedia, like neo-Nazi sites Stormfront and VDare</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David Ingram / </span><span class="pub_name">NBC News</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=23c7c8ca08&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The CSA says that Matter 1.5 will add support for video cameras; Samsung has pledged its support, but Amazon and Google have not committed to interoperability</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Welch / </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=e1c8d0424b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Paradromics says it received FDA approval for a human trial of its Connexus brain implant, aimed at restoring speech to those with severe motor impairments</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emily Mullin / </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=c839ae23e6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The FCC votes along party lines to repeal a Biden-era cybersecurity rule aimed at preventing intrusions like Salt Typhoon, calling it an ineffective measure</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kelcee Griffis / </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=3b13165a53&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Chinese investment firm Capital Today bought ByteDance shares at a $480B valuation in a bidding auction; ByteDance had a ~$330B valuation in September</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dong Cao / </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=80353efcce&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">As OpenAI committed to spending ~$1.4T on data centers, it hasn't disclosed its auditor; sources: OpenAI's auditor is Deloitte</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Louis Ashworth / </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=480acc0013&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B, or four times faster than ad spend in media overall, set to grow 5.7% YoY</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kayla Cobb / </span><span class="pub_name">The Wrap</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=59f942778b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, 50% use Instagram, 37% use TikTok, 32% use WhatsApp, 26% use Reddit, and 21% use X</a></span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mike Cherney / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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