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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d94587848d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=77a202c56a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I'd previously posted about a series of engagement farming accounts with large followings that use the names of major figures in the Trump family or administration. Now, according to X's location feature, an account called “Barron Trump News” with 580,000 followers is based in Eastern Europe, an account called “Ivanka Trump News” with 1 million followers is based in Nigeria, and an account called “Kai Trump News” is based in North Macedonia.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4249609e7f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I'm sure some of these are state/political projects, but I suspect most are just smart people in low and middle income countries doing it for the money, because Twitter invented a direct and quick way to make cold hard cash from making Americans angry and upset online.</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=d27b5ce4ba&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">X starts rolling out About This Account globally, letting users see the country or region where an X account is based by tapping the signup date on the profile</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2ff075fabe&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">More than 1,800 plaintiffs—including children and parents, school districts, and state attorneys general—have joined together in a suit alleging that the parent companies behind Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube “relentlessly pursued a strategy of growth at all costs, recklessly ignoring the impact of their products on children's mental and physical health,” according to their master complaint.</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=7d315b3fbf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B+ in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a “victim of misconduct”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=98ba854732&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Katherine Blunt / </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=7555942711&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: China's Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026</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=c37576c30e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in “LLM grooming”, flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aisha Down / </span><span class="pub_name">The Guardian</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=251b92ca04&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A researcher details an LLM-based AI agent that “demonstrated a near-flawless ability” to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emanuel Maiberg / </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=a991dc1a23&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept.</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Scharon Harding / </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=f144e5cb9a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs' focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mishal Husain / </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=84e7b03502&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Rest of World</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=f65f02110a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents</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=a3336ea238&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lisa Du / </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=a42d1ca469&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </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=29ffffbc52&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Federato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M+</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">InsurTech Analyst</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=4abc615580&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Peek, which sells attractions and tour operator software, raised a $70M Series D, taking its total funding to $150M+, and acquired Acme Ticketing and Connect&Go</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=b80db83b6a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">New York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, for US and international expansion</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=91df47209d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Finland-based NestAI raised €100M led by Finland's sovereign fund Tesi and Nokia to build AI products for defense applications, including for unmanned vehicles</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Anna Heim / </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=c5d6ec31a9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M+ seed</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mary Ann Azevedo / </span><span class="pub_name">Crunchbase 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=1b18010de2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Deblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tamara Djurickovic / </span><span class="pub_name">Tech.eu</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=ea9983f72c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Israel-based Chargeflow, whose AI tech automates chargeback disputes for online merchants, raised a $25M Series A led by Viola Growth, and a $10M debt round</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=b034d4d52f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </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=89dfbe58cf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Arbiter, which is using AI to automate healthcare administrative tasks, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed from multiple family offices at a $400M valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rebecca Torrence / </span><span class="pub_name">Business Insider</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Justine Calma / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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