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Singapore-based Multiplier, which acquires accounting firms to boost their growth with AI tools, raised a $35M Series B led by TheGP at a $300M valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)

Singapore-based Multiplier, which acquires account...

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Nielsen agrees to acquire DoubleVerify and take it private in an all-cash deal with an enterprise value of around $2.15B, expected to close by Q1 2027 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)

Nielsen agrees to acquire DoubleVerify and take it...

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Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to more than $480M (Mars W. Mosqueda Jr/DealStreetAsia)

Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab ra...

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Ad measurement company VideoAmp laid off ~20% of staff this week, citing AI as a "major platform shift"; sources: 50-60 employees were cut, including its CTO (Nat Ives/Wall Street Journal)

Ad measurement company VideoAmp laid off ~20% of s...

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Anthropic updates Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives, cutting biology-related "fallbacks" by ~85% in testing across product surfaces (Anthropic)

Anthropic updates Claude Fable 5's biology safegua...

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At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment (Black Hat on YouTube)

At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Huggi...

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Take-Two reports Q1 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.39B, vs. $1.38B est., forecasts Q2 and FY 2027 bookings below est., reiterates GTA VI's November 19 launch date (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

Take-Two reports Q1 bookings down 3% YoY to $1.39B...

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Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Series G led by Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Avra at a $20B valuation, up from an $11.5B valuation in October 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

Livestream shopping app Whatnot raised a $545M Ser...

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Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI...

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Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS is reviewing how Chinese AI companies access Nvidia chips overseas, including by legally renting foreign data centers (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS is revie...

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The White House imposes a series of price floors and a 15% tariff on products made from polysilicon, a chip raw material primarily produced by China (Reuters)

The White House imposes a series of price floors a...

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Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes says he will buy $250M of company shares after strong Q4 results eased fears that AI could threaten its business model (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes says he will buy...

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SK Hynix plans a $38B chipmaking expansion in South Korea, including a new ~$24.7B DRAM facility in Yongin and a ~$13.3B NAND fabrication plant in Cheongju (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

SK Hynix plans a $38B chipmaking expansion in Sout...

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Analysis: Google DeepMind has lost frontier-model momentum amid leadership and RL talent departures, with Google Cloud emerging as a winner with more compute (SemiAnalysis)

Analysis: Google DeepMind has lost frontier-model ...

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Sources: Google's AI shakeup is a seismic shift in the works for months and cements Sergey Brin's influence, after execs became frustrated with Demis Hassabis (Financial Times)

Sources: Google's AI shakeup is a seismic shift in...

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Sources: up to five people tied to US Cyber Command died by suicide from early June to early July 2026, prompting it to flag a potential suicide cluster (Bloomberg)

Sources: up to five people tied to US Cyber Comman...

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Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm Mido Capital; sources: he plans to raise ~$100M for a fund backing early-stage AI and other startups (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming ventu...

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Sources: ByteDance is pre-training an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x Kimi K3 and potentially larger than estimates for Anthropic's Mythos 5 (Financial Times)

Sources: ByteDance is pre-training an AI model wit...

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