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Shares of Swiggy opened up ~8% on their trading debut after the company raised $1.34B in its IPO, which became the second largest IPO in India this year (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)

Shares of Swiggy opened up ~8% on their trading de...

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Perplexity says it will begin experimenting with ads on its platform in the US starting this week; ads will be formatted as "sponsored follow-up questions" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Perplexity says it will begin experimenting with a...

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Vega, which is developing AltOS, a platform to help alternative asset managers further their distributions, raised a $20M Series A led by Apollo and Motive (Irene Garcia Perez/Bloomberg)

Vega, which is developing AltOS, a platform to hel...

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Modern Times Group agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based mobile game maker Plarium for $620M and up to $200M more if Plarium hits financial targets over 2025 to 2028 (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Modern Times Group agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-base...

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PointFive, which helps companies track usage across multiple clouds, raised a $20M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, after raising a $16M seed in June 2024 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

PointFive, which helps companies track usage acros...

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SoftBank's telecom unit plans to build an AI supercomputer in Japan using Nvidia's DGX B200 platform, and a follow-up effort featuring the Grace Blackwell chip (Bloomberg)

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FrontierMath, a new benchmark for evaluating AI model's advanced mathematical reasoning, shows current AI systems solve less than 2% of its challenging problems (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

FrontierMath, a new benchmark for evaluating AI mo...

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Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, to provide "advice and guidance from outside of Government" (Eric Beech/Reuters)

Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy wi...

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Air National guardsman Jack Teixeira is sentenced to 15 years for stealing classified information from the Pentagon and sharing it on Discord in 2022 and 2023 (NBC News)

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Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supp...

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Sources: Gail Slater, a top aide to JD Vance, and Mark Meador, a former enforcer at the DOJ's antitrust unit and the FTC, are the front-runners to lead the FTC (Financial Times)

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Sources: Marc Lore's food delivery startup Wonder is in advanced talks to buy Grubhub from Just Eat Takeaway; Just Eat bought Grubhub in 2021 in a $7B+ deal (Wall Street Journal)

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Greg Brockman returns to OpenAI after taking a leave from his role as president in August; memo: he is working with Sam Altman on creating a new role for him (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Greg Brockman returns to OpenAI after taking a lea...

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Instacart reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $852M, vs. $843.6M est., gross transaction value up 11% to $8.3B, and forecasts Q4 adjusted EBITDA below estimates (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Instacart reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $852M, ...

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Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to €3.99B, vs. €4.02B est., MAUs up 11% to 640M, and forecasts Q4 profit and MAUs above est.; SPOT jumps 8%+ after hours (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to €3.9...

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Sources: Apple is making a 6" wall-mounted display that can control appliances, do videoconferencing, and use AI to navigate apps, and may unveil it by March (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is making a 6" wall-mounted display...

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US gov't data: 669 of 1,089 approved H-1B hires for TikTok and ByteDance from Oct. 2022 to Sept. 2023 were from China, up 50% YoY, despite US lawmaker scrutiny (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)

US gov't data: 669 of 1,089 approved H-1B hires fo...

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Source: Elon Musk's America PAC spent ~$200M to help elect Trump; Musk says the PAC is gearing up for midterms as well as judicial and DA elections (Dan Merica/Associated Press)

Source: Elon Musk's America PAC spent ~$200M to he...

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