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Alphabet discloses $1T+ in purchase commitments, future leases, and other obligations; its Q3 filing shows $98.5B in contingent commitments, up ~$23B from Q2 (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)

Alphabet discloses $1T+ in purchase commitments, f...

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Alphabet's stock falls 12%+, wiping a record $500B from its market cap, after reporting negative cash flow amid its AI spending; the Nasdaq falls 1.4%+ (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

Alphabet's stock falls 12%+, wiping a record $500B...

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Airbnb spent $12.6M+ since 2025 to become a top LA political contributor, backing Mayor Karen Bass and pushing for friendlier rules ahead of the 2028 Olympics (Liam Dillon/Politico)

Airbnb spent $12.6M+ since 2025 to become a top LA...

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Canada-based Cohere completes the first close of a round that it expects to total up to $5B, with Canada agreeing to invest up to $1.14B, at a $20.5B valuation (Bloomberg)

Canada-based Cohere completes the first close of a...

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Sources: Situational Awareness is pitching clients to invest in Fluidstack alongside it in a round that values the neocloud at $40B, up from $18B in September (Bloomberg)

Sources: Situational Awareness is pitching clients...

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The UK FCA, which sued Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX in 2025 for "unlawfully promoting crypto asset services", says HTX will exit the UK in a settlement (Financial Times)

The UK FCA, which sued Justin Sun-linked crypto ex...

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Collective, which uses AI to automate bookkeeping for solo business owners, raised a $40M Series B and $60M in nondilutive capital from GC's Customer Value Fund (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Collective, which uses AI to automate bookkeeping ...

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Ottawa-based Solink, which uses AI to pull data from already-installed security cameras, raised $100M+ led by Vertu Capital, bringing its total raised to $198M+ (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Ottawa-based Solink, which uses AI to pull data fr...

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Thrive Holdings agrees to acquire ADT in an all-cash take-private deal, valuing ADT at ~$7.6B in equity value, a ~46% premium over its October 27 closing price (Claire Rychlewski/Axios)

Thrive Holdings agrees to acquire ADT in an all-ca...

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Mistral releases the weights for Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, and says it rivals top open models such as GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)

Mistral releases the weights for Mistral Large 4, ...

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Serval, which offers AI agents for enterprise IT operations like access management, raised $150M led by Sequoia at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in December 2025 (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

Serval, which offers AI agents for enterprise IT o...

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Wabi, which is building an AI assistant that integrates into group chats and can take actions like booking appointments, raised $55M at a $1.25B valuation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)

Wabi, which is building an AI assistant that integ...

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Sources: Microsoft is seeking to raise $25B+ in its first US investment-grade bond sale since 2017, when it raised $17B, to fund AI-related capital expenditures (Bloomberg)

Sources: Microsoft is seeking to raise $25B+ in it...

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Q&A with Sam Altman on finding PHP bugs, sandboxing superhuman models as an unsolved safety dilemma, robotics scaling data centers, math, agent swarms, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)

Q&A with Sam Altman on finding PHP bugs, sandboxin...

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Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on diffusing intelligence, safety, AI lessons, forward-deployed engineering, Anthropic vs. the US, AI religion, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on diffusing in...

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Circuit Mind, which uses AI to automate electronics and circuit design, raised $25M, including an $18.5M Series A led by Norwest, and plans a US relocation (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Circuit Mind, which uses AI to automate electronic...

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Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and Wellington Management at a $40B valuation, up from a $22B valuation after raising $1B in May, its last raise before an IPO (Lauren McCarthy/New York Times)

Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and Wellington Ma...

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DoorDash agrees to acquire Instacart in a ~$17B deal, paying $65 per share, a 26% premium to its October 22 close, as the food platform market consolidates (Anuja Bharat Mistry/Reuters)

DoorDash agrees to acquire Instacart in a ~$17B de...

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