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Sources: software-specialist PE firm Hg agrees to acquire Rightsline, whose software helps Disney, the BBC, WBD, and others manage IP licensing, for $500M (Financial Times)

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Trump says it is "critically important" that the CFTC has exclusive authority to oversee prediction markets, as some US states attempt to regulate them (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)

Trump says it is "critically important" that the C...

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Initial benchmarks show Nvidia's Vera CPU, which features 88 in-house-designed Olympus cores, packs a heavy-hitting punch, beating Intel's and AMD's x86_64 CPUs (Michael Larabel/Phoronix)

Initial benchmarks show Nvidia's Vera CPU, which f...

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Document: Samsung plans to invest $1.5B to build a semiconductor testing plant focused on legacy chips in Vietnam; the plant is slated to open in November 2027 (Reuters)

Document: Samsung plans to invest $1.5B to build a...

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Samsung's largest union approves a pay deal that would give chip workers an average bonus of ~$340K, with ~74% of members voting in favor, staving off a strike (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Samsung's largest union approves a pay deal that w...

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SK Hynix tops $1T in market value after shares jumped 11% on Wednesday, becoming the third Asian company to hit the mark; shares surged 900%+ in the past year (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

SK Hynix tops $1T in market value after shares jum...

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Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a $15B valuation after being valued at $4B in October 2025 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run A...

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Source: AI inference provider Baseten is in talks to raise $1B at a post-money valuation of $11B, up from $5B after its $300M Series E announced in January (The Information)

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OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business segment; he succeeds Kate Rouch, who stepped down earlier this year to focus on her health (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO f...

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US cybersecurity company Zscaler reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $850.5M, above $835.4M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; ZS drops 18%+ after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)

US cybersecurity company Zscaler reports Q3 revenu...

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Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise $250M+ (Axios)

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Charter confirms a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to steal 40M customer records from Charter's Salesforce instance and threatened to leak the data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its memory chips in the AI race (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time o...

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London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end ...

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Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the informa...

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Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years, following the porting of all of its major features to the Nvidia app (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Pane...

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Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000+ camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Human Archive, which trains robots using first-per...

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SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $...

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