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Potential Sciences, an AI startup building large-scale chemical data sets, secured backing from the UK's Sovereign AI Fund, as part of an eight-figure raise (Joel Khalili/Wired)

Potential Sciences, an AI startup building large-s...

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Google rolls out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, which creates clips up to 15 seconds, vs. 10 seconds with Omni 1.1, has better reference adherence, and costs 30% less (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

Google rolls out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, which crea...

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Perplexity rolls out Teammates, an always-on AI agent system that integrates with Computer to handle multiple roles and execute large-scale tasks simultaneously (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Perplexity rolls out Teammates, an always-on AI ag...

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Sources: UK neobank Monzo is exploring a new fundraising round valuing it at ~£7.5B after failing to be acquired by Nu Holdings and struggling to sell a stake (Financial Times)

Sources: UK neobank Monzo is exploring a new fundr...

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Filing: Airbnb discloses that it has the option to invest in and license tech from CEO Brian Chesky's stealth AI lab; source: Chesky has self-funded it so far (The Information)

Filing: Airbnb discloses that it has the option to...

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Sources: Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5B led by Accel at a $40B pre-money valuation, more than tripling its valuation from its last public round last year (Business Insider)

Sources: Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5B led ...

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Artificial Analysis says Inkling 2 Small matches Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) in its index and would be the top open model outside China once its weights are out (Artificial Analysis)

Artificial Analysis says Inkling 2 Small matches G...

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Lyft reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.92B est., and a net loss of $0.03 a share, vs. an est. profit of $0.20 a share; LYFT drops 8%+ after hours (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)

Lyft reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $...

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Meta indefinitely pauses its new commercial terms, which critics say would let it scrape sites of business users, after publisher outcry and court injunctions (Nieman Lab)

Meta indefinitely pauses its new commercial terms,...

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Sources: cloud security startup Cyera is planning to raise around $800M in a round led by Cyberstarts at a $20B valuation, up from $12B in June (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Sources: cloud security startup Cyera is planning ...

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Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling 2 Small, a MoE model with 594B total and 17B active parameters, and plans to release weights next week after safety testing (Thinking Machines Lab)

Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling 2 Small, a Mo...

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Sources: major investors are increasingly skeptical Anthropic's IPO can achieve a $1.5T valuation after a market selloff; one says it could be closer to $1T (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: major investors are increasingly skeptica...

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Sources: Unity has held talks to be acquired by a consortium including Silver Lake, which owns 8% of Unity, and Saudi Arabia's PIF, discussing a ~$25B valuation (Reuters)

Sources: Unity has held talks to be acquired by a ...

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Sources: NYT has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd for roughly $330M; A24 dropped out of negotiations after price expectations rose (New York Times)

Sources: NYT has entered exclusive negotiations to...

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Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $782.5M, above $737.2M est., a $34.1M net loss, and lifts its FY 2026 guidance; NET jumps 14%+ after hours (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)

Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $782.5...

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Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $4.9B, above est., Nights and Seats Booked up 16% to 155M, rises its FY 2026 revenue outlook; ABNB jumps 9%+ after hours (Bloomberg)

Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $4.9B, abo...

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The Nasdaq 100 drops 6%, losing a record $2.3T in value, and the Philadelphia chip index plunges 12%, on concerns over the AI trade after Democrats won Congress (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)

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GOP leaders of three House committees ask Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on his ties with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, reported to be a Chinese asset (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)

GOP leaders of three House committees ask Jensen H...

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