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Estonia-based web traffic security company Blackwall raised a $100M Series C led by AVP at a $2.2B valuation, after raising a $49.2M Series B in March 2025 (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

Estonia-based web traffic security company Blackwa...

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Sources: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent ordered 3M+ of Nvidia's new RTX PRO 5500 GPUs worth $35B+, in a rush to secure less powerful, export-compliant chips (Reuters)

Sources: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent ordered 3...

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Survey: 20% of US adults regularly consume news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020; 39% of those aged 18 to 29 and 25% of those aged 30 to 49 do so regularly (Katerina Eva Matsa/Pew Research Center)

Survey: 20% of US adults regularly consume news on...

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Amazon pledges to spend €16B+ in Germany in 2027 on AWS and AI data centers, its Leo satellite program, Prime Video media production, and a Berlin robotics lab (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Amazon pledges to spend €16B+ in Germany in 2027 o...

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Analysis: London fell from 7th to last place out of 18 European capitals for median mobile download speed from 2021 to 2026; 5G adoption has outrun 5G capacity (Luke Kehoe/Ookla)

Analysis: London fell from 7th to last place out o...

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OpenAI says its new models show major performance leaps in low-resource legacy languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic, used by banks and governments (OpenAI)

OpenAI says its new models show major performance ...

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The US sanctions MiraclePlus, a Chinese VC firm founded by ex-Microsoft executive Lu Qi, over alleged ties to Zhisuan, accused of stealing Google's AI secrets (Bloomberg)

The US sanctions MiraclePlus, a Chinese VC firm fo...

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Ant-backed Mynt, which runs mobile wallet app GCash, rose as much as 2.4% in Manila after raising $841M in the Philippines' largest-ever IPO, valuing it at ~$7B (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

Ant-backed Mynt, which runs mobile wallet app GCas...

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Leaked documents detail ECHOTRIBBLE, a nascent US Army Cyber Command program for agentic AI to autonomously spread across networks to find and eliminate targets (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)

Leaked documents detail ECHOTRIBBLE, a nascent US ...

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Chinese robovan maker Neolix raised a $400M Series E led by Boyu, taking total funding to $1.4B+; it operates 30K+ vehicles in 300+ cities across 20 countries (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Chinese robovan maker Neolix raised a $400M Series...

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An Australian minister says the eSafety Commissioner plans to sue Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube over alleged breaches of the under-16 social media ban (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)

An Australian minister says the eSafety Commission...

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Mercury CEO Immad Akhund says the fintech hit $1B in annualized revenue, up ~50% YoY, has more than 450K customers, and is launching a payroll service (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

Mercury CEO Immad Akhund says the fintech hit $1B ...

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Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LLM it claims is "comparable to Luna and Haiku models" but 4x to 8x faster, generating ~1,000 tokens per second (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)

Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion-based LL...

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Korean data-center company Elice falls 30%+ in Kosdaq trading debut; sources: Australian data center operator AirTrunk delays real estate investment trust IPO (Bloomberg)

Korean data-center company Elice falls 30%+ in Kos...

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Sources: OpenAI is racing to secure investor commitments before Anthropic's expected IPO in mid-Nov. and aims to raise ~$30B; the round could value it at $1.4T+ (Reuters)

Sources: OpenAI is racing to secure investor commi...

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Sources: Ted Sarandos complained for months of a lack of new hit shows at Netflix and US watch time being down; it just fired its film chief and content chief (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Ted Sarandos complained for months of a l...

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Sources: Waymo aims to expand its fleet to 8K by the end of this year, up from 4K today, and to 20K by the end of 2027, after raising $5B in debt this month (Ellen DiMauro/Semafor)

Sources: Waymo aims to expand its fleet to 8K by t...

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Sources: Eric Schmidt, who owns ~1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions in its Series A, is poised to have one of the largest windfalls from its IPO (Bloomberg)

Sources: Eric Schmidt, who owns ~1% of Anthropic a...

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