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Uber agrees to acquire Boston-based catering platform ezCater in an all-cash deal valued at $2.3B to expand Uber Eats into corporate food delivery (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Uber agrees to acquire Boston-based catering platf...

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UK retailer Asos falls 10%+ after customers received app notifications saying "we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance"; source: Asos is investigating (Financial Times)

UK retailer Asos falls 10%+ after customers receiv...

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Anthropic's IPO prospectus: Dario Amodei earned $18M in 2025, middle of the pack for tech CEOs, and President Daniela Amodei, his sister, earned $16.4M (Reuters)

Anthropic's IPO prospectus: Dario Amodei earned $1...

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Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey (Zeyi Yang/New York Times)

Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI t...

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Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey (Zeyi Yang/New York Times)

Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI t...

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Google contracts for 3.6 GW of power from Constellation Energy in the US' largest power grid, with new nuclear energy accounting for ~25% of that supply (Laila Kearney/Reuters)

Google contracts for 3.6 GW of power from Constell...

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Source: Palmer Luckey's Erebor hits $7B+ in deposits since launching in February, including $3B+ over the past quarter with 500+ new customers (Financial Times)

Source: Palmer Luckey's Erebor hits $7B+ in deposi...

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Sources: the FBI removes an Accenture contractor over a breach exposing thousands of employees' data; the FBI says a contractor failed to apply a security patch (Reuters)

Sources: the FBI removes an Accenture contractor o...

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Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security service, raised $40M co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, taking its total funding to $65M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security service,...

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London- and Paris-based tokenized cash startup Spiko raised a $90M Series B at an $800M valuation, taking its total funding to $120M, and hits ~$2.7B in AUM (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

London- and Paris-based tokenized cash startup Spi...

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SignSplit, which offers infrastructure to let people digitally sign datasets, likenesses, and creative works, raised $400M from W Group at a $1B valuation (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

SignSplit, which offers infrastructure to let peop...

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Sources: Kuaishou's Kling selects banks to lead a Hong Kong IPO aiming to raise $1B+ as early as 2027; Kling hit a $15B valuation after raising $2.8B in July (Bloomberg)

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AMD CEO Lisa Su says the company plans to "substantially increase" supply in 2027 and needs "more advanced wafer capacity", as she meets Foxconn and TSMC (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

AMD CEO Lisa Su says the company plans to "substan...

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At an Australian hearing, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon pledged faster safety incident disclosures; Anthropic representatives made similar pledges (ABC)

At an Australian hearing, OpenAI Chief Strategy Of...

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South Korea plans to launch a ~$3.5B program to develop a frontier AI model starting as early as March 2027 and will open a competition to select participants (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald)

South Korea plans to launch a ~$3.5B program to de...

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The UK's Ofcom opens an OSA probe into Meta over Instagram Instants, launched in May; Meta says it "briefed Ofcom about this feature on a number of occasions" (Reuters)

The UK's Ofcom opens an OSA probe into Meta over I...

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South Korean officials are probing whether AI agents were used in recent bank hacks, after President Lee Jae Myung said "signs" suggest AI models were involved (New York Times)

South Korean officials are probing whether AI agen...

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ChatGPT is not only using New Yorker cartoonists' style but also adding their signatures to the fake cartoons it creates, which have gone viral on social media (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

ChatGPT is not only using New Yorker cartoonists' ...

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