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Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM designed for computer use, available as an experimental release on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)
Ben Dickson / VentureBeat : Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM design…
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OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT …
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Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators…
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Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M+ seed (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Flexion, which is building a full autonomy sta…
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Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B+ in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a "victim of misconduct" (Forbes)
Forbes : Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B+ in f…
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Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica : Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 …
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A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju's founder Byju Raveendran on Nov. 20 to pay $1B+ to US lenders, over missing funds from Byju's US unit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup By…
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How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
Justine Calma / The Verge : How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona …
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While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech : While the AI bubble feels like the internet b…
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How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)
Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal : How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ah…
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Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 c…
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CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared scre…
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Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year (Alex Heath/Sources)
Alex Heath / Sources : Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M i…
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Google updates Quick Share to work with Apple's AirDrop to make file transfers between iPhones and Android devices easier, starting with the Pixel 10 family (The Keyword)
The Keyword : Google updates Quick Share to work with Apple's AirDrop to make f…
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AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M Series C led by Humain, sources say at a ~$4B valuation, and partners with Humain on a 2GW AI cluster in Saudi Arabia (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)
Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times : AI video startup Luma AI raised a $900M …
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