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Span, which aims to help companies measure the value of AI-assisted coding, raised $25M in seed and Series A rounds from Alt Capital, Craft Ventures, and others (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2025-11-18 AI

Global Web Freedoms Tumble (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-18

Ramp says it is now valued at $32B following a $300M raise led by Lightspeed and an employee tender offer, up from a $22.5B valuation in July (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-18

Why Hotel-Room Cancellations Disappeared (slashdot.org)
2025-11-18

Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext 2, a weather model that it says offers faster, more accurate two-week forecasts and includes tools aimed at energy traders (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-18 Google Energy

Vancouver-based PowerLattice, which makes a power supply chiplet to cut power consumption by 50%+, raised a $25M Series A, taking its total funding to $31M (www.bizjournals.com)
2025-11-18

Anthropic CEO Says He's 'Deeply Uncomfortable' With Unelected Tech Elites Shaping AI (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-18 AI

Sources: the EU Commission wants to decide if any of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud should face new restrictions under the DMA, following several major outages (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-18 Google

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he is “nervous about the size of these investments in these data centres”; he owns stakes in OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI (t.co)
2025-11-18

Florida Bill Would Require Cursive Instruction in Elementary Schools (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-18

Meta says its 2Africa subsea cable project remains incomplete in the southern Red Sea segment due to security risks; Google's Blue-Raman cable is also delayed (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-18 Google

Bezos Returns To CEO Role With AI Startup Project Prometheus (slashdot.org)
2025-11-18 Startup AI

In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-11-18 Startup AI

Voize, an ambient AI voice company targeting skilled nursing facilities, raised a $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital and plans a US launch in Q1 2026 (www.axios.com)
2025-11-18 AI

How Should the Linux Kernel Handle AI-Generated Contributions? (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 Linux AI

Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-11-17

US filing: Peter Thiel's Thiel Macro sold 537,742 Nvidia shares, worth ~$100M as of September 30, during Q3, amid rising concerns about an AI investment bubble (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-17 AI Nvidia

Sources: UK companies and groups tell the UK that a planned ban on paying ransoms to ransomware gangs is unlikely to stop attacks and risks collapsing services (www.ft.com)
2025-11-17 Ban

Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2025 report: for the 15th straight year, global internet freedom is in decline; of the 72 countries surveyed, Kenya fell most (www.techpolicy.press)
2025-11-17

Danish startup Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, raised €145M at a €1.5B valuation and says it “crossed €100M of ARR in October” (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-17 Startup

Investigation: $28B+ in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-17 Trump

Chinese toymaker FoloToy suspends sales of its GPT-4o-powered teddy bear, after researchers found the toy gave kids harmful responses, including sexual content (www.theregister.com)
2025-11-17 China

An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more (techpolicy.press)
2025-11-17 Interview

Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-11-17 Amazon Startup AI Jeff Bezos

Bitcoin Erases Year's Gain as Crypto Bear Market Deepens (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 Bitcoin

Chinese chipmaker Cambricon's revenue surged 500%+ in the past year and its stock jumped 765%+ in two years, as China pushes local chips amid US sanctions (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-17 China

FT's Tim Cook retirement story could be a “trial balloon” from people close to him, if Cook makes the decision to leave on a high note after Q1 earnings report (spyglass.org)
2025-11-17 Tim Cook

More Tech Moguls Want to Build Data Centers in Outer Space (science.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17

Tokyo-based Turing, which is developing an AI model for self-driving vehicles, raised a $99M Series A, sources say at a ~$388M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-17 AI Autonomous Car Tokyo

Microsoft Executives Discuss How AI Will Change Windows, Programming -- and Society (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 Microsoft AI programming

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