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Q&A with Roblox CEO David Baszucki on the chat function, AI-powered age estimation via face scans, accusations of compromising child safety for growth, and more (www.nytimes.com)
22 days ago AI

At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand (www.cnbc.com)
22 days ago Google AI

Meta enters electricity trading to help accelerate the construction of new US power plants critical for its AI infrastructure buildout (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago AI

Sorcero, which makes AI agents for pharmaceutical companies to market new medications, raised a $42.5M Series B, bringing its total funding to $59M (www.axios.com)
22 days ago AI

Sources: Meta plans to test an AI-powered personalized daily briefing, designed to compete with ChatGPT's Pulse, with some Facebook users in NYC and SF (www.washingtonpost.com)
22 days ago Facebook AI

Google says ads that some users are seeing in AI Mode are part of a test; the ads have a “sponsored” label and appear at the bottom of the page (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
22 days ago Google AI

Sources: the US has probed whether the products of China's Bitmain, which sells most of the world's Bitcoin-mining machines, pose risks of espionage or sabotage (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago China Bitcoin

Sources: Kalshi told investors that its trading volume grew six times in the last six months and it is on an annualized pace for $600M to $700M in net revenue (www.theinformation.com)
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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 (sources.news)
22 days ago Startup AI

Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Google Salesforce

Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago Trump China Nvidia

Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago Google Airbnb

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (www.nytimes.com)
22 days ago Google

A look at AMD's pivot to AI chips in 2022 under CEO Lisa Su, increasing AMD's market value from $90B to $335B+ in three years, as the chipmaker takes on Nvidia (www.wsj.com)
22 days ago AI Nvidia AMD

Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to “reward hack” by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research (www.anthropic.com)
22 days ago AI

Analyzing Gemini 3's model card and safety framework report: the model is excellent but the safety report withholds or makes it difficult to understand key info (thezvi.substack.com)
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Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety (www.cnbc.com)
22 days ago Startup AI Robot

Waymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026 (www.sfchronicle.com)
22 days ago California

Sources: the White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state AI laws, following bipartisan backlash (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago AI

Sources: China's Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026 (www.wsj.com)
22 days ago China IPO AI

Italy's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies (www.reuters.com)
22 days ago Italy Google

Alphabet's stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google's Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers (sherwood.news)
22 days ago Google Alphabet

Finland-based NestAI raised €100M led by Finland's sovereign fund Tesi and Nokia to build AI products for defense applications, including for unmanned vehicles (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago AI Nokia Finland

New York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, for US and international expansion (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago New York

Federato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M+ (insurtechanalyst.com)
22 days ago AI Goldman Insurance

Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (www.axios.com)
22 days ago

General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago Japan Equity

Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs' focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more (www.bloomberg.com)
22 days ago China Startup AI Intelligence

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (restofworld.org)
22 days ago India Startup

Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have been raising pay and bonuses as global competition intensifies for a limited pool of chip engineers (on.ft.com)
22 days ago China Korea Taiwan

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