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A petition to reinstate Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO tops 100K signatures, including Elon Musk, Tim Sweeney, and Garry Tan; organizers say 5K+ Nvidia staff signed (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
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Databento, which offers market data APIs and says it has contracts with five of the six largest frontier AI labs, raised a $100M Series C at a $1.1B valuation (FinTech Global)
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Jensen Huang's resignation is a setback for US open models, as his funding gave open-source developers time to find their footing and will very likely dry up (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
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Sean Duffy blames Friday's FAA outage on copper-to-fiber wiring work at a remote facility, saying contractor L3Harris may have installed a "faulty router" (Joseph Pisani/Wall Street Journal)
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Trump Media faces a Nov. 30 deadline to repay up to $1B in convertible bonds sold last May to fund a "bitcoin treasury," as its shares are down 60+% this year (Financial Times)
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Tesla's Cybercab Autonomy Subscription agreement states the vehicles will only work inside Tesla-enabled geofences, which the company can change at any time (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
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Italy's data protection agency fines Meta €805M for allegedly accessing Android users' photos and videos without their consent or informing them (Reuters)
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How Marco Rubio helped topple Jensen Huang; source: Rubio used a CIA report about Alice Huang to write his own, recasting CIA reporting in more assertive terms (Washington Post)
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How the Swiss city of Lugano is trying to reinvent itself as a crypto hub to boost its economy by launching its own token LVGA, partnering with Tether, and more (Financial Times)
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Microsoft says all Microsoft 365 products are operational, ending an outage that disrupted governments, traders, hospitals, and businesses around the world (Bloomberg)
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Sources: despite Nvidia's 20+ years of business in China, Jensen Huang struggled to gain access to policymakers driving Beijing's chip self-sufficiency campaign (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
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Operand, which offers AI-powered due diligence tools for PE firms, raised $31M across a seed and a Series A led by Khosla Ventures at a $220M valuation (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
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WhiteMatter, which builds "guardian" AI agents to oversee file access, software use, decision making, and actions of existing AI agents, raised a $20M Series A (Alice Tecotzky/Business Insider)
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Charta Health, which offers AI-powered tools to automate medical chart review, billing, and coding workflows, raised a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners (Jessica Hagen/MobiHealthNews)
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Luminal, which provides an inference cloud and develops inference compiler software to test running AI models on different chips, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)