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OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder
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OpenAI, Anthropic face new oversight as New York’s AI safety law takes effect
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Proximal Ventures raises debut fund to back startups bringing AI to drug development
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X-energy gets green light to build its first small modular nuclear reactors
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All 7 Anthropic founders will each cash out about $250M in IPO
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Oura to acquire AI-native primary care startup Counsel Health for $625M
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PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery
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OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google
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Pixel Tag, Google’s $30 Android-ready answer to Apple’s AirTag, is now available
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Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy: a timeline
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Sundrop turns your endless baby photos into recaps, time lapses, and more — without AI
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Apple TV makes sign language interpretation a built-in accessibility feature
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Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips
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N-able takes its remote access service offline after researcher publishes dozens of zero-day bugs
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Meta’s AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS
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Reddit is turning user conversations into AI-powered product reviews
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New WhatsApp head wants to make the app easier to use, give its AI more chops
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Adobe brings AI agents and new creative tools to Photoshop, Premiere, and Firefly
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Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion
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Coframe, which uses AI to make websites that test and personalize themselves for each visitor, raised a $25M Series A, bringing its total funding to $35M (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
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Sources and records: 11+ NSA and US Cyber Command personnel died by suicide over the 12 months to September, prompting White House and Congressional questions (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
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CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 168% YoY to $3.66B, vs. $3.55B est., a net loss of $709M, and a $132.5B revenue backlog, up from $104B as of June (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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Sources: the US Commerce Dept. delayed new Entity List additions for two months, leaving off Megaspeed despite four other US agencies pushing for its inclusion (Financial Times)
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Source: OpenAI told investors on Tuesday that its revenue jumped 50% to around $10B in Q3, up from 17% growth in Q2 (The Information)
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S-1: Nvidia plans to invest ~$10B in Anthropic after its IPO, or ~10% of the total new cash Anthropic is expected to raise in November, including in its IPO (Cory Weinberg/New York Times)
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Graphon, which wants to resolve AI agent memory limitations by mapping connections across docs, videos, and images, raised a $35M Series A led by RRE Ventures (Shubhangi Goel/Business Insider)
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Lawsuit filing: Point72's quant unit Cubist claims its fired lead research analyst used Claude and Codex to steal source code before leaving for a competitor (Bloomberg)
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SpaceX announces Starlink Mini 2 with a swappable battery that it says can operate for over four hours without an external power source, reportedly for $999 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
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São Paulo-based Clara, which sells corporate spend management tools in Latin America, raised $105M, as a $65M Series C and $40M in renewed growth financing (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg)
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Sources: despite Trump's denial, he was told at least twice in seven months about Huang's affair with an alleged spy, including by Rubio en route to Beijing (New York Times)
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Google Fi debuts a "super network" feature for automatic carrier switching and Wi-Fi Auto-Connect+ to improve indoor connectivity in malls, airports, and more (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
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Nvidia hires former acting US attorney Joon H. Kim and his law firm Wachtell Lipton to conduct a probe into Jensen Huang's affair with an alleged Chinese spy (New York Times)
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Updated S-1: Anthropic commits ~$10B more to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud by 2033; it can cancel a $34.9B Lambda deal over a delay but doesn't yet plan to (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
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Sources: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and others in a 21-bank consortium have committed ~$270M to fund five years of a stablecoin venture announced in September (Bloomberg)