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OpenAI updates Model Spec to reorganize it around five values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care (OpenAI)
SuperMe, which generates AI-powered chats with simulated profiles of prominent industry experts to let users ask questions, raised $20M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Source: Dulo, a startup co-founded by Google veteran Sebastian Thrun to build "foundation models for hardware design", raised a $130M seed (Rocket Drew/The Information)
Alphabet discloses $1T+ in purchase commitments, future leases, and other obligations; its Q3 filing shows $98.5B in contingent commitments, up ~$23B from Q2 (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
Alphabet's stock falls 12%+, wiping a record $500B from its market cap, after reporting negative cash flow amid its AI spending; the Nasdaq falls 1.4%+ (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)
Airbnb spent $12.6M+ since 2025 to become a top LA political contributor, backing Mayor Karen Bass and pushing for friendlier rules ahead of the 2028 Olympics (Liam Dillon/Politico)
Canada-based Cohere completes the first close of a round that it expects to total up to $5B, with Canada agreeing to invest up to $1.14B, at a $20.5B valuation (Bloomberg)
Sources: Situational Awareness is pitching clients to invest in Fluidstack alongside it in a round that values the neocloud at $40B, up from $18B in September (Bloomberg)
The UK FCA, which sued Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX in 2025 for "unlawfully promoting crypto asset services", says HTX will exit the UK in a settlement (Financial Times)
Collective, which uses AI to automate bookkeeping for solo business owners, raised a $40M Series B and $60M in nondilutive capital from GC's Customer Value Fund (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
Ottawa-based Solink, which uses AI to pull data from already-installed security cameras, raised $100M+ led by Vertu Capital, bringing its total raised to $198M+ (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
Thrive Holdings agrees to acquire ADT in an all-cash take-private deal, valuing ADT at ~$7.6B in equity value, a ~46% premium over its October 27 closing price (Claire Rychlewski/Axios)
Mistral releases the weights for Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, and says it rivals top open models such as GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
Serval, which offers AI agents for enterprise IT operations like access management, raised $150M led by Sequoia at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in December 2025 (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
Wabi, which is building an AI assistant that integrates into group chats and can take actions like booking appointments, raised $55M at a $1.25B valuation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)

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