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Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

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AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity (Eric Revell/Fox Business)

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Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they have settled on a design for OpenAI's device, speaking to Laurene Powell Jobs; Ive says it could debut in "less than" two years (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Amazon begins previewing its Amazon Leo satellite internet system for a select group of customers, ahead of a wider public rollout planned for 2026 (Loren Grush/Bloomberg)

Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

NYC-based Opti, an enterprise identity security service that uses AI to analyze user, system, and access relationships, raised a $20M seed led by YL Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Revolut reaches a $75B valuation in its latest share sale led by Coatue, Greenoaks, and others, up from $45B in 2024, making it Europe's most valuable startup (Jennifer Surane/Bloomberg)

Internal documents: Amazon's data center operations total 900+ facilities in 50+ countries, including AWS colocation facilities, higher than commonly understood (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

Hashrate Index: China's bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world's third-largest miner despite China's 2021 ban (Reuters)

Analysis: as crypto sheds $1T+, the Trump family's fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump's TMTG stake fell by ~$800M (Bloomberg)

Amazon-backed nuclear reactor developer X-energy raised $700M led by Jane Street, taking its total funding to $1.4B, to build 150 SMRs in the US and the UK (Jamie Smyth/Financial Times)

The EU unconditionally approves Omnicom's $13.25B all-stock deal to buy Interpublic, creating the world's largest ad agency to better compete with Big Tech (Bart Meijer/Reuters)

Model ML, which aims to use AI agents to automate grunt work done by investment bankers like making pitch decks, raised $75M, after raising $12M earlier in 2025 (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT's mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Alibaba says its Qwen app drew 10M+ downloads in the week after its relaunch, one of the fastest app adoption rates behind ChatGPT, particularly in China (Bloomberg)

Researchers detail popEVE, an AI model to predict the disease-causing potential of unknown human genetic mutations, and says it beats Google's AlphaMissense (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Lenovo CFO Winston Cheng says the PC maker is stockpiling memory and other critical components amid a supply crunch, holding inventories ~50% higher than usual (Bloomberg)

Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted (New York Times)

Ubisoft says Tencent's €1.16B investment in Vantage Studios, set to reduce its debt, is complete, giving Tencent a 26% stake in Vantage and valuing it at €3.8B (Daniel Zuidijk/Bloomberg)

A look at New Save Collective, a group of gamers and activists roleplaying ICE raids in Fortnite and GTA 5 to prepare for real-world situations (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)

Q&A with Z.ai Director of Product Zixuan Li on Chinese AI models embracing open source, attracting global users for its GLM model, training on memes, and more (ChinaTalk)

Apple's DMA compliance isn't "malicious", but an effort to balance its privacy focus with the EU's mandate, as iOS 26.2 iPhone and Watch Wi-Fi sync changes show (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

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OPM Director Scott Kupor earlier this month said DOGE "doesn't exist" and OPM took over many of its functions, eight months before DOGE was set to close (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)

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Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals (New York Times)

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CISA changes left some US states without election cybersecurity help; California says CISA gave little support during the November 4 vote on redistricting (Associated Press)

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Major insurers have recently sought permission from US regulators to offer policies excluding liabilities tied to businesses deploying AI chatbots and agents (Financial Times)

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Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M+ seed (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B+ in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a "victim of misconduct" (Forbes)

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Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream reports Q3 revenue up 41% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI that generated $23.4M through September (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

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Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)

X's new About This Account feature shows some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)

Sources: iOS 27 will be a Snow Leopard-style update focused on bug fixes and performance, plus new AI features; the FT's Tim Cook retirement story was premature (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A researcher details an LLM-based AI agent that "demonstrated a near-flawless ability" to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

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 (June Yoon/Financial Times)

An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (James Vincent/Harper's)

Bedrock Data, which has debuted ArgusAI to show enterprises what data their AI models access during training and to prevent data leakage, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Deblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Israel-based Chargeflow, whose AI tech automates chargeback disputes for online merchants, raised a $25M Series A led by Viola Growth, and a $10M debt round (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Peek, which sells attractions and tour operator software, raised a $70M Series D, taking its total funding to $150M+, and acquired Acme Ticketing and Connect&Go (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Arbiter, which is using AI to automate healthcare administrative tasks, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed from multiple family offices at a $400M valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Business Insider)

X starts rolling out About This Account globally, letting users see the country or region where an X account is based by tapping the signup date on the profile (Nikita Bier/@nikitabier)

A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju's founder Byju Raveendran on Nov. 20 to pay $1B+ to US lenders, over missing funds from Byju's US unit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)

While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)

How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in "LLM grooming", flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost "sold out" due to AI demand (Nikkei Asia)

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 (Rest of World)

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 (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg)

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 (Chris Metinko/Axios)