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Sun Oct 19
A look at Tsinghua University, which leads China's AI innovation, with 4,986 AI patents between 2005 and 2024, alumni behind startups like DeepSeek, and more (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
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As TSMC readies its €10B Germany plant for 2027, its Taiwanese suppliers say they're struggling with the EU's complex permitting, labor, and environmental rules (New York Times)
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Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $44B in 2025, up from $41B in 2024; tech now makes up 15% of Europe's GDP, up from 4% in 2016 (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)
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Brookfield Asset Management is targeting $10B for its new AI infrastructure fund and has already raised $5B from its balance sheet, Nvidia, and other investors (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)
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TikTok is rolling out new digital well-being features like an affirmation journal and says it will also give users badges for limiting their daily screen time (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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xAI's Grok 4.1 tops benchmarks in emotional intelligence, while its model card also shows a marked increase in sycophancy compared to Grok 4 (Christopher Ort/i10X)
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TikTok will let users choose how much AI-generated content appears in their For You feed and plans to add more advanced labeling tech for AI-content (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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UK online grocer Ocado's stock closed down 17.4% on November 18 after its US partner Kroger said it would close three automated warehouses in January 2026 (Reuters)
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Sources: xAI is in advanced talks to raise $15B at a $230B valuation, up from the $113B it reported after merging with X in March 2025 (Wall Street Journal)
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Google DeepMind plans to open an AI research lab in Singapore, collaborating with institutions across the Asia-Pacific in education, public services, and more (Lila Ibrahim/Google DeepMind)
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A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
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In a lawsuit, US-based TP-Link says Netgear orchestrated a smear campaign by planting false claims with journalists and influencers about TP-Link's China ties (Bloomberg)
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Cloudflare says the November 18 outage was caused by a change to one of its "database systems' permissions", not by "malicious activity of any kind" (Matthew Prince/Cloudflare)
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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers (Anthropic)
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Trump says the US needs a "Federal Standard" governing oversight of AI instead of "a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes", otherwise China will catch up (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)
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Soumith Chintala, who co-created the PyTorch ML framework at Meta and left the company this month, has joined Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
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Amazon's Zoox announces that users in San Francisco can now sign up for its Zoox Explorers program to take free rides in its robotaxis in select neighborhoods (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
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The US DOE will provide Constellation with a $1B loan to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant; the output will be sold to Microsoft under a 20-year deal (Costas Paris/Wall Street Journal)
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Apple details how it is 3D printing Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3 cases using titanium powder, helping Apple save 400 metric tons of raw titanium in 2025 (Apple)
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Kraken raised $200M at a $20B valuation, after raising $600M at a $15B valuation in Sept.; prior to the two rounds, Kraken raised only $27M in venture capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
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Gemini 3 Pro is priced at $2-$4 per 1M input tokens and $12-$18 per 1M output tokens, cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.5 but more expensive than GPT-5.1 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
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Q&A with Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, spending most of his research time on world models, fitting the entire Google Search index into Gemini, AI bubble, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
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Maxima, whose AI platform automates accounting tasks like reconciliation and journal entry, raised $41M in seed and Series A rounds at a $143M valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
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Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft wanting PCs to "understand you", the feature delivers inconsistent results and often slow, incorrect responses (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
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Apple's N1 chipset in the iPhone 17 lineup delivers up to 40% higher median Wi-Fi download and upload speeds globally vs. the Broadcom-based iPhone 16 lineup (Luke Kehoe/Ookla)
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Quora's Poe launches group chats, letting users around the world engage in group chats with up to 200 people and collaborate across 200+ AI models (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Apono, which helps enterprises manage cloud permissions by eliminating standing privileges, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $54M+ (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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A US judge rules that Meta's Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions don't violate antitrust law as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
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Internal docs show Meta's Vibes AI video feed has about 2M DAUs as of November 9, up 1% from the previous week; ~52% of returning users prompted the AI (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
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Snapchat launches Topic Chats, which enables public conversations on subjects like F1, and plans to use AI and other safety tech to moderate the chats (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Gemini 3 demonstrates strong planning, coding, and judgment skills, and shows that AI models have moved past hallucinations to subtle, often human-like, errors (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)
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Source: Microsoft's and Nvidia's investments in Anthropic push the AI startup's valuation to the range of $350B, up from $183B after it raised $13B in September (CNBC)
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Sphere, which raised a $4.3M seed as an edtech marketplace, pivots and raised a $21M Series A led by a16z to develop an AI tax compliance software service (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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Microsoft launches Agent 365, a framework that lets businesses deploy and manage AI agents like human employees, with dashboards showing telemetry and alerts (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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Meta Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman is leaving, after 17 years at Meta; Clara Shih, who joined in November 2024 to lead its Business AI unit, is exiting (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
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Microsoft integrates more AI features into Windows, including new Copilot skills, AI agents in the taskbar, writing assistance, and troubleshooting agents (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)
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Google details a new generative UI implementation that lets Gemini 3 Pro create interactive interfaces for any prompt, launching in the Gemini app and AI Mode (Google Research)
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Google says Gemini 3 Pro scores 1,501 on LMArena, above 2.5 Pro, and demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanity's Last Exam and GPQA Diamond (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Google plans to release Gemini 3 Deep Think to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the coming weeks, once it passes further rounds of safety testing (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
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Google launches Antigravity, an "agent-first" coding tool that leverages Gemini 3 Pro and third-party models, available in free public preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
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Google says Gemini 3 Pro is integrated into the Gemini app, which now has 650M MAUs, and powers Google Search's AI Mode conversational search feature (New York Times)
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Google unveils Gemini 3, its "most intelligent" and "factually accurate" model yet, with improvements across coding and reasoning, and offering less "flattery" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian IPO, giving it a ~$5B market cap; it was last valued at $2.8B in 2024 when it raised a $210M Series B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Agentio, which uses AI to help brands automate and scale campaigns with YouTube creators, raised a $40M Series B led by Forerunner at a $340M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Anthropic commits to buy $30B in Azure capacity in a new deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, which commit to invest up to $5B and $10B, respectively, in Anthropic (Microsoft)
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Rebecca Heineman, legendary game designer, Interplay co-founder, programmer, and the first formally recognized US Space Invaders champion, died at 62 in October (Ted Litchfield/PC Gamer)
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Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht says "we failed our customers and the broader Internet" when a Cloudflare issue "impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us" (Dane Knecht/@dok2001)
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Researchers demonstrated a major WhatsApp flaw that exposed 3.5B users' phone numbers, with 57% also showing a profile photo; Meta fixed the enumeration problem (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
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Larry Summers steps back from public commitments after his Jeffrey Epstein emails were released; OpenAI still lists Summers as a board member and didn't comment (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)
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OpenAI and Intuit sign a multiyear deal, set to generate $100M+ in OpenAI revenue, in which Intuit will deepen its use of OpenAI models and launch ChatGPT apps (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
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