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WisdomAI, which offers AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions, including from "dirty" data, raised a $50M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Waymo becomes the first robotaxi provider to offer driverless rides on freeways, available 24/7 in San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles for users who opt in (Zoe Thomas/Bloomberg)

Amazon Echo Show 8 ($180) and Echo Show 11 ($220) hands-on: better hardware and software, Alexa+ is an improvement, but no camera cover and ads are coming later (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Filing: Synopsys plans to lay off ~10% of its staff, or ~2,000 employees, after completing its $35B acquisition of engineering design firm Ansys earlier in 2025 (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Anthropic plans to spend $50B on a US AI infrastructure buildout, starting with Texas and New York data centers in partnership with Fluidstack, opening in 2026 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Circle reports Q3 revenue up 66% YoY to $739.8M, USDC in Circulation at quarter end up 108% YoY to $73.7B, and net income up 202% YoY to $214M; CRCL drops 5%+ (Reuters)

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs debuts Marble, its first world model, which lets users turn prompts, photos, and other media into editable 3D environments, after a beta (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Airbnb says it will launch a three-month pilot on January 5 that lets guests order groceries via Instacart within its app in Phoenix, Orlando, and Los Angeles (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Indian investment app Groww raised ~$748M in its Indian IPO, closing up 29% and giving it a ~$9B market cap; Groww is the first Indian YC-backed startup to IPO (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware "once provided companies with consistency" but now has "unpredictable outcomes" (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Tel Aviv-based Sweet Security, which helps spot abnormal cloud infrastructure behavior, raised $75M led by Evolution Equity, taking its total funding to $120M (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)

Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Boston-based Teradar, which aims to launch a solid-state sensor for autonomous cars in 2028 that it says can outperform lidar and radar, raised a $150M Series B (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

An analysis of 47K publicly shared ChatGPT chats: ~10% were related to emotional support, ChatGPT's responses started with "yes" 10x more than "no", and more (Washington Post)

Maryland-based autonomous military vehicle software startup Forterra raised $238M, including $50M in debt, led by Moore Strategic Ventures at a $1B+ valuation (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride says it will go public in H1 2026 via a SPAC, valuing the company at $1.8B, and reports ~$43.3M in 2024 revenue (Paul Berger/Wall Street Journal)

Michael Burry's warning that hyperscalers are underestimating AI chip depreciation shows that tech investors may have forgotten how much depreciation can hurt (Chris Bryant/Bloomberg)

IBM unveils two quantum computers, Loon and Nighthawk, that it says feature unprecedented qubit connectivity designs aiming to enable error-free computations (Karmela Padavic-Callaghan/New Scientist)

Amazon says it is rolling out a tougher approach to combat illegal sports streaming on Fire TV Stick devices, aiming to block apps that stream pirated content (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)

D-Matrix, which develops AI inference chips, raised $275M co-led by Bullhound, Triatomic, and Temasek at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $450M (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Google files a lawsuit in the SDNY against China-based hackers who it says run the Lighthouse platform for "phishing services", ensnaring 1M and stealing $1B+ (Financial Times)

JD.com says it had record sales during China's Singles' Day event, without giving transaction values, despite Chinese deflation; Alibaba hasn't released data (Jacob Gu/Bloomberg)

German chipmaker Infineon reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to €3.94B, vs. €3.91B est., a €231M net profit, and expects 2026 sales growth as AI demand keeps booming (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: software-focused PE firm Vista plans significant workforce cuts in the coming years as it uses AI to compile presentations, aggregate data, and more (Financial Times)

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi criticizes UK crypto promotion rules requiring clear risk warnings, saying they hinder retail investors by slowing fund movement (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Foxconn reports Q3 revenue of $66.3B, in line with est., net profit up 17% YoY to $1.86B, above $1.63B est., and expects Q4 results to "remain favorable" (CNBC)

The UK proposes an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would let "authorized testers" proactively assess AI models for their ability to generate CSAM (BBC)

Menulog, acquired by Just Eat in 2015, plans to shut down in Australia on November 26, leaving Uber Eats and DoorDash as the country's main food delivery apps (Tegan Jones/SmartCompany)

South Korea's KT launches a sovereign cloud for Korean enterprises built on Azure, with encrypted in-memory computing and strict local data governance (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald)

Sources: the Chinese government is intervening in how SMIC allocates its chip output, prioritizing Huawei amid US export restrictions on advanced chips (Wall Street Journal)

Australia's spy chief Mike Burgess says Chinese state hackers probed telecom networks and critical infrastructure; Australia lost $8B+ in 2024 to espionage (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)

The UK proposes laws to protect public services from cyberattacks, including regulating companies providing services to private and public sector organizations (Catarina Demony/Reuters)

Sony unveils a cheaper, Japan-only PlayStation 5 Digital Edition for ~$350, a ~25% discount, following a similar move by Nintendo with the Switch 2 (Financial Times)

Google unveils new features for Pixel phones, including AI-powered notification summaries, notification prioritization, and AI photo edits in Messages (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

SoFi launches SoFi Crypto, saying it is the first nationally chartered bank in the US to offer crypto trading to consumers, rolling out in phases (James Hunt/The Block)

China says the December 2020 theft of 127,272 bitcoin, now worth ~$13B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian is likely a "state-level hacker operation" led by the US (Bloomberg)

CoreWeave closed down 16% after CEO Mike Intrator admitted delays at a data center developer that Jim Cramer implied may be Core Scientific; CORZ fell 10%+ (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Threads adds new features for podcasters, as it tries to become the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Coinbase confirms that it has called off acquisition talks with stablecoin infra startup BVNK; reports previously put the acquisition price around $2B (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Google unveils Private AI Compute, a cloud platform providing a "secure, fortified space" to run AI tools on devices, similar to Apple's Private Cloud Compute (Robert Hart/The Verge)

AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average more than 35% and AI data center revenue growth will average 80% over the next three to five years (Ian King/Bloomberg)

ElevenLabs launches Iconic Voice Marketplace for licensing AI versions of famous voices, including Michael Caine's; Matthew McConaughey invests in the company (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Sony says PlayStation 5 has sold a total of 84.2M units since launch, including 3.9M units sold in Q2, up from 3.8M a year ago (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)

Amazon says ads on Prime Video reach 315M viewers across its series and films, live sports and events, and free, ad-supported live channels (Dade Hayes/Deadline)

A UK judge sentences a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a $5.6B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K BTC (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)

Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Brave CBO Brian Brown says the company passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1 and its browser had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Lighter raises $68 million at a $1.5 billion valuation as VC bets flood back into perp DEX infrastructure: report (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Amsterdam-based Wonderful, which helps companies manage client-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email in any language, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (Steven Scheer/Reuters)