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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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