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Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout — Over 95% of international data and voice call traffic travels through nearly a million miles of underwater communication cables.
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| Janne Knodler / Bloomberg: |
As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm — As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.| Peter Landers / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally — While U.S. companies dominate their home market, other countries look to China for driverless technology
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| Jonathan Burgos / Forbes: |
Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years — The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear. Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.| Mihir Sharma / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI, Alphabet, and Perplexity offering free access to their paid tiers in India suggests the country may be the biggest and safest bet for broad AI adoption — Everyone is looking for the next big AI bet. They're searching for energy-rich places that can run data centers cheaply … | Sebastian Pellejero / Reuters: |
The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 — Turn an artificial-intelligence bot into a trader and it acts all too human. Over a two-week span, six frontier models were seeded … | Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more — This month, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital — Ritankar Das, founder of Titan Holdings. — TITAN HOLDINGS — Ritankar Das wants the holding company to make its comeback.| Financial Times: |
Nasdaq had its worst 5-day run since April, falling 3% for the week as the combined market value of eight most valuable AI-related stocks fell by about $800B — Nasdaq falls 3% over the five-day period as investors worry about sky-high valuations — US companies closely tied … | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial AI and robotics company; Mind Robotics raised a $115M seed led by Eclipse — Rivian has created its second spinoff company this year: an industrial AI and robotics venture called Mind Robotics.
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israel-based RAAAM, whose “GCRAM” on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17.5M Series A led by NXP — RAAAM Memory Technologies' “GCRAM” promises denser, lower-power on-chip memory as the semiconductor industry races to support next-generation AI processors.
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| George Steer / Financial Times: |
A look at Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors, two little-known boutique banks that have helped finance the Trump family's flurry of crypto deals this year — Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors are benefiting from close connections with Eric and Donald Trump Jr| Atharva Singh / Reuters: |
Swedish investment firm EQT agrees to invest $930M in Douzone Bizon, a South Korea-based provider of ERP and business software to SMBs, for a 37.6% stake — Swedish investment firm EQT (EQTAB.ST) said on Friday it would invest about $930 million in South Korea's Douzone Bizon (012510.KS) …
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| Brie Wolfson / Colossus: |
An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more — Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn — Editor's note: This is the first installment in a series of Company Dispatches …
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