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Joe Tidy / BBC:

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Debby Wu / Bloomberg:

TSMC reports October sales were up 16.9%, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 38%+ YTD — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported slowing growth in monthly revenue as investors debate the sustainability …

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Financial stress from AI infrastructure spending, overhiring, and recession fears, rather than AI adoption, are likely responsible for the economy-wide layoffs — For decades now, we have been told that artificial intelligence systems will soon replace human workers.

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Kat Tenbarge / Wired:

Amazon's House of David Season 2 had 350 to 400 AI-generated shots, up from 70+ in Season 1, using 10 to 15 tools from companies like Runway, drawing criticism — The show, which follows David's ascent to King of Israel, used four times as much AI this season, including for many of its battle scenes.

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Billy Gray / Wall Street Journal:

Rumble agrees to acquire German AI infrastructure company Northern Data in an up to $970M deal, set to close in Q2 2026; both companies are backed by Tether — The deal brings together two companies backed by stablecoin issuer Tether — Rumble said it would acquire German artificial …

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Niko Gallogly / New York Times:

Gamma, which uses AI to help create presentations, social media posts, websites, and more, raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation and reports 600K+ paying users — The five-year-old start-up, which has just 52 employees and is profitable, is now valued at $2.1 billion by investors including Andreessen Horowitz.

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:

Scribe, which helps enterprises identify where AI and automation investments will yield genuine returns, raised a $75M Series C at a $1.3B post-money valuation — After helping several enterprises document how work actually happens, Scribe has raised $75 million at a $1.3 billion post-money valuation …

More: Fortune

Evan Gorelick / New York Times:

A group of US lawyers document 509 cases of AI misuse in legal filings so far in 2025, including fabricated citations; judges and bar associations permit AI use — More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some colleagues are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors.

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Financial Times:

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says he aims to give “normal people” exposure to private AI companies via Robinhood Ventures' fund with 5+ “best in class” companies — CEO Vlad Tenev plans to offer shares in a fund that holds a handful of private artificial intelligence companies

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Steven Levy / Wired:

Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on “the woke left and the woke right”, being patriotic, the Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more — Palantir's CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?

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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:

Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave — Three former Meta and Google silicon executives on Monday announced they've raised a total of $100 million to build technology …

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Zeyi Yang / Wired:

EchoTik estimates TikTok Shop sold $19B worth of products globally in Q3, nearing eBay's $20.1B, with US sales accounting for between $4B and $4.5B, up 125% QoQ — TikTok's ecommerce arm has kept growing steadily, despite tariffs and never-ending debates over whether the platform should be banned.

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