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| Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech — The artificial intelligence revolution will be only three years old at the end of November. Think about that for a moment.
More: Financial Times, Ian Betteridge, Jason Howell's Newsletter, Reuters, and Unite.AI
| Aisha Down / The Guardian: |
Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in “LLM grooming”, flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT — Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible
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| Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Waymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026 — California officials have quietly opened the door to one of the largest geographic expansions of autonomous ride-hailing the state has ever seen.
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| Rani Molla / Sherwood News: |
Alphabet's stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google's Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers — The internet giant has a lot going for it right now. — Google parent Alphabet hit a record closing high of $299.66 today … | Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: |
More: Big Technology and CNBC
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
More: Ubergizmo, Google, Google, WBAY-TV, Artificial Ignorance, and Trusted Reviews
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| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into “America's Semiconductor HQ”, attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years — Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images … Arizona's economy was once dominated by the “five C's”: cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate.| Nikkei Asia: |
Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost “sold out” due to AI demand — TAIPEI/TOKYO/SEOUL — Since October, SK Hynix's headquarters in Icheon, near Seoul, has seen a steady stream of visitors …
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| Rest of World: |
A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement — Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms.| InsurTech Analyst: |
Federato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M+ — Federato, the AI-native insurance software provider, has secured $100m in its Series D round to accelerate the adoption …
More: Federato, FinTech Futures, FinSMEs, and Life Insurance International
| Lisa Du / Bloomberg: |
General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan — General Atlantic completed its first growth equity investment in Japan and plans to do more, citing an increase in entrepreneurship … | Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs' focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more — AI is now so present in our lives that the story of how it came to be so is receding — that is, if we ever absorbed it properly.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 — Thoma Bravo bought a majority stake in enterprise Java platform developer Azul for an undisclosed price, Azul CEO Scott Sellers tells Axios Pro.| Bloomberg: |
New York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, for US and international expansion — Emergency services company RapidSOS raised $100 million in a deal led by Apax Digital Funds to help it expand, including internationally.
More: The SaaS News, RapidSOS, RapidSOS, Inc.com, Ventureburn, and GovTech
LinkedIn: RapidSOS, Mason McCrohan, and Teymour S. Farman-Farmaian
| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Finland-based NestAI raised €100M led by Finland's sovereign fund Tesi and Nokia to build AI products for defense applications, including for unmanned vehicles — Finnish startup NestAI has raised €100 million (about $115 million) in a funding round led by Finland's sovereign fund …
More: Nokia, Reuters, eeNews Europe, NewsMax.com, Tech Funding News, and MarketWatch. LinkedIn: NestAI
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: the White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state AI laws, following bipartisan backlash — The White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on artificial intelligence through lawsuits … Sponsor Posts
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