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OpenAI says it plans to stop providing its models to Cursor from November 12, as “we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our ToS” — Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026.
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| Lauren McCarthy / New York Times: |
An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws — The outcome contradicted an earlier appeals court decision. Federal regulators said the split rulings called for resolution by the Supreme Court.| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model — Z.ai put the GLM-5.3 weights on Hugging Face, but dropped the MIT license. Providers above $10 billion in revenue now need a security review.
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI” — Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm's aim with the new fund is to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI.”
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| Vallari Sanzgiri / The Hindu BusinessLine:NEW |
Jio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B — Debt repayment, strong cash flows underpin investor optimism around Jio IPO — Reliance Industries' digital arm Jio Platforms …
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| Ayden Runnels / The Texas Tribune: |
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras; an investigation found an agency allocating $30M+ to build Texas' Flock network — The order came as The Texas Tribune was preparing to publish an investigation detailing how a state agency has devoted … | Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: |
Shares of French quantum computing company Pasqal closed up 95% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday following a merger with a SPAC — Pasqal Holding SA soared in its first day of trading after the quantum computing company went public in New York via a merger with a blank-check firm …
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| Flavio Copes: |
A deep dive into Grok Bot, including its architecture, use cases, and alternatives, as xAI adds shareable bot templates and online purchases through Stripe Link — A detailed Grok Bot guide covering setup, persistent computers, skills, routines, templates, approvals, real use cases, limits, pricing, and alternatives.
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| Ngai Yeung / Endpoints News: |
Metriport, whose tools help doctors retrieve patient data, raised $26M in Series A and seed funding led by Matrix GP TJ Parker, taking its total raise to $28.4M — Matrix led the Series A round, with additional ... Sign up to read this article for free.| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
Meta intensifies its pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page ads in US newspapers demanding they adopt comparable teen safety protections — Meta Platforms Inc. is intensifying its public pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page advertisements …
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Modders get an experimental version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering library running in over a dozen games after it leaked in NBA 2K27's early access build — DLSS 5 mod spreads to Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2, TLOU2, Wukong and more — It took modders only hours to get the leaked NVIDIA DLSS …
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| Reuters: |
CXMT sues the Pentagon over its Chinese military company designation, saying it isn't affiliated with the Chinese military and its chips aren't for military use — China's top memory chipmaker, ChangXin Memory Technologies (688825.SS), sued the Pentagon on Friday over being placed on a list …
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| Joe Guszkowski / Restaurant Business: |
Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation — The funding, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, will help Owner develop AI agents for independent restaurants. — Rob Lehman (Owner president and COO) … | Fin / @fi56622380: |
Unlike internet's one-dimensional, flat-fee growth, AI grows across two exponentials, user penetration and tokens per user, allowing AI labs' economics to work — The next ARR growth engine after coding, the AI infra bubble, the Economics of open vs. closed source model Why is the AI semi buildout longer than the internet buildout?| Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft — Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., has raised about $1 billion of private short-dated debt …
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| Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: |
Filing: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M+ Series A from Thrive Capital and others — There's a social media app I like using more than Instagram or TikTok — and it's attracted serious investor interest.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95 — Tech giant also ups price of Apple One multi-service bundle's individual plan — It's going to cost Americans a few more bucks to watch …
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Sources: the US is drafting a rule to close an export controls loophole that lets Chinese companies access AI chips via data centers in countries like Thailand — Soon after President Donald Trump began his second term in office in 2025, the White House announced it would undo export controls … Sponsor Posts
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