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A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake — Mercor founders (left to right): Adarsh Hiremath, Brendan Foody and Surya Midha. — ULY INC. FOR MERCOR| Reuters: |
Nvidia says it will supply 260K+ of its most advanced AI chips to the South Korean government and major companies, including Samsung, Naver, and SK Group — U.S. semiconductor leader Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Friday said it will supply more than 260,000 of its most advanced AI chips …
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Turkish state media reports that Faruk Fatih Ozer, the former CEO of failed crypto exchange Thodex, has been found dead in his prison cell — Faruk Fatih Ozer, the former chief executive of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange Thodex, has been found dead in his prison cell in the western Turkish city … | David Jeans / Reuters: |
Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned drone, flying it “semi-autonomously”, as the US Air Force plans swarms of unmanned jet drones — Anduril's jet-powered drone flew for the first time on Friday, the company and the U.S. Air Force said … | Reuters: |
MediaTek says it is on track to generate $1B in revenue from its data center AI accelerator ASIC chips in 2026, after reporting Q3 revenue up 7.8% YoY to $4.64B — Taiwan's top chip design company, MediaTek (2454.TW), expects to earn revenue of billions of dollars from its AI accelerator ASIC chips by 2027 …
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Singapore seizes more than $115M in assets linked to Cambodia's Prince Group, which the US and UK accuse of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers — Singapore has seized more than S$150 million ($115 million) in assets linked to alleged money laundering and forgery …
More: Singapore Police Force, The Business Times, Cryptonews, and Blockonomi
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ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast available on host Pat McAfee's X account, as Disney and YouTube TV continue to spar over a new carriage deal — Can Pat McAfee help Disney prevail over YouTube TV in TV's never-ending carriage wars? — Disney's ESPN said it would make one …
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China says it will allow some Nexperia semiconductor chip exports to resume to ease critical supply shortages impacting global auto production — Dispute over Netherlands-based chipmaker has threatened to disrupt global auto supply chains — China has said it will allow some Nexperia chips …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Despite the hype around large AI models, many companies like Meta are using small models for routine tasks, finding them more practical and cost-effective — For many tasks in corporate America, it's not the biggest and smartest AI models, but the smaller, more simplistic ones that are winning the day| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt off their balance sheets — Just this month, Meta Platforms Inc. has secured about $60 billion in capital to build data centers, part of its spending to get ahead in the artificial intelligence race.
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| Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: |
Vista Equity Partners buys a majority stake in Nexthink, which uses AI to let businesses track employees' device and app performance, valuing Nexthink at $3B — Vista Equity Partners snapped up a majority stake in Nexthink SA, valuing the Swiss-American software company at $3 billion, the firm said in a statement.| Yamini Kalia / Reuters: |
Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for €175M from PE firm Waterland — Britain's Vodafone (VOD.L) on Thursday said it will acquire German cloud and digital transformation firm Skaylink for 175 million euros …
More: Vodafone.com, TelecomTV, and The Fast Mode
| Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg: |
NEC to buy US-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer care and billing services for telcos and other companies, for ~$2.9B in a deal expected to close in 2026 — Japan's NEC Corp. is buying CSG Systems International Inc., a US supplier of customer care and billing services for telecom companies …
More: CSG Systems, Inc., NEC, CSG Systems, Inc., and Reuters
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Brian Armstrong ended Coinbase's Q3 earnings call by saying certain words that Kalshi and Polymarket users had wagered would be mentioned during the call — When Coinbase Global Inc.'s quarterly earnings call wrapped up Thursday, its chief executive, Brian Armstrong, didn't finish with profit guidance or statements of confidence.
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