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Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who is its co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in July 2021 — Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft.
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| Joe Wertz / Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext 2, a weather model that it says offers faster, more accurate two-week forecasts and includes more tools for energy traders — Google DeepMind has released a new artificial intelligence weather model that it says is faster and more accurate than anything it's built …
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Investigation: $28B+ in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the past two years, as President Trump embraced crypto — President Trump has started his own cryptocurrency business and vowed to make the United States the world's “crypto capital.”
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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Ramp says it is now valued at $32B following a $300M raise led by Lightspeed and an employee tender offer, up from a $22.5B valuation in July — Corporate spending management platform Ramp reached a $32 billion valuation after a $300 million primary financing round and an employee tender offer.
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| Bloomberg: |
US filing: Peter Thiel's Thiel Macro sold 537,742 Nvidia shares, worth ~$100M as of September 30, during Q3, amid rising concerns about an AI investment bubble — Peter Thiel's hedge fund Thiel Macro LLC sold off its holdings in Nvidia Corp. during the third quarter, marking another retreat …
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| Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times: |
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he is “nervous about the size of these investments in these data centers”; he owns stakes in OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI — OpenAI backer Sebastian Siemiatkowski says tech industry is committing too much money to huge computing infrastructure
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Meta says its 2Africa subsea internet cable project remains incomplete in the southern Red Sea due to security risks; Google's Blue-Raman cable is also delayed — Multiple subsea internet cables slated to run through the Red Sea are yet to complete as planned, as political tensions …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is seeking to raise about $12B through a bond sale, its first such deal in US dollars since 2022, to help fund acquisitions, capex, and more — Amazon.com Inc.'s first US dollar bond offering in three years has drawn about $80 billion of orders, underscoring investors …
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| Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
Sources: UK companies tell the UK that a planned ban on paying ransoms to ransomware gangs is unlikely to stop attacks and could result in services collapsing — Companies and security groups warn government's proposed measure is unlikely to stop hacking attacks| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI — - An audience at a top AI conference in San Francisco was asked what startup they would short. — Perplexity, an AI search …
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
The FT's Tim Cook retirement story could be a “trial balloon” from people close to him, if Cook decides to leave after Apple's “blockbuster” Q1 earnings report — Might Tim Cook retire as CEO of Apple in early 2026? There are signs... Two weeks ago, Tim Cook turned 65.| CNBC: |
Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future targets NY State Assemblymember Alex Bores, co-sponsor of the RAISE Act, a bill imposing safety and disclosure requirements — A bipartisan super PAC launched by a slew of artificial intelligence leaders has picked its first target: a Democratic congressional candidate …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Ford and Amazon partner to let people purchase certified pre-owned Ford vehicles via Amazon Autos, initially available in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas — Ford is the second brand, after Hyundai, to list its vehicles on Amazon's new car buying site.
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| Cloudflare: |
Cloudflare acquires Replicate, which hosts over 50,000 AI models and simplifies AI model deployment via a single API call; Replicate will keep its brand — We have some big news to share today: Replicate, the leading platform for running AI models, is joining Cloudflare.
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