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Binance says net outflows were ~$3.64B, or 2.1% of assets, in the 9.5 hours after it began restoring withdrawals; DefiLlama puts 24-hour net outflows at $5.86B — The exchange said the outflows equal 2.1% of its assets and that withdrawal volumes have eased after an initial spike.
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SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an agentic capability benchmark measuring 11 domains, including chip design, cybersecurity, and RSI; Opus 5.5 tops with a 12% score — A comprehensive benchmark spanning RSI, hardware design, cyber, bio, finance, legal, quant trading, chip design, software engineering, materials science, and alignment
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OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory “speed limits” for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as “AI compute campuses” — Right after Tuesday's midterms, OpenAI will unleash a policy and PR blitz to try to get in sync with the new Washington …
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| Rivka Galchen / New Yorker: |
A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process — A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.| Tim Keary / Forbes: |
Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation — This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. … The SaaSpocalypse has become one of the most controversial topics in enterprise tech.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Casap, whose AI tools automate dispute and anti-fraud operations for banks, raised a $56M Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $90M — Credit card fraud is hardly new, but the nature of that fraud is undergoing a major shift. In the past, nearly all scams … | Bloomberg: |
Ukraine says its air raid alert app was compromised late Sunday, sending false warnings of “nuclear danger”; Russia confirms a similar hack of its alerts app — Ukraine and Russia said they faced cyberattacks on emergency and air raid alert systems.| Emmy Martin / New York Times: |
How SF's AI boom is reshaping dating: founders treat first dates as interviews, use tech terms like “conversion rate” to track dates, and pay coaches $5K/month — San Francisco's A.I. boom has drawn a wave of young ambitious people who are now reshaping the city's dating life.Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
Letter: the White House argues it doesn't have to share the full draft of its voluntary AI testing framework, citing national security and commercial exemptions — The Trump administration declined to produce key documents related to its voluntary AI testing framework …
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| Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: |
Broccoli AI, which sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies, raised a $22M Series A and a $30M Series B; a source says it is valued at $300M — When Marcelle Flowers' staff told her that two students were waiting at the counter of her Sacramento plumbing shop, she grabbed her wallet.
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| Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times: |
British physicist and materials scientist Cyril Hilsum, widely recognized as “the father of liquid crystals” for enabling flat-panel display tech, died at 101 — The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.
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| Yasutaka Tamura / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Anthropic plans to raise up to $3.5B from Japanese investors as part of its IPO, joining Australia, Canada, and parts of Europe in having direct access — Anthropic PBC aims to raise up to $3.5 billion from Japanese investors in its initial public offering in the US …
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| Bloomberg: |
NAND maker Kioxia's shares fell up to 15% on Monday after its cautious Q3 outlook disappointed investors, raising concerns that AI-driven growth may be slowing — Kioxia Holdings Corp.'s shares fell by their most in three months after the Japanese memory maker's cautious outlook inflamed concerns … Sponsor Posts
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