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.
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.”
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Freedom on the Net 2025 report: for the 15th consecutive year, global internet freedom is in decline; of the 72 countries assessed, Kenya fell the most
Freedom House - Explore the map of global freedom and internet freedom around the world. Anamarija Pogorelec / Help Net Security : The internet isn't free: Shutdowns, surveillance and algorithmic risk...
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.
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. is seeking to raise about $12 billion through a bond sale — its first such deal in US dollars in about three years …
Chinese toymaker FoloToy suspends sales of its GPT-4o-powered teddy bear, after researchers found the toy gave kids harmful responses, like about fire and kinks
Shot: www.techmeme.com/060618/p18#a... Chaser: www.techmeme.com/251117/p5#a2... [embedded post] Chris Baraniuk / @chrisbaraniuk.com : “the cuddly companion was giving [...] tips on how to find and l...
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 X: @quinnypig X: Corey Quinn / @quinnypig : Can someone give a coherent explanati...
Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more
As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a mission to make ChatGPT indispensable and lucrative.
Span, which aims to help companies measure the value of AI-assisted coding, raised $25M in seed and Series A rounds from Alt Capital, Craft Ventures, and others
In April, J Zac Stein took his cofounder Henry Liu out to dinner to pitch him on a new product: a model for detecting when code was generated by AI.
Vancouver-based PowerLattice, which makes a power supply chiplet to reduce compute power needs by 50%+, raised a $25M Series A, taking its total funding to $31M
A Vancouver company that says it has a groundbreaking solution to the rising AI power challenge announced a $25 million Series A funding round on Monday.
Sources: the European Commission wants to decide if AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud should face new restrictions under the DMA, after several major cloud outages
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp.'s Azure, and Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope …
A look at flight-tracking app Flighty, which often beats airlines' updates; downloads tripled when the FAA reduced air traffic during the US government shutdown
I talked to the Wall Street Journal about an app I used to save my wife 8 hours of hell during Trump's air traffic controller shortage — www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more
Chris Gilliard, PhD of Critical Internet Studies Institute … Bluesky: Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : In the latest episode of her podcast series, Through to Thriving, Tech Policy Press fellow Anika...
Copenhagen-based Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, raised €145M at a €1.5B valuation and says it “crossed €100M of ARR in October”
Anna Heim / TechCrunch :
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
Kieran Smith / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Greg Palmer . Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social LinkedIn: Greg Palmer : Georgina Kon and I spoke with Kieran Smith from the Financial Times about the...
Voize, an ambient AI voice startup targeting skilled nursing facilities, raised a $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital and aims to sign US clients in Q1 2026
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios :
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai have each discussed building lunar and orbital AI data centers to leverage constant solar power and bypass regulations
no clouds, no rainstorms, no night. Demand for cooling could also be cut, writes @timhiggins https://www.wsj.com/... LinkedIn: Philip Johnston : Interesting piece in The Wall Street Journal on data ce...
Tokyo-based Sakana AI raised a ~$135M Series B from MUFG, Khosla, Macquarie, NEA, Lux, and others at a ~$2.6B valuation, becoming Japan's most valuable unicorn
At present, we are seeing a record amount of capital pouring … eWeek : Sakana AI Becomes Japan's Most Valuable Unicorn Maija Palmer / Global Corporate Venturing : ‘Big in Japan’ is not enough — where ...
Tokyo-based Turing, which is developing an AI model for self-driving vehicles, raised a ~$99M Series A, sources say at a ~$388M valuation, nearly 4x from 2024
Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg :
Empower: US BNPL use has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating “phantom debt”
* AI bubble — * Wall Street bitcoin — * Private equity bubble — * adding the Buy Now Pay Later bubble, which is ... largely untracked!! — techcrunch.com/2025/11/16/b... this feeds to my theor...
Chinese chipmaker Cambricon's revenue surged 500%+ over the past year and its stock is up 765%+ over two years, as China pushes domestic chips amid US sanctions
Bloomberg :
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