Waymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026
California officials have quietly opened the door to one of the largest geographic expansions of autonomous ride-hailing the state has ever seen.
A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing
Judge Leonie M. Brinkema is on the clock. — The federal judge, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia …
Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform
Google has confirmed that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain hack.
Sources: the White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state AI laws, following bipartisan backlash
The White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on artificial intelligence through lawsuits …
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”
I feel sorry for billionaires. Each election season … Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics : Platformonomics TGIF #109: November 21, 2025 Miles Klee / Rolling Stone : Grok Claims Elon Musk Is More At...
Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in “LLM grooming”, flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT
Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible Bluesky: @ruudhendriks68 , @eugenemcparland , and @hhesterm . Mastodon: @mot...
Alphabet's stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google's Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers
The internet giant has a lot going for it right now. — Google parent Alphabet hit a record closing high of $299.66 today …
New York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, for US and international expansion
Emergency services company RapidSOS raised $100 million in a deal led by Apax Digital Funds to help it expand, including internationally.
Analyzing Gemini 3's model card and safety framework report: the model is excellent but the safety report withholds or makes it difficult to understand key info
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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms. X: @restofworld , @restofworld , @r...
Federato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M+
Federato, the AI-native insurance software provider, has secured $100m in its Series D round to accelerate the adoption …
Finland-based NestAI raised €100M led by Finland's sovereign fund Tesi and Nokia to build AI products for defense applications, including for unmanned vehicles
Finnish startup NestAI has raised €100 million (about $115 million) in a funding round led by Finland's sovereign fund …
Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to “reward hack” by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research
and stops the generalization. [image] @anthropicai : But surprisingly, at the exact point the model learned to reward hack, it learned a host of other bad behaviors too. It started considering malicio...
Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost “sold out” due to AI demand
TAIPEI/TOKYO/SEOUL — Since October, SK Hynix's headquarters in Icheon, near Seoul, has seen a steady stream of visitors … X: @nikkeiasia and @nikkeiasia X: @nikkeiasia : The AI boom is driving huge de...
Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020
Thoma Bravo bought a majority stake in enterprise Java platform developer Azul for an undisclosed price, Azul CEO Scott Sellers tells Axios Pro.
Ubisoft delayed reporting its Q2 results after auditors found it improperly booked sales from a partnership as revenue, forcing it to restate its accounts
Ubisoft's first half financials for fiscal year 2026 are now available, following a delay of about a week. Craig Chapple / PocketGamer.biz : Tencent's €1.16bn Ubisoft investment on track to close in c...
Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances
If It Happens Emily Jarvie / Proactive : US weighs allowing Nvidia to sell H200 chips to China, sources say Ukrainian National News : Trump's team considers allowing Nvidia H200 chip sales to China Ca...
CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs' focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more
AI is now so present in our lives that the story of how it came to be so is receding — that is, if we ever absorbed it properly.
Australia adds Twitch to teen social media ban; Twitch plans to deactivate accounts for 16-and-under users from Jan. 9 and bar new underage users from Dec. 10
Renju Jose / Reuters :
Italy's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies
Gianluca Semeraro / Reuters :
General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan
General Atlantic completed its first growth equity investment in Japan and plans to do more, citing an increase in entrepreneurship …
Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety
Lora Kolodny / CNBC :
A look at AMD's pivot to AI chips in 2022 under CEO Lisa Su, increasing AMD's market value from $90B to $335B+ in three years, as the chipmaker takes on Nvidia
not Nvidia — is the canary in the coal mine Semiconductor Engineering : Chip Industry Week In Review
Sources: China's Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026
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Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg :
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