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Sources: Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5B led by Accel at a $40B pre-money valuation, more than tripling its valuation from its last public round last year (www.businessinsider.com)
15 hours ago

FBI, CISA warn of cyberattacks targeting refrigeration systems (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
15 hours ago FBI

Artificial Analysis says Inkling 2 Small matches Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) in its index and would be the top open model outside China once its weights are out (artificialanalysis.ai)
15 hours ago China

Lyft reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.92B est., and a net loss of $0.03 a share, vs. an est. profit of $0.20 a share; LYFT drops 8%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
15 hours ago

Meta indefinitely pauses its new commercial terms, which critics say would let it scrape sites of business users, after publisher outcry and court injunctions (www.niemanlab.org)
16 hours ago

Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling 2 Small, a MoE model with 594B total and 17B active parameters, and plans to release weights next week after safety testing (thinkingmachines.ai)
16 hours ago

Sources: cloud security startup Cyera is planning to raise around $800M in a round led by Cyberstarts at a $20B valuation, up from $12B in June (www.theinformation.com)
16 hours ago Startup

Sources: major investors are increasingly skeptical Anthropic's IPO can achieve a $1.5T valuation after a market selloff; one says it could be closer to $1T (www.wsj.com)
16 hours ago IPO

Applebee's Exposed Customers' Personal Data After Leaving Database Password In App (yro.slashdot.org)
16 hours ago Database

Sources: Unity has held talks to be acquired by a consortium including Silver Lake, which owns 8% of Unity, and Saudi Arabia's PIF, discussing a ~$25B valuation (www.reuters.com)
16 hours ago Arabia Silver Saudi Arabia

Sources: NYT has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd for roughly $330M; A24 dropped out of negotiations after price expectations rose (www.nytimes.com)
17 hours ago

Cloudflare reports Q3 revenue up 39% YoY to $782.5M, above $737.2M est., a $34.1M net loss, and lifts its FY 2026 guidance; NET jumps 14%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
17 hours ago

OpenAI Responds to US Midterm Elections With New Commitment to Communities (politics.slashdot.org)
17 hours ago

Airbnb reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $4.9B, above est., Nights and Seats Booked up 16% to 155M, rises its FY 2026 revenue outlook; ABNB jumps 9%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
17 hours ago Airbnb

Mercedes-Benz rolls out conversational AI models that run directly on its cars instead of the cloud through a partnership with MIT spinout Liquid AI (www.wsj.com)
17 hours ago AI

The Nasdaq 100 drops 6%, losing a record $2.3T in value, and the Philadelphia chip index plunges 12%, on concerns over the AI trade after Democrats won Congress (www.bloomberg.com)
18 hours ago AI Democrat

Defense tech startup Shield AI raises $2.5B, including a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation and $500M in debt, to help acquire radar company Echodyne for $5.3B (www.bloomberg.com)
18 hours ago Startup AI

California State Senator Scott Wiener, author of AI safety law SB 53, won Tuesday's election to succeed Pelosi in the US House, campaigning on AI regulation (www.theinformation.com)
18 hours ago AI California

GOP leaders of three House committees ask Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing on his ties with Megaspeed exec Alice Huang, reported to be a Chinese asset (www.cnbc.com)
18 hours ago China Republican Asset

METR: Anthropic redacted much of the “most informative” evidence from METR's 100-page report, so readers “must rely on our judgment more than we consider ideal” (x.com)
19 hours ago

Fake OpenAI, SpaceX events used to steal Microsoft, Google accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
19 hours ago Google Microsoft SpaceX

Apple Is Putting Employees On an AI Budget (apple.slashdot.org)
19 hours ago AI Apple Budget

Meta President Dina Powell McCormick says building new US data centers will be harder after midterm results, but it will be easier to expand existing projects (www.wsj.com)
19 hours ago

Sources: Nvidia approached Apollo about retrofitting some of the 130+ buildings of the PE firm's struggling ISP Brightspeed into a network of small data centers (www.theinformation.com)
20 hours ago Nvidia

Truffle Security launches program to revoke 1.4 million live secrets (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
20 hours ago

Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House? (it.slashdot.org)
20 hours ago

Sources: about 600,000 of Nvidia's H200 chips are stored in Hong Kong awaiting shipment to mainland China, as Beijing withholds approval for large-scale imports (www.reuters.com)
20 hours ago China Hong Kong Nvidia

Meta rolls out voice mode and expressive avatars in the Muse app, starting in the US, letting users have voice conversations with Muse in real time (www.theverge.com)
20 hours ago

Google plans to spend $17B to build its first Wyoming data center, pay for all the power it uses, and form a Community Council to address growth concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
20 hours ago Google

Discord Is Ditching Electron For Rust (tech.slashdot.org)
20 hours ago

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