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Tel Aviv-based Commcrete, maker of handheld satellite communication devices and software, raised a $21M Series A led by Greenfield; sources value it at $100M+ (www.resiliencemedia.co)
13 days ago

Venmo and PayPal Users Will Finally Be Able To Send Money To Each Other (news.slashdot.org)
13 days ago

OpenAI's New Social Video App Will Let You Deepfake Your Friends (tech.slashdot.org)
13 days ago

Chinese Woman Convicted After 'World's Biggest' Bitcoin Seizure (yro.slashdot.org)
13 days ago China Bitcoin

Amazon Launches Vegas OS, Its Android Replacement For Fire TV With No Sideloading (tech.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Android Amazon Vegas

Spotify's Founder and CEO Daniel Ek Is Stepping Down (slashdot.org)
13 days ago Spotify

Charlie Javice Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison For Fraudulent Sale of Her Startup To JPMorgan (yro.slashdot.org)
13 days ago Startup JPMorgan

In an email to customers, Venmo says Venmo users and PayPal users will be able to send each other money natively in the app in the US and worldwide in November (techcrunch.com)
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In the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google says it's willing to provide publishers with the data for how its ad server decides what online display ads to show (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Google

Interviews with Panos Panay and other Amazon execs about Alexa+, recruiting old Microsoft colleagues, merging hardware and software teams like Apple, more (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Amazon Microsoft Apple

Google's Ad Transparency tool no longer shows any political ads, past or present, from any EU countries ahead of new EU ad transparency regulations (www.404media.co)
13 days ago Google

OpenAI releases an invitation-only Sora app on iOS, powered by Sora 2, to let people create and share AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends (www.axios.com)
13 days ago IOS AI

OpenAI launches Sora 2, which it says may be the “GPT‑3.5 moment for video” with the ability to follow intricate instructions spanning multiple shots (openai.com)
13 days ago

Amazon partners with FanDuel to allow viewers to track their NBA bets in real-time during NBA games on Prime Video and adds shoppable NBA merch to the games (www.geekwire.com)
13 days ago Amazon

Sources: Silver Lake told investors in its latest buyout fund that it was going back to its strategy of making big bets on technology companies (www.wsj.com)
13 days ago Silver

Stripe launches Open Issuance, a Bridge-powered platform that lets companies create its own stablecoins, used by crypto wallet Phantom to issue its CASH token (www.coindesk.com)
13 days ago

Sora 2 is available for free with usage limits for users with an invite code, while ChatGPT Pro subscribers have access to the higher-quality Sora 2 Pro model (venturebeat.com)
13 days ago

Disney sent a cease-and-desist to Character.AI for misusing its characters in harmful ways, including sexual exploitation; the startup removed Disney characters (www.axios.com)
13 days ago Startup AI

President Trump signs an executive order directing his administration to invest $50M in AI-driven pediatric cancer research (www.axios.com)
13 days ago Trump AI

The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated antitrust laws when Zillow paid Redfin $100M to stop competing against it in online rental listings (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago

Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to recognize many alignment evaluation environments as tests and would modify its behavior accordingly (www.transformernews.ai)
13 days ago

The White House withdraws Brian Quintenz's nomination to lead the CFTC; the Winklevoss twins pressured Trump in July to reconsider his nomination (www.politico.com)
13 days ago Trump CFTC

OpenAI says Sora has guardrails intended to block depictions of public figures and to ensure that a user's likeness is used only with their consent, via cameos (www.theverge.com)
13 days ago

US chipmaker Wolfspeed's shares close up 29.41% after the company emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and achieved its goal of reducing overall debt by ~70% (www.reuters.com)
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Taiwan's vice premier, who is leading US negotiations, says Taiwan would not agree to a 50-50 split in chip production, adding no such condition was discussed (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Taiwan

Fermi, a data center real estate investment trust co-founded by former US Energy Secretary Rick Perry, raised $682.5M in its US IPO, valuing Fermi at $12.46B (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago IPO Energy

Interviews with 50+ people detail how the Trump administration seized control of Biden's $7.4B Natcast chips initiative, a move that many consider shortsighted (www.politico.com)
13 days ago Trump

Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents for healthcare, raised a $76M Series B led by Lightspeed, bringing its total funding to $102M (fortune.com)
13 days ago AI

A California jury finds Uber not liable for a woman's alleged sexual assault by her driver, in the first trial out of 500+ consolidated lawsuits in the state (www.reuters.com)
13 days ago Uber California

Source: Meta is acquiring AI chip startup Rivos, as it seeks to reduce reliance on Nvidia; Rivos was reportedly seeking new funding at a $2B valuation in August (www.bloomberg.com)
13 days ago Startup AI Nvidia

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