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Saviynt, an identity and access management service focused on “human and nonhuman” identity controls, raised a $700M Series B led by KKR at a $3B valuation (www.wsj.com)
5 hours ago

Anthropic and Accenture sign a three-year deal to sell AI services to businesses; the deal makes Accenture one of Anthropic's top three enterprise clients (www.wsj.com)
7 hours ago AI

Sources: CEO Sam Altman said OpenAI plans to end “code red” after releasing a model in January 2026 with improved image generation, speed, and personality (www.wsj.com)
16 hours ago

Sources: after the Netflix-WBD deal was announced, Larry Ellison called President Trump about how the transaction would hurt competition (www.wsj.com)
19 hours ago Trump Netflix

IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago IBM

Inside the creation of AI actress Tilly Norwood, which included 2,000 iterations; Particle6, its creator, says it has ~60 NDAs for projects involving Tilly (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago AI

How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Startup AI

Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago IBM

Sources: SpaceX is planning a secondary share sale that would value the company at $800B, surpassing OpenAI to make it the most valuable US private company (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago SpaceX

A review of LinkedIn profiles shows dozens of Apple staffers with expertise in audio, watch design, robotics, and more have joined OpenAI in recent months (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago LinkedIn Apple Robot

Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build “Trump Industrial Parks” in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago Trump Japan AI

7AI, which builds AI agents that analyze and triage cybersecurity alerts, raised a $130M Series A at a ~$700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $166M (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago AI

Sources: last summer, Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago

The EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago AI

University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician” (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Startup AI Mathematics Virginia

Sources: Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, last summer for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago

Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multi-year $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake and deploy AI agents across enterprises (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago AI

Waymo's self-driving cars appear to be bending traffic laws and growing impatient with pedestrians as the company seeks to make them “confidently assertive” (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Autonomous Car

Filings: after EA's buyout, Saudi Arabia's PIF would own 93.4% of EA, implying it needs to put up ~$29B, while Silver Lake and Affinity would own 5.5% and 1.1% (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Arabia Silver Saudi Arabia

Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $35M led by Sequoia at a $750M valuation and plans a product launch in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Google

Amazon launches its Trainium3 AI chip, claiming it is 4x faster than the previous gen and can reduce AI training and operating costs by ~50% vs. equivalent GPUs (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Amazon AI

The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M into xLight, which makes lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Trump Equity

A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago AI

CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo science and tech nonprofit conversions since January 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago

CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo nonprofit conversions in science and tech since Jan. 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago

The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M in xLight, which develops lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Trump Equity

The AI boom has led to high demand and more pay for the construction workers that build data centers; a trade group says there is a shortage of ~439K workers (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago AI

How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M+ IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago China Africa Entrepreneur

Google withdraws its 2024 EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft over Azure licensing, after the EU launched a probe into Azure and AWS under the DMA (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago Google Microsoft

Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago Drone Ukraine

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