Cursor says it has crossed $1B in annualized revenue, has 300+ employees, and its in-house models "generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
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AI startup Cursor raises $2.3 billion funding round at $29.3 billion valuation
Cursor built a popular AI coding tool that helps software developers generate, edit and review code.
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Cursor says it has crossed $1B in annualized revenue, has 300+ employees, and its in-house models “generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world”
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Sources: Apple and Major League Soccer agree to make all MLS games available on Apple TV for no extra charge in 2026, ending the MLS Season Pass subscription (Paul Tenorio/The Athletic)
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MLS, Apple TV to bring games outside of extra paywall in 2026: Sources
Beginning next season, MLS games will be even more accessible via Apple TV
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Apple and Major League Soccer agree to make all MLS games available on Apple TV for no extra charge from 2026, ending the MLS Season Pass subscription
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Netflix is shifting its video game strategy to focus on popular titles like Pictionary, Boggle, and Tetris, playable on TVs with smartphones as controllers (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
Netflix Tries Bringing Family Game Night to Your TV
The company is shifting its video game strategy to focus more on popular games you already know, such as Pictionary and Boggle.
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Netflix shifts its video game strategy to focus on popular titles like Pictionary, Boggle, and Tetris, playable in its app on TVs using phones as controllers
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Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company Helix Nano to focus on preventing AI-enabled bioweapons development, raised a $15M seed led by OpenAI (Deepa Seetharaman/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-backs-startup-aiming-block-ai-enabled-bioweapons-2025-11-13/
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Red Queen Bio, spun out of mRNA therapeutics company Helix Nano to focus on blocking creating biological weapons powered by AI, raised a $15M seed led by OpenAI
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The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging unfairly high App Store fees; a lawyer calculates damages at £1B (Sam Tobin/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/apple-refused-permission-appeal-uk-ruling-app-store-commissions-2025-11-13/
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The UK CAT refuses to let Apple appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging “excessive and unfair” App Store fees; lawyers: the damages are £1B+
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Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or "self-contained" experiences built with web tech like HTML5 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Apple halves commissions for mini app makers | TechCrunch
Apple introduces a new program for app developers offering a reduced 15% commission on qualifying mini app transactions.
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Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or “self-contained” experiences built with web tech like HTML5
By Sarah Perez / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Ubisoft delays the publication of its H1 financial results and requests the shares be halted from trading until then; its stock is down 49% so far in 2025 (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/ubisoft-delays-earnings-and-requests-share-trading-halt
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Ubisoft delays publishing its H1 financial results on the day they were due and requests that its shares be halted from trading until then; UBI is down 47%+ YTD
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Google says all NotebookLM users will get access to Deep Research in the service within a week; users get to choose between two research styles: fast or deep (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
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Google’s NotebookLM will now do ‘deep research’
Google’s ‘thinking partner’ just got its own researcher.
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Google says all NotebookLM users will get access to Deep Research in the service within a week; users get to choose between two research styles: fast or deep
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Amazon renames Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo, a nod to "low Earth orbit"; so far, Amazon has launched 150+ satellites as part of a 3,200 planned constellation (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
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‘Project Kuiper’ no more: Amazon renames satellite internet venture ‘Leo’ on path to commercial debut
Amazon rebrands its effort to expand global access to high-speed internet: Project Kuiper will now be known as Amazon Leo
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Amazon renames Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo, a nod to “low Earth orbit”; Amazon has so far launched 150+ satellites as part a constellation set to have 3,200+
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Meta overhauls Facebook Marketplace, adding new collaborative tools, expanded social features, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
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Facebook Marketplace gets new collaborative and social features, Meta AI integrations | TechCrunch
Meta is testing collaborative buying to let users invite a friend to join their chat with a seller.
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Meta overhauls Facebook Marketplace, adding collections, collaborative buying, reactions, comments, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations
By Aisha Malik / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.