Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $140M, including a $100M Series B led by CapitalG (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/celero-raises-140-million-alphabets-capitalg-fund-others-ai-networking-chip-2025-11-17/

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Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $140M, including a $100M Series B led by CapitalG

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Coding assistant startup Sourcegraph says ads in its free tier are generating $5M to $10M in annualized revenue; the ad-supported tier was launched in October (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coding-assistants-bet-ads-seems-paying

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Coding assistant startup Sourcegraph says ads in its free tier are generating $5M to $10M in annualized revenue; the ad-supported tier was launched in October

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Sources: Amazon is seeking to raise about $12B through a bond sale, its first such deal in US dollars since 2022, to help fund acquisitions, capex, and more (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/amazon-kicks-off-first-us-high-grade-bond-sale-in-three-years

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Amazon raised $15B in its first US dollar bond offering in three years; sources say the proceeds will be used for acquisitions, capex, share buybacks, and more

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Span, which aims to help companies measure the value of AI-assisted coding, raised $25M in seed and Series A rounds from Alt Capital, Craft Ventures, and others (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)

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Span, which aims to help companies measure the value of AI-assisted coding, raised $25M in seed and Series A rounds from Alt Capital, Craft Ventures, and others

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Ramp says it is now valued at $32B following a $300M raise led by Lightspeed and an employee tender offer, up from a $22.5B valuation in July (Emily Mason/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/ramp-hits-32-billion-valuation-in-lightspeed-led-funding

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Ramp says it is now valued at $32B following a $300M raise led by Lightspeed and an employee tender offer, up from a $22.5B valuation in July and $16B in June

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Vancouver-based PowerLattice, which makes a power supply chiplet to cut power consumption by 50%+, raised a $25M Series A, taking its total funding to $31M (Pete Danko/Portland Business Journal) https://www.bizjournals.com/portland/inno/stories/news/2025/11/17/powerlattice-technologies-raises-25m.html?page=all

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Vancouver-based PowerLattice, which makes a power supply chiplet to reduce compute power needs by 50%+, raised a $25M Series A, taking its total funding to $31M

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Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext 2, a weather model that it says offers faster, more accurate two-week forecasts and includes tools aimed at energy traders (Joe Wertz/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/deepmind-s-latest-ai-weather-model-targets-energy-traders

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Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext 2, a weather model that it says offers faster, more accurate two-week forecasts and includes more tools for energy traders

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Sources: the EU Commission wants to decide if any of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud should face new restrictions under the DMA, following several major outages (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/tech-giants-cloud-power-probed-as-eu-weighs-inclusion-in-dma

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Sources: the European Commission wants to decide if AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud should face new restrictions under the DMA, after several major cloud outages

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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he is "nervous about the size of these investments in these data centres"; he owns stakes in OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)

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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he is “nervous about the size of these investments in these data centers”; he owns stakes in OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI

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Meta says its 2Africa subsea cable project remains incomplete in the southern Red Sea segment due to security risks; Google's Blue-Raman cable is also delayed (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/google-meta-delay-red-sea-cables-as-security-risks-rattle-plans

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Meta says its 2Africa subsea internet cable project remains incomplete in the southern Red Sea due to security risks; Google

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