GlobalFoundries acquires Advanced Micro Foundry, a Singapore-based silicon photonics foundry, for an undisclosed sum, and plans a new R&D center in Singapore (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/globalfoundries-buys-singapores-advanced-micro-foundry-push-speed-up-ai-data-2025-11-18/
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GlobalFoundries acquires Advanced Micro Foundry, a Singapore-based silicon photonics foundry, for an undisclosed sum, and plans a new R&D center in Singapore
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Q&A with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on returning to Amazon post-burnout, his goal to "zero out crime", privacy and the "surveillance panopticon", and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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Ring’s Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime
The head of smart camera maker Ring on why he returned to Amazon, and what he thinks AI can do for home security.
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Q&A with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff on returning to Amazon post-burnout, his goal to “zero out crime”, privacy and the “surveillance panopticon”, and more
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CoinGecko: total market value of 18K+ tracked coins fell 25% since October 6, wiping $1.2T; Bitcoin fell 28% to $89.5K, its lowest since April and flat for 2025 (Financial Times)
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CoinGecko: the total market value of 18K+ crypto coins is down 25% since October 6, wiping out ~$1.2T; bitcoin fell 28% to $89.5K, its lowest level since April
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Berlin-based Peec AI, which helps brands manage visibility in AI-powered search results, raised a $21M Series A led by Singular at a $100M+ valuation (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
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As consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT, Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt | TechCrunch
With consumers increasingly directing questions to ChatGPT, not Google, product discovery is changing β€” and the promise to give brands visibility...
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Berlin-based Peec AI, which helps brands manage visibility in AI-powered search results, raised a $21M Series A led by Singular at a $100M+ valuation
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Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise money at a valuation of more than $130B, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1B Series K at a $100B valuation (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/databricks-talks-raise-capital-valuation-130-billion
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Sources: Databricks is in talks to raise funds at a $130B+ valuation, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1B Series K at a $100B valuation
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Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise about $5B and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50B (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-muratis-thinking-machines-aims-raise-5-billion
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Sources: Mira Murati
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Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across 40+ topics; Claude 4.1 Opus takes first place in its key metric (@artificialanlys)
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Announcing AA-Omniscience, our new benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across >40 topics, where all but three models are more likely to ha...
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Artificial Analysis announces AA-Omniscience, a benchmark for knowledge and hallucination across 40+ topics; Claude 4.1 Opus takes first place in its key metric
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Arm and Nvidia announce that Arm-based Neoverse CPUs will be able to integrate with AI accelerators using Nvidia's NVLink Fusion tech (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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Arm custom chips get a boost with Nvidia partnership
Arm doesn't make CPUs but it licenses its instruction set technology and sells designs that customers can build their chips on top of.
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Arm and Nvidia announce that Arm-based Neoverse CPUs will be able to integrate with AI accelerators using Nvidia
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SCOTUS declines to hear an appeal by Gesture Technology Partners over its right to challenge expired patents, leaving in place a win for Apple, Google, and LG (Blake Brittain/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-wont-hear-patent-appeal-against-apple-google-lg-2025-11-17/
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SCOTUS declines to hear an appeal by Gesture Technology Partners over the right to challenge expired patents, leaving in place a win for Apple, Google, and LG
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Internal memo: CISA will increase its hiring efforts in 2026 to rebuild after the Trump administration's cuts and prepare for a potential US conflict with China (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive) https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-hiring-workforce-strategy/805733/
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Internal memo: CISA will increase its hiring efforts in 2026 to rebuild after the Trump administration
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