Kraken raised $200M at a $20B valuation, after raising $600M at a $15B valuation in Sept.; prior to the two rounds, Kraken raised only $27M in venture capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
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Exclusive: Crypto exchange Kraken raises $200 million from Ken Griffin's Citadel Securities to notch $20 billion valuation | Fortune
Once skittish about digital assets, Citadel has warmed towards the crypto business in 2025.
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Kraken raised $200M at a $20B valuation, after raising $600M at a $15B valuation in September; prior to these two rounds, Kraken raised only $27M in VC funding
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Gemini 3 Pro is priced at $2-$4 per 1M input tokens and $12-$18 per 1M output tokens, cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.5 but more expensive than GPT-5.1 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
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Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark
Google released Gemini 3 Pro today. Here’s the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog annou...
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Google prices Gemini 3 Pro at $2 to $4 per 1M input tokens and $12 to $18 per 1M output tokens, cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.5 but more expensive than GPT-5.1
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Q&A with Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, spending most of his research time on world models, fitting the entire Google search index into Gemini, AI bubble, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, world models, and the AI bubble
Q&A with the Google DeepMind CEO on building AGI, compute bottlenecks, and the AI bubble.
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Q&A with Demis Hassabis on Gemini 3, spending most of his research time on world models, fitting the entire Google Search index into Gemini, AI bubble, and more
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Maxima, whose AI platform automates accounting tasks like reconciliation and journal entry, raised $41M in seed and Series A rounds at a $143M valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-accounting-startup-maxima-raises-41-million-kleiner-perkins-backed-round-2025-11-18/
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Maxima, whose AI platform automates accounting tasks like reconciliation and journal entry, raised $41M in seed and Series A rounds at a $143M valuation
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Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft advertising the feature as able to "understand you", it delivers inconsistent and often incorrect responses (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
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Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
Hey Copilot, are you useful yet?
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Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft wanting PCs to “understand you”, the feature delivers inconsistent results and often slow, incorrect responses
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Apple's N1 chipset in the iPhone 17 lineup delivers up to 40% higher median Wi-Fi download and upload speeds globally vs. the Broadcom-based iPhone 16 lineup (Luke Kehoe/Ookla)
Ookla - Providing network intelligence to enable modern connectivity
New Silicon, New Speeds: How Apple
Explore how Apple’s new N1 wireless chip stacks up against Android flagships for Wi-Fi performance using global Speedtest Intelligence® data.
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Quora's Poe launches group chats, letting users around the world engage in group chats with up to 200 people and collaborate across 200+ AI models (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Poe's AI app now supports group chats across AI models | TechCrunch
Quora's AI platform Poe now lets users engage in group chats with up to 200 people across AI models and bots.
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Apono, which helps enterprises manage cloud permissions by eliminating standing privileges, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $54M+ (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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Apono raises $34M to tackle cloud privilege sprawl with Zero Standing Privilege model - SiliconANGLE
Apono raises $34M to tackle cloud privilege sprawl with Zero Standing Privilege model - SiliconANGLE
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Apono, which helps enterprises manage cloud permissions by eliminating standing privileges, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $54M+
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A US judge rules Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp don't violate antitrust law, as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
Meta Wins FTC Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals (4)
Meta Platforms Inc. won a key court ruling that the company’s acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp donâ...
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A US judge rules that Meta
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Internal docs show Meta's Vibes AI video feed has about 2M DAUs as of November 9, up 1% from the previous week; ~52% of returning users prompted the AI (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
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Internal documents show how many people are using Meta's Vibes AI feed each day
The documents show Meta Vibes' daily usage and global growth trends, highlighting user engagement in India, Brazil, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
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Internal documents: Meta
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