Doppel, which makes an AI social engineering detection service, raised a $70M Series C led by Bessemer at a $600M+ valuation, up from $205M in May (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
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Exclusive: Doppel raises $70 million Series C at more than $600 million valuation to fight AI-powered social engineering attacks | Fortune
Bessemer-backed Doppel has raised its $70 million Series C, valuing the company at $600 million, Fortune has exclusively learned.
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Doppel, which makes an AI social engineering detection service, raised a $70M Series C led by Bessemer at a $600M+ valuation, up from $205M in May
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Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
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Warner Music settles its lawsuit with AI music startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in
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Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product for US users next week in partnership with PayPal (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
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Perplexity announces free product to streamline online shopping
Perplexity AI announced it will roll out a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week
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Perplexity plans to roll out a free agentic shopping product in the US next week in partnership with PayPal, eventually letting users buy from 5,000+ merchants
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Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/musk-s-xai-to-build-500-megawatt-data-center-in-saudi-arabia
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Elon Musk says xAI plans to develop a 500-megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia with state-backed AI startup Humain; the data center will rely on Nvidia chips
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Meta release SAM 3, a model for detection, segmentation, and tracking of objects in images and video, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
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Meta's new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D - SiliconANGLE
Meta's new image segmentation models can identify objects and people and reconstruct them in 3D - SiliconANGLE
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Meta releases SAM 3, a model for object detection, segmentation, and tracking in images and videos, and SAM 3D, which can reconstruct objects and humans in 3D
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Alphabet's stock rose as much as 6.9% on Wednesday, its biggest gain since early September, amid a wave of glowing reviews for Gemini 3 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/alphabet-shares-soar-on-rave-reviews-for-new-gemini-ai-model
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A new bipartisan Senate bill amends Section 230 to make commercial social media platforms responsible if their recommendation systems cause foreseeable harms (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
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Lawmakers want to let users sue over harmful social media algorithms
Section 230 is facing a new kind of attack.
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US senators introduce the Algorithm Accountability Act, amending Section 230 to hold social platforms liable if their algorithms cause foreseeable physical harm
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Gemini 3 hands-on: a fundamental improvement on daily use, extremely fast, Antigravity IDE is a powerful launch product, and its personality is terse and direct (matt shumer)
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My Gemini 3 Review
Hands-on Gemini 3 review: A look at performance, capabilities, and how it feels to use compared to GPT-5.1.
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Gemini 3 hands-on: a fundamental improvement on daily use, extremely fast, Antigravity IDE is a powerful launch product, and its personality is terse and direct
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Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-unseats-anthropic-gemini-3
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Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3
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Crypto exchange Kraken says it confidentially filed for a US IPO, without revealing any terms; Kraken said it raised $200M at a $20B valuation on November 18 (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/crypto-exchange-kraken-confidentially-files-us-ipo-2025-11-19/
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Crypto exchange Kraken says it confidentially filed for a US IPO; on November 18, Kraken said it raised $200M at a $20B valuation, up 33% in under two months
By Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.