A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju's founder Byju Raveendran on Nov. 20 to pay $1B+ to US lenders, over missing funds from Byju's US unit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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A U.S. bankruptcy court has ordered Byju's founder Byju Raveendran to pay over $1.07 billion in a case over missing company funds.
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A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju
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How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)
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We visited the heart of America’s chipmaking boom
Phoenix is the new Silicon Valley.
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How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into “America
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While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same.
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While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech
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How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-gemini-3-ai-behind-scenes-e1787729?st=fERVsx
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How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race
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Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in "LLM grooming", flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
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Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda
Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible
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Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in “LLM grooming”, flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT
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Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost "sold out" due to AI demand (Nikkei Asia)
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Rampant AI demand throws the memory chip market into turmoil
Supply constraints spark warnings of price rises and launch delays for consumer electronics
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Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost “sold out” due to AI demand
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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)
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ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete
Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against b...
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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement
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Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs' focus on spatial intelligence, superintelligence, regulation, AI bubble, US-China AI arms race, more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-fei-fei-li-weekend-interview/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2Mzc1OTkzNCwiZXhwIjoxNzY0MzY0NzM0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNjJCSTRLSVVQUzQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI4OUM4OTNDMDhGOTQ0NThDQkQwQTQyREY1RDFCOTY0QyJ9.UVvGgz98QxDQvBhsypkneqh5KQoP57CEwyLbCfnAVvA
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Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on ImageNet, her startup World Labs
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Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios) https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/18/thoma-bravo-java-platform-azul
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Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020
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General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/general-atlantic-enters-japan-with-investment-in-unicorn-smarthr
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General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm
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