Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev, raised a $120M Series C led by Ribbit at a $1.45B valuation, bringing its total funding to $295M (Krystal Hu/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/robinhood-ceos-math-focused-ai-startup-harmonic-valued-145-billion-latest-2025-11-25/
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Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev, raised a $120M Series C led by Ribbit at a $1.45B valuation, bringing its total funding to $295M
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Warner Music and AI music generator Suno strike a deal, settling previous litigation; Suno will launch licensed AI models and will acquire WMG's Songkick (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
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Warner Music Group strikes ‘landmark’ deal with Suno; settles copyright lawsuit against AI music generator - Music Business Worldwide
The deal also settles previous litigation between the companies; Firms will collaborate ‘on next-generation licensed AI music’…
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Warner Music and AI music generator Suno strike a deal, settling previous litigation; Suno will launch licensed AI models and will acquire WMG
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Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7 (Financial Times)
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Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7
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OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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ChatGPT just made voice mode even more capable - 9to5Mac
ChatGPT has an impressive voice mode that offers a very natural, conversational flow. The latest update to ChatGPT now combines...
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OpenAI merges ChatGPT
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Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M+; PitchBook: Fordefi was last valued at $83M (Fortune)
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Stablecoin issuer Paxos to acquire wallet startup Fordefi for more than $100 million | Fortune
Paxos provides crypto infrastructure for major institutions like PayPal and Mastercard.
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Paxos acquires New York-based Fordefi, a startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M+; PitchBook says Fordefi was last valued at $83M
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Q&A with Ilya Sutskever about model jaggedness, why we are moving beyond the "age of scaling", SSI's plan to straight-shot superintelligence, AGI, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
“These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”
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Q&A with Ilya Sutskever about model jaggedness, why we are moving beyond the “age of scaling”, SSI
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Nvidia says it is "delighted by Google's success" and it has "made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google", but "Nvidia is a generation ahead" (@nvidianewsroom)
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We’re delighted by Google’s success — they’ve made great advances in AI and we continue to supply to Google. NVIDIA is a generation ahead ...
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Nvidia says it is “delighted by Google
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Polymarket says it received an amended US CFTC designation, letting it operate a prediction market in the US with a fully regulated exchange structure (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk) https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/11/25/polymarket-secures-cftc-approval-for-regulated-u-s-return
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Polymarket says it received an amended US CFTC designation, letting it operate a prediction market in the US with a fully regulated exchange structure
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Cerrion, which develops AI video agents that detect and resolve production line issues in real time, raised an $18M Series A led by Creandum (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu) https://tech.eu/2025/11/25/cerrion-raises-18m-to-reduce-factory-downtime-with-ai-video-agents/
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Cerrion, which develops AI video agents that detect and resolve production line issues in real time, raised an $18M Series A led by Creandum
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TikTok names veteran government affairs executive Ziad Ojakli as its head of public policy for the Americas, replacing longtime policy lead Michael Beckerman (Sara Fischer/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/tiktok-public-policy-ziad-ojakli
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TikTok names veteran government affairs executive Ziad Ojakli as its head of public policy for the Americas, replacing longtime policy lead Michael Beckerman
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