Filings: after EA's buyout, Saudi Arabia's PIF would own 93.4% of EA, implying it needs to put up ~$29B, while Silver Lake and Affinity would own 5.5% and 1.1% (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/saudi-fund-to-own-almost-all-of-electronic-arts-after-buyout-661e92be
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Filings: after EA
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Israeli startup Zafran, an AI-native threat exposure management service, raised a $60M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M (Globes)
Israeli startup Zafran Security raises $60m
 
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Israeli startup Zafran, an AI-native threat exposure management service, raised a $60M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M
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US and Israeli cloud data management startup Eon raised $300M led by Gil at a $4B valuation, up from $1.4B in November 2024, taking its total funding to $500M (Krystal Hu/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/cloud-data-startup-eons-valuation-surges-4-billion-latest-funding-round-2025-12-02/
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Cloud data management startup Eon raised $300M led by Gil Capital at a $4B valuation, almost 3X from $1.4B in November 2024, taking its total funding to $500M
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Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy developer tool startup Bun for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue (Sri Muppidi/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-advanced-talks-buy-developer-tool-startup-first-acquisition
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Anthropic acquires dev tool maker Bun, a source says for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue in November
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Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $35M led by Sequoia at a $750M valuation and plans a product launch in 2026 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/this-ai-startup-wants-to-remake-the-800-billion-chip-industry-f43f8241
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Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $35M led by Sequoia at a $750M valuation and plans a product launch in 2026
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Amazon launches AWS AI Factories to deploy AWS infrastructure, including AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia GPUs, in customers' data centers (Georgia Butler/DatacenterDynamics)
AWS launches AI factory offering that gives customers dedicated AI infrastructure on premises
AI Factories can be built using Nvidia or Trainium chips
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Amazon launches AWS AI Factories, which lets customers deploy AWS infrastructure, including AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia GPUs, in their existing data centers
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A profile of Dario Amodei and Anthropic, which is on track to hit a nearly $10B annualized run rate by the end of 2025, more than 10x what it generated in 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
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Anthropic is all in on 'AI safety'β€”and that's helping the $183 billion startup win over big business | Fortune
Founders Daniela and Dario Amodei have made Anthropic and its Claude models the AI many companies prefer over rivals OpenAI and ChatGPT.
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A profile of Dario Amodei and Anthropic, which is on track to hit a nearly $10B annualized run rate by the end of 2025, more than 10x what it generated in 2024
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An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on his AI vision, how he plans to extend Amazon's cloud market lead, adding AI to AWS services, AI efficiencies, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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AWS CEO Matt Garman Wants to Reassert Amazon’s Cloud Dominance in the AI Era
As Google and Microsoft continue to surge, the AWS chief lays out his pitch: cheaper, reliable AI delivered at hyperscale.
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An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on his AI vision, how he plans to extend Amazon
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Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
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AWS puts Kiro and other AI agents to work on truly autonomous software development - SiliconANGLE
AWS puts Kiro and other AI agents to work on truly autonomous software development - SiliconANGLE
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Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development
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AWS announces new features for its AI agent platform Bedrock AgentCore, including new tools for managing AI agent boundaries and memory capabilities (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
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AWS announces new capabilities for its AI agent builder | TechCrunch
AWS is introducing new capabilities for its AI agent-building platform, including memory and evaluation tools.
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Amazon expands its AI agent platform, Bedrock AgentCore, with new tools for managing agent boundaries, agent memory capabilities, and agent evaluation features
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