Docusign reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $818.4M, vs. $807.1M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; DOCU drops 6%+ after hours (Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos/Bloomberg)
Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads raised ~$1.13B in the year's second-largest onshore IPO, valuing it at ~$7.6B, with the retail portion oversubscribed 2,750x (Bloomberg)
A Polymarket trader netted $1M+ in 24 hours, mostly by placing suspiciously accurate bets on Google's 2025 Year in Search rankings (Boaz Sobrado/Forbes) https://www.forbes.com/sites/boazsobrado/2025/12/04/alleged-insider-nets-1-million-on-polymarket-in-24-hours/
Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes) http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025/12/04/this-24-year-old-built-a-multibillion-dollar-ai-training-empire-in-eight-months/
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (Will Oremus/Washington Post) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/04/ai-chatbot-election-campaign/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY0ODI0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY2MjA2Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQ4MjQ0MDAsImp0aSI6Ijc0NGFmYjNiLTVlZjktNGI5MS1iMTQ2LWU1NmU3MjkzZjNkNCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMTIvMDQvYWktY2hhdGJvdC1lbGVjdGlvbi1jYW1wYWlnbi8ifQ.ywP5Lw6gxp0FNfH60dMfxNPaIuzxCTU57gVXg_pF_JY&itid=gfta
TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC (Sam Becker/Fast Company) https://www.fastcompany.com/91452867/inside-the-nyses-surprising-partnership-with-tbpn-the-la-based-video-podcast-dominating-tech-media
Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (CNBC)
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
HPE reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $9.68B, vs. $9.94B est., Server revenue down 5% to $4.5B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below est.; HPE drops 5%+ after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/hpe-forecasts-weak-quarterly-revenue-2025-12-04/
Sources: Meta does not plan to abandon building the metaverse, and expects to shift the savings from the layoffs into investments in its AR glasses (Mike Isaac/New York Times)