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Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)

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A cat's killing by a Waymo robotaxi sparked outrage in San Francisco, as some questioned why deaths caused by human drivers don't get the same level of concern (Heather Knight/New York Times)

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Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white-hat hackers report modest gains from AI-aided hacking (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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The current AI strategies of China and the US are complementary, as unlike the US, China isn't "AGI-pilled" yet, focusing on embodied AI and open source models (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

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Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Political fixer Bradley Tusk's nonprofit releases VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic protocol for mobile voting, amid skepticism from cryptographers (Steven Levy/Wired)

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A look at the global AI data center buildout, its limits, and ROI concerns; in 2025, US capacity that is built, underway, planned, or stalled has topped 80 GW (Wall Street Journal)

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A California federal jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634M for infringing a blood-oxygen patent used in Watch workout and heart-rate alerts; Apple will appeal (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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A profile of Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, reportedly leaving after being sidelined, who says LLMs are a dead end for AGI and backs world models instead (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Apple is intensifying CEO succession planning as Tim Cook, now 65, may step down as early as next year, with John Ternus seen as the likely successor (Financial Times)

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Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)

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Sources: Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400M led by B Capital at a $5B pre-money valuation (The Information)

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X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Digital asset treasuries increasingly rely on in-kind contributions, with sponsors using their own crypto instead of cash, shifting risk to retail investors (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

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Opera says in the 12 months ending with October, it saw a 88% surge in daily active iOS users across Europe, partly due to the changes mandated by the DMA (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Meta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A (Bernie Pazanowski/Bloomberg Law)

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Filing: Berkshire Hathaway discloses a $4.3B stake in Alphabet in Q3, a surprising move given Warren Buffett's reluctance toward high-growth, tech-driven stocks (Yun Li/CNBC)

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Google says it plans to invest $40B through 2027 in three new data centers in Texas, including one co-located with a new solar and battery energy storage plant (Bloomberg)

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Elon Musk says Grok 5 would be released "in Q1 sometime", later than a deadline he previously set of releasing the model by the end of 2025 (Theo Wayt/The Information)

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