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New York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B+ valuation, for US and international expansion (Bloomberg)

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Finland-based NestAI raised €100M led by Finland's sovereign fund Tesi and Nokia to build AI products for defense applications, including for unmanned vehicles (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

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Alphabet's stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google's Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)

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Italy's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies (Gianluca Semeraro/Reuters)

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Sources: China's Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026 (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: the White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state AI laws, following bipartisan backlash (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

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Waymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026 (Aidin Vaziri/San Francisco Chronicle)

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‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails

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Sisu 2 strips action movies down to the crowd-pleasing, gritty basics

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Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

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Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI

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Analyzing Gemini 3's model card and safety framework report: the model is excellent but the safety report withholds or makes it difficult to understand key info (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

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The Conjuring: Last Rites, Blue Beetle, and the best movies on streaming this week

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Judge wants to fix Google’s ad tech monopoly before it’s too late

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You can save up to $1,300 on robovacs from Roborock and Eufy ahead of Black Friday

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Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to "reward hack" by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research (Anthropic)

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A look at AMD's pivot to AI chips in 2022 under CEO Lisa Su, increasing AMD's market value from $90B to $335B+ in three years, as the chipmaker takes on Nvidia (Wall Street Journal)

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Analogue 3D, the best way to play N64 games, is coming back in stock

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The best Xbox Game Pass games to play this weekend (Nov. 21-23 2025)

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