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Alibaba starts selling Quark S1, its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, for ~$537 in China, and plans to release international versions in 2026 (Bloomberg)

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Six years after EU law enforcement raids shut down German cyberlocker Share-Online, a German court sentences its operator to a two-year suspended prison term (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

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An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Clover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)

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South Korean crypto exchange Upbit suspended deposits and withdrawals after saying ~$30M worth of Solana tokens were moved to an unauthorized external wallet (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

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Tidalwave, whose AI agents automate mortgage docs checks and give real-time multilingual feedback to borrowers, raised a $22M Series A led by Permanent Capital (Fortune)

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London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)

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San Francisco Compute, which provides a marketplace for AI computing capacity, raised a $40M Series A led by DCVC and Wing Venture Capital at a $300M valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips (Financial Times)

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Point One Navigation, which develops precise location tech, raised a $35M Series C led by Khosla Ventures, a source says at a $230M post-money valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

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Coverbase, an AI procurement and risk platform provider, raised a $16.5M Series A led by Canapi Ventures, bringing its total funding to $20M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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AI legal compliance startup Norm Ai, which is launching an independent law firm offering "AI-native legal services", raised $50M from Blackstone (Norm Ai)

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Sources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy corporate data management and security startup Veza for $1B+ in a deal as early as next week (The Information)

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Zootopia 2 creators address the post-credits scene and Zootopia 3

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Intel denies allegations in a TSMC lawsuit that VP Wei-Jen Lo likely leaked trade secrets after retiring from TSMC and joining Intel (Reuters)

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The best Black Friday deals we’ve found on TVs, laptops, and more

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Stranger Things 5 begins with a frantic race to the finish line

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Apple TV pulls The Hunt over plagiarism accusation

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OpenAI denies liability in teen suicide lawsuit, cites ‘misuse’ of ChatGPT

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David Lerner, Co-Founder of Tekserve, Dies at 72

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