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PitchBook: US VCs have invested ~$14.2B in European AI startups so far in 2025, with founders saying US investors better fit the sector's high upfront costs (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)

Techmeme

Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for athletes and coaches, raised $40M led by Bluestone Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $51M (Jessica Golden/CNBC)

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Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

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S&P Global

Daring Fireball

Thoughts on monthly recaps.

Ru Singh

SiPearl unveils Athena1, Europe's first high-performance CPU with up to 80 cores designed for civilian and military use, slated for commercial launch in H2 2027 (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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Jane Goodall’s death triggered the premiere of Netflix’s new show

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Alvys, an AI-powered logistics software provider, raised a $40M Series B led by RTP Global, bringing its total funding to $77M; Alvys has 1000+ customers (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Robinhood is expanding aggressively in the UK, releasing low-cost investment products and seeking to launch its prediction market products in the country (Financial Times)

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Insiders detail negotiations between politicians, tech and AI companies, VCs, and others over California's SB 53, the first-in-the-nation AI safety law (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

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V/H/S Halloween directors say found-footage horror is still ‘hard AF’

Polygon - All

If you can get past the terrible logo, Audacity 4 looks pretty great

The Verge - All Posts

Good Boy: The most surprising horror movie of 2025 came from a very personal fear

Polygon - All

Foxconn reports Q3 revenue of ~$67.71B, up 11% YoY, driven by strong demand for AI products; the company's consumer electronics division posted a slight decline (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)

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An interview with DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on the company's £2.9B acquisition of Deliveroo, which closed on Oct. 2, to bolster its plans to expand abroad, and more (Financial Times)

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White Man Who Disrupts College Lecture With Racist Nonsense Messes Around and Finds Out

The Root

The FBI estimates that North Koreans posing as IT workers, using stolen IDs and AI-fabricated work, funneled up to $1B into the country over the past five years (Amanda Gerut/Fortune)

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Critical Role isn’t playing a West Marches campaign, but you can

Polygon - All

Roland is finally honoring its legacy instead of just cashing in on it

The Verge - All Posts

Miller's Crossing at 35: The Coen Brothers' movie-nerd gangster fantasia

Polygon - All