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Robotics
Zipline closes $1.5 billion funding at $21.5 billion valuation
Capital
VÆRIDION raises €30 million and wins selection for €94.5 million EU grant
AI
Numica raises $21M to acquire small US accounting practices
Capital
Green Voltis raises €13.5 million for battery trading and energy operations
Capital
FluoRok raises €26.64 million to scale fluorochemical manufacturing
Capital
Kabilio raises €10M to develop AI agents for accounting firms
Capital
Mindmax raises $3.3m for conversational AI exam tutor
AI
Isomorphic Labs seeks roughly $5 billion in funding talks
Science
Preprint links restricted AI access to increased vulnerability disclosures
Security
Researchers demonstrate Android crash loop triggered by app installation
Infrastructure
Microsoft declines option to expand Nscale Texas data center contract
Security
OpenSSH releases workaround for critical flaw affecting some Alpine Linux systems
AI
Hon Hai reports 46% rise in October sales on Nvidia server demand
Capital
AI chip startup Tenspresso seeks financing at $500 million valuation
Security
IonQ agrees to acquire Elisity for quantum security platform
AI
Goldman and Apollo discuss selling portions of SpaceX chip financing
Science
ORNL, IBM and AMD deploy platform for quantum error correction research
Security
Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy Clutch Security for around $500 million
Products
Apple opens subscription offers inside its cancellation process
AI
Google makes Agent Substrate generally available on GKE
AI
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base weights for further training
Security
Binance traces theft to engineer compromised in fake job interview
Products
Figma revenue rises 43% as gross margin misses estimates
AI
Figma opens code layers beta to all users
Robotics
China tells SoftBank it will block $5.4B ABB robotics deal
Infrastructure
OpenAI pledges to avoid NDAs in data center negotiations
Infrastructure
Micron reportedly suspends Taiwan memory plant plans amid labor dispute
Products
Deutsche Telekom plans share buyback of up to €2 billion
Products
CareCloud says automation cut manual claim handling by 44%
AI
Google ties school Search access to opting into AI features
Robotics
Robot prototype forms a UV sensor from chemicals circulating through its body
Products
Discord shows Rust client using 290MB of RAM ahead of user testing
AI
Anthropic revises Claude Code rule blocking original game projects
Products
Amazon replaces Grubhub with Uber Eats as US Prime delivery partner
Infrastructure
Air Products reports over $2.0 billion in new electronics business wins
Products
Sony raises annual profit outlook as gaming operating profit climbs 82.9%
Security
Security researchers report rentable proxy access through White House network
Science
Bloomberg preprint reports 729 successful migrations using AI-assisted pipelines
Science
Preprint reports AI search improves quantum error-correction codes
Science
EviSeek preprint reports higher accuracy with fewer tokens for embodied agents
Science
FuseAMC preprint reports better radio signal classification on one CPU core
AI
OpenAI rolls out GIF generation across ChatGPT and Codex
AI
Kambi says AI now trades approximately 85% of network bets
Security
Android security update fixes flaw allowing remote code execution without interaction
Products
Smartphone chip shipments fall 21% as Apple and Samsung gain share
Science
Researchers fabricate quantum circuit superinductor using commercial CMOS process
AI
OpenAI identifies message errors affecting paid ChatGPT users
Robotics
Hopcopter prototype gains flexible foot for more consistent landings
AI
DevRev integrates GPT-6.1 Sol for automated enterprise IT tasks
Products
VMware introduces vSphere Express for installations of up to 128 cores
Security
Vercel rolls out device-bound protection for developer logins
Science
HRL says self-calibrating navigation sensors correct persistent drift
Infrastructure
Debezium Server adds direct database change delivery to Databricks
Robotics
MIT robot memory system corrects uncertain object descriptions in real time
Security
OpenAI says cyber model pipeline validated and patched 948 Linux flaws
Infrastructure
Spark 4.3 adds stateful processing to Real-Time Mode
Products
Data center stocks slide on expectations of slower AI construction
AI
Nvidia details AI agents operating across its production GPU clusters
Infrastructure
AWS adds file-based log collection to ECS Managed Instances
Products
Snap says subscriptions pass 30 million across four offerings
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