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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

The UK proposes an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill allowing "authorized testers" to proactively assess AI models for their ability to generate CSAM (BBC)
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Sources: the Chinese government is intervening in how SMIC allocates its chip output, prioritizing Huawei amid US export restrictions on advanced chips (Wall Street Journal)
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Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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Report: private funding for SE Asia's digital economy grew 15% YoY, behind 25% global growth, to $7.7B in the 12 months to June 2025, 70% below 2021's $27B peak (Jun Yuan Yong/Reuters)
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Monday, November 10, 2025

Bengaluru-based digital lending startup Finnable raised about $28.19M in August 2025 co-led by Z47 and TVS Capital, bringing its total raised to about $60.9M (Alenjith K Johny/The Economic Times)
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Sony Q2: revenue up 4.6% YoY to ~$20.3B, net profit up 6.7% to ~$2.02B, says it sold 3.9M PS5 units, and raises annual operating profit forecast 7.5% to ~$9.3B (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)
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A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily (Rya Jetha/The San Francisco Standard)
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Sunday, November 9, 2025

Apple removes two of the most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in China, citing orders from the country's Cyberspace Administration (Wired)
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Draft documents show the European Commission plans to relax some privacy laws, including the GDPR, to boost AI growth and cut red tape for businesses in Europe (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)
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Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
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The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 (Sebastian Pellejero/Reuters)
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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Swedish investment firm EQT agrees to invest $930M in Douzone Bizon, a South Korea-based provider of ERP and business software to SMBs, for a 37.6% stake (Atharva Singh/Reuters)
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Friday, November 7, 2025

Vast Data, which develops data storage tools, inks a $1.17B AI deal with CoreWeave; Vast Data, valued at $9.1B in 2023, said it reached $200M ARR by Jan. 2025 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
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Nasdaq had its worst 5-day run since April, falling 3% for the week as the combined market value of eight most valuable AI-related stocks fell by about $800B (Financial Times)
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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Speaking to shareholders, Elon Musk says Tesla will likely need to build "a gigantic chip fab" for AI chips and "maybe, we'll do something with Intel" (Sayantani Ghosh/Reuters)
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Draft proposal: the EU weighs a pause and simplification of parts of the AI Act, with a decision expected on November 19, amid pressure from Big Tech and the US (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
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Cloudflare warns the US government that site-blocking efforts in Europe and Asia to combat online piracy are creating digital trade barriers for US providers (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Researchers used AI to design functional antibodies from scratch, suggesting that AI tools could speed up antibody discovery without the need for animal testing (Financial Times)
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Sources: Charles Schwab is expected to announce a deal to acquire Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, for as much as $600M (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)
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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Google's proposed Epic settlement includes reduced app store fees globally and a new program for alternative app stores to become first-class Android citizens (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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