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β‘ Current Dispatches from Techmeme (15)
- Investigation: some Chinese companies approved by the US Commerce Department to handle Nvidia's H200 chips have empty offices and ties to firms under sanctions (New York Times)
- Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar warns AI could make it harder for fresh Indian engineering graduates to find jobs, urging an immediate CS curriculum overhaul (Sayan Chakraborty/Nikkei Asia)
- How differences in economics, public policy, and cultural patterns could explain greater pessimism about AI in the West than in Asia and emerging economies (Gillian Tett/Financial Times)
- Global tablet shipments fell 23% YoY to 32M units in Q3 2026, their lowest level in nearly three years; Apple's iPad shipments fell 27.5% YoY to ~11.58M (Omdia)
- Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX, a Chinese-made, AI-powered, open-source penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since July (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- Shenzhen, home to tech giants and an illicit trade of smuggled chips and stolen iPhones, is clearing out its illegitimate markets ahead of the APEC summit (William Langley/Financial Times)
- Huawei unveils HarmonyOS-powered Qinyun HM650 series desktop PCs for enterprise and government users, saying they use "100% domestically made" components (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
- Axon invests $1.2B in Skydio, whose autonomous drones are used by public safety agencies, the US military, and 32 allied nations, at a $5.2B pre-money valuation (Carly Page/Resilience Media)
- Beijing-based Sand.ai, an AI startup specializing in video generation, raised a $200M Series A+, bringing its total funding over the past 10 months to $300M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
- Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
- Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI users (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
- CesiumAstro, which plans a 737-satellite LEO communications network at two altitudes, raised $730M at a $4.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.4B (Loren Grush/Bloomberg)
- Apple says the App Store has over 100K apps built for the iPhone Duo and "thousands of optimized apps are being added to the store each day" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
- Crusoe says Google has bought out its data center site in southeast Wyoming; Crusoe reportedly failed to lock in customers including Google for the project (Lynn Doan/Bloomberg)
- Sources: US intelligence concluded that Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was recruited by China's top spy agency MSS to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang (New York Times)
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π Multi-Day Historical Dispatches from Techmeme
2026-11-07
6 stories
Saturday, November 7, 2026
- • CesiumAstro, which plans a 737-satellite LEO communications network at two altitudes, raised $730M at a $4.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.4B (Loren Grush/Bloomberg)
- • Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
- • Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI users (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
- • Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX, a Chinese-made, AI-powered, open-source penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since July (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
2026-11-06
6 stories
Friday, November 6, 2026
- • Artificial Analysis says Inkling 2 Small matches Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) in its index and would be the top open model outside China once its weights are out (Artificial Analysis)
- • Lyft reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.92B est., and a net loss of $0.03 a share, vs. an est. profit of $0.20 a share; LYFT drops 8%+ after hours (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
- • Meta indefinitely pauses its new commercial terms, which critics say would let it scrape sites of business users, after publisher outcry and court injunctions (Nieman Lab)
- • Sources: cloud security startup Cyera is planning to raise around $800M in a round led by Cyberstarts at a $20B valuation, up from $12B in June (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
2026-11-05
6 stories
Thursday, November 5, 2026
- • Sources: Goldman Sachs and Apollo are in talks with investors to sell portions of SpaceX's ~$40B chip financing, asking some for up to $500M before syndication (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
- • Sources: Anthropic and AP struck a licensing deal just before the midterms, marking the first time Anthropic paid a digital news publisher to license content (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
- • OpenAI launches Images 2.6 in ChatGPT, Codex, and the API, saying it generates images 50% faster, and adds animated GIF creation from prompts or photos (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- • Sources: Google DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise ~$5B at a ~$50B valuation; the AI drug discovery startup last raised $2.1B in May (Bloomberg)
2026-11-04
6 stories
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
- • Following backlash against its education updates, Google says schools can choose to enable Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search individually (Isabel O'Brien/CNBC)
- • Cat Wu, product lead for Claude Code and Cowork, has left Anthropic; Thariq Shihipar, who worked on Claude Code, announced his departure last month (Stephen Council/Business Insider)
- • How Nvidia uses soft power to influence customers and shape US chip policy; sources: OpenAI took no public stance on China chip exports to avoid angering Nvidia (The Information)
- • We want to clarify what we announced today about our education services. Today's announcements give schools more choice, not less. Here's what we announced: - Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Search will be OFF π΄ by default. This is based on K-12 schools asking for more control over student use of AI... (@newsfromgoogle)
2026-11-03
6 stories
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
- • Match Group reports Q3 revenue fell 3% YoY to $891M, below estimates, and total paying users fell 5% to 13.8M; Q4 forecast has adjusted EBITDA below estimates (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
- • Trajectory, which is developing AI model post-training tools for nontechnical customers, raised a $45M Series A led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
- • Larridin, which helps companies track how AI affects employee output and identifies areas for better AI adoption, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Ventures (Aditi Bharade/Business Insider)
- • Salesforce announces plans to acquire Cresta, a provider of AI-powered contact center automation software; source: Salesforce agreed to pay $2.7B for Cresta (The Information)
2026-11-02
6 stories
Monday, November 2, 2026
- • A look at Binance's efforts to contain the hack, including creating a global war room of ~100 people, coordinating with other crypto firms and the FBI, and more (Bloomberg)
- • Midstream Health, whose AI tools help 250 hospitals recover revenue from rebates and vendor and payer underpayments, raised a $20M Series A led by Valtrius (Will Maddox/Axios)
- • Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation (Tim Keary/Forbes)
- • Broccoli AI, which sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies, raised a $22M Series A and a $30M Series B; a source says it is valued at $300M (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)