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Sources: Anthropic has tapped a law firm to begin work on its IPO, which could come as soon as 2026, and has held preliminary talks with big investment banks (George Hammond/Financial Times)
2025-12-03 00:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
After a backlash, India says its pre-installed cybersecurity app is optional for users, who "have complete freedom to activate, or delete the app at any time" (Shruti Srivastava/Bloomberg)
2025-12-03 02:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filing: JD.com's JingDong Industrials, or JDi, a supply chain technology and services provider in China, aims to raise up to ~$420M in its Hong Kong IPO (Reuters)
2025-12-03 01:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Check Point is raising $1.5B from the sale of a five-year zero-coupon convertible bond; proceeds will go toward buying back as much as $225M of stock (Bloomberg)
2025-12-03 00:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ServiceNow announces a deal to acquire identity security startup Veza, sources say for between $1B and $1.5B; Veza had a private valuation of $808M in March (Valida Pau/The Information)
2025-12-03 00:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Marvell announces a deal to buy Celestial AI for at least $3.25B, expected to close in Q1 2026; the price can rise to $5.5B if Celestial hits revenue targets (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
2025-12-02 22:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Arizona AG Kris Mayes sues Temu for allegedly stealing customers' data, including their physical location, and counterfeiting local brands (Sejal Govindarao/Associated Press)
2025-12-02 23:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic)
2025-12-02 21:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources say President Trump's efforts to block state-level AI regulations through a preemption proposal are facing significant opposition on Capitol Hill (Axios)
2025-12-02 21:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CNN partners with Kalshi to use the company's real-time prediction data in its reporting, for on-air data tickers, fact-checking, and more (Sara Fischer/Axios)
2025-12-02 20:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Instacart sues New York City to block enforcement of five laws, including rules governing minimum pay for app-based workers and tipping disclosures (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
2025-12-02 20:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google launches Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google's annual OS release schedule as it shifts to more frequent updates (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
2025-12-02 19:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B purchase of Vimeo and a pending acquisition of AOL (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
2025-12-02 19:55 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% YoY during the Black Friday weekend in 2025; Amazon's share of ChatGPT referrals grew to 54% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-12-02 18:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ireland investigates TikTok and LinkedIn over concerns that their illegal content reporting tools are hard to access and don't allow anonymous CSAM reporting (Padraic Halpin/Reuters)
2025-12-02 18:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Filings: after EA's buyout, Saudi Arabia's PIF would own 93.4% of EA, implying it needs to put up ~$29B, while Silver Lake and Affinity would own 5.5% and 1.1% (Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-02 18:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Israeli startup Zafran, an AI-native threat exposure management service, raised a $60M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M (Globes)
2025-12-02 17:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy developer tool startup Bun for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
2025-12-02 17:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US and Israeli cloud data management startup Eon raised $300M led by Gil at a $4B valuation, up from $1.4B in November 2024, taking its total funding to $500M (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
2025-12-02 17:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $35M led by Sequoia at a $750M valuation and plans a product launch in 2026 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-02 17:54 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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