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The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes (Dan Primack/Axios)
2025-12-01 16:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nevis, which develops AI agents to automate wealth advisers' grunt work, raised a $35M Series A from Sequoia and others at a $200M valuation, after a $5M seed (Biz Carson/Bloomberg)
2025-12-01 15:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, calling them "reasoning-first models built for agents", after releasing V3.2-Exp in September (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
2025-12-01 15:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: in 2025 so far, 80+ tech startups reached $1B valuations, many of them focused on AI with exceptions like Kalshi (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
2025-12-01 15:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Runway launches Gen 4.5, a new text-to-video AI model that produces HD videos from written prompts and excels at physics; Gen 4.5 tops Video Arena's leaderboard (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
2025-12-01 14:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI takes a stake in Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings and plans to embed AI agents in its companies, which already includes an accounting and IT business (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
2025-12-01 14:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nvidia acquires $2B of Synopsys' common stock and unveils a strategic partnership to accelerate computing and AI engineering products, including deploying CUDA (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
2025-12-01 13:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecast, regardless of subscription plan (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
2025-12-01 12:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: McKinsey and other top consultancies freeze graduate pay offers in 2026 for the third year, as AI reshapes the industry and threatens its pyramid model (Financial Times)
2025-12-01 11:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
ByteDance launches an AI voice assistant powered by its Doubao LLM, available first on ZTE's Nubia M153 smartphone prototype; Doubao has an estimated 159M MAUs (Reuters)
2025-12-01 11:50 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
German AI startup Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image models, raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in September 2024 (Financial Times)
2025-12-01 10:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Indian government order: India's telecom ministry privately asks phonemakers to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices within 90 days (Reuters)
2025-12-01 10:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
HSBC signs a deal with Mistral to access Mistral's AI models and collaborate on developing new models for internal use, as big banks rush to adopt generative AI (Ortenca Aliaj/Financial Times)
2025-12-01 09:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a NC state senator and CNN Brazil found the company had used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads (Emmanuel Felton/Washington Post)
2025-12-01 09:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The AI boom has led to high demand and more pay for the construction workers that build data centers; a trade group says there is a shortage of ~439K workers (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-01 09:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules (Reuters)
2025-12-01 06:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)
2025-12-01 03:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control (Corinne Reichert/CNET)
2025-12-01 04:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10+ states are considering similar bills (Tim Balk/New York Times)
2025-12-01 05:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the "decay" at Intel, the Chip Act's terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
2025-12-01 01:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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