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Vancouver-based PowerLattice, which makes a power supply chiplet to cut power consumption by 50%+, raised a $25M Series A, taking its total funding to $31M (Pete Danko/Portland Business Journal)
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Ramp says it is now valued at $32B following a $300M raise led by Lightspeed and an employee tender offer, up from a $22.5B valuation in July (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he is "nervous about the size of these investments in these data centres"; he owns stakes in OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
2025-11-17 14:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the European Commission wants to decide if AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud should face new restrictions under the DMA, after several major cloud outages (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
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Meta says its 2Africa subsea cable project remains incomplete in the southern Red Sea segment due to security risks; Google's Blue-Raman cable is also delayed (Bloomberg)
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Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
2025-11-17 12:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US filing: Peter Thiel's Thiel Macro sold 537,742 Nvidia shares, worth ~$100M as of September 30, during Q3, amid rising concerns about an AI investment bubble (Bloomberg)
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Voize, an ambient AI voice company targeting skilled nursing facilities, raised a $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital and plans a US launch in Q1 2026 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
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In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
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Sources: UK companies and groups tell the UK that a planned ban on paying ransoms to ransomware gangs is unlikely to stop attacks and risks collapsing services (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
2025-11-17 11:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Danish startup Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, raised €145M at a €1.5B valuation and says it "crossed €100M of ARR in October" (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
2025-11-17 12:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2025 report: for the 15th straight year, global internet freedom is in decline; of the 72 countries surveyed, Kenya fell most (Tech Policy Press)
2025-11-17 11:46 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Investigation: $28B+ in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (New York Times)
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Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 (Cade Metz/New York Times)
2025-11-17 09:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese toymaker FoloToy suspends sales of its GPT-4o-powered teddy bear, after researchers found the toy gave kids harmful responses, including sexual content (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)
2025-11-17 09:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more (Anika Collier Navaroli/Tech Policy Press)
2025-11-17 09:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
FT's Tim Cook retirement story could be a "trial balloon" from people close to him, if Cook makes the decision to leave on a high note after Q1 earnings report (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
2025-11-17 05:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese chipmaker Cambricon's revenue surged 500%+ in the past year and its stock jumped 765%+ in two years, as China pushes local chips amid US sanctions (Bloomberg)
2025-11-17 08:57 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tokyo-based Turing, which is developing an AI model for self-driving vehicles, raised a $99M Series A, sources say at a ~$388M valuation (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
2025-11-17 04:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating "phantom debt" (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
2025-11-17 00:56 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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