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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% (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-3 Amazon Mobile Black Friday

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% (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-3 Arabia Silver Saudi Arabia

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 (en.globes.co.il)
2025-12-3 Israel Startup AI

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 (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-3 Israel Startup

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 (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-3 Google

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 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-3 Startup

10 Ways Icelandic Culture Makes Other Countries Look Boring (listverse.com)
2025-12-3

Zillow Drops Climate Risk Scores After Agents Complained of Lost Sales (news.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3 Climate

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on his AI vision, how he plans to extend Amazon's cloud market lead, adding AI to AWS services, AI efficiencies, and more (www.wired.com)
2025-12-3 Amazon Interview AI

A profile of Dario Amodei and Anthropic, which is on track to hit a nearly $10B annualized run rate by the end of 2025, more than 10x what it generated in 2024 (fortune.com)
2025-12-3

Amazon launches AWS AI Factories to deploy AWS infrastructure, including AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia GPUs, in customers' data centers (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
2025-12-3 Amazon AI Nvidia

Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development (siliconangle.com)
2025-12-3 Amazon

AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-3 Amazon AI

Amazon launches the Trainium3 UltraServer, powered by the 3nm Trainium3 AI training chip, and teases Trainium4, which will be able to work with Nvidia's chips (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-3 Amazon AI Nvidia

Amazon launches second generation of its Nova AI models, including Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, and Nova Omni, a fully multimodal reasoning model (www.wired.com)
2025-12-3 Amazon AI

Sources: OpenAI is developing a new LLM, codenamed Garlic, that outperforms Gemini 3 and Claude Opus 4.5 in coding and reasoning tasks, per internal evaluations (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-3

AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-3 AI

AWS announces new features for its AI agent platform Bedrock AgentCore, including new tools for managing AI agent boundaries and memory capabilities (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-3 AI

Microsoft Defender portal outage disrupts threat hunting alerts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-3 Microsoft

Trump Administration To Take Equity Stake In Former Intel CEO's Chip Startup (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3 Trump Intel Startup Equity

Amazon launches its Trainium3 AI chip, claiming it is 4x faster than the previous gen and can reduce AI training and operating costs by ~50% vs. equivalent GPUs (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-3 Amazon AI

A look at Anthropic's societal impacts team, which broadly studies AI's impacts and finds and publishes “inconvenient truths”, building on most AI safety teams (www.theverge.com)
2025-12-3 AI

The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M into xLight, which makes lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-3 Trump Equity

Barcelona-based Titan OS, which provides a smart TV operating system to TV makers like Philips and JVC, raised a €50M Series A led by Highland Europe (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-3 Europe

Axiado, which is making a chip designed to save space and power in AI servers, raised $100M led by Maverick Silicon (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-3 AI

Steam On Linux Hits An All-Time High In November (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-12-3 Linux

Cybercrime Goes SaaS: Renting Tools, Access, and Infrastructure (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-3 SaaS

Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of 10 models under the Apache 2.0 license, including the flagship Mistral Large 3 and nine smaller Ministral 3 models (venturebeat.com)
2025-12-3

North Korea lures engineers to rent identities in fake IT worker scheme (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-3 Korea

Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.25B online during Cyber Monday, up 7.1% YoY, compared with a 9.1% rise on Black Friday; five-day spending rose 7.7% YoY to $44.2B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-3 Adobe Black Friday

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