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Iran Begins Cloud Seeding To Induce Rain Amid Historic Drought (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-18 Iran

Runlayer, which aims to make it easy for companies to securely scale MCP servers, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed from Khosla Ventures and Felicis (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-18

Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future targets NY State Assemblymember Alex Bores, co-sponsor of the RAISE Act, a bill imposing safety and disclosure requirements (www.cnbc.com)
2025-11-18 AI

Cloudflare acquires Replicate, which hosts over 50,000 AI models and simplifies AI model deployment via a single API call; Replicate will keep its brand (blog.cloudflare.com)
2025-11-18 AI

AI Use in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 7' Draws Fire From US Lawmaker (games.slashdot.org)
2025-11-18 AI

Ford and Amazon partner to let people purchase certified pre-owned Ford vehicles via Amazon Autos, initially available in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas (www.theverge.com)
2025-11-18 Amazon Ford Seattle

Take-Two CEO Says Consoles Aren't Going Away, But Gaming is Moving Toward PCs (games.slashdot.org)
2025-11-18

Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $140M, including a $100M Series B led by CapitalG (www.reuters.com)
2025-11-18 AI

UK Cyber Ransom Ban Risks Collapse of Essential Services (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-18 Ban

Coding assistant startup Sourcegraph says ads in its free tier are generating $5M to $10M in annualized revenue; the ad-supported tier was launched in October (www.theinformation.com)
2025-11-18 Startup

Sources: Amazon is seeking to raise about $12B through a bond sale, its first such deal in US dollars since 2022, to help fund acquisitions, capex, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-18 Amazon

Span, which aims to help companies measure the value of AI-assisted coding, raised $25M in seed and Series A rounds from Alt Capital, Craft Ventures, and others (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2025-11-18 AI

Global Web Freedoms Tumble (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-18

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-18

Why Hotel-Room Cancellations Disappeared (slashdot.org)
2025-11-18

Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext 2, a weather model that it says offers faster, more accurate two-week forecasts and includes tools aimed at energy traders (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-18 Google Energy

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 (www.bizjournals.com)
2025-11-18

Anthropic CEO Says He's 'Deeply Uncomfortable' With Unelected Tech Elites Shaping AI (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-11-18 AI

Sources: the EU Commission wants to decide if any of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud should face new restrictions under the DMA, following several major outages (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-18 Google

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 (t.co)
2025-11-18

Florida Bill Would Require Cursive Instruction in Elementary Schools (news.slashdot.org)
2025-11-18

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-18 Google

Bezos Returns To CEO Role With AI Startup Project Prometheus (slashdot.org)
2025-11-18 Startup AI

In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (www.businessinsider.com)
2025-11-18 Startup AI

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 (www.axios.com)
2025-11-18 AI

How Should the Linux Kernel Handle AI-Generated Contributions? (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-11-17 Linux AI

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 (www.wired.com)
2025-11-17

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-11-17 AI Nvidia

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 (www.ft.com)
2025-11-17 Ban

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 (www.techpolicy.press)
2025-11-17

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