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7AI, which builds AI agents that analyze and triage cybersecurity alerts, raised a $130M Series A at a ~$700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $166M (www.wsj.com)
7 hours ago AI

Sources: last summer, Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (www.wsj.com)
9 hours ago

The EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US (www.wsj.com)
9 hours ago AI

University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician” (www.wsj.com)
10 hours ago Startup AI Mathematics Virginia

Sources: Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, last summer for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (www.wsj.com)
20 hours ago

Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multi-year $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake and deploy AI agents across enterprises (www.wsj.com)
21 hours ago AI

Waymo's self-driving cars appear to be bending traffic laws and growing impatient with pedestrians as the company seeks to make them “confidently assertive” (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Autonomous Car

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)
2 days ago Arabia Silver Saudi Arabia

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)
2 days ago Google

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)
2 days ago Amazon 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)
2 days ago Trump Equity

A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago AI

CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo science and tech nonprofit conversions since January 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago

CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo nonprofit conversions in science and tech since Jan. 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago

The Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M in xLight, which develops lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago Trump Equity

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 (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago AI

How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M+ IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago China Africa Entrepreneur

Google withdraws its 2024 EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft over Azure licensing, after the EU launched a probe into Azure and AWS under the DMA (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Google Microsoft

Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Drone Ukraine

San Francisco Compute, which provides a marketplace for AI computing capacity, raised a $40M Series A led by DCVC and Wing Venture Capital at a $300M valuation (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago AI Venture Capital San Francisco

Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago Italy AI chatbot WhatsApp

Aggressive traders on Robinhood, whose stock has more than tripled in 2025, are central to the company's success, as critics liken the environment to a casino (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago

Robinhood plans to launch a futures and derivatives exchange with Susquehanna in 2026 and says it's buying MIAXdx, which clears and executes derivatives trades (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago

China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as the world's manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI “dark factories” (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago China AI Robot Manufacturing

South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build “sovereign AI”; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago Korea AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago AI

How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago

How the US' annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago AI GDP

A look at AMD's pivot to AI chips in 2022 under CEO Lisa Su, increasing AMD's market value from $90B to $335B+ in three years, as the chipmaker takes on Nvidia (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago AI Nvidia AMD

Sources: China's Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026 (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago China IPO AI

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