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Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

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Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on "basic Python errors" and data cherry-picking (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

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Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5 (Hugo Lowell/Wired)

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Ornn, which plans to launch a marketplace for GPU capacity designed to function like an exchange to trade oil contracts, raised a $33M seed led by a16z (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)

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XCures, which uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, raised a $46M Series B at a $127M post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $76M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised $100M led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, and plans a São Paulo office (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)

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Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down (Lorelei Smillie/Bloomberg)

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Chinese cybersecurity company 360 unveils new AI tools: Tulongfeng, which it claims is "China's version of Mythos", and Yitianzhen, to automate cyber defense (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models (OpenAI)

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Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

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Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300+ Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

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Qualcomm says it will acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026 (Lauren Goode/Wired)

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Rockstar says physical GTA 6 copies will contain a download code, not a disc; physical copies will be available from November 12, before the November 19 launch (Tom Phillips/IGN)

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The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is modifying the tool (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts (Kevin Schaul/Washington Post)

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How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became especially wealthy; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K+, ~5x the average (New York Times)

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Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; preorders start at midnight tonight (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of its former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely missing the digital revolution (Jeanne Whalen/Wall Street Journal)

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Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, entry-level jobs changing, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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