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A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
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November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A UK judge jails a Chinese woman to 11 years and 8 months in prison for laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B investment scheme in which UK seized 61K bitcoin (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
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Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
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November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
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Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
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November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Lighter, which operates an Ethereum Layer 2 network and a decentralized exchange to support perpetual futures contracts, raised $68M at a ~$1.5B valuation (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
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Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage customer-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
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November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Israeli startup Wonderful, which helps companies manage customer-facing AI agents across voice, chat, and email, raised $100M at a $700M valuation (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
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A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100+ actresses and 25TB+ of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
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November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100+ actresses and 25TB+ of pirated content via a torrent tracker (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
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Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are investing ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl expands into AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
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November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Source: Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure funds are investing ~$3B in a New Mexico-based Stargate data center, set to consume 4.5GW, as Blue Owl expands into AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
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November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
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Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
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November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
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Sea reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $6B, above $5.65B est., a $375M net income, below $433M est., and Shopee revenue up 35% YoY to $4.3B and GMV up 28% YoY (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
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November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Sea reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $6B, above $5.65B est., a $375M net income, below $433M est., and Shopee revenue up 35% YoY to $4.3B and GMV up 28% YoY (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
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Nebius signs a ~$3B, five-year deal to provide Meta with AI infrastructure and reports a $100M+ loss in Q3, up from a $39.7M loss in Q3 2024 (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
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November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Nebius signs a ~$3B, five-year deal to provide Meta with AI infrastructure and reports a $100M+ loss in Q3, up from a $39.7M loss in Q3 2024 (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
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Oura CEO Tom Hale says the Finnish company expects "maybe close" to $2B in sales in 2026, up from $1B in 2025, and there is "no news on an IPO" (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
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November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Oura CEO Tom Hale says the Finnish company expects "maybe close" to $2B in sales in 2026, up from $1B in 2025, and there is "no news on an IPO" (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
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Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
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November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sources: the EU plans to designate WhatsApp's Channels as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA, meaning it must meet moderation and transparency standards (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
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Microsoft plans to spend $10B to build a data center in the Portuguese town of Sines in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)
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November 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Microsoft plans to spend $10B to build a data center in the Portuguese town of Sines in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)
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An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
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November 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds (Financial Times)
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November 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds (Financial Times)
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How US-based ACE, led by the MPA, took down illegal sports streamer Streameast, which had 136M global users per month, £4.9M in ad revenue, and £150K in crypto (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
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November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
How US-based ACE, led by the MPA, took down illegal sports streamer Streameast, which had 136M global users per month, £4.9M in ad revenue, and £150K in crypto (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
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Sources: Apple may add a second camera to the next iPhone Air, possibly set for spring 2027 release alongside the iPhone 18 and 18e, to address user complaints (The Information)
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November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sources: Apple may add a second camera to the next iPhone Air, possibly set for spring 2027 release alongside the iPhone 18 and 18e, to address user complaints (The Information)
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How China ramped up its AI development since early 2024 to catch the US, including relaxed regulations, huge government funding, and a focus on domestic chips (Wall Street Journal)
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November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
How China ramped up its AI development since early 2024 to catch the US, including relaxed regulations, huge government funding, and a focus on domestic chips (Wall Street Journal)
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Asahi says shipment levels are at just 10% of normal after a cyberattack in early October, and it is processing orders manually, ahead of a busy December period (Bloomberg)
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November 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Asahi says shipment levels are at just 10% of normal after a cyberattack in early October, and it is processing orders manually, ahead of a busy December period (Bloomberg)
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A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal (Reuters)
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November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal (Reuters)
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Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150 iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, its first fashion collaboration since Hermès in 2015 (Vogue)
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November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150 iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, its first fashion collaboration since Hermès in 2015 (Vogue)
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SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est. (David Keohane/Financial Times)
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November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est. (David Keohane/Financial Times)
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Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Q&A with Tim Berners-Lee on the future of web, AI, his decentralization startup Inrupt and its open-source web protocol Solid, his new memoir, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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Report: private funding for SE Asia's digital economy grew 15% YoY, behind 25% global growth, to $7.7B in the 12 months to June 2025, 70% below 2021's $27B peak (Jun Yuan Yong/Reuters)
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November 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Report: private funding for SE Asia's digital economy grew 15% YoY, behind 25% global growth, to $7.7B in the 12 months to June 2025, 70% below 2021's $27B peak (Jun Yuan Yong/Reuters)
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Bengaluru-based digital lending startup Finnable raised about $28.19M in August 2025 co-led by Z47 and TVS Capital, bringing its total raised to about $60.9M (Alenjith K Johny/The Economic Times)
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November 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Bengaluru-based digital lending startup Finnable raised about $28.19M in August 2025 co-led by Z47 and TVS Capital, bringing its total raised to about $60.9M (Alenjith K Johny/The Economic Times)
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