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Replit CEO Says It's No Longer Working With Anthropic
Amjad Masad said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt that Replit has moved on from Anthropic over cost and performance, though a person familiar with the deal says the partnership is still in place.
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OpenAI Offers U.S. University Labs Free GPT-Rosalind Access for a Year
Eligible U.S. academic labs can get up to 30 free Business Standard seats for 12 months, with GPT-Rosalind after trusted-access approval; API access is not included.
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Ramp Raises $1.85B at a $60B Valuation, Four Months After Hitting $44B
The expense management company says annualized revenue has passed $2 billion as it piles AI agents into procurement, accounting and payments.
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Rocket Lab Pushes Neutron's First Launch to 2027 After Composite Flaws
Voids in the carbon composite propellant dome forced a rethink, and Peter Beck says testing won't wrap until the end of Q1 2027, when a new date gets set.
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Tesla Reveals SpaceX-Powered Roadster That Flies With Thrusters
Outside Waco, Tesla demoed a redesigned Roadster with SpaceX thrusters that hop, spin, and leap over other Teslas, with production aimed at 2028 and no price named.
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Ambrosia Energy Will Build a 10 GWh Battery Factory in Texas for Off-Grid Data Centers
Ex-Swarm founders Ambrosia Energy started work on a 150,000-square-foot battery factory near Austin and say it will support about 300 MW of power plants a year for round-the-clock data center juice.
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Anthropic Tells Investors Q3 Revenue Jumped to $16.8B
The Claude maker said third-quarter revenue rose from $11.5 billion in Q2 and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis, per the Financial Times.
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Colossal Unveils GenoMorph AI to Hunt Dodo Gene Edits From Sparse DNA
Colossal's GenoMorph AI flags about 2,300 dodo cranial-facial gene targets from a single genome, plus lipid nanoparticles for embryo tests and a 36-bird Nicobar pigeon colony.
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Netflix Cuts About 1,000 Jobs, Roughly 6% of Staff
Netflix is cutting about 1,000 jobs, its biggest layoff round since 2022, with most cuts in product, tech, legal, and HR.
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Square Launches a $1,999 Restaurant Kiosk You Can Talk To
Square's new $1,999 restaurant kiosk pairs a 21.5-inch touchscreen with a menu-aware voice AI for quick-service ordering.
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Ubisoft Will Close Trials Studio RedLynx and Cut 70 Jobs in Singapore
Ubisoft is proposing to shut Finnish Trials maker RedLynx (up to 52 jobs) and has cut 70 roles at Ubisoft Singapore, home of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced.
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Anthropic Replaces Git With Scion After Claude Pushes Merges Past 30,000 a Day
Anthropic says its daily code merges jumped from about 2,500 to more than 30,000 in four months, so a team of seven built Scion, an in-house replacement for Git.
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Bumble Agrees to $1.3B All-Cash Buyout From Ithaca Holdings
Dating app Bumble is going private in a $1.3 billion all-cash deal with Ithaca Holdings, at $6.05 a share, after years of falling users and revenue since its $14 billion IPO.
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OpenAI in Early Talks to Buy Security Firm Trail of Bits
The Information says OpenAI is in early talks to acquire New York cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, the partner already powering its Patch the Planet open-source bug hunt.
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Science Corporation Implants Its Vision Chip in First Stargardt Patient
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak said the company's PRIMA retinal chip went into its first Stargardt disease patient, who later read a word in rehab.
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Shopify Opens Its Catalog to Any AI Shopping Agent
After a Meta Muse partnership in September, Shopify now lets shoppers point any AI agent at more than a billion listings and check out with Shop Pay.
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Ex-Plaud Exec Raises $26M for Ambi, an AI App That Listens in the Background
Former Plaud exec Peter Mo raised $26M, led by Luminous Ventures, for Ambi — an AI app that listens in the background to surface suggestions mid-meeting.
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IonQ to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm Elisity in $1.3B All-Stock Deal
IonQ is buying cybersecurity firm Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion to expand its quantum security business.
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Palantir and Ondas Launch Regna AI for Sovereign Defense AI Models
"Ondas and Palantir formed Regna AI, a standalone company that will fine-tune mission-specific AI models for governments to run on their own infrastructure — including drones and ground systems operating with limited connectivity."
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Amazon in Talks to Acquire AI Startup Decart for ~$7B
Amazon is in talks to acquire AI startup Decart in a deal valued at around $7 billion, per the Wall Street Journal.