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Zipline has closed $1.5 billion in fresh funding at a valuation of $21.5 billion, Bloomberg reports. The financing for the drone delivery and logistics startup comes as it expands its commercial partnership with retailer Walmart Inc.
Munich electric aircraft developer VÆRIDION has raised €30 million in Series A2 financing and been selected for a €94.5 million European Commission Innovation Fund grant, EU-Startups reports. SHIFT Invest and Invest-NL co-led the equity round.
Numica has raised $21M in equity and debt from Roosh X and Flashpoint Capital to acquire more small US accounting firms, The Next Web reports. The New York startup targets practices with annual revenue of $700,000 to $5m, often owned by accountants approaching retirement.
Oxford-based FluoRok has secured €26.64 million ($30 million) in Series A financing to expand production of fluorochemicals without hazardous hydrogen fluoride.
Stockholm-based Green Voltis has raised €13.5 million in Series A financing from sole investor Lochpine Capital, EU-Startups reports. The company operates and trades battery storage across European power markets, with more than 1.2 GWh under contract and in operation.
London startup Mindmax announced $3.3m (£2.5m) in pre-seed funding to build an AI tutor for professional exams and workplace skills. Concept Ventures led the round, joined by Redrice Ventures, Daybreak Ventures and Lerer Hippeau.
A preprint studying Project Glasswing finds that firms given early access to Claude Mythos Preview more than doubled vulnerability disclosures relative to Chinese and Russian tech firms without access.
Bitdefender researchers demonstrated an Android flaw called GhostMap that lets an installed app trigger a persistent crash loop without requesting permissions or being launched, BleepingComputer reported.
Microsoft has rejected an option to more than double its Texas data center contract with Nscale, the Financial Times reported, citing sources. The decision is a setback for the startup as it pursues ambitions for a $35B initial public offering.
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported a 46% increase in October sales, reflecting resilient demand for servers from Nvidia.
IBM says it has deployed a quantum error correction research platform with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and AMD at its Poughkeepsie, New York site.
OpenAI said it will avoid nondisclosure agreements in data center negotiations and ensure residents do not pay for electricity used by those projects.
Micron Technology has suspended plans for a memory chip plant in Taiwan because of a protracted labor dispute, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The suspension puts the fate of a major production base for crucial AI components in question.
Deutsche Telekom announced plans to repurchase as much as €2 billion ($2.3 billion) of its shares next year. The announcement follows third-quarter profit that exceeded estimates at the company, which is Europe's biggest phone carrier, Bloomberg reported.
CareCloud said AI and automation reduced manual claim touches by 44% in three months, allowing its teams to handle more volume with the same headcount.
Changes to Google Search in schools will require opting into Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and AI Overviews, 9to5Google reports, citing reporting by The New York Times. The change follows pressure on Google to make student AI use opt-in.
Researchers at the University of Tartu and the Italian Institute of Technology built a moth-shaped robot that forms a new ultraviolet sensor from chemicals circulating through its plastic body, New Atlas reports.
Discord is moving its desktop app to Rust, and chief technology officer Stanislav Vishnevskiy shared an image showing a Windows client using 290MB of RAM. The Verge reported that the current Windows app can use 1GB or more when users participate in a few servers.
Anthropic has revised a Claude Code restriction that blocked some legitimate game projects when developers referenced existing games, technical staff member Addy Osmani said.
Amazon has named Uber Eats its official restaurant delivery partner for US Prime members, ending its commercial agreement with Grubhub on Thursday.
Air Products said new electronics business wins exceeded $2.0 billion as it expanded its industrial gas project backlog during fiscal 2026.
Sony raised its fiscal 2026 full-year operating profit forecast to ¥1.87 trillion after second-quarter operating profit rose 45% to ¥622.3 billion, Zhitong Finance reported.
Security firm Layer3 Intel says 28 residential proxy services allowed customers' traffic to exit through the internet address network reserved for the Executive Office of the President.
Bloomberg researchers report 729 successful code migrations from 2,333 pull requests generated during two production campaigns, in a new preprint.
Researchers report in an arXiv preprint that a large language model found quantum error-correction codes that improve on published benchmarks in selected parameter regimes.
Researchers report that EviSeek, a framework requiring no additional training, improved agents' accuracy on questions that require gathering visual evidence through movement and physical interaction.
Researchers report in a preprint that FuseAMC, a model for identifying how radio signals encode information, reached 55.8% overall accuracy on RadioML 2016.10a while training and running on one CPU core.
HRL Laboratories, an IBM company, says it has developed a compact inertial navigation device that continuously corrects sensor drift, a problem that limits conventional miniature systems to a handful of minutes of navigation.
Debezium Server 3.7 includes an open-source sink that sends database change events directly to Databricks tables without an intermediate Kafka cluster, Databricks says.
MIT researchers developed a robot memory system that corrects uncertain object descriptions in real time while a mobile robot moves.
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Barcelona startup Kabilio has raised €10M in a round led by Picus Capital and Visionaries, with participation from Spain's technology and innovation agency CDTI. The financing brings its total funding to €14m and will fund an AI agent for accounting firms.
Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise roughly $5 billion to support its use of artificial intelligence for drug discovery, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The financing remains under discussion rather than a completed fundraising.
OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability affecting Linux systems that use musl libc with PAM disabled, LWN reported.
Tenspresso is in financing talks that would value the artificial intelligence chip startup at $500 million, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The three-month-old company was founded by engineers who previously worked on Google's AI chips.
Goldman Sachs and Apollo Global Management are in talks with Wall Street investors to begin selling portions of a roughly $40 billion chip financing deal for SpaceX, Bloomberg reported. The discussions concern portions of the financing rather than a completed sale.
IonQ agreed to acquire security specialist Elisity to integrate identity-based access controls into its quantum security platform, Yahoo Finance reported.
Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Clutch Security for around $500 million, The Information reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The three-year-old Israeli security startup develops software that tracks passwords used by AI agents.
Apple made Retention Messaging available to developers, allowing them to show personalized messages and special offers before subscribers complete a cancellation. The feature was announced at WWDC earlier this year.
Google announced general availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine and the runtime's 1.0 release.
Baidu released ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base weights on Hugging Face, offering developers a checkpoint for domain adaptation, instruction tuning and reinforcement-learning research.
Binance says attackers used a fake job interview to compromise an engineer's computer and move through employee systems before last week's cryptocurrency theft. Its latest account says $6.34 billion in digital assets were affected, with $2.85 billion frozen or intercepted.
Figma reported third-quarter revenue of $391.4M, up 43% year over year and above estimates, Reuters reported. Gross margin was 80%, below the 81% estimate. The company raised its 2026 revenue outlook, while its shares fell more than 6% after hours.
Figma made code layers available in open beta to 100% of users, allowing teams to run and compare code-backed prototypes on its shared design canvas. The company also says its Figma agent is now generally available.
China has told SoftBank it will not allow its $5.4B acquisition of ABB's robotics division, the Financial Times reported, citing sources. China is the division's biggest market.
OpenAI is rolling out Images 2.6 globally across all ChatGPT and Codex subscription tiers, allowing users to generate GIFs from text prompts or animate uploaded images, Mashable reports. Users can also turn rough drawings into more complete images for animation.
Kambi said its proprietary AI system now trades approximately 85% of bets across its sports betting network. The company reported that 59% of AI-traded live bets are accepted without a live delay and is expanding the technology into basketball, American football and table tennis.
Google's November 2026 Android security update fixes a critical flaw that allows remote code execution without user interaction or additional permissions, ChainCatcher reported. The Framework vulnerability, CVE-2026-58868, affects Android 14, 15, 16, 16 QPR2 and 17.
Global smartphone chip shipments fell 21% year over year in the third quarter of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research. Apple's share increased from 17% to 21%, while Samsung's rose from 6% to 8%.
Researchers created a nonlinear superinductor inside a silicon integrated circuit made with a commercial CMOS fabrication process, a study in Nature Electronics reports.
Some users on paid ChatGPT plans are encountering errors when sending messages, OpenAI said in a status update. The company identified degraded performance affecting conversations and said it was working to implement a mitigation.
Researchers added a flexible foot pad to the Hopcopter, a robot that combines quadcopter flight with a spring-loaded hopping leg, reducing performance variation across terrains by 84%, New Atlas reported. The earlier prototype struggled on sand, ice and slopes.
DevRev announced that it has integrated OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol into its enterprise IT self-service platform for employees and customers.
VMware announced vSphere Express on Wednesday, adding a basic virtualization offering for smaller organizations. Distributor TD Synnex lists an annual price of $9,600 for installations of up to 128 cores, with no reduction for customers using fewer cores, Ars Technica reported.
Vercel is gradually rolling out a login defense that binds sessions to a user's device, BleepingComputer reported. Device Bound Session Credentials use a private key stored in the device's security hardware to prevent a stolen session cookie from being reused on another device.
OpenAI says a pipeline using an upcoming cyber model validated and patched 948 Linux vulnerabilities that allow local privilege escalation, at $1.2M in API costs.
Apache Spark 4.3 adds stateful processing to Real-Time Mode, allowing streaming applications to retain context across events.
Data center shares fell Wednesday as investors anticipated slower AI construction after Democrats won Congress, Reuters reported. Hut 8 dropped 23%, IREN 11%, Core Scientific 10% and Applied Digital 7%.
Nvidia says it uses AI agents across its DGX H100, B200 and GB300 production clusters to investigate failures and recommend recovery steps.
AWS has added support for application logs in Docker's json-file format on ECS Managed Instances, allowing customers to collect them with their chosen monitoring agent and forward them to any destination. The company says the feature carries no additional cost.
Snap says Snapchat's subscription offerings have surpassed 30 million subscribers across Snapchat+, Lens+, Platinum and Memories Storage Plans. Snapchat+ remains the largest driver of subscriber growth, while Lens+ has grown nearly 600% since January 2026, the company said.
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