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Zipline closes $1.5 billion funding at $21.5 billion valuation

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.

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Infrastructure

Rio Tinto commits $144 million to advance Arizona copper project

Rio Tinto is committing $144 million to advance the Resolution Copper project in Arizona, financing additional drilling, engineering and infrastructure work. The company links long-term copper demand to AI, data centers, electrification and everyday appliances.

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Products Infrastructure

Dropbox plans $350 million Tigris acquisition to enter AI infrastructure

Dropbox announced plans Thursday to acquire Tigris Data for $350 million, a transaction it said would be its largest acquisition. The purchase would bring a storage platform for developers whose applications run across multiple cloud providers.

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Capital Products

Harbinger raises $240 million as electric truck business expands into defense

Electric truck startup Harbinger has raised a $240 million Series D as it expands into battery storage and defense applications, TechCrunch reported. Tiger Global, Capricorn's technology impact fund and defense investor Ridgeline co-led the round.

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Capital AI

Shield AI raises $2.5B to help fund Echodyne acquisition

Shield AI raised $2.5B to help acquire radar company Echodyne, Bloomberg reported. The financing includes a $1B Series H at a $28.8B valuation, up from $12.7B in March. Echodyne sells radar sensors to government and commercial customers; the acquisition is pending.

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Capital Infrastructure

VÆRIDION raises €30 million and wins selection for €94.5 million EU grant

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.

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AI

Google releases Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash with longer videos and lower pricing

Google announced general availability of Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash across the Gemini API and Gemini for business, with 720p video priced at $0.07 per second, a 30% reduction from Gemini Omni 1.1. The model generates and edits clips up to 15 seconds long, up from 10 seconds.

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Numica raises $21M to acquire small US accounting practices

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.

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Capital Infrastructure

Green Voltis raises €13.5 million for battery trading and energy operations

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.

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Capital Infrastructure

RadianX raises $5 million for solar device power production

RadianX raised $5 million in seed funding led by SOSV and Twynam to fund a commercial-volume production line, the startup told TechCrunch. Pacific Union Technology Precision Manufacturing is also contributing $4 million in non-dilutive investment to build a dedicated line.

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Microsoft declines option to expand Nscale Texas data center contract

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.

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Capital AI

Mindmax raises $3.3m for conversational AI exam tutor

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.

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Zipline raises $1.5bn as Walmart agrees to add 300 drone sites

Zipline announced a $1.5bn funding round at a $21.5bn valuation on Thursday, alongside a new multi-year agreement for Walmart to add 300 US drone delivery sites. The companies currently operate 21 sites in Texas and Arkansas, Bloomberg reported.

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Capital

AAB acquires AI finance services firm Abacai

AAB has acquired Abacai, a firm that uses AI in outsourced finance and accounting services for consumer brands in e-commerce, retail and wholesale, International Accounting Bulletin reported. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Capital Security
Capital Security

Cyera plans around $800M raise at $20B valuation

Cloud security startup Cyera is planning to raise around $800M in a round led by Cyberstarts at a $20B valuation, The Information reported, citing sources. The planned valuation is up from $12B in June. Cyera is five years old, and the financing remains a planned round.

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AI Policy

Nvidia H200 chips await Chinese import approval in Hong Kong

About 600,000 Nvidia H200 artificial intelligence chips are stored in Hong Kong awaiting shipment to mainland China, Reuters reported, citing sources. Beijing is withholding approval for large-scale imports, leaving the chips waiting to enter the mainland market.

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UK study finds Claude gained AI subscription spending share

Claude captured 29.4% of UK consumer AI subscription spending in July, up from 7.4% in December 2025, a working paper published Thursday found. ChatGPT's share fell from 73.5% to 52.5%. The economists used de-identified bank and card records from 14.2 million UK accounts.

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DraftKings lowers earnings outlook as prediction market spending rises

DraftKings reduced its 2026 adjusted EBITDA forecast to $175 million-$275 million from $700 million-$900 million, attributing much of the reduction to planned investment in its Predictions business, Yogonet reported. The business lets customers trade event contracts.

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Security

Truffle Security launches program to revoke exposed API keys

Truffle Security has launched a free Secrets Revocation Program to help API key issuers invalidate 1.4 million publicly exposed secrets that remain valid, BleepingComputer reported. Sixteen issuers have joined, including Hugging Face, Notion, Vercel, Resend, RubyGems and Twilio.

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Kagi opens first 50 searches without an account

Kagi now lets anyone search the web at kagi.com without creating an account for the first 50 searches, the company announced. Registering provides 100 more searches.

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Infrastructure Products

Arista posts $3.66 billion quarterly revenue as AI networking expands

Arista Networks reported third-quarter revenue of $3.66 billion, up 58.5 percent year on year, as its AI networking business expanded. Product sales reached $3.19 billion, up 66.9 percent, and net income rose 82.9 percent to $1.56 billion.

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Anthropic adopts website signal for blocking AI training scraping

Anthropic has adopted a new website signal that lets publishers opt out of scraping by AI bots, The Verge reports. OpenAI, Google and Microsoft have also promised to adopt the standard, which operates through a website's robots.txt file.

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TikTok launches separate Shop app in four Southeast Asian markets

TikTok has launched a standalone TikTok Shop app on iOS and Android in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, TechCrunch reported. The app gives its commerce business a dedicated destination beyond the main TikTok platform.

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Instagram expands Edits to Mac with direct publishing

Instagram announced Thursday that its Edits video editor is coming to Mac, extending its creator tools to desktop projects. The company says users can publish directly to Instagram with tagging and location features, avoiding transfers between desktop and mobile before posting.

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AI Products

Motorola confirms Gemini features for Signature 27, opens preorders

Motorola confirmed that its Signature 27 phone will support Google's Gemini Intelligence features, including AI-generated widgets, voice transcription cleanup, American Sign Language translation and task automation. Preorders are open at $1,599 in the US.

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Science Capital

Potential Sciences launches with seed backing for physics-based drug AI

British startup Potential Sciences launched November 5, saying it has seed funding in the tens of millions of dollars from investors including SovAI and Twin Path Ventures. Its founders declined to disclose the precise amount or valuation.

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Robotics Products

Agility Robotics makes public market debut

Agility Robotics is making its public market debut, becoming the first dedicated US humanoid robotics company to go public, Bloomberg reported. CEO Peggy Johnson discussed growing deployments of its Digit robot and $300 million in pending orders.

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AI

AWS launches cited web answers for AgentCore agents

AWS announced general availability of Web Answer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, giving agents a managed tool that returns answers with source citations from current web searches. The service costs $10 per 1,000 tool calls.

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Infrastructure Products

Google announces $17B Wyoming data center investment

Google announced a long-term $17B investment in its first Wyoming data center, in Laramie County, with much of its electricity coming from natural gas. A principal source will be a 702 MW fuel cell plant from American Electric Power using Bloom Energy equipment.

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

AWS opens bulk S3 writes into existing DynamoDB tables

AWS has made bulk put items generally available for Amazon DynamoDB, allowing developers to write data from Amazon S3 into existing tables without building a custom ingestion pipeline. AWS says the managed feature handles writes without affecting existing workloads.

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

AWS expands CodeConnections to GovCloud US-West

AWS announced that CodeConnections is available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), allowing customers to connect source repositories to release pipelines in the same Region.

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Products AI

Nasdaq 100 falls 6%, shedding record $2.3T in value

The Nasdaq 100 fell 6%, losing a record $2.3T in value, while the Philadelphia chip index plunged 12%, Bloomberg reported. Technology stocks suffered their biggest decline since 2020 as investors exited the sector over concerns about the AI trade after Democrats won Congress.

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Infrastructure

Vercel opens Schedules public beta across all plans

Vercel made Schedules available in public beta on all plans, allowing developers to run tasks once or repeatedly in production, preview or custom environments. Developers can enable, disable or trigger schedules without redeploying.

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Infrastructure Policy

Oracle data center power developer agrees to delay air permit deadline

The developer of power infrastructure for Oracle's New Mexico data center agreed to delay a deadline for action on a key air permit, Bloomberg reported. The change gives state environmental regulators more time to review the application rather than deny it.

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Infrastructure

Haoyang secures loan of up to $590 million for Thailand data center

Haoyang Data Center 1 (Thailand) Ltd. has secured a loan of up to $590 million to help finance a hyperscale data center in Thailand, Bloomberg reported. The borrowing will support development of the facility rather than cover its entire funding needs.

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Infrastructure

Micron reportedly suspends Taiwan memory plant plans amid labor dispute

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.

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Deutsche Telekom plans share buyback of up to €2 billion

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.

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Infrastructure

NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine preview offers self-hosted GPU cluster management

NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine is available in preview as a management plane for creating and operating Kubernetes clusters on an operator's own GPU infrastructure, its repository says. Each customer workload cluster has its own control plane, etcd data store and node pools.

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New York Times Company pursues Letterboxd purchase for around $330 million

The New York Times Company is in exclusive negotiations to acquire film social network Letterboxd for around $330 million, The New York Times reported. Discussions have included keeping Letterboxd's co-founders in charge while having them report to a Times Company executive.

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Security

Alpine Linux flaw permits SSH access under specific authentication settings

A decade-old vulnerability allows attackers to log into some Alpine Linux devices without knowing a password, Alpine maintainers warned Thursday. Exploitation requires OpenSSH to use the musl library without the PAM authentication framework, alongside specific account settings.

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Science

ETH researchers turn plastic waste into adhesives for demanding joints

ETH Zurich researchers have made adhesives from standard plastic bags and bottles whose bonding strength meets requirements for industrial joints in vehicles or equipment, according to research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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AI Security

Claude Code privacy safeguard faces reported enforcement gap

A Claude Code GitHub issue reports that the coding agent sent a user's email address to websites in User-Agent request headers. A response in the thread says a built-in privacy module introduced in version 2.1.317 blocks that behavior and is enabled by default.

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Products

Consensus authorizes up to $348.2 million in debt retirements

Consensus Cloud Solutions said its board approved a program on November 5 authorizing retirement of up to $348.2 million in principal of its remaining 2028 Senior Notes. The authorization replaces its 2023 debt repurchase program and expires on November 5, 2027.

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Blue Origin pushes New Glenn return to January 2027

Blue Origin now targets January 2027 for its next New Glenn rocket launch, The Verge reported, citing CNBC and the Financial Times accounts of a staff memo from CEO Dave Limp.

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Infrastructure AI

Nvidia reports Vera CPU gains in agent workloads

Nvidia says its Vera CPU supported 1.6x more agents per watt than the fastest x86 CPU in its comparison of a 100-megawatt data center. Against the most energy-efficient x86 CPU, Nvidia reported 2x faster agent speed.

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Apple's planned bond sale draws around $31 billion in orders

Apple's planned approximately $7 billion bond sale has attracted around $31 billion in investor orders, Bloomberg reported, adding evidence of demand after the company filed a preliminary prospectus on Thursday.

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Products

Salon announces closure after 31 years

Salon announced that it is ceasing publication after 31 years, saying its publishing model is no longer sustainable. The digital publication launched in November 1995 and built its coverage around politics, culture, criticism and ideas.

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AI

Meta rolls out real-time voice conversations in Muse

Meta is rolling out real-time voice conversations and animated avatars for its Muse AI agent in the US app, the company said. Users can change the voice's tone by asking the agent or choosing options in avatar settings.

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Products

Palantir drops 10% as AI selloff spreads to software

Palantir shares fell 10% to $155.28 in afternoon trading as the post-election retreat from AI investments spread to software, Yahoo Finance reported. The decline erased about $40 billion in market value.

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Capital Security

Brightmind seeks second fund with AI infrastructure allocation

Brightmind Partners is raising a second fund targeting roughly the same size as its $250 million debut fund, co-founder Stephen Ward told TechCrunch. Ward says about 20% of the second fund will focus on AI infrastructure deals, expanding beyond cybersecurity.

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AI

Stardock adds shared local AI inference to Clairvoyance

Stardock's November 5 release of Clairvoyance 0.90 adds Hivemind, which the company says lets teams run AI inference on idle GPUs across their computers. Its Locama software hosts local models, while a routing component selects a model and machine for each request.

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Capital Products

Wonder announces confidential IPO filing

Food technology startup Wonder announced Thursday that it has confidentially filed for an initial public offering. The company has not revealed the number of shares it plans to offer or an expected price range.

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AI Infrastructure

Moonshot seeks European GPU leases for AI inference and training

Moonshot AI is in talks with at least one European data center to lease clusters containing 8,000 or more Nvidia GPUs for inference, CNBC reported. The Chinese developer of Kimi is also interested in training capacity.

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Security AI

Researchers disclose patched ChatGPT flaw that bypassed Lockdown Mode

Check Point researchers disclosed a ChatGPT vulnerability that could bypass Lockdown Mode and enable silent theft of chat data, including without user interaction in the desktop application. OpenAI patched the flaw on September 18, 2026, The Hacker News reported.

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ElevenLabs adds direct SoundCloud publishing for AI music

ElevenLabs said Thursday that users will be able to publish music generated with ElevenMusic directly on SoundCloud, opening a distribution route beyond its own platform. SoundCloud Artist Pro subscribers will also receive three months of ElevenMusic Pro.

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Agility Robotics starts Nasdaq trading after SPAC merger

Agility Robotics began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker AGLT on November 5 after completing its merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, The Robot Report reported.

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Security Products

Motorola says Signature 27 will be its first phone to support GrapheneOS

Motorola says the Signature 27 will be its first device to support GrapheneOS, a hardened, open-source operating system based on the Android Open Source Project. The company developed the device in partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation.

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Products Infrastructure

Two confirmed dead after fire at Panasonic materials factory in Taiwan

Two missing employees were confirmed dead Thursday after an explosion and fire at a Panasonic Industrial Devices Materials factory in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Tom's Hardware reported. Five other people were injured in the Wednesday incident.

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AI Products

Google ties school Search access to opting into AI features

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.

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Products

Discord shows Rust client using 290MB of RAM ahead of user testing

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.

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AI Science

Preprint finds one setting explains much of an AI serving capacity gap

A preprint comparing the vLLM and SGLang language-model serving engines finds that matching one configuration setting removes 78% of their capacity gap where that gap is largest. The setting controls whether engines process long prompts in chunks before generating an answer.

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AI Capital

Airbnb discloses option to invest in Chesky's AI lab

Airbnb disclosed in a filing that it has the option to invest in and license technology from a stealth AI lab controlled by its CEO, Brian Chesky, The Information reported. A source said Chesky has funded the startup himself so far.

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AI Capital

Thinking Machines Lab seeks $5B at $40B pre-money valuation

Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5B in a round led by Accel at a $40B pre-money valuation, Business Insider reported, citing sources. The AI startup could close the funding as soon as this week.

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Products

Cloudflare raises annual outlook as quarterly revenue grows 39%

Cloudflare reported third-quarter revenue of $782.5M, up 39% year over year and above estimates of $737.2M, the Wall Street Journal reported. The company raised its full-year revenue projection to around $2.96 billion. Cloudflare recorded a $34.1M net loss.

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

AWS brings Network Load Balancer to Phoenix Local Zone

AWS says customers can now create a Network Load Balancer directly in its Phoenix Local Zone, allowing connections to application resources there to stay within the zone.

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AI Science

METR links Anthropic's faster model development to internal AI use

Anthropic's models are improving about twice as fast as they did between March 2024 and October 2025, a METR report says, as reported by The Information. The AI research nonprofit attributes approximately 80% of the acceleration to internal AI use.

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AI Products

Amazon details AI system used to adjust product content visibility

Amazon says it used an AI quality evaluation system to adjust the visibility of low-quality A+ Content in a worldwide production experiment, producing a statistically meaningful improvement in Ordered Product Sales.

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Security

AWS adds automatic certificate revocation checks to IAM Roles Anywhere

AWS says IAM Roles Anywhere can now automatically retrieve certificate revocation lists and deny credential requests that use revoked certificates. Previously, customers had to import those lists again whenever their certificate authority updated them.

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AI

AWS adds agent traces to OpenSearch optimized engine

AWS has added agent traces, including OpenTelemetry traces, to the Amazon OpenSearch Service optimized engine. The change lets operators follow requests or agent sessions and examine related logs in the same service to locate failures and slow steps.

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AI Products

Mercedes-Benz rolls out conversational AI that runs inside its cars

Mercedes-Benz is rolling out conversational AI models that run directly in its cars rather than in the cloud, The Wall Street Journal reported. The automaker is working with Liquid AI, a startup that spun out of MIT, on the deployment.

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Products

Apple plans about $7 billion bond offering

Apple plans to raise about $7 billion through an investment-grade bond offering, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. It would be the company's first such offering in more than a year. The planned borrowing would help fund share buybacks, dividends and capital expenditures.

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Products Policy

FTC complaint alleges Amazon added hidden surcharges to ad auction prices

The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states have made public previously redacted allegations that Amazon secretly raised search advertising prices above auction results. Their updated complaint alleges increases of as much as 50% on ordinary days and 250% on major shopping days.

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Products

Apple adds personalized messages and offers to subscription cancellation

Apple rolled out Retention Messaging, a subscription tool that lets developers show personalized text, images or special offers to users canceling their subscriptions, 9to5Mac reported. The tool gives developers a way to present retention messages during the cancellation process.

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Security Infrastructure

AWS extends Security Hub network probing to GovCloud

AWS has extended Security Hub Network Scanning to AWS GovCloud (US), giving customers active checks of which resources are reachable from the internet.

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AI

AWS lets SageMaker AI Studio use replicated workforce identities across regions

AWS says SageMaker AI Studio now supports IAM Identity Center replication across regions, allowing customers to deploy Studio domains outside the region hosting their primary identity instance. Previously, the primary instance and Studio domain had to reside in the same region.

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Infrastructure Security

AWS adds free EC2 metric to track instances allowing IMDSv1

Amazon EC2 now provides a CloudWatch metric showing which instances still allow Version 1 of its Instance Metadata Service, AWS announced. The ImdsV1Enabled metric is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost.

Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Autobase 2.12 spreads cloud database nodes across availability zones by default

Autobase has released version 2.12 of its PostgreSQL management platform, making distribution across multiple availability zones the default when provisioning clusters on AWS, GCP and Azure. The project says this reduces the impact of a failure in a single zone.

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Infrastructure

AWS adds 13 validated data types to Parameter Store

AWS said Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports 13 new data types that validate configuration values when users create or update them. The service rejects values that do not match the selected type before applications read them, reducing the need for custom validation code.