- An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
- Israel-based RAAAM, whose "GCRAM" on-chip memory tech aims to deliver up to 10x power savings relative to high-density SRAM, raised a $17M Series A led by NXP (Meir Orbach/CTech)
- Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
- The Alpha Arena experiment gave six frontier models $10K each to trade crypto derivatives over two weeks: losses ranged from Qwen3 Max's $652 to GPT-5's $5,679 (Sebastian Pellejero/Reuters)
- Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial AI and robotics company; Mind Robotics raised a $115M seed led by Eclipse (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
- Swedish investment firm EQT agrees to invest $930M in Douzone Bizon, a South Korea-based provider of ERP and business software to SMBs, for a 37.6% stake (Atharva Singh/Reuters)
- Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
- As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm (Janne Knodler/Bloomberg)
- Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally (Peter Landers/Wall Street Journal)
- Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
- A look at Dominari Holdings and Yorkville Advisors, two little-known boutique banks that have helped finance the Trump family's flurry of crypto deals this year (George Steer/Financial Times)
- OpenAI, Alphabet, and Perplexity offering free access to their paid tiers in India suggests the country may be the biggest and safest bet for broad AI adoption (Mihir Sharma/Bloomberg)
- Apple Music's growth may be stymied by the lack of a free tier as a funnel; Midia: on a weekly level, 43% of consumers used Spotify and 16% turned to Apple (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
- An account of working at Cursor for 60 days: a largely in-person culture, few scheduled meetings, aggressive recruiting, heavy internal product testing, more (Brie Wolfson/Colossus)
- In DeepSeek's first public appearance since R1's success, a senior researcher told a state-run conference he was pessimistic about AI's impact on humanity (Reuters)