- NetChoice sues Virginia over a law that would require parental permission for minors to use social media for more than one hour per day, arguing it violates 1A (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- Meta launches a tool called content protection to let creators detect and take action when their reels are reposted on Facebook or Instagram without permission (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
- Microsoft says it mitigated a 15.7 Tbps DDoS from the Aisuru botnet on a single Australian Azure endpoint in October, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded (Pierluigi Paganini/Security Affairs)
- Pinkfong prices its South Korea IPO at ~$26 per share, valuing the company behind Baby Shark Dance, YouTube's most-watched video with 16.4B views, at ~$375M (Wall Street Journal)
- Runlayer, which aims to make it easy for companies to securely scale MCP servers, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed from Khosla Ventures and Felicis (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
- Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future targets NY State Assemblymember Alex Bores, co-sponsor of the RAISE Act, a bill imposing safety and disclosure requirements (CNBC)
- Cloudflare acquires Replicate, which hosts over 50,000 AI models and simplifies AI model deployment via a single API call; Replicate will keep its brand (Cloudflare)
- Ford and Amazon partner to let people purchase certified pre-owned Ford vehicles via Amazon Autos, initially available in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
- Celero, which is developing a chip to enable long-distance connections between AI data centers, raised $140M, including a $100M Series B led by CapitalG (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
- Coding assistant startup Sourcegraph says ads in its free tier are generating $5M to $10M in annualized revenue; the ad-supported tier was launched in October (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
- Sources: Amazon is seeking to raise about $12B through a bond sale, its first such deal in US dollars since 2022, to help fund acquisitions, capex, and more (Bloomberg)
- Span, which aims to help companies measure the value of AI-assisted coding, raised $25M in seed and Series A rounds from Alt Capital, Craft Ventures, and others (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
- Ramp says it is now valued at $32B following a $300M raise led by Lightspeed and an employee tender offer, up from a $22.5B valuation in July (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
- Vancouver-based PowerLattice, which makes a power supply chiplet to cut power consumption by 50%+, raised a $25M Series A, taking its total funding to $31M (Pete Danko/Portland Business Journal)
- Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext 2, a weather model that it says offers faster, more accurate two-week forecasts and includes tools aimed at energy traders (Joe Wertz/Bloomberg)