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Techmeme - 2025-11-26T22:15:55-05:00

Coverbase, an AI procurement and risk platform provider, raised a $16.5M Series A led by Canapi Ventures, bringing its total funding to $20M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) - 2025-11-26T22:15:01-05:00

Blackstone invests $50M into compliance agent-focused Norm Ai, which is launching an independent law firm offering "AI-native legal services" (Norm Ai) - 2025-11-26T21:50:01-05:00

Sources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy corporate data management and security startup Veza for $1B+ in a deal as early as next week (The Information) - 2025-11-26T21:20:00-05:00

Intel denies allegations in a TSMC lawsuit that VP Wei-Jen Lo likely leaked trade secrets after retiring from TSMC and joining Intel (Reuters) - 2025-11-26T20:25:01-05:00

Dell, HP, and other tech companies are warning of potential memory-chip supply shortages in the coming year due to demand from the buildout of AI infrastructure (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-26T18:20:01-05:00

S&P downgrades the ability of Tether's USDT to maintain its peg to the US dollar to "weak", the lowest rating, citing exposure to high-risk assets such as BTC (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-26T16:25:02-05:00

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, which is building AI for manufacturing computers, cars, and spacecraft, has acquired agentic AI startup General Agents (Paresh Dave/Wired) - 2025-11-26T15:30:01-05:00

The EU Parliament backs a report that sets a 16+ age limit for accessing social media without parental consent and holds CEOs personally liable for violations (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico) - 2025-11-26T14:55:01-05:00

Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-11-26T14:35:02-05:00

In an October 7 letter, the Pentagon informed lawmakers that Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-26T13:40:01-05:00

The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage (Sam Sabin/Axios) - 2025-11-26T12:05:01-05:00

EU states agree on a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM, and will now negotiate with EU lawmakers (Reuters) - 2025-11-26T10:50:02-05:00

The EU says its regulators asked Shein for documents on measures to prevent the exposure of minors to inappropriate content and the circulation of illegal items (Jenny Che/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-26T09:35:03-05:00

France says it plans legal complaints against AliExpress and Joom over the sales of childlike sex dolls; Temu, Wish, eBay, and more are also under investigation (Financial Times) - 2025-11-26T09:15:00-05:00

Sources: ByteDance is in talks to sell game studio Moonton, which it acquired for ~$4B in 2021, to Saudi Arabia-based Savvy Games; Moonton makes Mobile Legends (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-26T09:00:56-05:00