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Techmeme - 2025-11-17T12:55:39-05:00

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) - 2025-11-17T12:55:02-05:00

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) - 2025-11-17T12:30:00-05:00

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) - 2025-11-17T12:10:01-05:00

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) - 2025-11-17T11:40:01-05:00

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) - 2025-11-17T11:15:01-05:00

Vancouver-based PowerLattice, which makes a power supply chiplet to reduce compute power needs by 50%+, raised a $25M Series A, taking its total funding to $31M (Pete Danko/Portland Business Journal) - 2025-11-17T10:30:01-05:00

Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext 2, a weather model that it says offers faster, more accurate two-week forecasts and includes more tools for energy traders (Joe Wertz/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-17T10:15:00-05:00

Sources: the European Commission wants to decide if AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud should face new restrictions under the DMA, after several major cloud outages (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-17T10:00:35-05:00

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says he is "nervous about the size of these investments in these data centers"; he owns stakes in OpenAI, Perplexity, and xAI (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times) - 2025-11-17T09:30:00-05:00

Meta says its 2Africa subsea internet cable project remains incomplete in the southern Red Sea due to security risks; Google's Blue-Raman cable is also delayed (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-17T09:20:00-05:00

In an informal survey of 300+ Cerebral Valley AI Conference attendees asking which $1B+ valuation startup to short, most voted Perplexity, followed by OpenAI (Ben Bergman/Business Insider) - 2025-11-17T08:55:00-05:00

Voize, an ambient AI voice startup targeting skilled nursing facilities, raised a $50M Series A led by Balderton Capital and aims to sign US clients in Q1 2026 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) - 2025-11-17T07:45:00-05:00

Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Wired) - 2025-11-17T07:15:00-05:00

US filing: Peter Thiel's Thiel Macro sold 537,742 Nvidia shares, worth ~$100M as of September 30, during Q3, amid rising concerns about an AI investment bubble (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-17T07:05:01-05:00

Copenhagen-based Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, raised €145M at a €1.5B valuation and says it "crossed €100M of ARR in October" (Anna Heim/TechCrunch) - 2025-11-17T06:50:01-05:00