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Techmeme - 2025-11-21T17:01:30-05:00

A look at AMD's pivot to AI chips in 2022 under CEO Lisa Su, increasing AMD's market value from $90B to $335B+ in three years, as the chipmaker takes on Nvidia (Wall Street Journal) - 2025-11-21T17:00:45-05:00

A US judge is expected to rule next year on breaking up Google's ad tech monopoly, after the DOJ and Google delivered closing arguments in a remedies hearing (David McCabe/New York Times) - 2025-11-21T16:05:01-05:00

Filing: Airbnb says CTO Ari Balogh, who joined seven years ago from Google, plans to step down in December (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-21T14:40:03-05:00

Sources: Trump's team recently discussed letting Nvidia sell H200 chips to China, a major departure from the administration's earlier public stances (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-21T14:25:01-05:00

Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch) - 2025-11-21T13:45:00-05:00

CrowdStrike confirms that an insider shared screenshots from internal systems with unnamed threat actors but says its systems were not breached (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) - 2025-11-21T13:30:01-05:00

Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year (Alex Heath/Sources) - 2025-11-21T12:40:01-05:00

Sources: Kalshi told investors that its trading volume grew six times in the last six months and it is on an annualized pace for $600M to $700M in net revenue (Cory Weinberg/The Information) - 2025-11-21T11:55:01-05:00

Sources: the US has probed whether the products of China's Bitmain, which sells most of the world's Bitcoin-mining machines, pose risks of espionage or sabotage (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-21T11:40:05-05:00

Google says ads that some users are seeing in AI Mode are part of a test; the ads have a "sponsored" label and appear at the bottom of the page (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer) - 2025-11-21T11:25:00-05:00

Sources: Meta plans to test an AI-powered personalized daily briefing, designed to compete with ChatGPT's Pulse, with some Facebook users in NYC and SF (Naomi Nix/Washington Post) - 2025-11-21T11:20:39-05:00

Sorcero, which makes AI agents for pharmaceutical companies to market new medications, raised a $42.5M Series B, bringing its total funding to $59M (Katherine Davis/Axios) - 2025-11-21T10:55:07-05:00

Meta enters electricity trading to help accelerate the construction of new US power plants critical for its AI infrastructure buildout (Bloomberg) - 2025-11-21T10:25:00-05:00

At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand (Jennifer Elias/CNBC) - 2025-11-21T09:35:01-05:00

Q&A with Roblox CEO David Baszucki on the chat function, AI-powered age estimation via face scans, accusations of compromising child safety for growth, and more (New York Times) - 2025-11-21T08:55:01-05:00