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Techmeme - 2025-12-01T11:55:38-05:00

Tutor Intelligence, which makes AI-powered warehouse robots, raised a $34M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) - 2025-12-01T11:55:06-05:00

Swiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (Ludwig Burger/Reuters) - 2025-12-01T11:35:00-05:00

The reaction to NYT's David Sacks story aside, Sacks is pushing policies to help the US win the AI race, which also benefit him, his allies, and even his foes (Dan Primack/Axios) - 2025-12-01T11:10:00-05:00

Nevis, which develops AI agents to automate wealth advisers' grunt work, raised a $35M Series A from Sequoia and others at a $200M valuation, after a $5M seed (Biz Carson/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-01T10:50:01-05:00

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, which it calls "reasoning-first models built for agents", after releasing V3.2-Exp in September (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) - 2025-12-01T10:21:23-05:00

An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: 80+ tech startups passed $1B valuations in 2025 so far, many of them AI-related, save for exceptions like Kalshi (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) - 2025-12-01T09:50:02-05:00

Runway debuts Gen 4.5, a text-to-video AI model that can make HD videos and is good at understanding physics and human motion, topping Video Arena's leaderboard (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) - 2025-12-01T09:10:07-05:00

OpenAI takes a stake in Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings and says it will embed agents in its companies, which already include an accounting and an IT business (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times) - 2025-12-01T08:55:06-05:00

Nvidia buys $2B of Synopsys' common stock and unveils a strategic partnership to accelerate computing and AI engineering products, including with CUDA libraries (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) - 2025-12-01T08:25:06-05:00

Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecasts, regardless of subscription tier (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority) - 2025-12-01T06:55:02-05:00

Sources: consultancies like McKinsey froze graduate pay offers for 2026, the third consecutive year, as AI reshapes the industry and threatens its pyramid model (Financial Times) - 2025-12-01T06:30:04-05:00

ByteDance launches an AI voice assistant powered by its Doubao LLM, available first on ZTE's Nubia M153 smartphone prototype; Doubao has an estimated 159M MAUs (Reuters) - 2025-12-01T06:05:01-05:00

Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image generation models, raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in 2024 (Financial Times) - 2025-12-01T05:45:01-05:00

Indian government order: India's telecom ministry privately gives smartphone makers 90 days to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices (Reuters) - 2025-12-01T05:00:00-05:00

HSBC signs a Mistral deal to access Mistral's AI models and co-develop models for tasks like financial analysis, translation, onboarding clients, and AML checks (Ortenca Aliaj/Financial Times) - 2025-12-01T04:45:01-05:00