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Techmeme - 2025-11-10T10:30:37-05:00

Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises 1,000x more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave (Jennifer Elias/CNBC) - 2025-11-10T09:20:01-05:00

Coinbase plans to launch a platform to let individual investors buy digital tokens before they are listed on its exchange, reviving 2017 and 2018's ICO craze (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-11-10T09:00:00-05:00

Grab plans to invest $60M in remote driving service Vay, potentially rising to $410M within the next year if Vay hits certain milestones, set to close in Q4 (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-10T08:30:01-05:00

Scribe, which helps enterprises identify where AI and automation workflow investments will yield returns, raised a $75M Series C at a $1.3B post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2025-11-10T08:20:01-05:00

Gamma, which uses AI to help create presentations, social media posts, websites, and more, raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation and reports 600K+ paying subscribers (Niko Gallogly/New York Times) - 2025-11-10T08:10:02-05:00

Instacart reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $939M, above est., orders up 14% YoY to 83.4M, above 82.9M est., GTV up 10% to $9.1B, and plans a $1.5B share buyback (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-10T08:00:44-05:00

Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on "the woke left and the woke right", patriotism, Russia's Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more (Steven Levy/Wired) - 2025-11-10T07:50:00-05:00

Microsoft recruits popular US influencers to help boost its Copilot chatbot; Sensor Tower says Copilot has 99M downloads since launch, far below ChatGPT's 1.4B (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-10T07:30:00-05:00

An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after nearly 10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (Joe Tidy/BBC) - 2025-11-10T07:20:02-05:00

Amazon's House of David Season 2 had 350 to 400 AI-generated shots, up from 70+ in Season 1, using 10 to 15 tools from companies like Runway, drawing criticism (Kat Tenbarge/Wired) - 2025-11-10T07:05:04-05:00

Amazon expands its low-cost Haul service to 25 countries and regions globally, rebrands it as Amazon Bazaar in some markets, and plans a two-day sales event (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) - 2025-11-10T06:55:01-05:00

ABI: UK insurers paid out £197M+ in cyber claims in 2024, up from £60M in 2023; malware and ransomware-related claims were 51% of the total, up from 32% in 2023 (Lee Harris/Financial Times) - 2025-11-10T06:47:38-05:00

A group of lawyers has documented 533 cases of AI misuse in legal filings, including fabricated case law citations; judges and bar associations permit AI use (Evan Gorelick/New York Times) - 2025-11-10T06:40:01-05:00

TSMC reports October sales were up 16.9%, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 38%+ YTD (Debby Wu/Bloomberg) - 2025-11-10T06:30:00-05:00

Rumble says it will acquire German AI infrastructure company Northern Data in an up to $970M deal, set to close in Q2 2026; both companies are backed by Tether (Billy Gray/Wall Street Journal) - 2025-11-10T06:05:01-05:00