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Anthropic’s share sale has drawn orders for several times the shares on offer, Bloomberg reported on 11 November, citing people familiar with the matter. Large, anchor-size orders drove the demand, the people said.
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Whoop is launching a social network that lets members share their sleep, recovery and workout data, but the bigger bet is on becoming more of a personal health brand, with CEO Will Ahmed hinting at acquisitions to come.
Gama, the French company building ultra-light deployable solar arrays for satellites, has raised a €15M seed round from Transition, Planet A, Draper Associates, and Manta Ray.
Shock resignation of CEO and founder Jensen Huang will have big repercussions in the tech industry.
The startups work across the deep tech sector, including healthcare, fintech, energy, semiconductors, and AI. All nine are looking to enter the US.
Alphabet is raising about $3.8B through its first-ever Hong Kong and Singapore dollar bonds, according to term sheets seen by Reuters, beating its own target after investors placed more than $7B in orders.
Germany’s former health minister Karl Lauterbach has said that curing cancer, Alzheimer’s and mental illness within ten years is impossible. He was answering Dario Amodei, whose company’s IPO roadshow video says those diseases will be “relics of the past” within a decade.
Google and Samsung have opened preorders for their first Gemini smart glasses, made with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. The nine styles cost $395 to $489, have a 12-megapixel camera and ship on 10 December. Google is stressing privacy features as it takes on Meta.
Anthropic has formally decided that it meets its own threshold for AI dramatically speeding up its research. It based the call on “what we expect from future models and our overall rate of progress,” not on its current models, it wrote in its amended IPO filing on 10 November.
Databricks has made its Genie app for Slack generally available. Staff can ask it data questions in a channel or direct message, get charts and approve changes in tools such as Jira. Answers use each asker’s permissions, but are visible to the whole channel by default.
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