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The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem-linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.
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RapidCanvas, which pairs an AI agent platform with its own engineers to build business apps for companies, raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, with Hitachi Ventures joining. It will hire in the US, Brazil, and India. Total funding now stands at $52.5M.
Startup investors aren’t exactly hitting pause, but they did scale back on giant rounds this past week, with just two startup financings in the multiple hundreds of millions.
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT expects a net profit of 131B to 132.5B yuan ($19.6B to $19.8B) for January to September, compared with a 5.3B yuan loss a year earlier. Revenue jumped to 265B to 270B yuan as AI demand caused memory shortages. Its chairman also proposed a share buyback of up to 2B yuan.
Chinese startup Langdao Silex showcased its laser-produced plasma EUV source at a trade show, but the technology will likely take many years before it gets to decent EUV power levels. Even if it does, China will need many more advancements to build a practical EUV lithography tool.
“Today, Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation,” Eric Oancea, who leads Ramp in Europe, wrote on LinkedIn. His post confirms the round that Bloomberg reported on 10 October.
Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.
Despite Illinois’ sanctuary laws, local police in and around Chicago helped ICE investigative agents track activists engaged in First Amendment–protected activities.
It turns out the Roadster 2 both sucks and blows.
The Razer Barracuda V2 Pro headset has a place in the office as well as at your gaming battle station.
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