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• Huskeys, which uses agentic AI to help companies block AI-driven attacks, raised a $27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments at a $100M+ valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)
• The US Army awards $192M in contracts to Palantir and Anduril to produce eight TITAN AI-powered mobile ground stations, to be delivered over the next 18 months (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense)
• MrBeast, whose YouTube channel recently hit 500M subs, will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multi-year Google deal (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
• Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program, and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks (Google)
• Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, three weeks after 3.7 Flash launch, for an introductory price of $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens until December 31 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
• Austin-based HiddenLayer, which makes security tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows, raised a $100M Series B led by Delta-v Capital (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
• The Trump administration files a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with NYT, saying training LLMs on copyrighted works generally constitutes fair use (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
• Adobe launches Adobe for Slack, making 70+ creative and productivity tools, including Firefly, Photoshop, and Express, available via Slackbot prompts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• A US federal judge rules that Google does not have to sell off its ad exchange and instead must make its ad tech tools work with those operated by rivals (Bloomberg)
• Conveo, which uses AI to conduct customer interviews in 15 languages and analyzes transcripts for market insights, raised a $50M Series A led by DST Global (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• Wonderful, which helps enterprises deploy AI, raised a $550M Series C led by Insight at a $5B valuation; investors also paid $170M for shares from employees (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
• OpenAI is facing a new round of lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect spent days talking to ChatGPT (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
• New Jersey-based Aitan, which offers "robotic sovereignty as a service" and "edge AI weapon systems", emerges from stealth with $41M led by Deep33 and Dell (Colin Demarest/Axios)
• Valencia-based iPronics raised $125M co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street, with participation from Nvidia, to develop optical circuit switch tech (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
• Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 (Washington Post)

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• Digital scans of more than 153 million driver's licenses leaked to the dark web
• Uber is cutting around 3,000 jobs in the name of efficiency
• Nintendo's surprise free update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch 2 includes eight-player split-screen
• Star Wars Zero Company is a great game that's busted and may never be fixed
• How to reset an Apple TV remote
• United Airlines will deliver food and other essentials to your gate
• iRobot's new $1,199 Roomba Max 875 Combo is its most powerful robot yet
• Acer's Predator Atlas 7 is the brand's smaller handheld gaming flagship model
• Acer's new monitors include a 24-inch, 1,000Hz screen for esports sickos
• Acer's Vero 16 laptop is built to be easily repaired
• Acer shows off its AI desktop future with the RTX Spark design
• Acer's Project DualPlay Mini is a gaming handheld that becomes a tiny laptop
• The Dell 14S is yet another cheap laptop chasing the MacBook Neo
• GTA VI extended look got 31 million views on Netflix despite six-hour exclusivity window
• This is the best setting and placement for your Dolby Atmos soundbar
• Are all TVs at risk from burn-in? Here's how to avoid the problem altogether
• Blue Origin wins NASA contract for telecommunications on Mars
• Android stuck in Safe Mode? Here's how to turn it off
• Lake Ontario is now 'Lake America' on Apple Maps
• How to change the background on iPhone Messages

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