• Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents
• SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that's a problem for America's space agency
• ULA's Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th
• As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland
• Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA
• Trump admin sues Utah to save Kalshi from the state's total ban on gambling
• The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
• Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac
• Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use
• Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too
• Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV
• Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
• Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners
• Apple announces touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display
• Buckle up for more body-swapping hijinks in Jumanji: Open World trailer
• A hidden ocean change near Antarctica could have global consequences
• China’s snooping around Pacific undersea cables raises risks for Big Tech
• Apple refreshes the iMac, entry-level MacBook Pro with the M6 chip
• South Carolina's measles outbreak jumped to Washington state 5 times in 2 weeks
• China's top-secret spaceplane can't hide in low-Earth orbit
| • The UK FCA, which sued Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX in 2025 for "unlawfully promoting crypto asset services", says HTX will exit the UK in a settlement (Financial Times)
• Collective, which uses AI to automate bookkeeping for solo business owners, raised a $40M Series B and $60M in nondilutive capital from GC's Customer Value Fund (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
• Ottawa-based Solink, which uses AI to pull data from already-installed security cameras, raised $100M+ led by Vertu Capital, bringing its total raised to $198M+ (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
• Thrive Holdings agrees to acquire ADT in an all-cash take-private deal, valuing ADT at ~$7.6B in equity value, a ~46% premium over its October 27 closing price (Claire Rychlewski/Axios)
• Mistral releases the weights for Mistral Large 4, or Le Chonk, and says it rivals top open models such as GLM-5.3 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
• Serval, which offers AI agents for enterprise IT operations like access management, raised $150M led by Sequoia at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in December 2025 (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
• Wabi, which is building an AI assistant that integrates into group chats and can take actions like booking appointments, raised $55M at a $1.25B valuation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)
• Sources: Microsoft is seeking to raise $25B+ in its first US investment-grade bond sale since 2017, when it raised $17B, to fund AI-related capital expenditures (Bloomberg)
• Q&A with Sam Altman on finding PHP bugs, sandboxing superhuman models as an unsolved safety dilemma, robotics scaling data centers, math, agent swarms, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
• Q&A with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on diffusing intelligence, safety, AI lessons, forward-deployed engineering, Anthropic vs. the US, AI religion, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
• Circuit Mind, which uses AI to automate electronics and circuit design, raised $25M, including an $18.5M Series A led by Norwest, and plans a US relocation (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
• Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and Wellington Management at a $40B valuation, up from a $22B valuation after raising $1B in May, its last raise before an IPO (Lauren McCarthy/New York Times)
• DoorDash agrees to acquire Instacart in a ~$17B deal, paying $65 per share, a 26% premium to its October 22 close, as the platform delivery market consolidates (Reuters)
• Sources: the Pentagon is treating the late August freezer malfunctions across 6+ military bases as a suspected cyberattack and is working with French police (Reuters)
• Jio Platforms adds $36B in market value in two trading sessions, hitting a $144B market cap, up from its ~$108B IPO valuation, after India's biggest-ever IPO (Ashutosh Joshi/Bloomberg)
| • FromSoftware delays The Duskbloods until 2027
• DoorDash acquires Instacart in $17 billion delivery service merger
• EasySMX S10 Lite review: A Switch 2 fidget toy with a weird removable faceplate
• Apple and Google fined in South Korea over app store violations
• Google's Gemini 4 Carbon promises 'significant leap' in AI coding and cybersecurity
• Hackers leaked details of more than 41,000 Homeland Security personnel
• FCC chair wants to let prisons jam illegal cellphones
• Apple's PROLED XDR Display has a cringy name but incredible specs
• Meta weighs delaying 'alarming' new business terms as backlash grows
• The PlayStation 5 just might be Sony's final Blu-Ray player
• OpenAI now lets you text your Dot agent
• Engadget is hiring writers!
• Sony's new see-through DualSense controllers let you game like its 1999
• Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro feels both familiar and radically improved
• Here's how the touchscreen on the MacBook Pro with PROLED display works
• Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro has an OLED touchscreen, weighs just three pounds
• Fake PS5 emulators on GitHub are spreading password-stealing malware
• The Xreal Aura smartglasses are now on sale for a discounted launch price
• New York governor signs AI chatbot child safety law
• Reddit is adding a 'for you' feed for recommendations
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