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| • SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, an agentic capability benchmark measuring 11 domains, including chip design, cybersecurity, and RSI; Opus 5.5 tops with a 12% score (SemiAnalysis)
• Casap, whose AI tools automate dispute and anti-fraud operations for banks, raised a $56M Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $90M (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
• South Korean President Lee Jae Myung vows $15.97B for AI, chips, physical AI, and data centers in the country's 2027 budget, nearly twice the 2026 amount (Reuters)
• AI-powered medical search engine Vera Health, which says it is used by 800,000+ clinicians in 190 countries, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
• Midstream Health, whose AI tools help 250 hospitals recover revenue from rebates and vendor and payer underpayments, raised a $20M Series A led by Valtrius (Will Maddox/Axios)
• Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation (Tim Keary/Forbes)
• Broccoli AI, which sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies, raised a $22M Series A and a $30M Series B; a source says it is valued at $300M (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
• Letter: the White House argues it doesn't have to share the full draft of its voluntary AI testing framework, citing national security and commercial exemptions (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
• Hyperbolic, which lets companies rent AI compute across ~30 neoclouds, raised a $30M Series A-1 led by Lip-Bu Tan's Walden Catalyst; it has raised $50M to date (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
• A look at Binance's efforts to contain the hack, including creating a global war room of ~100 people, coordinating with other crypto firms and the FBI, and more (Bloomberg)
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• Saudi Aramco acquires a 49% stake in AI startup Humain, contributing ~$2.6B in cash in 2026 plus AI, compute, and digital assets; Saudi Arabia's PIF retains 51% (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
• OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses" (Axios)
• How "get-paid-to" apps like Freecash, briefly a top five App Store app in September, pay users small sums to play games and help publishers find big spenders (John Herrman/New York Magazine)
• ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions (Allon Sinai/CTech)
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