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| • Mistral releases Mistral Large 4, dubbed "le Chonk", a 1T-parameter open-weight model for general agentic capabilities, trained on 4,000 Grace Blackwell GPUs (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
• Uber agrees to acquire Boston-based catering platform ezCater in an all-cash deal valued at $2.3B to expand Uber Eats into corporate food delivery (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
• UK retailer Asos falls 10%+ after customers received app notifications saying "we have fully compromised the Snowflake instance"; source: Asos is investigating (Financial Times)
• Anthropic's IPO prospectus: Dario Amodei earned $18M in 2025, middle of the pack for tech CEOs, and President Daniela Amodei, his sister, earned $16.4M (Reuters)
• Study: China is struggling to attract foreign AI talent; for every 30 Chinese AI researchers in the US in 2025, only one in China made the opposite journey (Zeyi Yang/New York Times)
• Google contracts for 3,590 MW of power from Constellation Energy in the US' largest power grid, with new nuclear energy accounting for ~25% of that supply (Laila Kearney/Reuters)
• Source: Palmer Luckey's Erebor hits $7B+ in deposits since launching in February, including $3B+ over the past quarter with 500+ new customers (Financial Times)
• Sources: the FBI removes an Accenture contractor over a breach exposing thousands of employees' data; the FBI says a contractor failed to apply a security patch (Reuters)
• Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security service, raised $40M co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, taking its total funding to $65M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
• London- and Paris-based tokenized cash startup Spiko raised a $90M Series B at an $800M valuation, taking its total funding to $120M, and hits ~$2.7B in AUM (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)
• SignSplit, which offers infrastructure to let people digitally sign datasets, likenesses, and creative works, raised $400M from W Group at a $1B valuation (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
• Sources: Kuaishou's Kling has picked banks to lead a Hong Kong IPO aiming to raise $1B+ as soon as 2027; Kling hit a ~$15B valuation after raising $2.8B in July (Bloomberg)
• AMD CEO Lisa Su says the company plans to "substantially increase" supply in 2027 and needs "more advanced wafer capacity", as she meets Foxconn and TSMC (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
• At an Australian hearing, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon pledged faster safety incident disclosures; Anthropic representatives made similar pledges (ABC)
• South Korea plans to launch a ~$3.5B program to develop a frontier AI model starting as early as March 2027 and will open a competition to select participants (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald)
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