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Dune and Keyrock: bets placed on prediction markets rose from <$100M per month in early 2024 to $13B per month in November, as Polymarket and Kalshi compete (Jill R Shah/Financial Times)
2025-12-17 10:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Disney has been hesitant to license its IP to Roblox because it doesn't consider it a safe platform, bucking the trend followed by Netflix and others (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
2025-12-17 08:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Shares of Super Bank Indonesia, a Grab-backed digital lender, rose by 24% during their stock market debut in Jakarta, after the company raised ~$168M in its IPO (Ismi Damayanti/Nikkei Asia)
2025-12-17 06:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Customer engagement service MoEngage raised $180M in a follow-on Series F, split into a $57M primary and $123M secondary round, weeks after raising $100M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
2025-12-17 07:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's all-in bet to make Meta an AI leader, with some saying Alexandr Wang finds Zuckerberg's micromanagement of AI work suffocating (Financial Times)
2025-12-17 06:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
2025-12-17 07:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Adaptive Security, which uses AI to simulate social engineering attacks and help companies prevent them, raised an $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
2025-12-17 04:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B+ in OpenAI at a $500B+ valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft keeps rights to sell OpenAI models (The Information)
2025-12-17 03:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX's shares jumped up to 755% in its Shanghai debut after a heavily oversubscribed $585.5M IPO, pushing its market cap past $42B (Bloomberg)
2025-12-17 05:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta is partnering with Singapore-based K-ID to add its AgeKey age-verification tech to Meta apps, with plans to roll it out across multiple countries in 2026 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
2025-12-17 06:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Apple is in preliminary talks with India's CG Semi, which offers chip assembly and testing services, to assemble and package chips for the iPhone (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times)
2025-12-17 02:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Waymo is in discussions to raise more than $15B at a valuation near $100B, in a round led by Alphabet; an October 2024 round valued Waymo at above $45B (Bloomberg)
2025-12-16 23:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
California DMV says a California administrative law judge recently ruled Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
2025-12-17 01:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios (Xiaomi Mimo)
2025-12-17 00:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: New York-based data security startup Cyera is raising $400M led by Blackstone, valuing the company at $9B, up from $6B in June (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
2025-12-17 01:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to explicitly claim rights to the "Twitter" trademark after a startup filed an application to trademark the term (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-12-16 22:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on research tools, part of a push to add business customers, after launching Comet on Android (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
2025-12-16 22:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
2025-12-16 21:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Amazon partners with payments startup Slope to offer loans of up to $5M to merchants selling on its platform, using Amazon sales data for candidate selection (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
2025-12-16 20:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily "Your Day Ahead" briefing email based on users' emails and calendar (Robert Hart/The Verge)
2025-12-16 19:02 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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