November 17, 2025

Surveillance tech provider Protei was hacked, its data stolen and its website defaced: The defacement of Protei's website said "another DPI/SORM provider bites the dust," apparently referring to the company selling its web intercept and surveillance products to phone and internet providers. Read More

PowerLattice attracts investment from ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger for its power saving chiplet: PowerLattice, a startup founded by veteran electrical engineers from Qualcomm, NUVIA, and Intel in 2023, claims to have developed a groundbreaking approach that reduces the power needs of computer chips by more than 50%. Read More

Sakana AI raises $135M Series B at a $2.65B valuation to continue building AI models for Japan: Sakana AI raised about $135M at a $2.65B post-money valuation in one of Japan’s largest fundraises this year. Read More

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Join us for a deep dive on Kimi K2 Thinking, a 1T MoE model that makes 200–300 tool calls without drift. Learn how Moonshot post-trained it for agentic reasoning, how it differs from DeepSeek and Qwen, see live demos, and learn to run it on Together AI — ideal for builders of LLM apps, tools, and agents.

MCP AI agent security startup Runlayer launches with 8 unicorns, $11M from Khosla’s Keith Rabois and Felicis: Three-time founder Andrew Berman is back with a startup that helps IT ensure business users' AI agents operate securely. Read More

Jeff Bezos reportedly returns to the trenches as co-CEO of new AI startup, Project Prometheus: Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos seems to be getting his hands dirty once again: the billionaire is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 billion in funding, and will take on duties as co-chief executive. Read More

Bone AI raises $12M to challenge Asia’s defense giants with AI-powered robotics: Bone AI, a South Korean startup, is combining AI and manufacturing to build next-gen defense robotics and challenge the region’s industry giants. Read More

'Buy Now, Pay Later' is expanding fast, and that should worry everyone: As Morris watches his BNPL investments from the other side of the table, he seems to understand the warning signs better than most. Read More

Are we nearing the end of Apple’s Tim Cook era?: Apple is getting serious about succession planning, according to a new report. Read More

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Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni launch fashion tech startup Phia, Coinbase talks M&A under pro-crypto administration, and Clyx introduces an AI event finder.

Danish startup FlatPay joins the club of European fintech unicorns to track: Flatpay’s bet is that it can challenge larger players by charging small merchants a flat transaction rate to use its card terminals and point-of-sales systems. Read More

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