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A.J. Vicens / Reuters: US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities  —  Chinese-linked hackers used sophisticated malware to penetrate and maintain long-term access to… Read More »US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)

FinSMEs: Pine, which offers an AI agent to automate digital chores, like making calls, handling emails, and operating software to complete tasks, raised a $25M Series A  —  Pine, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of an AI agent for consumers’… Read More »Pine, which offers an AI agent to automate digital chores, like making calls, handling emails, and operating software to complete tasks, raised a $25M Series A (FinSMEs)

Steve Hsu / @hsu_steve: Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5  —  I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came… Read More »Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)

Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos / Bloomberg: Docusign reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $818.4M, vs. $807.1M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; DOCU drops 6%+ after hours  —  DocuSign Inc.’s AI-powered IAM platform helped the electronic-signature platform provider’s third-quarter… Read More »Docusign reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $818.4M, vs. $807.1M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; DOCU drops 6%+ after hours (Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos/Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads raised ~$1.13B in the year’s second-largest onshore IPO, valuing it at ~$7.6B, with the retail portion oversubscribed 2,750x  —  Moore Threads Technology Co., a leading Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker, surged in its Shanghai trading… Read More »Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads raised ~$1.13B in the year’s second-largest onshore IPO, valuing it at ~$7.6B, with the retail portion oversubscribed 2,750x (Bloomberg)

Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: A Polymarket trader netted $1M+ in 24 hours, mostly by placing suspiciously accurate bets on Google’s 2025 Year in Search rankings  —  Boaz Sobrado is a fintech leader and entrepreneur.  —  A Polymarket trader known as… Read More »A Polymarket trader netted $1M+ in 24 hours, mostly by placing suspiciously accurate bets on Google’s 2025 Year in Search rankings (Boaz Sobrado/Forbes)

Anna Tong / Forbes: Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation  —  Ali Ansari’s decision to turn micro1’s AI recruitment assistant… Read More »Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Will Oremus / Washington Post: Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy  —  New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more… Read More »Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Sam Becker / Fast Company: TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC  —  The stock exchange’s latest media partnership extends its push into new… Read More »TBPN signs a partnership with the NYSE, giving the video podcast the same on-floor access enjoyed by major financial networks such as CNBC (Sam Becker/Fast Company)

CNBC: Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google’s cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers  —  – Google Cloud is locking in a multi-year partnership with AI coding… Read More »Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google’s cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (CNBC)