Journals

Ryan Lawler / Axios: Peek, which sells software for attractions and tour operators, raised a $70M Series D, taking total funding to $150M, and acquired Acme Ticketing and Connect&Go  —  Peek, which sells software for attractions and tour operators, raised… Read More »Peek, which sells software for attractions and tour operators, raised a $70M Series D, taking total funding to $150M, and acquired Acme Ticketing and Connect&Go (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Rebecca Torrence / Business Insider: Arbiter, which is using AI to automate healthcare administrative tasks, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed from multiple family offices at a $400M valuation  —  – Thirty Madison’s former president is launching her own… Read More »Arbiter, which is using AI to automate healthcare administrative tasks, emerges from stealth with a $52M seed from multiple family offices at a $400M valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Business Insider)

Nikita Bier / @nikitabier: X starts rolling out About This Account globally, letting users see the country or region where an X account is based by tapping the signup date on the profile  —  In a couple hours, we’ll be… Read More »X starts rolling out About This Account globally, letting users see the country or region where an X account is based by tapping the signup date on the profile (Nikita Bier/@nikitabier)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju’s founder Byju Raveendran on Nov. 20 to pay $1B+ to US lenders, over missing funds from Byju’s US unit  —  Byju Raveendran, the embattled founder of Indian… Read More »A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju’s founder Byju Raveendran on Nov. 20 to pay $1B+ to US lenders, over missing funds from Byju’s US unit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Justine Calma / The Verge: How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into “America’s Semiconductor HQ”, attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years  —  Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images … Arizona’s economy was… Read More »How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into “America’s Semiconductor HQ”, attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Fred Vogelstein / Crazy Stupid Tech: While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech  —  The artificial intelligence revolution… Read More »While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)

Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race  —  Top-scoring model’s debut shakes up AI… Read More »How the launch of Gemini 3, which surged ahead of models from OpenAI and other competitors on benchmark tests, has pushed Google ahead in the AI race (Katherine Blunt/Wall Street Journal)

Aisha Down / The Guardian: Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in “LLM grooming”, flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT  —  Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat… Read More »Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in “LLM grooming”, flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)

Nikkei Asia: Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost “sold out” due to AI demand  —  TAIPEI/TOKYO/SEOUL — Since October, SK Hynix’s headquarters in Icheon, near Seoul,… Read More »Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost “sold out” due to AI demand (Nikkei Asia)

Rest of World: A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement  —  Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving… Read More »A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)