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Amazon Just Dropped Fire OS: Its New Alexa Tablets Run Real Android and Start at $229.99
Amazon's new Alexa Tablets run Android with Google Play, start at $229.99 and ship October 14, as the company moves off Fire OS.
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- 01$1TAMD Just Cracked $1 Trillion — and OpenAI Holds a Warrant for a Tenth of ItAI
- 02$219.5BA Santa Fe Jury Just Handed Meta a $219.5 Billion Math ProblemPrivacy
- 03$54BMicron Made $54 Billion in 90 Days — and Still Can't Make Enough MemorySemiconductors
- 04$48BCognition Doubled to $48 Billion in Four Months. Its Revenue Multiple Didn't Budge.AI
- 05$30.9BCrusoe Tripled to $30.9 Billion in Ten Months by Selling Electrons, Not Just GPUsAI Infrastructure
- 06$23BA Company That Digs Holes Is Now Worth $23 Billion. The UAE Just Wrote the Check.Startups
- 07$22.6BSchneider Electric Just Dropped $22.6 Billion on PTC — Its Biggest Bet Ever, and the Market FlinchedMergers & Acquisitions
- 08$15.5BHarvey Just Doubled to $15.5 Billion in Six Months — On $400 Million in RevenueLegal AI
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DeepSeek Asked for $7 Billion. The Checks Came Back at $12 Billion.
DeepSeek went out for about $7 billion and investors came back with at least $12 billion, in a Tencent- and CATL-led round ahead of a planned 2027 IPO.
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Gigabyte Just Dropped a $400 WOLED Gaming Monitor and It Changes Everything
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Airtable Was Worth $11.7 Billion. Bending Spoons Just Bought It for $1.285 Billion.
Bending Spoons is buying Airtable for $1.285 billion in all cash — about 89% below the productivity startup's $11.7B pandemic-era peak, and its first deal since going public.
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The First Treatment for "Childhood Alzheimer's" Is One Shot — and a $3.95 Million Bill
The FDA just approved FAYUVI, the first-ever treatment for Sanfilippo syndrome type A: a one-time gene therapy from Ultragenyx priced at $3.95 million per patient.
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Cybersecurity
Kevin Mandia Points 26,000 AI Hackers at Your Network — and Just Raised $255.5 Million to Do It
Kevin Mandia sold Mandiant to Google for $5.4B. His new startup Armadin just raised $255.5M at a $2.5B valuation to point swarms of AI agents at your own network, before real attackers do.
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Schneider Electric Just Dropped $22.6 Billion on PTC — Its Biggest Bet Ever, and the Market Flinched
Schneider Electric agreed to buy PTC for $22.6 billion in cash — a 42.3% premium and its largest acquisition ever. Then its own stock fell 9%. Inside the industrial-software megabet.
Robotics
FieldAI Builds Brains for Robots It Doesn't Make — and Just Hit a $10 Billion Valuation
FieldAI signed a term sheet for $700M at a $10 billion valuation, up 5x from $2 billion in just over a year. The twist: it builds software for robots it doesn't make.
Semiconductors
Micron Made $54 Billion in 90 Days — and Still Can't Make Enough Memory
Micron just booked $54.23 billion in a single quarter, up 379% year over year, as AI's hunger for high-bandwidth memory turns a commodity-chip maker into one of the most profitable hardware businesses on Earth.
Privacy
A Santa Fe Jury Just Handed Meta a $219.5 Billion Math Problem
A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for 43.9 million privacy violations. At $5,000 apiece, that's a $219.5 billion ceiling — here's the wild math, and why a judge may trim it.
Defense Tech
Tekever Logged 50,000 Hours Over Ukraine. Now It's Worth $6.4 Billion.
Portugal's Tekever just raised $580 million at a $6.4 billion valuation, co-led by the University of California's endowment, on the strength of 50,000 flight hours over Ukraine.
Fintech
Y'all Street Just Pulled $155 Million — and Its First Listings Off Nasdaq
Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange raised $155M, pushing total funding to $430M, after pulling its first listings off Nasdaq and giving the NYSE-Nasdaq duopoly a credible third rival.
AI
The $6.2 Billion Bet That Your Game Clips Can Teach Robots to Move
General Intuition just closed $220M at a $6.2B valuation, betting that billions of gameplay clips a year can teach robots and self-driving cars how to move.
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AMD Paid $8.2 Billion for a Two-Year-Old Startup. The Chips Weren't the Point.
AMD is paying $8.2 billion in stock for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs — a ~40-person, two-year-old startup — to buy its way into spatial AI and take a swing at Nvidia.
Semiconductors
SiMa.ai Hit $1.45 Billion Building the Chip Your Robot Runs Without the Cloud
SiMa.ai raised $150M at a $1.45B valuation to run AI on-board robots, drones, and cars — betting the next chip war happens outside the data center.