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doubleAI gets $200M for Maxwell, a model for fast code
The company says Maxwell made one data tool 38 times as fast, but it gave no external test.
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Anthropic revenue rose 45% to $16.8 billion, but growth slows
The third quarter revenue of Anthropic rose 45% to $16.8 billion from $11.6 billion, a slower rate than in the quarter before.
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New turn in Character.ai case as 40 attorneys general want protections
A group of 40 attorneys general wants the court to make privacy and safety protections a condition of the sale of Character.ai.
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Anthropic buys Opaque Systems, a confidential AI startup
The technology of Opaque Systems lets AI systems use sensitive data while hardware keeps the data safe.
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New turn in Character.AI sale as Disney offers work to 60 workers
A court record says Disney will give new staff about $60 million each year, but a rival can offer more.
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Stripe is reported to buy OpenRouter for about 7.5 billion dollars
Stripe and OpenRouter have not confirmed the deal, and the price is five to six times the value of three months before.
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Tether invests in AIsa, a startup for AI agent payments
AIsa says its total funding is more than $9 million after a seed round on 15 October.
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Amazon gets DuckLabs, the maker of the DuckDB database
DuckDB and its tools stay free and open source in the MIT license.
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Character.ai is in bankruptcy and gives Disney a license
Subscribers keep their access and their charges continue, while the company looks for a buyer.
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Asian startups got $38.5 billion in Q3, and most of it went to AI
Crunchbase data show that companies in China got about 70 percent of the total, or $27 billion.
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DJ Reinier Zonneveld starts GasLab, an AI music platform, with $1M
Artists can see how their music helped to make each AI track, and GasLab pays them.
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Proofpoint agreed to buy Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash
The companies plan to close the deal in the first half of 2027.