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VC & Accelerator — last 7-day briefing (US, Europe, Asia, Global)

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Private-Market FOMO on AI Could Trigger Costly Mistakes — Says Top Deal-Maker

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“AI Denial” Is the Real Enterprise Threat - Why Calling Everything “Slop” Undermines How Far AI Has Come

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When Safe AI Means Different Things - How Anthropic and OpenAI’s Red-Teaming Philosophies Diverge

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AI Truth Serum - Why the Latest from OpenAI Could Change How We Trust Chatbots

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Jumbo-Shrimp Fintech - How Flex Is Serving Mid-Sized Businesses With Its $60M War Chest

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Trust Lv. Up - Why Gemini 3 Pro Is Winning Where Benchmarks Fail

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Google’s New Move to Make AI Agents Actually Useful at Work

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AI’s Safety Gap - Why Leading Labs Are Failing Global Standards

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Memory Mayhem - AI Boom Sparks a New Global Supply-Chain Crisis

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Singapore’s AI-RAN Disruptor - How SynaXG Raised Over US$20 Million to Power the Future of Wireless

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When AI Deepens Divides - Why the Next Great Divergence Could Leave Millions Behind

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Small, Smart & Multimodal - A New Way to Train AI to See and Reason

Small, Smart & Multimodal: A New Way to Train AI to See and Reason Researchers have introduced a breakthrough strategy that could reshape how AI learns to interpret and reason about the world ...

Razorpay’s Big Break - How India’s Fintech Star Just Super-Charged Global Payments

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From Degrees to Drills - Britons Turning to Skilled Trades as AI Looms

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WestBridge Backs Finfactor $15M Push to Power India Open Finance Rails​

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Small Team, Big Ambitions - How OpenAGI Claims Its New Agent Crushes OpenAI

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Small But Mighty - How Liquid AI’s New Blueprint Makes On-Device AI Work for Real Business

Small But Mighty: How Liquid AI’s New Blueprint Makes On-Device AI Work for Real Business When most people think of powerful AI, they imagine massive language models running on cloud supercomputer...

Open-Source AI Just Leveled Up - How DeepSeek Unveiled Models That Rival GPT‑5

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U.S. Strikes Back in Open-Source AI -s Arcee AI Unveils Its First Trinity Models

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How Amazon’s AI Chatbot Rufus Transformed Black Friday Shopping

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Guardrails 2.0 - Why Ontology — Not Just Rules — Could Save AI Agents from Getting Lost in Enterprise Data

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When Even the Smartest AI Falters — 200 Finance Experts Put GPT-5 Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet 4.5 to the Test

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AI Agents in Action - Foundations for Evaluation and Governance

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LightMem - Lightweight and efficient memory-augmented generation

LightMem: Lightweight and efficient memory-augmented generation LightMem proposes a new, human-inspired memory system for large language model (LLM) agents that keeps long-term context while dra...

Paper summary - General Agentic Memory Via Deep Research

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Paper summary - The Future Is Neuro-Symbolic - Where Has It Been, and Where Is It Going

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When AI’s Deadlines Turn Dangerous - New Study Shows Agents Break the Rules Under Pressure

When AI’s Deadlines Turn Dangerous: New Study Shows Agents “Break the Rules” Under Pressure It’s a scenario that sounds like science-fiction — AI agents turning rogue when stressed — but new resea...

Coupang’s Massive Data Breach Exposes Nearly All Korean Customers

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Summary of the paper - OWL - Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation

Summary of the paper: OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation 📚 Research Topic and Objective Topic: Multi-agent systems (MAS) using...

Qwen Momentum - Consumer Launches, Regional Partnerships, and Device Integration — Weekly Briefing (Nov 22–29, 2025)

Qwen Momentum: Consumer Launches, Regional Partnerships, and Device Integration — Weekly Briefing (Nov 22–29, 2025) 1) Headline Alibaba’s Qwen app hits 10M downloads in first week of public bet...

Microsoft weekly - agentic models, privacy hardening, and product polish (Nov 22–29, 2025)

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Weekly Google Update — Google’s November AI & Infrastructure Push - Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and the Enterprise Cloud Offensive

Weekly Google Update — Google’s November AI & Infrastructure Push: Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and the Enterprise Cloud Offensive 📰 Headlines Google releases Gemini 3 and broadens AI‑driven...

Weekly Anthropic Update - Anthropic Accelerates AI Lead with Opus 4.5 Launch, $50B Infrastructure Push & New Global Partnerships

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Perplexity Weekly Brief — Comet on Android, GPT‑5.1, and Shopping Push as AI Browser Wars Heat Up

Perplexity Weekly Brief — Comet on Android, GPT‑5.1, and Shopping Push as AI Browser Wars Heat Up 📌 Executive Summary This week Perplexity rolled out a major set of product updates that extend ...

OpenAI — Weekly Briefing (Nov 22–29, 2025) - Product Push, Compliance Wins, and Crisis Response

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Open-source model momentum on Hugging Face - FLUX-2 in Diffusers, fast batching for Transformers, and 3D-aware VLM gains

Open-source model momentum on Hugging Face: FLUX-2 in Diffusers, fast batching for Transformers, and 3D-aware VLM gains Introduction / Hook This week on Hugging Face the community sharpened two...

Daily AI Tech Research Update — Week of 23–29 November 2025

Daily AI Tech Research Update — Week of 23–29 November 2025 1. Executive Summary Date: 29 November 2025 Scope: Peer‑reviewed papers and preprints published or spotlighted in the last 7 day...

AI Monetization Infra And Fintech Mega-Scaling Dominate Latest VC Moves

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Anthropic’s New Trick - How They finally solved the “long-running AI agent” problem

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U.S. AI Regulation Enters a Showdown — Who Controls the Future of AI - Washington or 50 State Capitols?

U.S. AI Regulation Enters a Showdown — Who Controls the Future of AI: Washington or 50 State Capitols? It’s go time — in 2025, the battle over who governs artificial intelligence in the United Sta...

Japan’s Big Bet on the AI-Chip Race - ¥1.6 B Extra Budget to Fuel Domestic Chip Boom*

Japan’s Big Bet on the AI-Chip Race: ¥1.6 B Extra Budget to Fuel Domestic Chip Boom Japan is making a bold push to reclaim leadership in the global semiconductor and AI hardware race. Under a new ...

The New AI Space Race - 49 US Startups Secure $100M+ in 2025

The New AI Space Race: 49 U.S. Startups Secure $100M+ in 2025 The U.S. AI funding boom didn’t sputter in 2025 — it ignited a new era. According to TechCrunch, 49 American AI startups raised $100...

Eye-Tracking Meets AI - UK Researchers Use Supercomputer to Spot Mental Fatigue

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When Chatbots Comfort and When They Can Harm The Double-Edged Sword of AI Mental Health

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Event Sensors Bring Just the Right Data — and Change How Machines See

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When IT Teams Fail at the Basics - Why Big Software Projects Still Collapse

When IT Teams Fail at the Basics: Why Big Software Projects Still Collapse Software is everywhere — powering salaries, driving public services, enabling commerce — yet tens of billions of dollars ...

China’s AI Firms Go Offshore - Training in SEA to Tap Nvidia Power

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When Tech Giants Face the Pentagon’s Gavel - Alibaba, Baidu, BYD Eye “Military-Linked” Label

When Tech Giants Face the Pentagon’s Gavel: Alibaba, Baidu, BYD Eye “Military-Linked” Label The Pentagon is reportedly pushing to brand three of China’s most prominent companies — Alibaba Group Ho...

OpenAI Lets Companies Pick Data-Hosting Location — A Big Win for Global Enterprise Compliance

OpenAI Lets Companies Pick Data-Hosting Location — A Big Win for Global Enterprise Compliance Enterprises seeking to deploy AI at scale have long faced a barrier: regulatory and legal requirements...

AI Shopping Assistants Are Here — But Niche Startups Aren’t Worried (Yet)

I Shopping Assistants Are Here — But Niche Startups Aren’t Worried (Yet) As the 2025 holiday shopping season approaches, two of the biggest names in generative AI — OpenAI and Perplexity AI — have...

Paper - Nested Learning - The Illusion of Deep Learning Architectures

Paper: Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning Architectures Detailed Breakdown of the Paper 1. Introduction The authors motivate Nested Learning (NL) by highlighting key limitations...

Asia Tycoon Backs $1.5 B AI Push Through Private Credit Funds

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Asia’s First Global AI Infrastructure Fund Goes On-Chain - $150M SKYD Token Bridges Web3 and Real-World Assets

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Israeli AI Startup Opti Raises $20M Seed to Reinvent Enterprise Identity Security

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The Invisible Cost of Going “AI-First” - Why Your Company Might Be All Hype and No Substance

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Big Tech’s AI Debt Surge - A $1.5 Trillion 5-Year Credit Time-Bomb?

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