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Palantir’s US commercial sales top government revenue for the first time
Palantir’s US commercial business brought in more revenue than its US government work for the first time in the third quarter. US commercial revenue rose 148% from a year earlier to $984m, the company said in its earnings release on Monday. Revenue from the US government rose 96% to $953m. Total…
Google opens its UK offices to union recruiters after a change in the law
Google has agreed to let the Prospect union speak to its UK staff in its offices, including its King’s Cross headquarters. It follows a new UK law, in force since Friday, giving unions a right to access workplaces. Prospect signed a similar deal with Meta in September. Google has agreed to let the…
Squarespace lays off 19% of staff, about 300 people
Squarespace is laying off 19% of its workforce, about 300 people, The Verge reported on Monday. The website builder has about 1,800 employees worldwide. Most of the cuts hit product and engineering teams, according to a companywide memo from chief executive Anthony Casalena seen by Business…
Apple spyware alerts reach German MPs and journalists in 99 countries
Germany’s cybersecurity agency has told lawmakers who got Apple’s spyware warnings to treat their iPhones as possibly compromised. Several Bundestag members and other public figures have received the alerts since 29 October. The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said so in a note on its…
New Zealand’s central bank registers Revolut as the country’s 27th bank
Revolut has been registered as a bank in New Zealand, clearing the way for the fintech to expand its financial services in the country. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand announced the approval on Tuesday, local time, making Revolut Bank New Zealand the country’s 27th registered bank. The London-based…
Microsoft and Lumen will jointly sell networks built for AI on Azure
Microsoft and Lumen Technologies are expanding their partnership to jointly sell networking to companies running AI on Azure. Lumen plans to bring its full cloud networking range to Azure. No figures or dates were given. Microsoft and Lumen Technologies will jointly sell networking to large…
Anthropic’s message threads let Claude agents skip resending chats
Anthropic launched message threads in public beta for its API. Agents send the full conversation once, then only new messages, which Anthropic says cuts the wait before Claude replies by about 35% on very long sessions. Prices and rate limits stay the same. Anthropic has launched message threads, a…
UiPath’s Dines says people must steer AI and answer for what it does
UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines told customers at FUSION in Dubai on Monday that companies will hand more and more work to AI. People, he said, will have to steer it and answer for what it does. He spoke at the Museum of the Future. “We need to educate our people to take a […] This story…
Snap settles teen social media addiction case days before trial
Snap has settled with two teenagers who accuse Snapchat and other social media apps of addictive design. Their trial in Los Angeles was days away. The terms are confidential. Lawyers for the plaintiffs announced the settlement on Monday, Reuters reported. Jury selection began last week. The trial…
SUSE to cut about 10% of jobs as CEO cites AI, The Register reports
SUSE, the German Linux company founded in 1992, is cutting about 10% of its workforce. Chief executive Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen told staff on Monday that AI and automation are changing how software companies work. Liam Proven reported the cuts for The Register, which saw the internal memo. SUSE has…
Larridin raises $30M to show companies what their AI spending buys
Larridin, a San Francisco startup that measures what companies get back from AI, has raised $30 million. Pelion Ventures led the Series A round, the company said in a statement on Monday. Andreessen Horowitz and Gradient Ventures, which backed Larridin’s $17 million seed round, invested again. GFT…
Tutor Intelligence raises $75M from a16z to put robots to work by the hour
Tutor Intelligence, a robotics startup in Watertown, Massachusetts, has raised a $75 million Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round brings its total funding to $117 million, the company said in a statement on Monday. Union Square Ventures, which led the Series A, and Neo, which led…
Meta reportedly weighs $20B bond sale, its first in euros
Meta is sounding out investors for a bond sale worth at least $20bn, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter. It would be the company’s first bond sale in euros. The plan under discussion splits the deal into US dollar bonds in five parts and euro notes in six parts…
Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany and Europe must build their own AI more quickly
Germany and Europe must move faster to build their own AI technology or risk becoming dependent on outside providers, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday, according to Reuters. Speaking at an AI conference in Berlin, Merz called digital sovereignty “a truly existential question” and…
Clark raises $11M to put AI ‘Clerks’ to work on company audits
New York startup Clark raised an $11M seed round led by Touring Capital and launched Clerks, AI agents that work through audits for CPA firms. More than 35 firms use its tools, it says, and it offers a 100% accuracy guarantee. New York startup Clark has raised an $11M seed round led by Touring…
New York Times and three other US papers sue Brave over AI scraping
The New York Times sued Brave Software on Monday, accusing the browser maker of scraping its journalism and selling access to it to AI companies. Hours later, the publishers of the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a separate lawsuit making similar allegations…
Meta lines up dollar and euro bonds days after S&P’s warning
Meta has asked Citigroup and Morgan Stanley to hold investor calls for a bond sale in US dollars and euros, Bloomberg reports. It comes days after S&P cut Meta’s credit outlook and a week after a $35B share sale. Meta is preparing to sell bonds in both US dollars and euros to help fund its […] This…
Anthropic’s amended IPO filing shows $17bn revenue, $895bn commitments
Anthropic generated nearly $17bn in revenue in the third quarter, around 12 times more than in the same period last year, according to an amended IPO prospectus filed with the SEC on Monday. Bloomberg reported the figures. The updated filing adds the latest quarterly results to the prospectus the…
Chip shortage disrupts Fiat production in Italy and may last to December
A shortage of electronic components is disrupting Fiat production in Italy, with the problems potentially continuing through December, Stellantis said on Monday, Reuters reported. The missing component is used in an engine control unit, the computer that manages a car’s engine. Stellantis, which…
OpenAI launches Grid Protectors to ease AI’s strain on power grids
OpenAI launched the Grid Protectors Program, promising that its future campuses will cut electricity use when grids are under strain. Its planned Georgia campus is the pilot, with up to 1,000MW of flexible demand. No other sites have been named. OpenAI has launched a national programme to make its…
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