Donna raises $4.8M to cut admin work and unlock real insights from field sales teams

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Ghent-based Donna, a proactive AI assistantfor field sales teams, has raised $4.8 million in new funding to accelerateinternational expansion and cement its position in field sales enablement. Theroun...

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#ai #innovation #apple #aiethics #business #jobs #technology #assistant #timcook

Apple’s AI chief paid the price for the company’s stalled progress

3 months / fastcompany / Mark Sullivan

Apple's AI chief to step down as critics say the company is falling behind

3 months / reddit / /u/tylerthe-theatre

John Giannandrea Exits Apple After Siri Struggles

3 months / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

OpenAI Declares 'Code Red' As Google Catches Up In AI Race

BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI has reportedly issued a "code red" on Monday, pausing projects like ads, shopping agents, health tools, and its Pulse assistant to focus entirely on improving ChatGPT. "This includes core features like greater speed and reliability, better personal…

#ai #innovation #openai #aiethics #genai #business #chatgpt #altman #technology

Advertising Dilemma: Ad strategies on hold, then reconsidered (2)
Internal Pivot: Rapid ChatGPT improvements amid crisis (4)
Market Watch: Deutsche Bank weighs in on Code Red (1)
Rival Surge: Gemini and competitors intensify pressure (6)
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Advertising Dilemma: Ad strategies on hold, then reconsidered

OpenAI may be close to introducing ads for ChatGPT

3 months / fastcompany / Chris Morris

Sam Altman Declares 'Code Red' for ChatGPT, Delays OpenAI Advertising Plans

3 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Internal Pivot: Rapid ChatGPT improvements amid crisis

OpenAI's 'Code Red' scramble

3 months / therundown / Zach Mink

OpenAI Hits the Panic Button

3 months / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

This is why OpenAI is in a Code Red

3 months / reddit / /u/UnknownEssence

OpenAI CEO declares ‘code red’ to improve ChatGPT as rivals move in

3 months / scmp

Market Watch: Deutsche Bank weighs in on Code Red

As ChatGPT turns three, Deutsche Bank offers these solutions to Altman’s ‘Code Red’

3 months / x / @MarketWatch

Rival Surge: Gemini and competitors intensify pressure

Sam Altman orders "code red" for ChatGPT as rival AI models catch up

3 months / techspot

AI chatbot race enters crunch phase

3 months / ft

OpenAI Declares 'Code Red' As Google Catches Up In AI Race

3 months / slashdot / BeauHD

OpenAI in “code red” after losing 6% of its users in a week due to Gemini 3, report says

3 months / mashable

OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months

3 months / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race

3 months / reddit / /u/TripleShotPls

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3 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Marvell Technology, Inc. (MRVL) Stock: Surges on Record Q3 Revenue and Bold AI Acquisition

Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR Marvell hits record Q3 revenue, surpassing forecasts with AI growth boost. Celestial AI deal powers Marvell’s leap in data infrastructure innovation. Data center demand drives Marvell’s strong FY2026 growth projections. Sale to Infineon lifts earning…

#ai #chips #aiethics #earnings #business #datacenter #deeptech #acquisitions #semiconductor #technology

Marvell shares jump as chipmaker bolsters AI ambitions with Celestial deal

3 months / reuters / reuters.com

Marvell bets big on optical interconnects, buying Celestial AI for up to $5.5B

3 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Marvell Technology, Inc. (MRVL) Stock: Surges on Record Q3 Revenue and Bold AI Acquisition

3 months / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Why Marvell’s stock is soaring toward its best day in months after earnings

3 months / x / @MarketWatch

Marvell to acquire Celestial AI for as much as $5.5 billion

3 months / cnbc

(PR) Marvell to Acquire Celestial AI for $3.25 Billion

3 months / techpowerup

Black Friday Retains Lead Over Cyber Monday Amid Record-High Weekend Sales

PYMNTS / pymnts - A record number of consumers shopped during the five days from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, with Black Friday remaining the most popular day, according to the National Retail Federation. The number of consumers who shopped during that holiday we…

#ecommerce #analytics #amazon #stockmarket #business #finance #walmart #payments #technology

Olive Young hits W1tr in sales to foreign tourists

3 months / co / Ha Neul-bit

From AirPods to espresso machines, everything the Mashable shopping team bought during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025

3 months / mashable

Black Friday Retains Lead Over Cyber Monday Amid Record-High Weekend Sales

3 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Shopify posts another record-breaking Black Friday, Cyber Monday despite partial outage

3 months / betakit / Josh Scott

Black Friday-Cyber Monday shoppers spent more online and in person this year, driving $44.2 billion in sales

3 months / mashable

Expedition Growth Capital $375 Million Fund III

Clinton / ventureburn - Expedition Closes Its Third Fund at the Hard Cap Expedition Growth Capital has completed the raise of Fund III. The fund reached $375 million. It closed at the hard cap.The post Expedition Growth Capital $375 Million Fund III appeared first on Ventureburn.

#startups #vc #innovation #investment #privateequity #business #finance #europe #economy #technology

Expedition Growth Capital $375 Million Fund III

3 months / ventureburn / Clinton

London’s Expedition Growth Capital Closes €323M Fund III to Support Bootstrapped European Companies

3 months / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

London’s Expedition Growth Capital raises €323 million Fund III to back bootstrapped European companies

3 months / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

London’s Expedition Growth Capital raises third fund worth £280m

3 months / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Retail operations automation startup Duvo raises $15M

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Automation startup Duvo says it’s ready to provide retail and e-commerce teams with an artificial intelligence agent workforce that handles their day-to-day operations after raising $15 million in seed funding. Today’s round was led by Index Ventures and …

#ai #startups #vc #automation #ecommerce #ml #aiethics #investment #business #technology

Duvo Raises $15M in Seed Funding

3 months / finsmes / FinSMEs

Duvo Secures $15M To Power Retail With AI Workforce

3 months / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Retail operations automation startup Duvo raises $15M

3 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Duvo raises $15M to give retailers AI staff that cuts manual work by 40%

3 months / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Rohlik founder’s Duvo nabs $15M from Index Ventures for no-code retail AI

3 months / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

AILOS Robotics gets €3.5M to scale gearbox manufacturing for Europe’s next-gen robots

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Brussels-based AILOS Robotics has raised €3.5 million in a seed round led by QBIC and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), with participation from Wallonie Entreprendre andfinance&invest.brussels, reinf...

#robotics #automation #innovation #aiethics #investment #business #deeptech #europe #manufacturing #eu

AILOS Robotics Raises €3.5M To Boost Gearbox Production For Europe’s Robots

3 months / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

AILOS Robotics grabs €3.5M to rollout backdrivable gearboxes for humanoids and cobots

3 months / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

AILOS Robotics gets €3.5M to scale gearbox manufacturing for Europe’s next-gen robots

3 months / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Meta's Instagram orders employees back to the office 5 days a week

cnbc - The RTO policy only applies to Instagram and not to Meta's other family of apps, like Facebook and WhatsApp.

#techpolicy #meta #business #jobs #technology #instagram #office

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri's memo ordering staff to the office five days a week in 2026

3 months / reddit / /u/play3xxx1

Meta's Instagram orders employees back to the office 5 days a week

3 months / cnbc

Instagram mandates total return to office for employees in 2026

3 months / engadget / Anna Washenko

Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026

3 months / ycombinator

Apple's AI Chief Is Stepping Down And A Microsoft Executive Is Filling His Place

bgr - Apple announced that the company's AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and being replaced by Microsoft's Amar Subramanya.

#ai #apple #microsoft #business #technology #executiveorder #timcook

Executive Shakeup Signals Apple AI Overhaul (7)
Siri Setback Spurs Urgent Leadership Change (3)
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Executive Shakeup Signals Apple AI Overhaul

The man who ran Google’s Gemini now takes over Apple AI

3 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Amar Subramanya Named Apple’s New Artificial Intelligence Chief

3 months / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Apple names former Microsoft, Google executive to replace current AI chief

3 months / siliconangle / James Farrell

Apple just named a new AI chief with Google and Microsoft expertise, as John Giannandrea steps down

3 months / techcrunch / Connie Loizos

Apple's AI Chief Is Stepping Down And A Microsoft Executive Is Filling His Place

3 months / bgr

Apple replaces head of AI with executive poached from Microsoft

3 months / ft

Apple is making a big shakeup as it looks for an edge in AI

3 months / x / @MarketWatch

Siri Setback Spurs Urgent Leadership Change

Apple Has Announced the Retirement and Apparent Replacement of the Guy Formerly in Charge of Siri

3 months / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Apple Revamps AI Leadership Amid Siri Delays

3 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure

3 months / slashdot / BeauHD

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The move is being characterized as a shake-up, but was seemingly inevitable in retrospect.

3 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Apple just named a new AI chief with Google and Microsoft expertise, as John Giannandrea steps down | TechCrunch #Apple #Tech https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/apple-just-named-a-new-ai-chief-with-google-and-microsoft-expertise-as-john-giannandrea-steps-d

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Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/12/02/0021253/apple-ai-chief-retiring-after-siri-failure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

3 months / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

John Giannandrea is Leaving Apple

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Widely blamed for the problems Apple had adding AI to Siri, AI executive John Giannandrea is leaving the company.The post John Giannandrea is Leaving Apple appeared first on Thurrott.com.

#ai #apple #aiethics #business #jobs #layoffs #technology #assistant #timcook

Executive Shakeup: New AI Leadership Amid Siri Struggles (17)
Legacy Commentary: Reflecting on AI Leadership’s Impact (2)
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Executive Shakeup: New AI Leadership Amid Siri Struggles

Apple's head of AI resigns after Siri problems

3 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Apple appoints new vice president of AI as John Giannandrea steps down

3 months / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Apple AI Chief John Giannandrea Retiring After Siri Delays

3 months / reddit / /u/Old-School8916

Apple hires Google veteran as its new vice president of AI

3 months / engadget / Karissa Bell

Apple Replaces AI Chief John Giannandrea with Former Google Exec Amid Siri Crisis

3 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Apple AI Chief John Giannandrea Stepping Down, Top Microsoft Exec Hired as Replacement

3 months / iclarified

John Giannandrea is Leaving Apple

3 months / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Mark Gurman: ‘John Giannandrea Is Leaving the Company’

3 months / x / John Gruber

Apple’s AI Chief Steps Down Amid Struggles with Intelligence Platform

3 months / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Apple AI chief stepping down, company says

3 months / cnbc

Apple AI chief steps down amid Siri struggles

3 months / theverge / Emma Roth

Head of AI and ML John Giannandrea is retiring from Apple

3 months / appleinsider

Apple's artificial intelligence chief is stepping down, company says

3 months / reddit / /u/Puginator

Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure

3 months / ycombinator

Apple’s AI Boss Is Retiring and a Former Microsoft Exec Is Taking Over

3 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Apple Artificial Intelligence Head to Leave After AI Struggles

3 months / bloomberg / Nick Turner

Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure

3 months / macrumors / Juli Clover

Legacy Commentary: Reflecting on AI Leadership’s Impact

Yesterday, 20 mins in: "Who is in charge of AI? Right now it’s been John Giannandrea... it sort of feels like the writings on the wall there. That he will probably not be there for very much longer." Didn't expect "very much longer" to be a few hours...

3 months / bsky / @mgsiegler.com

Apple owes its greatest strength in AI to Giannandrea

3 months / appleinsider

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Hmmm, the new AI guy at Apple spent 16 YEARS at Google, then four MONTHS at Microsoft, and now off to Cupertino?

3 months / bsky / @edbott.com / edbott.com

Apple has announced that senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy, John Giannandrea, is retiring and being replaced by Amar Subramanya, formerly a Microsoft AI executive.

3 months / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Shopify is down, disrupting Cyber Monday shopping

Kris Holt / engadget - Here’s hoping the retailers offering tasty Cyber Monday deals that caught your eye aren’t having trouble with Shopify. The ecommerce platform is experiencing some issues. According to a support page, some merchants were having trouble logging into the Sho…

#cloud #ecommerce #saas #digitaltransformation #infosec #business #internet #payments #technology #bugs

Theres still time to grab the Hisense 65-Inch QLED 4K S7N CanvasTV for under $850 after Cyber Monday

3 months / mashable

Shopify was down for many merchants this morning. preventing them from processing transactions. It appears to be fixed now.

3 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Shopify Outage Locks Merchants Out on Cyber Monday

3 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Shopify resolves outage disrupting merchants on Cyber Monday

3 months / techcrunch / Lauren Forristal

Shopify is down – here's what we know about its Cyber Monday outage

3 months / reddit / /u/lurker_bee

Shopify is down, disrupting Cyber Monday shopping

3 months / engadget / Kris Holt

Shopify down for thousands of users on Cyber Monday

3 months / reuters / Reuters

Can't check out? It's not just you, Shopify is down

3 months / pocket-lint / Amanda Kondolojy

OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal

Rebecca Bellan / techcrunch - Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential.

#ai #vc #software #saas #enterprise #openai #investment #business #acquisitions #technology

Partnership with Thrive Holdings, to bring our technology into their businesses — which today is focused on accounting and IT services industries:

3 months / x / @gdb

OpenAI just made another circular deal

3 months / theverge / Elissa Welle

OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI

3 months / theregister / O'Ryan Johnson

OpenAI Launches Partnerships With Thrive and Accenture

3 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

OpenAI buys stake in Thrive Holdings to push AI into accounting, IT services

3 months / reuters / Reuters

www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/o... adding complexity

3 months / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal

3 months / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

OpenAI takes stake in Thrive Holdings to help accelerate enterprise AI adoption

3 months / cnbc

OpenAI Pivots to “Service-as-Software” with Equity Stake in Thrive Holdings

3 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Nvidia takes USD2b stake in chip software maker Synopsys

Paige McNamee / capitalbrief - Nvidia said on Monday that it has purchasedUSD2 billion ($3.05 billion) of Synopsys’ common stock as part of a strategic engineeringand design partnership.

#innovation #semiconductors #chips #nvidia #gpu #investment #business #engineering #technology

Nvidia invests $2B in Synopsys as part of multiyear AI collaboration

3 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers

3 months / theregister / Tobias Mann

Nvidia CEO to Cramer: Synopsys deal is 'culmination of everything I showed you' over the years

3 months / cnbc

The $2 billion investment in Synopsys, which makes software and components for designing semiconductor chips, deepens their existing partnership at a time when analysts scrutinize circular AI-industry deals and warn of a potential bubble.

3 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Nvidia’s $2B Synopsys bet tightens its grip on the chip-design stack

3 months / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

Synopsys (SNPS) Stock: Soars on $2 Billion Nvidia Investment Deal

3 months / parameter / Trader Edge

Nvidia spending another $2 billion… www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/n... Synopsys makes chip design software. They reported quarterly revenue of $1.740 billion, on net income of $242.5 million in q3. (Chip design software may not be as profitable as other aspects

3 months / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

The crash will be spectacular.

3 months / bsky / @prietschka.bsky.social / prietschka.bsky.social

Synopsys’ stock gets an Nvidia boost. Here’s what to know.

3 months / x / @MarketWatch

Nvidia takes USD2b stake in chip software maker Synopsys

3 months / capitalbrief / Paige McNamee

(PR) NVIDIA and Synopsys Announce Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Engineering and Design

3 months / techpowerup

Nvidia takes $2 billion stake in Synopsys with expanded computing power partnership

3 months / cnbc

Payments Firm Sokin Valued at $300 Million After New Funding

PYMNTS / pymnts - Business payments company Sokin has raised $50 million in a new funding round. The Series B round brings Sokin’s valuation to $300 million, and will help accelerate the company’s expansion, bolster its financial infrastructure and enhance its product capa…

#startups #vc #innovation #fintech #investment #business #uk #globalism #payments #technology

Sokin valuation soars following £40m Series B

3 months / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Payments Firm Sokin Valued at $300 Million After New Funding

3 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Sokin Raises $50M in Series B Funding

3 months / finsmes / FinSMEs

Cross-border payment fintech Sokin lands $50M funding round

3 months / tech / John Reynolds

Sokin funding $50M drives global payments expansion

3 months / ventureburn / Clinton

Backed by PayPal alumni, UK payments startup Sokin lands $50M at $300M valuation

3 months / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

British FinTech firm Sokin raises €42.9 million to expand global payments and treasury infrastructure

3 months / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Sokin raises $50m amid B2B fintech boom

3 months / sifted

Kakao completes spinoff of No. 2 internet portal Daum after 11 yrs

Kim Boram / co - SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- Kakao Corp. has completed the legal and administrative...

#techpolicy #business #internet #asia #technology

Daum goes solo: Kakao spins off portal after 10 years

3 months / co / Ha Neul-bit

Kakao completes spinoff of No. 2 internet portal Daum after 11 yrs

3 months / co / Kim Boram

Europe’s hottest AI image startup Black Forest Labs bags $300M from a16z, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - The AI image generation market grapples with models that falter on complex prompts, produce inconsistent anatomy or text,…

#ai #startups #vc #ml #nvidia #aiethics #business #technology

Black Forest Labs Raises $300M at $3.25B Valuation

3 months / ventureburn / Clinton

Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation

3 months / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

Black Forest Labs Hits $3.25B Valuation, Pivots to ‘Visual Intelligence’ with Series B

3 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Black Forest Labs secures $300 million to accelerate its vision for advanced image models

3 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Black Forest Labs Raises $300M in Series B Funding

3 months / finsmes / FinSMEs

Black Forest Labs Raises $300M Series B At $3.25B Valuation

3 months / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Used by Adobe, Canva and Meta, Germany’s Black Forest Labs lands €258 million to scale its visual-AI platform

3 months / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Europe’s hottest AI image startup Black Forest Labs bags $300M from a16z, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures

3 months / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

Black Forest Labs secures $300M Series B at $3.25B valuation

3 months / tech / Cate Lawrence

German AI startup Black Forest Labs raises $300m Series B

3 months / sifted

ChatGPT is three years old today

Simon Willison / simonwillison - It's ChatGPT's third birthday today.It's fun looking back at Sam Altman's low key announcement thread from November 30th 2022:today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here: chat.openai.comlanguage interfaces are going to be a big deal, i think. talk…

#ai #innovation #ml #digitaltransformation #openai #aiethics #genai #business #chatgpt #technology

9 unexpected things I was able to do with ChatGPT (and a few you must try)

3 months / digitaltrends

9 unexpected things I was able to do with ChatGPT (and a few you must try)

3 months / digitaltrends

ChatGPT Celebrates Third Anniversary

3 months / datamation / Datamation Staff

ChatGPT turns three today

3 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

The AI Prompting Playbook

3 months / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

ChatGPT is three years old today

3 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

ChatGPT launched three years ago today

3 months / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

hbd chatgpt

3 months / x / @gdb

ChatGPT is now 3 years old!

3 months / reddit / /u/AdorableBackground83

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

Cecilia Kang, Tripp Mickle, Ryan Mac, David Yaffe-Bellany and Theodore Schleifer / nytimes - David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.

#techpolicy #politics #government #investment #business #regulation

The Architecture of Permission. How Washington Made David Sacks Legal

3 months / implicator / Maria Garcia

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

3 months / reddit / /u/rezwenn

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House, David Sacks, Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

3 months / bsky / @newnarrative.bsky.social / newnarrative.bsky.social

Five-byline alert:

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Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House, David Sacks, Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

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