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Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B+ in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a "victim of misconduct" (Forbes)

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju's founder Byju Raveendran on Nov. 20 to pay $1B+ to US lenders, over missing funds from Byju's US unit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into "America's Semiconductor HQ", attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Microsoft is now testing the Xbox Full Screen Experience across Windows 11 PCs

While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)

Google confirms hackers stole Salesforce-stored data from 200+ companies via a supply chain hack involving Gainsight, which provides a customer support platform (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Bret Taylor says his AI agent startup Sierra has hit $100M in ARR, after launching in February 2024, up from about $20M this time last year (Alex Heath/Sources)

OpenAI says GPT-5 has demonstrated the ability to accelerate scientific research workflows but can't run projects or solve scientific problems autonomously (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)

Allen Institute for AI, or Ai2, unveils Olmo 3 models that it says outperform open models like Stanford's Marin and commercial open-weight models like Llama 3.1 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Fortnite OG Season 7 release date - here's when the next season comes out

Sources: Warner Music settles its suit with AI startup Udio, which is planning a service that lets users create songs from licensed tracks of artists who opt-in (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

Apono, which helps enterprises manage cloud permissions by eliminating standing privileges, raised a $34M Series B, bringing its total funding to $54M+ (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)