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- Atom Computing, one of nine U.S.-backed quantum computing startups, raised a $100 million Series C round led by Third Point, bringing its total funding to $300 million (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
- Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, has raised a $62.5 million Series B led by Camber, following a $7 million Series A in 2022 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
- Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4 billion funding round at a $50 billion valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP led by CEO Liang Wenfeng (The News)
- The Kentucky colonel who runs Australian foreign policy – The Diplomat
- Shares of taxi app Go rose 21% in its Tokyo debut, after raising $553 million in Japan’s biggest IPO this year, giving the company a market value of around $1.16 billion (Yasutaka Tamura/Bloomberg)
- Support for Trump has collapsed in rural America
- A profile of Cursor, including its hiring process and its rocky relationship with Anthropic, which told Cursor that Claude Code was primarily a research effort (Business Insider)
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