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Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora (opens latent.space)

Evals without traces, million-cell tabular reviews, and cracks in the billable hour as a business model

Memo: Linux distribution vendor SUSE is laying off ~10% of its employees, saying "automation and AI are fundamentally shifting how software companies operate" (Liam Proven/The Register) (opens theregister.com)

Memo: Linux distribution vendor SUSE is laying off ~10% of its employees, saying “automation and AI are fundamentally shifting how software companies operate” — One in ten employees at SUSE are facing the chop due to “automation and AI,” according to a memo dispatched by management …

More Money, Fewer Checks: These 3 Charts Show The Divide Behind VC’s Record Funding Year (opens news.crunchbase.com)

Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how third-quarter funding continued the year's dollars-up-but-deals-down trend.

How Figma’s PMs actually use AI every day | Ezra Mechaber (PM, Figma) (opens lennysnewsletter.com)

Listen now | 🎙️ Figma growth PM Ezra Mechaber demos PM OS, a 31-skill repo used by 60+ PMs, and AutoXP, an agent that runs growth experiments with one human checkpoint

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN (opens hackerbooks.org)

About 16.5k books mentioned by at least two HN commenters since 2007, each linked back to the comments; built with Claude after Karpathy's HackerTube.

Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation (Tim Keary/Forbes) (opens forbes.com)

Hex says it rebuilt its data analytics platform for AI agents; Peak XV led the $100M round at a $1.2B valuation.

Broccoli AI, which sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC, and electrical companies, raised a $22M Series A and a $30M Series B; a source says it is valued at $300M (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune) (opens fortune.com)

Broccoli AI sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC and electrical companies; the Series A and Series B were announced together, with a source putting the valuation at $300M.

Saudi Aramco acquires a 49% stake in AI startup Humain, contributing ~$2.6B in cash in 2026 plus AI, compute, and digital assets; Saudi Arabia's PIF retains 51% (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat) (opens gamesbeat.com)

Aramco contributes about $2.6B in cash in 2026 plus AI, compute and digital assets for 49% of Humain; Saudi Arabia's PIF keeps 51%.

Hyperbolic, which lets companies rent AI compute across ~30 neoclouds, raised a $30M Series A-1 led by Lip-Bu Tan's Walden Catalyst; it has raised $50M to date (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider) (opens businessinsider.com)

Hyperbolic lets companies rent AI compute across about 30 neoclouds; Walden Catalyst, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's fund, led the round and total funding is $50M.

对话Maxinsights：具身“卖铲人”的250倍增长、机器人Ego数据狂潮、Doordash与丰田模式，与“自由的鸟”【101视频播客】 (opens youtube.com)

Maxinsights has nearly 4,000 collectors wearing cameras to record everyday actions and turns the footage into robot training data; its founder says the company holds about 2 million hours of first-person data and ARR is around $250M.

ServiceNow confirms it acquired Israeli startup Sweep to speed up customers' migrations to its CRM, for an undisclosed price estimated at hundreds of millions (Allon Sinai/CTech) (opens calcalistech.com)

Sweep speeds up customer migrations to ServiceNow's CRM; the price was undisclosed but is estimated in the hundreds of millions.

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks (opens nolanlawson.com)

Salesforce to buy Rune in its most significant national security deal (opens thenextweb.com)

Rune's AI software helps the military plan supplies near the front line; it joins Missionforce, the defence business Salesforce launched a year ago.

OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round (opens techcrunch.com)

OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.

Google’s Suncatcher satellite runs AI in orbit and sends a haiku home (opens thenextweb.com)

Google's prototype data centre satellite ran a Gemma 4 model in orbit and sent back a haiku, Google's Travis Beals wrote on Friday.

OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses" (Axios) (opens axios.com)

Axios reports OpenAI will push mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebrand its data centers as "AI compute campuses" after Tuesday's midterms.

ernd: the credit card for the AI stack (opens ycombinator.com)

A credit card for AI spend: faster inference, better GPU access and 4% back on AI.

Google's data center energy head says space data centers cost up to 100x more than Earth-based ones, and US power supply is sufficient but permits are slow (Amir Efrati/The Information) (opens theinformation.com)

Google's data center energy head says space data centers cost up to 100x more than Earth-based ones, and US power supply is sufficient but permits are slow — Data centers in space could cost up to 100 times as much as those on Earth, Google's head of data center energy said this week …

Civil engineer here. Claude is incredibly powerful in my field, but using AI is practically taboo. Is it like this in other industries ? (opens reddit.com)

I’m a civil engineer and own a small municipal engineering firm. I also do forensic engineering, including expert work for legal cases. I use Claude, and it’s honestly shocking how powerful it is for this kind of work.

Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’ (opens techcrunch.com)

Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.

Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face 💀 (opens reddit.com)

A Hugging Face repo claims to hold an internal Anthropic Mythos-class training checkpoint; a follow-up post says the shards it downloaded are fake.

Anthropic renames Claude Max plans and drops Ultra’s five-hour limit (opens thenextweb.com)

The $100-a-month Max 5x plan is now Max and the $200 Max 20x plan is Ultra, which loses its five-hour usage limit; prices stay the same.

How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano (opens lennysnewsletter.com)

Hector Serrano on building Wispr Flow's paid-UGC machine and hiring young talent over polished resumes.

Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward (opens techcrunch.com)

A federal judge in Mississippi refused to dismiss the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit over the gas turbines powering xAI's Colossus 2 data centre.

Palantir CTO tells Stratechery he doesn’t regret working with Anthropic (opens thenextweb.com)

Shyam Sankar told Ben Thompson that Palantir was caught in Anthropic's clash with the US Department of War and does not regret working with Anthropic.

How do you control LLM costs per user in your SaaS? (opens reddit.com)

For those who have AI features included in a flat subscription: how do you stop one user from burning through your margin? What I'm curious about: - Do you set a hard cap per user (tokens, requests, $)? What happens when they hit it? - Rate limits, credits, pricing tiers, or something else?

Can enterprise AI pay for the boom? (opens siliconangle.com)

The artificial intelligence buildout is making an enormous bet on what businesses will eventually be willing to pay for intelligence. In our research this summer on forecasting the AI bubble, we argued that a key indicator to watch is productive utilization by enterprise customers.

HackerTube (opens karpathy.bearblog.dev)

Instead of YouTube, watch HackerTube!

Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games (opens mashable.com)

Game developers report Claude Code refusing work on projects that recreate existing games since late October, some of which they say they have a right to build.

Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth (opens blog.talosintelligence.com)

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models (opens x.com)

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard (opens github.com)

The claim is that a team of five Qwen3.8-27B models orchestrated by Memdoor beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard; it is the developer's own benchmark.

Amazon wants Alexa for Shopping, not Muse, to be how people shop its store (opens thenextweb.com)

Few people shop through outside AI agents yet, because the experience is not good enough, Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy told analysts on Thursday. He expects Amazon’s own assistant, Alexa for Shopping, to be the main agent people use to buy from the store.

John Ternus says Apple doesn't "want to ship AI for AI's sake" (Steven Levy/Wired) (opens wired.com)

John Ternus says Apple doesn't “want to ship AI for AI's sake” and that Tim Cook is “available to help wherever I ask” on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump — Apple doesn't need fixing, and it doesn't want drama. Its new leader is a “product guy” who bleeds six colors.

Anyone here actually showing positive unit economics on an AI product after 12+ months? (opens reddit.com)

Worked on an AI product where the co-founder pulled the plug because token costs and API changes kept shifting the unit economics every month. Now reading that enterprise AI runs $9-19M/year with no proven ROI. Anyone here actually showing positive unit economics on an AI product after 12+ months?

Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second (The Information) (opens theinformation.com)

Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units — Meta Platforms has built a prototype humanoid with Chinese robotics company Fourier and is already working on a second version …

Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune (opens techcrunch.com)

The AI logistics startup would bolster Salesforce's Missionforce defense platform.

Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code via a ChatGPT share link (The Hacker News) (opens thehackernews.com)

Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link — A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it …

Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences (opens openai.com)

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour one shared robots.txt rule that keeps a site's content out of generative AI training.

AWS grows 39% and Amazon will spend even more on AI in 2027 (opens thenextweb.com)

Amazon's free cash flow fell to minus $42.4bn over the 12 months to September, mostly because of AI spending.