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Y Combinator highlights 16 B2B software and services startups headquartered in India, which it describes as well-funded and actively hiring.

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• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admits export controls cannot stop all restricted hardware from reaching China, but he wants existing rules...

Shutdowns are piling up, and the reasons go beyond hype. According to S&P Global Market Intelligence, about 42% of AI initiatives are ultimately...

The article calls gold's bear market a cyclical setback, not a reversal of its structural investment case. Its long-term view rests on debt: rising...

A new Hacker News Show HN project, Shotoku, pitches local-first action governance and budget caps for AI agents. The post itself offers little detail beyond its headline and project link, so how these controls work is still unclear.

@rauchg calls Workflow SDK 5 and Vercel Workflows "a monumental step forward for agents", and says reliability has been "proven at massive scale". The...

The author counts 15 companies that launched their own decision models between late September and November 11, from Together AI to Google DeepMind's...

Gregisenberg calls building a Grok bot for one industry one of the best businesses to build right now. His example is dentists: build AI agents for...

Nvidia reports on Tuesday, November 17, against estimates of $108.81B in revenue and $2.47 EPS, implying 98% and 96% year-over-year growth. These are...

OpenAI's ChatGPT Wallet lets AI agents buy things without ever seeing a card number, built with American Express, Mastercard and Visa.

• Approval...

Dealroom counts about $126B of Nvidia money in venture deals. By dollar value, five AI labs took 83% of that investment, while the other 219 startups...

Dyania Health and NVIDIA have partnered on AI analysis of patient data. Dyania's earlier funding, including a $5.3 million seed round in 2022 and a...

Both sources agree on the core deal: a $300 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation, led by CapitalG. Article 1 notes that is more than double the...

Reports of Jensen Huang's resignation, which remain unverified, have been received with worry in Israel, where Nvidia has a major presence. The...

The timing is striking, though the FAA has not tied the two events together:

• Sept. 21: SMART launched around Washington-area airports.
• Oct. 9:...

OpenAI's ChatGPT Wallet is built around controls that agents can't bypass, but its reach is still narrow.

• Card protection: Agents get a payment...

The Claude outage thread turned into a debate about how much teams should rely on LLMs:

• One commenter sees a day without an LLM as a minor...

Eagle Point Income's third-quarter net investment income of $0.73 per share more than doubled the $0.35 consensus. But about $0.30 of that came from...

Arm Holdings shares fell 6.5% on Friday, with the drop accelerating after the Financial Times reported that Nvidia's board had approached Arm CEO...

Most of this roundup is routine, but a few items matter for holders:

• Tripadvisor leadership exit: CEO Matt Goldberg and CFO Mike Noonan will both...