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Global Futures Reopen After CME Suffers Data Center Cooling Failure

A data center cooling failure at CME Group’s Chicago site froze global derivatives trading for hours, exposing vulnerabilities in financial infrastructure. The post Global Futures Reopen After CME Suffers Data Center Cooling Failure appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI

An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

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Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark

Gen 4.5, a new AI model that allows users to generate high-definition videos based on written prompts.

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

The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva and Figma Ventures.

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At least 80 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far

Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year.

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

The two companies are partnering to accelerate computing and AI engineering solutions.

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Eli Lilly’s price cut, Thanksgiving box office, trouble for gravestone makers and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

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Jorja Smith’s record label hits out at ‘AI clone’ song

The label claims Haven’s dance hit I Run was made using AI trained on the award-winning singer’s voice.

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India Quietly Orders Smartphone Makers to Preload State Cybersecurity App

The order, which has not been released publicly, was shared privately with select device makers. The post India Quietly Orders Smartphone Makers to Preload State Cybersecurity App appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

Ruby survives on affection, not utility. Let’s move on.

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