OpenAI’s investment into Thrive Holdings is its latest circular deal

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Techme101

Analysts will be watching to see if Thrive-owned firms actually succeed in building long-term profitable businesses using OpenAI’s tech, or if the result is really just pumped up valuations based on speculative market potential. 

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Deezer rolls out ‘My Deezer Year 2025,’ its Spotify Wrapped clone

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Techme101

Deezer launched its version of Spotify Wrapped to give listeners an overview of their top tracks and artists.

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UK Parents Doubt Tech Giants’ Efforts as Blackmail Cases Climb

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Techme101

New NSPCC research finds one in 10 UK children targeted by online blackmail, with parents feeling unprepared and calling for stronger tech safeguards.
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Global Futures Reopen After CME Suffers Data Center Cooling Failure

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Techme101

A data center cooling failure at CME Group’s Chicago site froze global derivatives trading for hours, exposing vulnerabilities in financial infrastructure.
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Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Techme101

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

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Techme101

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

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

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Techme101

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

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

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Techme101

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

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Techme101

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

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Techme101

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

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