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Flip, which offers an Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $31M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/vertical-ai-based-customer-service-flip-raise/<…

Flip Raises $20M Series A For Its Verticalized Approach To AI-Based Customer Service
Flip, a startup that claims to offer an Amazon Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

LineageOS 23 auf Basis von Android 16 ist fertig
Das Custom-ROM LineageOS 23 auf Basis von Android 16 für über 100 Geräte ist fertig. Die Entwickler gehen im Zuge der Ankündigung mit Google ins Gericht.
https://www.…

Customer: "I need X."
Me: "Here's 3 quick steps I've outlined clearly to get you X in 5min."
Customer: "Call me."
Me: "Do you have a question?"
Customer: "Schedule a meeting."
Me: "What about?"
Customer: "I need to talk to you."
Me: "I'm travelling. Can you elaborate?"
Customer: <silence>
...
Me: <calls customer between mtgs> "Hi. What…

Wow, a lot happened in the cybersecurity world over the weekend, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared,
--Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records,
--Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team,
--Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks,
--Breach of crypto betting…

The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform Shuffle exposes user data, FCC chair says sites have removed barred Chinese electronics, much more

The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials,
substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders.
Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports.
ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deporta…

T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

Deep Learning to Identify the Spatio-Temporal Cascading Effects of Train Delays in a High-Density Network
Vu Duc Anh Nguyen, Ziyue Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09350 https://…

Deep Learning to Identify the Spatio-Temporal Cascading Effects of Train Delays in a High-Density Network
The operational efficiency of railway networks, a cornerstone of modern economies, is persistently undermined by the cascading effects of train delays. Accurately forecasting this delay propagation is a critical challenge for real-time traffic management. While recent research has leveraged Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to model the network structure of railways, a significant gap remains in developing frameworks that provide multi-step autoregressive forecasts at a network-wide scale, while sim…

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's Ironwood TPU racks in Q3 and says it placed an additional $11B order in Q4 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/broadcom-reveals-its-mystery-10-billion-custo…

Broadcom reveals its mystery $10 billion customer is Anthropic
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said Anthropic placed an additional $11 billion order in the fourth quarter.

DMA: Google droht hohe EU-Geldstrafe wegen Play Store
Google könnte Anfang nächsten Jahres mit einer möglicherweise hohen Geldstrafe der EU rechnen, wenn es keine weiteren Anpassungen am Play Store vornimmt.
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Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it "would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-says-no-upfront-p…

Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Coastal Cloud, a Florida-based Salesforce consulting partner, for $700M, in a bid to boost its AI and US customer business (Mark Haranas/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/tcs-bu

TCS Buys Salesforce Star Coastal Cloud For $700M To Create ‘Top Five Salesforce’ Firm
Tata Consultancy Services acquires Salesforce partner Coastal Cloud and ListEngage to boost AI revenue, American customers and Salesforce business.