Invisible Technologies, a Scale AI rival that helped train ChatGPT, raised $100M, sources say at a $2B+ valuation, and reports $134M in 2024 sales (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
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Published on 2025-09-16
Microsoft adds auto model selection to Visual Studio Code that primarily favors Claude Sonnet 4 over GPT-5 for paid GitHub Copilot users (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Seon, which uses AI to detect and prevent fraud, raised an $80M Series C led by Sixth Street Growth, bringing its total funding to $187M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
Sources: Nvidia's China-only RTX 6000D receives lukewarm demand, with some seeing it as expensive given its performance lags the RTX 5090 (Reuters)
China says US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the deal with the US includes "licensing the algorithm and other IP rights" (Financial Times)
Amazon plans to hold its 2025 Prime Big Deal Days from October 7 at 12:01am PT through October 8, exclusive to Prime subscribers (Brandon Russell/The Verge)
Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek tightened its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making "Hypernova", through a spate of dealmaking (Financial Times)
OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spend; he left xAI in July (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai jumped 7.7% in its Hong Kong debut, giving the company a ~$4.5B market cap after raising ~$514M from the IPO (Nikkei Asia)
