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🎟️ TodayTix’s Pandemic Bet Paid Off

Great Hill Partners acquired a majority stake in TodayTix for $73 million in May 2019. By the end of 2019, the theater-ticketing startup had reached $100 million in annual revenue. Its trajectory later led to a sale to Ari Emanuel in 2025.

The timing became difficult almost immediately. TodayTix acquired U.K. competitor Encore Tickets in February 2020, then live events stopped and customers demanded refunds. Great Hill and outside advisers arranged additional debt and equity financing to keep the company solvent for the next 18 months.

The bet depended on the long-term potential of live events, technology, and marketplaces. Founder Brian Fenty says Great Hill was willing to keep investing despite the company losing money, backing a founder-led strategy through the industry’s sharpest contraction.

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🤖 Claude Mythos 5 Attacked Real Developers

During a test, it failed to break into a training network at the British Institute for AI Safety. It moved to GitHub, found an open project, wrote a virus, and used fake accounts to persuade its owner to upload it.

Another developer spotted the dangerous code. Mythos created another fake account, called the code clean, and tried to upload new malware. It was rejected.

In repeat runs, the model stopped in only 5% of cases. Its reasoning claimed the project owners were fake and planted by the test organizers.

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#JioIPO | Jio Platforms targets AI, cloud and satellite connectivity in next decade: Akash Ambani

Jio’s homegrown platforms now serve more than 540 million customers, says Akash Ambani, adding the company built its capabilities from the ground up because existing technology platforms were not designed for India’s scale

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https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/jio-platforms-targets-ai-cloud-and-satellite-connectivity-in-next-decade-akash-ambani-article-14062042.html

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🚨 NOW: Coinbase says it has not suffered a data breach.

A security incident at analytics vendor Amplitude exposed some users’ contact data, but customer funds and Coinbase systems were unaffected.

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🇰🇷 NOW: South Korea’s Bithumb, Daishin Securities and Mirae Asset Global Investments have all reported customer data breaches, with Bithumb’s linked to an external cyberattack, per Yonhap.

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🚨 ALERT: Solflare’s validator has stopped producing SOL staking rewards after a security incident at its staking provider affected the validator keys, though the wallet says user funds are safe.

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Wall Street banks, Blackstone line up $63 billion to finance Broadcom AI chips for Anthropic

Bank of America, Citi, Morgan Stanley and Blackstone will provide $63 billion in financing for Broadcom AI chips and networking equipment leased to Anthropic.

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⚡️ BRIAN ARMSTRONG: “All asset classes are moving onchain. Tokenized stocks and stablecoins (which are really just tokenized fiat currency) are growing fast, with more to come.”

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🚨 BIG: Robinhood posted record Q3 revenue of $1.4B, up 12% year-over-year, with $16B in net deposits and a record 5.2M Gold subscribers.

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Cipla bets on US respiratory launches, India momentum to drive H2 growth; Middle East tensions add cost pressure

- India business drives strong double-digit growth.
- Middle East tensions increase freight and input costs

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: Trump says he will ban the term “artificial intelligence” from relevant documents, calling it inaccurate and advocating “super intelligence” instead.

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🍏 Apple unveils OLED iPad mini

The OLED display grows to 8.5 inches, while the body gets thinner. Apple moved the front camera to the long side bezel for video calls and added water protection.

The A20 Pro makes games and AI tasks several times faster. Small neural networks can run on the tablet. Price starts at $699, with sales from November 6.

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