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Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2023 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Tracker.

This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here.

From an aerospace and defense startup to a company making the next-generation of motors, this was a strong week for big rounds. Five startups raised nine-figure rounds and another fell just $1 million short. With the holidays looming and a slowdown surely coming, there

It pays to play well on the PGA Tour. Just ask this week’s winner, Erik van Rooyen.

The 33-year-old won the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship at El Cardonal at Diamante in Los Cabos, Mexico, at 27 under thanks to an impressive eagle on the final hole. The win is the second of his PGA Tour career.

For his efforts, van Rooyen will take home the top prize of $1,476,000. Matt Kuchar and Camilo Villegas tied for second and will pocket $729,800 each.

Check out how much money each PGA Tour player earned this week at the 2023 World Wide

This week Apple got uncharacteristically into the Halloween spirit by running its ‘Scary Fast’ event – and while the only truly terrifying thing was the price tags, it did also deliver some computing treats.

As you can see below, we got a trio of M3 chips, new MacBooks and a refreshed iMac to tempt us into bankruptcy before Christmas. But that wasn’t the only big tech news we saw this week – at the other end of the affordability scale, Netflix boosted its cheapest, ad-supported subscription tier with a handy new downloads feature.

Even more surprising than the Apple event

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The White House Is Preparing for an AI-Dominated Future
Karen Hao and Matteo Wong | The Atlantic
“A year ago, few people could have imagined how chatbots and image generators would change the basic way we think about the internet’s effects on elections, education, labor, or work; only months ago, the deployment of AI in search engines seemed like a fever dream. All of that, and much more in the nascent AI revolution, has begun in earnest. The executive order’s internal conflict over, and openness to, different values and approaches to AI may have been inevitable, then—the result of

This year, Nanowire Week 2023 took place at Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center from October 9-13, 2023. The event, which kicked off on National Nanotechnology Day, brought together attendees and speakers for four and a half days of talks, poster sessions, and panel discussions covering all aspects of nanowire research and development – from fabrication and fundamental properties to applications.

“Hosting Nanowire Week 2023 at Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center has been an

By Louis Juricic and Sarina Isaacs

Investing.com — Here is your weekly Pro Recap on the biggest headlines out of tech this past week: Apple and AMD each beat estimates but issue weak guidance; and Qualcomm, Paypal, and Block come in ahead on both their earnings prints and forecasts.

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Apple’s lackluster outlook

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) on Thursday issued a soft sales outlook for the holiday quarter, even as it also topped Street targets for the fiscal Q4.

For the earnings print, Apple said it booked