How Did AI Deals Top **$9B** Overnight? 💸🤖🌍

TL;DR

• Cursor’s mega-round mints four new AI billionaires
• Healthcare AI funding targets burnout and cancer workflows
• Big Tech unveils AI glasses and lifecycle platforms
• EU fraud rules raise AI compliance and liability stakes

HEADLINES

Anysphere’s Cursor closes $2.3B funding, hits $29.3B valuation 🧠🔗

Alibaba Quark launches Quark AI Glasses in China 🕶️🔗

Upbit & Naver commit $6.8B to AI-blockchain finance buildout 🏦🔗

India Inc bakes AI fluency into employee KPIs 📊🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Redstone invested €3.5M seed in Noteless 💉🔗

Inflexor Ventures invested $5M in Morphle Labs Series A 🧬🔗

Naver Financial committed $6.8B with Upbit to AI finance infra 🌐🔗

RAISES

Anysphere (Cursor) raised $2.3B in a new round from top-tier VCs 💻🔗

Noteless raised €3.5M seed led by Redstone 🩺🔗

Morphle Labs raised $5M in Series A led by Inflexor Ventures 🧪🔗

RAISING

FarMart is looking to raise $30–40M in a new round for AI-enabled B2B food supply efficiency 🌾🔗

VentureSoul Partners aims to raise an additional ₹300Cr for startup-focused debt, including AI companies 💰🔗

BrainChip Holdings continues securities sale closing November 28 to fund edge AI roadmap 🧠🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Alibaba Quark launched Quark AI Glasses S1/G1 🚀🔗

Fujitsu unveiled an AI-ready lifecycle platform for NSK bearings 🏭🔗

SILKROAD 4.0 announced Global Future Summit – AI & Life Sciences 🌐🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Cursor AI coding editor for whole-codebase automation ⌨️🔗

Noteless AI clinical scribe for doctor consultations 🩻🔗

Morphle RoboTome robotic microtomy with AI imaging workflows 🧫🔗

METRICS

Cursor hits $1B annualized revenue, serves 50,000 teams 📈🔗

Alibaba plans 380B yuan cloud and AI investment 💾🔗

Upbit–Naver allocate 10T won (~$6.8B) to AI-blockchain infra 💹🔗

Mphasis reports 70% tech workforce trained on AI tools 📊🔗

BENCHMARKS

Deloitte India adds responsible AI innovation as core KPI 📘🔗

Lenovo India ties sales performance directly to AI-linked KRAs 📈🔗

Noteless now used by 25% of Norwegian GPs, 14% in Denmark 📒🔗

India Inc moves bonuses toward AI-first outcomes and tooling 💼🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Alibaba Cloud earmarks 380B yuan for AI data centers ⚙️🔗

Fujitsu–NSK platform centralizes lifecycle data for AI-driven maintenance 🔧🔗

Yotta Data Services expects $463M raise to expand GPU infra 🖥️🔗

Infineon stock climbs on AI data-center roadmap update 📡🔗

VALUATIONS

Anysphere (Cursor) reaches $29.3B valuation after latest round 🏷️🔗

Upbit–Naver group signals mega-scale capital concentration in AI finance 💹🔗

AI-linked tech stocks like Infineon continue rerating on data-center demand 📈🔗

BrainChip extends capital plan to commercialize Akida 2.0 edge AI 💾🔗

POLICY

EU lawmakers make social platforms liable for scam losses ⚖️🔗

EU payment-services deal requires “modern and secure” tech for fraud prevention 🛡️🔗

Law360 analysis highlights liability shift to banks using outdated tools 📜🔗

Corporate HR policies now formalize AI skilling, usage and governance 📑🔗

SOVEREIGN

EU Council & Parliament align on anti-fraud rules shaping AI risk tooling 🏛️🔗

Philippine regulators back AI micro-retail analytics via grant programs 🇵🇭🔗

Indian authorities clear Yotta SPAC path to GPU-heavy AI infra 🇮🇳🔗

SECTORS

Healthcare deployed AI histopathology automation for global cancer labs 🧫🔗

Primary Care deployed AI note-taking assistants to cut burnout 💊🔗

Retail Micro‑Merchants deployed AI demand-planning for sari-sari stores 🛒🔗

Industrial Manufacturing deployed AI lifecycle monitoring across NSK bearing fleets 🏗️🔗

Finance deployed AI-blockchain rails for next-gen payments 💸🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Michael Truell shipped Cursor’s $1B‑ARR AI coding platform 🚀🔗