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Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:
Google announces Chromebooks for gaming: the $650 16″ Acer Chromebook 516 GE, the $599 16″ Lenovo IdeaPad, and the $399 15.6″ ASUS Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip  —  ASUS, Acer and Lenovo built Chromebooks optimized to run services like GeForce Now.  — Three new laptops from ASUS, Acer and Lenovo

Jamshed Avari / Gadgets 360:
Q&A with Intel VP Raja Koduri on bringing Arc GPUs to India, future generations, GPU design cycles, constraints on Arc’s development, PC form factors, and more  —  Having recently launched Intel’s first discrete GPU lineup for gamers, Raja Koduri was in India to chat about PC gaming, AI, and future plans.

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Estonia-based Katana, which offers ERP software with prebuilt integrations to SMB manufacturers, raised a €35M Series B, bringing its total funding to ~$50M  —  Katana, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for small- and medium-sized manufacturers, has raised €35 million ($34 million) in a Series B round of funding.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Trendsi, which helps sellers and manufacturers predict demand, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $30M  —  In the traditional business-to-business world, sellers often don’t know how much of a product they should order.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for visually designing and building serverless applications with a drag-and-drop interface  —  At its re:Invent conference today, AWS announced the launch of AWS Application Composer, a new low-code tool for visually designing and building serverless applications.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI open sources Whisper, a speech recognition system that was trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web”  —  Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.  In a step toward solving it …