🚨 npm Classic Tokens Revoked Today, Function Health $298M Unicorn & Suno $250M AI Music Platform
Top Highlights
- CRITICAL npm Security Deadline: All npm classic tokens permanently revoked today (Nov 19), 2-hour session tokens replace long-lived publishing tokens
- Function Health $298M Unicorn: Series B at $2.5B valuation for consumer health intelligence platform
- Suno $250M Series C: AI music generation platform hits $2.45B valuation, led by Menlo Ventures
- CISA Deadline Tomorrow (Nov 20): Federal agencies must patch VMware CVE-2025-41244 and XWiki CVE-2025-24893 vulnerabilities
- AI Accounting Boom: Numeric $51M Series B, Arbiter $52M healthcare admin automation, Genspark $200M+ unicorn round
🚨 npm Classic Tokens Permanently Revoked Today
GitHub's npm security deadline hits today (November 19, 2025) with permanent revocation of all classic tokens following the Shai-Hulud worm attack, forcing millions of developers to migrate to granular access tokens or face publishing disruptions.
- Classic Tokens Disabled: All npm classic tokens permanently revoked at midnight UTC November 19, no longer accepted for authentication or publishing
- Session Token Replacement: Long-lived local publishing tokens replaced with 2-hour session tokens for enhanced security
- Granular Token Migration: Developers must use npm granular access tokens with 90-day maximum lifetime (existing tokens expire Feb 3, 2026)
- Attack Context: Changes follow September 14 Shai-Hulud worm that compromised 500+ packages via maintainer account breaches
- 2FA Requirement: Local publishing now requires mandatory two-factor authentication for all package maintainers
Function Health Achieves $2.5B Unicorn Valuation with $298M Series B
Function Health secured a landmark $298 million Series B on November 19, pushing the consumer health-intelligence company to a $2.5 billion valuation as it scales AI-powered preventative health screening nationwide.
- Valuation Achievement: $2.5 billion post-money valuation, achieving unicorn status with comprehensive health data platform
- Service Model: Offers 100+ lab tests annually for $500 subscription, analyzing biomarkers for early disease detection
- AI Integration: Uses machine learning to identify health risk patterns across cardiovascular, metabolic, and hormonal systems
- Market Expansion: Plans to expand from current metropolitan areas to nationwide coverage by Q2 2026
- Preventative Focus: Targets shifting healthcare from reactive treatment to proactive wellness optimization
Suno Raises $250M Series C for AI Music Generation at $2.45B Valuation
Suno closed a $250 million Series C round on November 19 at a $2.45 billion valuation, cementing its position as one of the world's fastest-growing AI music platforms capable of generating full songs from text prompts.
- Funding Details: $250M Series C led by Menlo Ventures at $2.45B post-money valuation
- AI Music Technology: Generates complete songs with vocals, instrumentals, and lyrics from simple text descriptions
- Creator Tools: Offers API for developers to integrate music generation into applications and workflows
- Commercial Licensing: Provides royalty-free music for content creators, addressing copyright challenges in AI-generated content
- Growth Metrics: Surpassed 10 million songs generated monthly, with 500,000 active creators on platform
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AI Accounting Automation Surge: Numeric $51M, Arbiter $52M
November 19 saw dual accounting automation funding rounds as Numeric raised $51M for AI-powered accounting and Arbiter secured $52M to rebuild healthcare's administrative infrastructure with intelligent automation.
- Numeric $51M Series B: Led by IVP with Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund, Alkeon, 8VC, and Socii Capital participation
- Numeric Product: Automates month-end close, reconciliation, and variance analysis for finance teams, reducing close time by 40-60%
- Arbiter $52M Funding: Valued at nearly $400 million to automate healthcare administrative tasks like prior authorizations and claims processing
- Market Opportunity: $30B+ TAM for accounting automation as CFOs seek AI solutions to reduce manual workload
- Enterprise Adoption: Numeric serves 500+ mid-market and enterprise customers including public companies and unicorns
CRITICAL: CISA Deadline Tomorrow for VMware & XWiki Vulnerabilities
CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog added VMware and XWiki critical flaws with November 20 mitigation deadline for federal agencies, signaling active exploitation in the wild and urgent patching requirements.
- VMware CVE-2025-41244: High-severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in Broadcom VMware Tools allowing root privilege escalation
- XWiki CVE-2025-24893: Critical (CVSS 9.8) eval injection bug enabling remote code execution via /bin/get/Main/SolrSearch endpoint
- Federal Deadline: FCEB agencies must apply mitigations by November 20, 2025 per CISA Binding Operational Directive
- Active Exploitation: Both vulnerabilities confirmed exploited in the wild, requiring immediate patching for all organizations
- Private Sector Guidance: CISA strongly recommends non-federal entities prioritize patching these KEV-listed vulnerabilities
Open Source Trending: TrendRadar, Memori & adk-go
November 19 saw three significant open source projects gain traction in the developer community, focusing on AI news analysis, LLM memory systems, and Go-based agent development tooling.
- TrendRadar (1,714 stars today): AI news aggregation + MCP-based analysis toolkit with 20,588 total stars, trending for automated tech news monitoring
- GibsonAI/Memori (336 stars today): Memory engine for LLMs and multi-agent systems enabling continuity and compounding context across sessions
- Google adk-go (127 stars today): Go toolkit for agent development bringing agentic AI capabilities to Go-heavy backend systems
- Developer Trend: More developers acting as "managers" of AI agents, orchestrating tasks instead of manual execution
- Agentic AI Shift: Tooling focuses on agent coordination, memory persistence, and multi-modal workflows
Genspark Achieves Unicorn Status with $200M+ Series B
Genspark announced unicorn status on November 19 with a Series B funding round exceeding $200 million, joining Function Health and Suno in the day's unicorn club as AI-powered search and content synthesis platforms attract massive venture capital.
- Unicorn Achievement: Series B exceeding $200M pushes valuation above $1 billion threshold
- Product Focus: AI-powered search engine providing synthesized answers from multiple sources with citations
- Enterprise Features: Offers team workspaces, custom knowledge bases, and API access for business intelligence
- Market Position: Competes with Perplexity AI, You.com, and traditional search engines with generative AI summaries
- Growth Trajectory: Plans to expand from consumer search to enterprise knowledge management and decision support systems