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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, computer use, instruction following, and more; it features a 1M token context window in beta — Claude Sonnet 4.6 is our most capable Sonnet model yet. It's a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use …
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| Financial Times: |
Meta commits to buy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs in a multiyear deal; source: Meta's in-house AI chip strategy has suffered technical challenges — Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI hardware
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Nvidia says it is working with Peak XV and other VC firms in India to fund AI startups; over 4,000 Indian AI startups have joined its global startup program — American AI chip darling Nvidia is expanding its partnerships in India, including with venture capital firms … | Himanshi Lohchab / The Economic Times: |
Yotta says it is investing $2B to deploy Nvidia's Blackwell B300 GPUs at its Noida data center campus in India to create one of Asia's largest AI superclusters — Yotta Data Services is investing $2 billion to install Nvidia's latest AI chips at its Noida hyperscale data centre, going live by August.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned — Apple Inc. is accelerating development of three new wearable devices as part of a shift toward artificial intelligence-powered hardware …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google schedules I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, teasing the “latest AI breakthroughs and updates” in Gemini, Android, and more — Following the puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2026 is taking place May 19-20. — I/O 2026 will feature … | The Information: |
Benchmark hires Jack Altman, the founder of Alt Capital and Lattice, as its fifth general partner; three Alt Capital team members will join him at Benchmark — Benchmark on Tuesday said it had hired Jack Altman, the founder of early-stage firm Alt Capital and HR software company Lattice, as its fifth general partner.
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue ads, which it introduced in 2024, after phasing them out late last year over fears they would erode user trust — Leading start-ups have recently embraced sponsors as they search for revenue — AI start-up Perplexity has abandoned advertising …
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| Nathan Bomey / Axios: |
CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a legal campaign to defend its regulatory turf on prediction markets …
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| TechCrunch: |
Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, says it is generating annual run-rate revenue of $100M+, just eight months after launch — Indian vibe-coding platform Emergent was launched just eight months ago, and it now says it's generating annual run-rate revenue …
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sources: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by Google DeepMind's former principal scientist David Silver, is raising a $1B seed led by Sequoia at a $4B valuation — Sequoia Capital leading funding deal for David Silver's start-up Ineffable Intelligence at $4bn valuation| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube services are fully resolved after a brief outage starting at ~7:45pm ET due to a recommendations system issue — If you're trying to access YouTube right now and running into problems, you're not alone, as a widespread outage appears to be affecting YouTube and, to a lesser extent, YouTube TV.
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| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $2.6B, vs. $2.58B est., and projects Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates; PANW drops 7%+ after hours — The company's jump in quarterly profit was driven by continued demand for cybersecurity services — Palo Alto Networks lifted …
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| The Economic Times:NEW |
Bengaluru-based Stable Money, whose app lets users invest in fixed deposits and corporate bonds, raised $25M at a $175M valuation, taking total funding to $65M — The startup plans to grow its overall business five times by the end of this year, enter new cities through physical expansion … | Forbes: |
Sources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B+ valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation — As investors double down on the promise of automating legal work, the company is in talks to raise $400 million following two rounds in late 2025.
LinkedIn: Iain Martin
| Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Tesla agrees to stop using the term “autopilot” to market its electric vehicles in California to avoid a 30-day suspension by the state's DMV — Tesla has stopped using the term “autopilot” to market its electric vehicles in California in order to avoid a 30-day suspension by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon shares close up 1.2%, snapping a nine-day slide that wiped out $450B+ in market valuation over concerns about Amazon's plan to spend $200B in 2026 capex — Amazon shares closed up more than 1% on Tuesday, snapping a nine-day slide that shaved billions off of its market cap.
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| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins — What to know: … Bridge, a stablecoin infrastructure firm owned by Stripe, said Tuesday it has received conditional approval …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Nvidia unloaded 1.1M Arm shares, worth about $140M based on Arm's closing price on Tuesday, sometime in Q4, bringing Nvidia's stake to zero — Nvidia Corp. sold off the last of its stake in Arm Holdings Plc, a chip technology company that it tried and failed to acquire five years ago.| Mackenzie Tatananni / Barron's Online: |
Quantum computing company Infleqtion closed at $15.59 in its trading debut, up ~9% from its opening price of $14.25, after merging with a Michael Klein-led SPAC — A new contender among quantum computing stocks has entered the ring. — Infleqtion went public on Tuesday through a merger …
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| Lauren Rosenthal / Bloomberg: |
Google signs a power purchase agreement with Ormat to supply up to 150 MW of geothermal energy to its Nevada data centers through NV Energy starting in 2028 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to draw on geothermal power from renewable energy company Ormat Technologies to help fuel its fleet of data centers in Nevada.| Bloomberg: |
Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin — Palantir Technologies Inc. said it's moved its headquarters to Miami from Denver at a time when tech firms are headed … | The Information: |
Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google, and Microsoft $80B+ total to run its models on their servers through 2029, plus an additional $100B for training costs — Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion to run its Claude AI on their cloud servers through 2029 …
Bluesky: @marypcbuk
| Danilo Masoni / Reuters: |
Raspberry Pi stock closes up 36% after rising as much as 42% on Tuesday, amid chatter that its products could benefit from low-cost AI projects like OpenClaw — Shares in Raspberry Pi (RPI.L) rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally after CEO Eben Upton bought stock in the beaten …
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| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
Figma and Anthropic partner to launch Code to Canvas, letting users import code generated in Claude Code directly into Figma as editable designs — Figma is partnering with Anthropic and launching a feature called “Code to Canvas” that converts code generated in artificial intelligence tools …
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Clay:
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| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Western Digital plans to raise $3.09B by selling a Sandisk stake at $535-$555/share, a 9.4% discount to Tuesday's close; the offering is oversubscribed — Western Digital Corp. is seeking to raise $3.09 billion from the sale of a stake in Sandisk Corp., after the digital storage company spun off …
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Crypto VC firm Dragonfly closes a $650M fund, its fourth, as the crypto VCs go through a “mass extinction event”; Dragonfly backed Polymarket's Series B — When Rob Hadick signed the paperwork to join Dragonfly Capital in April 2022, he rented a house in the Hamptons.
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LinkedIn: Leo Schwartz, Omar Kanji, and Annica Benning
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing — Social network Snapchat announced today it's launching creator subscriptions in alpha with select people in the U.S. starting on February 23.Sponsor Posts
Airtable:
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Clay:
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Zoho:
Streamline payment collections in Singapore with PayNow and GrabPay — Under the “Smart Nation” initiative, Singapore is making a transformation towards cashless and quick payment options.
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