Dyson announces the PencilWash wet floor cleaner

Matt Tate / engadget - Last year Dyson introduced the PencilVac, which it immediately declared the "world’s slimmest vacuum cleaner." Presumably, then, the title of world’s slimmest wet floor cleaner goes to the newly unveiled PencilWash.Promising a "lighter, slimmer and smalle…

PYMNTS / pymnts - DoorDash used its fourth-quarter earnings call to make a broader point about where it sees the next leg of competition: not just in meal delivery, but in owning the software and logistics stack that powers local commerce. “We believe these investments are…

#ai #robotics #automation #ecommerce #selfdriving #genai #stockmarket #earnings #business #delivery

At headquarters: DoorDash pushes agentic AI and global platform (3)
From the lab: agentic AI hype clashes with enterprise ROI (8)
On the trading floor: investors react to weak Q4 results (3)

At headquarters: DoorDash pushes agentic AI and global platform

Doordash stock rallies as investment cycle starts showing signs of a payoff

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DoorDash (DASH) Stock: Edges Up as CEO Highlights Global Platform Plans

16 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

DoorDash Q4 Earnings Highlight Deliveroo and Agentic AI Push

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From the lab: agentic AI hype clashes with enterprise ROI

[AINews] Anthropic's Agent Autonomy study

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Are AI Agents Really Intelligent and Does it Matter?

15 days / techstrong / Alan Shimel

Built an agent that applied to 1,000 jobs in 48 hours

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CIOs are telling companies that AI capex spending has gone too far

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Amplitude reports mixed earnings results after launching new agentic analytics tools

16 days / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Agentic AI is powerful – but power isn’t product-market fit

16 days / e27 / Sabrina Princessa Wang

6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom

16 days / reddit / /u/Marginallyhuman

U.S. companies invested $109 billion in AI in 2024. Only 6% are seeing significant returns.

16 days / reddit / /u/Harran_ali

On the trading floor: investors react to weak Q4 results

DoorDash (DASH) Stock: Why the Post-Earnings Selloff Didn’t Stick

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Doordash falls 8% on lackluster fourth-quarter results

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DoorDash reports earnings miss, underwhelming earnings guidance

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Flexible agentic marketing startup Kana Intelligence scores $15M in seed funding

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Marketing professionals have a mountain of artificial intelligence tools to choose from, but the founders of a new startup called Kana Intelligence Inc. believe there’s still an urgent need for a platform that can adapt to user’s needs. The company today …

#ai #startups #automation #saas #enterprise #digitalmarketing #genai #business #ads #advertising

Agentic sales AI emerges: startups turn calls into revenue signals (4)
Industry adoption: private equity embeds AI to streamline operations (1)
Kana seed raise: founders launch agentic marketing platform with $15M (3)
Vertical AI agents for revenue: hotels and SMB marketing adoption (5)

Peter Thiel Exits ETHZilla Investment After Ethereum Treasury Stock Craters

Logan Hitchcock / decrypt - Billionaire investor Peter Thiel and Founders Fund held a 7.5% stake in Ethereum treasury company ETHZilla last year—but not anymore.

#startups #blockchain #fintech #crypto #stockmarket #privateequity #business #treasury #technology #crypto

Peter Thiel Exits ETHZilla Investment After Ethereum Treasury Stock Craters

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Peter Thiel Exits ETHZilla Investment After Ethereum Treasury Stock Craters

16 days / decrypt / Logan Hitchcock

The Daily: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund exit ETHZilla, K33 says bitcoin is approaching ‘late bear market territory,’ and more

16 days / theblock / James Hunt

ETHZilla (ETHZ) Stock: Thiel’s Founders Fund Cuts All Ties With Ethereum Treasury Firm

16 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Figma stock climbs on 40% revenue growth and surging Figma Make adoption

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Shares in Figma Inc. were up more than 14% in after-hours trading today after the graphic design software provider impressed investors with earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter and provided forward guidance ahead of expectations. F…

#ai #saas #genai #stockmarket #earnings #business #ux #technology #adobe #figma

WordPress Just Made AI a Native Part of How 43% of the Web Gets Built

15 days / techstrong / Tom Smith

Sources: Snap’s SVP of Specs, who had been leading the hardware effort for six years, is out after a “blow-up” with CEO Evan Spiegel about the company’s strategy sources.news/p/figmas-ans...

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Figma (FIG) Stock: Surges 15% After Q4 Earnings Beat and AI Growth Outlook

16 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Figma's answer to the AI software sell-off

16 days / sources / Alex Heath

$FIG blowout sales guidance for Q1 and full year Low end of the ranges are above the analyst’s estimates. sherwood.news/markets/figm...

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Figma stock climbs on 40% revenue growth and surging Figma Make adoption

16 days / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

Figma stock jumps 16% as company sees AI monetization accelerating growth

16 days / cnbc

Figma spikes after reporting better-than-expected Q4 results, blowout Q1 and full-year sales guidance

16 days / sherwood / J. Edward Moreno, Luke Kawa

eBay is buying Depop from Etsy for $1.2 billion

Wayne Williams / betanews - eBay has announced plans to acquire fashion resale marketplace Depop from Etsy in a cash deal worth about $1.2 billion, expanding its reach in secondhand fashion and strengthening its position with younger buyers. Depop, a mobile-first marketplace known f…

#ecommerce #social #stockmarket #business #fashion #acquisitions #technology

Etsy sells Depop to eBay to focus on its primary marketplace

15 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

eBay takes aim at Gen Z, buys Depop from Etsy for $1.2bn

15 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Etsy sells secondhand clothing marketplace Depop to eBay for $1.2B

16 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

eBay buys second-hand clothing app Depop for $1.2bn

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Etsy stock pops 14% on sale of Depop to eBay for $1.2 billion

16 days / cnbc

eBay is buying Depop from Etsy for $1.2 billion

16 days / betanews / Wayne Williams

World Labs Raises $200M to Power 3D AI

Ekemini / ventureburn - World Labs, the artificial intelligence company co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, focused on developing spatial intelligence, announced a new milestone. A strategic investment of $200 million from Autodesk for World Labs’The post World Labs Raises $200M to Power …

#ai #startups #ar #ml #enterprise #mixedreality #computervision #business #deeptech #spatialcomputing

Fei Fei Li’s World Labs raises $1bn to advance spatial intelligence

15 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

AI godmother Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs lands $1B to power AI’s 3D world understanding

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Nvidia (NVDA) Stock: Gains Momentum with $1B Spatial AI Funding Round

15 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

World Labs Raises $1 Billion From Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk for Spatial AI

16 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

World Labs closes $1B investment backed by Nvidia, AMD and Autodesk

16 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Scale Spatial AI

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World Labs Raises $200M to Power 3D AI

16 days / ventureburn / Ekemini

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises one billion dollars for "spatial intelligence"

16 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk to bring world models into 3D workflows

16 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

Canary, Grayscale Sui ETFs Hit US Markets With Staking Rewards

Stacy Elliott / decrypt - The first Sui ETFs are now trading as Canary and Grayscale bring staking-enabled crypto exposure to traditional markets.

#blockchain #fintech #crypto #stockmarket #business #us #crypto

Canary, Grayscale Sui ETFs Hit US Markets With Staking Rewards

16 days / decrypt / Stacy Elliott

Canary lists spot SUI ETF with staking rewards

16 days / coindesk / Jamie Crawley

First spot SUI ETFs debut as Canary Capital and Grayscale launch funds with staking

16 days / theblock / Sarah Wynn

Activist investor Starboard says Riot AI pivot could be worth up to $21 billion as miner lags peers

Kyle Baird / theblock - Starboard argues Riot’s Texas power assets position the company to secure large AI data center tenants if management accelerates deal execution.

#ai #blockchain #cloud #crypto #energy #stockmarket #business #datacenter #bitcoin

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW

16 days / techcrunch / Jagmeet Singh

Tata Group and OpenAI Form Partnership, to Develop AI Data Centers

16 days / wsj / Kosaku Narioka

Bitcoin Miner Riot Must Embrace $21 Billion AI Opportunity, Says Activist Investor

16 days / decrypt / Logan Hitchcock

Bitcoin miner Riot stock jumps nearly 9% as activist Starboard urges AI data center expansion

16 days / coindesk / Olivier Acuna

Activist investor Starboard says Riot AI pivot could be worth up to $21 billion as miner lags peers

16 days / theblock / Kyle Baird

Riot Platforms rises on activist push to accelerate AI data center pivot

16 days / sherwood / Hyunsoo Rim

Here's what to expect at Apple's product launch event on March 4

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Apple has scheduled a product launch event, dubbed an "Apple Experience", for March 4 at 9AM ET. The company is reportedly holding this event in NYC, London and Shanghai.Everyone loves shiny new products, so what can we expect to see at Apple's first laun…

#hardware #apple #business #macbook #technology #gadgets #updates

One More Spitball Idea for Apple’s March 4 Media Event ‘Experience’: Immersive F1 on Vision Pro?

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What to Expect From Apple's March Event: New MacBooks, iPhones and iPads

16 days / cnet / Tyler Graham

Forget the Pin: Apple Wants You to Wear an AI ‘Pendant’

16 days / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

With an Apple experience on March 4, the rumor mill is in overdrive. These are the best candidates -- and the also-rans -- for what Apple will launch and then have an "experience" to demo on March 4.

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Apple eyes new hardware, directly competes with Meta: Report

16 days / semafor / Rachyl Jones

Here's what to expect at Apple's product launch event on March 4

16 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Apple’s mystery March experience may involve multi-day announcements

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March madness: What Apple is getting ready to launch

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Low-Cost MacBook Expected on March 4 in These Colors

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Why the UAE dominates in Arab tech leadership

16 days / semafor / Tareq Alotaiba

Saudi Arabia’s AI venture Humain invests $3bn in Elon Musk’s xAI

ft - Investment that deepens ties with billionaire is part of country’s goal to diversify economy

#ai #startups #genai #government #business #finance #deeptech #globalism #xai #elonmusk

Saudi Arabia’s Humain Backs Elon Musk’s AI Ambitions With $3 Billion xAI Stake

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Saudi Arabia’s AI venture Humain invests $3bn in Elon Musk’s xAI

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Elon Musk’s xAI Gets $3 Billion Investment From Saudi-Backed A.I. Firm

16 days / nytimes / Adam Satariano

Saudi's HUMAIN invests $3B in Elon Musk's xAI

16 days / semafor / Kelsey Warner

Meta signs major Nvidia deal to power AI data centers with Blackwell and Rubin GPUs

techspot - According to separate press releases from Meta and Nvidia, the social media giant will use the chips to power its planned hyperscale data centers optimized for AI training and inference. The company will also deploy Nvidia's new Spectrum-X Ethernet switch…

#ai #cloud #semiconductors #ml #meta #nvidia #business #datacenter #cpus

The days of tech giants buying up discrete chips are over. AI companies now need GPUs, CPUs, and everything in between. www.wired.com/story/nvidia...

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Meta deal for millions of Nvidia chips is big — these 2 charts illustrate why

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Nvidia’s Deal With Meta Signals a New Era in Computing Power

16 days / wired / Lauren Goode

Meta and Nvidia Team to Bolster AI Infrastructure

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Meta signs major Nvidia deal to power AI data centers with Blackwell and Rubin GPUs

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Nvidia (NVDA) Stock Gains as Meta Picks Nvidia Over Google for AI Infrastructure

16 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Nvidia lands massive Meta deal and pushes into CPU market to fend off growing competition

16 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Meta to Deploy Millions of Nvidia Chips in Multi-Billion Deal

16 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Perplexity Abandons AI Advertising Strategy Over Trust Worries

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - AI company Perplexity is stepping away from advertising over concerns that it will erode user trust, despite moves by rivals to introduce ads as an alternative money-making strategy.Perplexity was one of the first AI services to embrace ads in 2024, after…

#ai #digitalmarketing #aiethics #genai #business #media #assistant #ads #advertising #perplexity

AI ads debate is more about culture war than business decision

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Perplexity walks away from ads to differentiate from OpenAI and Google

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Perplexity Executives Think Ads Will Butcher Trust in AI

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Perplexity Ditches Ads for Subscription-First Growth

16 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Perplexity pulls advertising from its search engine, calling itself an "accuracy business"

16 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Perplexity Pulling Sponsored Answers From AI Platform

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Perplexity Abandons AI Advertising Strategy Over Trust Worries

16 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Perplexity joins anti-ad camp as AI companies battle over trust and revenue

16 days / theverge / Robert Hart

Apple Launches Apple Music Connect With New Pitch and Marketing Tools

iclarified - Apple has officially launched Apple Music Connect, a new portal described as the home for direct music delivery partners. The platform launches first with a suite of marketing tools that let labels and distributors pitch upcoming releases to Apple's globa…

#digitalmarketing #apple #business #distributions #apps #music #media #applemusic #ads #advertising

Apple Launches Apple Music Connect With New Pitch and Marketing Tools

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Apple Music Connect Launches, Providing Resources for Labels and Distributo

16 days / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Apple Music Connect is reborn as a marketing tool for the music industry

16 days / appleinsider

Apple Music Connect Launches as Promotional Resource for Labels and Distributors

16 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Munich’s HeyCharge Receives €2.5M EIC Grant to Boost EV Charging Technology

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - HeyCharge, a Munich-based EV charging technology company backed by BMW i Ventures, Statkraft Ventures, and Y Combinator, has received a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. The funding will support HeyCharge’s SecureC…

#startups #innovation #smartcities #energy #business #europe #batteries #automotive #eu #ev

Munich’s HeyCharge Receives €2.5M EIC Grant to Boost EV Charging Technology

16 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

HeyCharge awarded €2.5M EIC grant to expand EV charging solutions for apartment buildings

16 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Germany’s HeyCharge secures €2.5 million EIC grant to scale offline EV charging across Europe

16 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Federal court rules that OpenAI must stop using the term 'Cameo'

Andre Revilla / engadget - Cameo, the platform where celebrities sell short, personalized videos, has scored a preliminary win in a trademark lawsuit against OpenAI. A California judge has ruled that the AI company's video generation tool Sora cannot use the term 'cameo' or any var…

#techpolicy #openai #genai #business #judiciary #us #law #litigation #intellectualproperty

Federal court rules that OpenAI must stop using the term 'Cameo'

16 days / engadget / Andre Revilla

Federal Court orders OpenAI to stop using “Cameo” name in Sora 2

16 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

U.S. court bars OpenAI from using ‘Cameo’

17 days / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

NVIDIA Sells Remaining $140 Million Stake in Arm, Keeps Licensing Ties

techpowerup - Once a target of the largest industry acquisition that was halted by market regulators, NVIDIA has officially divested all its holdings in Arm Holdings PLC by selling 1.1 million shares, valued at about $140 million at the time of writing. Importantly, th…

#semiconductors #techpolicy #nvidia #antitrust #business #acquisitions #technology #arm #intellectualproperty

NVIDIA Ends ARM Acquisition Chapter; Debate Emerges Over Future CPU Strategy in the Agentic AI Era

16 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Nvidia sells off final Arm shares, but licensing deals will continue — $140 million stake sold, equating to 1.1 million shares

16 days / tomshardware

Arm shares edge higher in premarket as Nvidia shakes up its AI bets

16 days / cnbc

NVIDIA Sells Remaining $140 Million Stake in Arm, Keeps Licensing Ties

16 days / techpowerup

Nvidia (NVDA) Stock: Exits Arm Equity Holding Amid Ongoing AI Collaboration

16 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

London’s Mondra And Vienna’s Inoqo Announce Strategic Merger

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based AI supply chain intelligence platform Mondra and Vienna-based sustainability intelligence platform inoqo have announced a strategic merger. The combined entity aims to accelerate decarbonisation and enhance resilience across the global food s…

#ecommerce #analytics #datascience #saas #enterprise #business #environment #supplychain #food #europe

Sustainable supply chain group Mondra merges with Austria’s inoqo

16 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Mondra and inoqo merge to build a product intelligence platform for the food sector

16 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

London’s Mondra And Vienna’s Inoqo Announce Strategic Merger

16 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

London’s Mondra, fresh off an €11.8 million Series A raise, merges with Austrian sustainability startup inoqo

17 days / eu-startups / Rahul Raj

French VC Quantonation raises €220 million for flagship quantum and deep-physics fund

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Quantonation Ventures, a Paris-based venture firm for quantum and physics-based technologies, has closed its second flagship fund above target at €220 million. With this close, Quantonation reportedly becomes the largest dedicated quantum investment firm …

#startups #hardware #innovation #quantum #science #privateequity #business #deeptech #europe #technology

Quantonation Ventures Raises €220M Quantum Fund With Toshiba Support

16 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Quantonation just closed a €220M fund. Can it match VC’s diversity pace?

16 days / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

French VC Quantonation raises €220 million for flagship quantum and deep-physics fund

16 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Quantonation Ventures closes €220M quantum fund backed by Toshiba

16 days / tech / John Reynolds

Quantonation closes new €220m fund as interest in quantum surges

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‘Sentiment is bleak’: bitcoin declines as geopolitical tensions add to risk-off mood

scmp - Bitcoin extended a four-week slide as investors returned to a more cautious macro backdrop.The token dropped as much as 3.2 per cent to US$66,604 on Tuesday, before paring the decline.Bitcoin, which has traded like a high-beta tech proxy in recent months,…