Waymo raises $16B to scale robotaxi fleet internationally
Kirsten Korosec / techcrunch - The round, led by Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital, now values the autonomous vehicle company at $126 billion.
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Palantir beats fourth-quarter estimates on the strength of AI and defense demand
cnbc - Palantir topped Wall Street's fourth-quarter estimates as more businesses and the U.S. government race to buy its artificial intelligence tools.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO
cnbc - Musk is combining rocket maker SpaceX with his AI startup, the largest tie-up in his expansive business portfolio.
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BitMine acquires more ethereum despite being underwater amid token’s price decline
Sage D. Young / sherwood - CEO Tom Lee believes “the price of ETH is not reflective of the high utility of ETH and its role as the future of finance.”
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Move or Lose It: Google Sets Final May Deadline for Fitbit Account Migration
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Google is giving Fitbit users more time to move their accounts, but the company is still making the switch mandatory. In an email sent Friday, Fitbit told users the deadline to move a Fitbit account to a Google Account has been pushed to May 19, 2026. Any…
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VR used to help understand how people respond when self-driving taxis go wrong
techxplore - What would you do if you were in a self-driving taxi and another passenger fell seriously ill? What if a fire broke out, or the vehicle stopped in the wrong place? What would you need to manage the situation with no driver to help?
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Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI Deal Is ‘On Ice.’ So Why Are They Investing $30B?
Grant Harvey / eweek - Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI partnership is reportedly on ice, yet Nvidia may invest $30B anyway. Here’s what stalled, what changed, and why it matters.The post Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI Deal Is ‘On Ice.’ So Why Are They Investing $30B? appeared first on eWEEK.
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Bitcoin steadies after weekend bloodbath saw price dip below $75,000
Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy / sherwood - One expert warned if bitcoin breaks through a key support level of $73,000, the price could drop “below $60,000 by the end of February.”
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French IT Scale-Up Fleet Raises First External Capital At €100M Valuation
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Fleet, a Paris-based scale-up specialising in IT fleet management, equipment, and security for SMEs, has welcomed ISAI Expansion into its capital via the ISAI Expansion III fund, at a valuation of €100 million. ISAI Expansion, part of ISAI Gestion, target…
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What is Moltbook? Social network for AI agents attracts a lot of attention
Berry Zwets / techzine - A new online community called Moltbook has been the talk of the town this weekend. AI agents can post to and respond to one another on the social network, while humans simply watch. There is even talk of an early stage of singularity. What exactly is goin…
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Capgemini sells controversial US government unit
Mels Dees / techzine - Capgemini has begun the process of selling its US subsidiary, Capgemini Government Solutions. Capgemini came under pressure after it emerged that the subsidiary had signed a contract with ICE. This is according to a press release issued by the company on …
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Alibaba’s Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz
scmp - Alibaba Group Holding has joined rivals including Tencent Holdings and Baidu in rolling out Spring Festival red-packet giveaways to drive mass-market adoption of its artificial intelligence, committing 3 billion yuan (US$432 million) to spur spending acro…
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Incard closes £10M Series A to expand its financial platform
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - London-based Incard, a financial platformfor high-growth digital companies, has raised £10 million in Series A fundingled by Smartfin, with participation from Founders Capital, MountFund, and angelinv...
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Constructor Capital closes $110M Fund I for science-first founders
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Constructor Capital, the Swiss venture arm of theConstructor Group ecosystem, has closed its first fund at $110 million toinvest in seed and Series A startups across deeptech, software, and edtech.The...
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Biorce raises $52M to support global rollout of its AI clinical trial platform
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Barcelona-basedBiorce, a health AI company focused on clinical trial design and execution, hasclosed a $52 million Series A round. The financing includes new investment fromDST Global Partners, with e...
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TikTok outage is resolved now
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - TikTok said on Sunday it has restored service following a week of technical outages caused by a winter storm at an Oracle-operated data center. The disruptions impacted core features for TikTok’s 220 million U.S. users and occurred as the platform finaliz…
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India Proposes 20-Year Tax Holiday for Cloud Companies
PYMNTS / pymnts - India is reportedly offering foreign cloud companies a 20-year tax amnesty for building data centers there. The proposal, announced Sunday (Feb 1) by India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and flagged in a report by TechCrunch, would give companies a…
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Jupiter brings Polymarket to Solana and lands $35 million investment deal
Shaurya Malwa / coindesk - Jupiter said Polymarket will be integrated on its platform, while ParaFi Capital has made a $35 million strategic investment in JUP with an extended lockup.
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Is AI Really To Blame For All The Tech Layoffs?
bgr - Tech layoffs have been hitting the news since the pandemic ended and AI has been projected as a major reason. However, here's the actual truth.
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Oracle unveils $50B fundraising plan to fuel AI data center ambitions
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Oracle Corp. has given investors another reason to be nervous after revealing a plan today to raise between $45 billion and $50 billion this year, in order to fund the buildout of more data center capacity for artificial intelligence workloads. The cloud …
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