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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Waymo picks up further $16bn investment

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Waymo Raises $16 Billion to Fuel Global Ambitions

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Waymo raises $16B to scale robotaxi fleet internationally

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Waymo announces $16 billion funding round

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Waymo raises $16 billion to take its robotaxi business ‘global’

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Waymo closes US $16bn round at record US $110bn valuation

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Intel Xeon 600 Workstation CPUs Launched: Up To 86 Cores, 8000 MT/s Memory, 128 Gen5 Lanes, 350W TDP With OC Support, & More Cores/$ Than Threadripper 9000

Hassan Mujtaba / wccftech - Intel has unveiled its next-gen Xeon 600 workstation CPUs codenamed Granite Rapids, featuring up to 86 cores & better cores/$ value than Threadripper. Intel Fires Back At AMD Threadripper 9000 With Better Cores/$ Value On Xeon 600 Workstation CPUs Today, …

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Intel unveils Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids" workstation CPUs with up to 86 cores, 128 PCIe 5 lanes

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(PR) ASRock Industrial Launches IMB-X1904 Flagship HPC Motherboard Powered by Intel Xeon 600 Processors

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OCCT Tool Gets Intel Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids-WS" Overclocking Support

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Intel Launches Xeon 600 Series Workstation CPUs

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(PR) Giga Computing Unveils New Motherboards Using Intel Xeon 600 Processor for Workstations

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Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh

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Intel Xeon 600 Workstation CPUs Launched: Up To 86 Cores, 8000 MT/s Memory, 128 Gen5 Lanes, 350W TDP With OC Support, & More Cores/$ Than Threadripper 9000

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Intel returns to boxed workstation CPUs with Xeon 600 — Granite Rapids WS delivers up to 86 cores, 4TB of memory, and 128 PCIe 5 lanes

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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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Google keeps extending the Fitbit account migration deadline

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Move or Lose It: Google Sets Final May Deadline for Fitbit Account Migration

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Fitbit users must convert to Google accounts soon

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Mozilla Details its New Controls for Blocking AI Features in Firefox

Laurent Giret / thurrott - The new option to block all AI features in Firefox is coming soon to Nightly builds, and it will become available for all users on February 24 with the release of Firefox 148.The post Mozilla Details its New Controls for Blocking AI Features in Firefox ap…

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Just about every spec of the iPhone Fold may have just been leaked

appleinsider - Most previous iPhone Fold leaks have concerned the screen, but a new one claims to have details of the cameras, repositioned buttons, colors, and more.The iPhone Fold may have all physical buttons on the right, leaving the left side clear — image credit: …

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iPhone Fold Could Redefine Battery Life and Shake Up Button Design

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Apple Is Working on a Clamshell Version of Its First Foldable iPhone, Report Says

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Foldable iPhone leak claims standout engineering and a design callback to iPhone X

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Apple’s ‘iPhone Flip’ May Not Be Dead After All

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Apple's Already Working On A New Foldable Phone With A Different Design

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Most previous iPhone Fold leaks have concerned the screen, but a new one claims to have details of the cameras, repositioned buttons, colors, and more.

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Foldable iPhone Said to Feature Massive 5,500mAh Battery

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My 2026 iPhone Homescreen

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iPhone Fold Tipped to Feature Largest Battery in iPhone History and New Button Layout [Report]

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Leaked Foldable iPhone Battery Life Might Put Android Phones To Shame

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Just about every spec of the iPhone Fold may have just been leaked

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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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OpenAI is unsatisfied with some Nvidia chips and looking for alternatives, sources say

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What Oracle Has to Lose From OpenAI and Nvidia’s Rocky Relationship

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Sam Altman: I DUMPED JENSEN HE DIDN’T DUMP ME!!! OpenAI reportedly seeking alternatives to Nvidia chips, unhappy with inference performance sherwood.news/markets/open... $NVDA

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OpenAI is unsatisfied with some Nvidia chips and looking for alternatives

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OpenAI reportedly seeking alternatives to Nvidia chips, unhappy with inference performance

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Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled

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NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) Stock: Wobbles as $100B OpenAI Deal Faces Internal Pushback

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Nvidia shares are down after a report that its OpenAI investment stalled.

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Nvidia CEO: OpenAI Investment Still On, WSJ Report ‘Nonsense’

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Nvidia pauses $100B OpenAI talks over internal concerns

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Nvidia’s $100B OpenAI Deal Is ‘On Ice.’ So Why Are They Investing $30B?

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Nvidia plans largest ever investment in OpenAI despite stall reports

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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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Bootstrapped Fleet zips €100M valuation in first-ever raise

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French IT Scale-Up Fleet Raises First External Capital At €100M Valuation

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Fleet opens its capital at a €100M valuation after seven years of bootstrapping

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Bootstrapped for seven years, French IT scale-up Fleet enters first LBO at €100 million valuation

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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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MoltBook has gone viral, and for good reason. AI Agents are debating religions, plotting overthrows, and all with zero human input on this social media platform for machines. Makes me wonder, is this the start of Machine Societies?

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Inside Moltbook: the ‘Reddit for AI’ Where Bots Build Their Own Society

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The Markets' AI Guessing Game, Moltbook Explained, AI-Induced Layoffs?

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Expert Opinions & Warnings

Five ways of thinking about Moltbook

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Elon Musk has lauded the 'social media for AI agents' platform Moltbook as a bold step for AI. Others are skeptical

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Wharton professor warns Moltbook creates shared fictional contexts for AI

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Rapid Launch & Adoption

Moltbook, the viral AI sensation, isnt exactly Skynet

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Social media for AI launched

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What is the 'social media network for AI' Moltbook?

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What is Moltbook? Social network for AI agents attracts a lot of attention

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Moltbook hits 1.5 million users in 4 days

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A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

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A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.

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AI agents get their own social network

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Security Concerns

AI agent social network Moltbook left millions of credentials publicly exposed

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Moltbook, the AI social network, exposed human credentials due to vibe-coded security flaw

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Moltbook is a security nightmare waiting to happen, expert warns

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It Turns Out ‘Social Media for AI Agents’ Is a Security Nightmare

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Vibe-coded Social Network for AI Bots Exposed Data on Thousands of Humans

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Moltbook Exposed 6,000 Users' Data as AI Agent Social Network Splits Silicon Valley

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Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control

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My main feeling about Moltbook is that a lot of things are going to happen in the next few years that make us say "something just like this happened on Moltbook" www.platformer.news/moltbook-ai-...

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Five ways of thinking about Moltbook: ✱ J’ai testé Moltbot/Openclaw la semaine passée. Ça prend une autre tournure.

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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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Alibaba Raises Stakes in China’s Chatbot War Ahead of Lunar New Year

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Alibaba Plans $431M Lunar New Year AI Push Amid Chatbot Battle

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Alibaba’s Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz

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Alibaba’s Qwen App Commits ￥30B to Chinese New Year AI Giveaway Campaign

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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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Constructor Capital Secures $110M Fund to Back Deeptech and Science-Led Startups

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Constructor Capital Launches €92.8M Fund I For DeepTech, Software, And EdTech

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Early Lumai, GCore backer Constructor closes $110M fund for complex deeptech, with diversity lagging

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Swiss VC firm Constructor Capital closes €92.8 million debut fund to back DeepTech, software, and EdTech startups

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Constructor Capital closes $110M Fund I for science-first founders

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Exclusive: Serg Bell’s Constructor Capital closes $110m first-time deeptech fund

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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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US TikTok service restored after cloud 'that doesn't go down' went down

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TikTok says it's 'back to normal' after winter storm-related outages

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TikTok outage is resolved now

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TikTok says its services are restored after the outage

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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.