Tootfinder

Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/ex-splunk-execs-…

Ex-Splunk execs' startup Resolve AI hits $1 billion valuation with Series A | TechCrunch
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to people familiar with the deal.

Brian Greene has a new video out today, of himself talking to Edward Witten, mainly about string theory.
Pretty much the usual decades-old hype, with nothing even slightly different than what a similar conversation would have consisted of 20 years ago.
Of historical and psychological interest, Witten explains that when the anthropic landscape nonsense arrived, it made him uncomfortable and unhappy:
"I made my peace with it by accepting the fact that the universe wasn’t c…

Mike Johnson's House schedule fuels GOP frustration, stalled agenda (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/house-session-days-johnson
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p111#a251219p111

Baut bitte mal wer SBCs/Mini-PCs mit mehr PCIe-Lanes? :/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Nation of Language:
🎵 In Another Life
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/in-another-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/6pEvh57vzBZ2qFF8v7Zo0r

Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/848540/google-app-fees-ext…

Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install
Google will charge fees when Android developers link outside of the Play Store, or use alternative billing systems, and says it’s complying with the Epic injunction.

Sender in Österreich - Islam-Propaganda trotz Verbot weiter abrufbar #News #Nachrichten

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Raiders boost defense with waiver claim ahead of trip to Houston https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-boost-defense-with-waiver-claim-ahead-of-trip-to-houston-3598075/

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission head asks white men to report discrimination (Sarah Dean/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/equal-employment-opportunity-commission-head-asks-white-men-report-dis-rcna249939
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p110#a251219p110

Autonomаton – Collected not lost 2015-2025 vol.1: drone and teknoiz
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/collected-not-lost-2015-2025-vol-1-drone-and-teknoiz

Stefanik exits New York governor race and Congress (NewsNation)
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/stefanik-exits-new-york-governor-race-and-congress/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p109#a251219p109

from my link log —
ACME, a brief history of a protocol which has changed Internet security.
https://blog.brocas.org/2025/12/01/ACME-a-brief-history-of-one-of-the-protocols-which-has-changed-the-Internet-Security/

Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus

Dossier Presse 1997-2024
Beaucoup d'articles de presse ont été écris depuis 1997 sur OKC et Robert Spatz, mais malheureusement une partie de ces articles sont derrière des barr ...

Here’s the underlying data source:
https://www.challengergray.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Challenger-Report-October-2025.pdf
A bit thin on methodology, shall we say, so take it as you will.
2/

PayPal im stationären Handel: 7,6 Millionen registrierte Nutzer in Deutschland
PayPal scheint mit kontaktlosem Bezahlen im stationären Handel erfolgreich zu sein. Erste Zahlen seit dem Start im Mai 2025 liegen vor.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-value-of-intelligence

Raiders name Omar Young Running Backs Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-omar-young-running-backs-coach

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Chamber Choir AVE, Andraz Hauptman & Felix Mendelssohn:
🎵 Three Psalms, Op 78
#ChamberChoirAVE #AndrazHauptman #FelixMendelssohn
#Spotify

New publication: Maxime Guénette, Annette von Stockhausen, and Mathilde Verstraete, “La reconnaissance automatique pour le grec ancien (preprint),” in Apprendre Š Lire aux Machines, ed. Alix Chagué, Thibault Clérice, and Ariane Pinche (HAL, 2025), 89–102, https://hal.science/hal-05163931.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Gefahr im Schacht: Viele Aufzüge ohne Schutz gegen Hacker

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Senkung der Luftverkehrsteuer zum 01. Juli 2026 vom 24.11.2025"
hat bisher 1767 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 28233 Unterschriften bis zum 21.01.2026.
https://

Canva COO Cliff Obrecht says the company hit $4B in ARR at the end of 2025, had 265M MAUs and 31M paid users, and expects to IPO in the next "couple of years" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/canva-gets-to-4b-i…

Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises | TechCrunch
The creative company's monthly active users increased 20%, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools.

On the UK SSES 1st Phase ESA Regs (2026) - UK central government consulting to enable flexibility from domestic heat pumps etc #smartGrid #flexibleDemand #SSES

On the UK SSES 1st Phase ESA Regs (2026)
UK central government consulting to enable flexibility from domestic heat pumps etc #smartGrid #flexibleDemand #SSES #ESA #EHA

Cowboys Sticking With Frustrating George Pickens Approach https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-sticking-with-frustrating-george-pickens-approach/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Deadstick
#KingGizzard #theLizardWizard
https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/deadstick

Erlebnispfade im Nationalpark #Schwarzwald begeistern die Gäste
Der #Lotharpfad ist seit langem einer der meistbesuchten Orte des Nationalparks. Rund jeder zweite Gast war bereits dort und auch die Wiederbesuchsrate ist sehr hoch. Seit 2024 wurde der Lotharpfad um den Spechtpfad erweite…

Erlebnispfade begeistern die Gäste
Ergebnis einer Befragung zum Naturerleben und zur Erlebnisqualität auf dem Lothar- und Spechtpfad im Nationalpark Schwarzwald

NYT reports adding 450K digital subscribers in Q4 and 1.4M in 2025 for 12.78M in total, putting it on a pace to reach its stated goal of 15M by the end of 2027 (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/new-york-times-ear…

New York Times Added 1.4 Million Digital Subscribers in 2025
The company reported total revenue of $802.3 million for the fourth quarter of 2025, up 10.4 percent from a year earlier.

‼️Die #Petition
"Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen ab dem Jahr 2030 vom 22.11.2025"
hat bisher 585 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29415 Unterschriften bis zum 10.03.2026.
https://

China's economy grows 5% in 2025, buoyed by strong exports despite Trump's tariffs (Chan Ho-him/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-economy-exports-trump-tariffs-6b3f53af8f22692bcd4d276c0695b1fc
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p94#a260118p94

New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record #Hawaii

New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record
In 2025, Hawaiʻi experienced its second-driest year in more than a century, alongside persistently above-average temperatures throughout the year—a stark reality detailed in the inaugural Hawai'i Annual Climate Report 2025. Published by the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, this first-of-its-kind report uses plain language, along with easy-to-interpret maps and figures, to summarize statewide rainfall, temperature, and drought conditions over the past year.

Frederick McKinley "Casey" Jones was a man we should all know about. He was a self-taught genius--though his parents abandoned him at 12. He ran away from his orphanage at 17.
He had 60 patents to his name, though he probably should have had more. The refrigeration units he invented for trains and trucks, ALONE, should have guaranteed him lasting fame!

How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/01/dark-roof-lobby?CMP=share_btn_url

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115790466560092444
“Complacency is over.”
Thank goodness. So I guess we’ll stop going on about “European values” while ignoring – if not actively aiding and abetting – Israel’s li…

大掃除しなくてよい理由はひとつもないが、目をそらし続けている

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Franz Schubert, Andreas Staier, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & Christoph Prégardien:
🎵 An Mignon from 3 Songs, D.161
#FranzSchubert #AndreasStaier #JohannWolfgangvonGoethe #ChristophPrégardien
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

Meine Top 5 Bücher in 2025 – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4463-Meine-Top-5-Buecher-in-2025.html #(hör-)bücher

fröhliches vorvorböllern allerseits
nicht vergessen: morgen ist vorböllern

I paid more in domain name fees this month than xmas presents. Again.

"More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025"
#Climate #ClimateChange

More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025
In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary figures from the International Disaster Database analyzed by Mongabay. The disasters include flash floods, landslides, severe storms, wildfires and droughts. Drought and food insecurity impacted the largest number of people. In Syria, which faced its worst drought in […]

I really watch a lot of youtube.
#youtube

Just tagged ngscopeclient v0.1.1-rc1.
Go poke at it, this is your last chance to get bug fixes in before we cut the v0.1.1 release!

Por um gesto julgamos um caršter; por um caršter julgamos um povo.
-- Eça de Queiroz

someone pweaze make stickers
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-struggles-to-go-digital-stuck-in-analog-era-fax-machines-paperwork-bureaucracy/a-75206481

»Ransomware-Angriffe in der DACH-Region steigen deutlich:
Die Bedrohung durch Ransomware wächst weiter. Kaspersky registrierte 2025 in Deutschland 384 Angriffe – ein deutlicher Anstieg im Vergleich zu 233 im Jahr 2024.«
Betreffen kann dies uns alle aber das min die E-Mails kryptografisch signiert sind wenn nicht verschlüsselt, wäre ein Punkt mehr für mehr Sicherheit und setzt nicht blind ua auf Microschrott.
🔓

Ransomware-Angriffe in der DACH-Region steigen deutlich
Die Bedrohung durch Ransomware wächst weiter. Kaspersky registrierte 2025 in Deutschland 384 Angriffe – ein deutlicher Anstieg im Vergleich zu 233 im Jahr 2024.

Shocked, I am shocked I say.
#whitesupremacy #backwards
https://sfba.social/@markmetz/115783488468895848

Always nice to have the cat helping with yoga!
You know, the extra difficulty of downward facing dog while a cat tail brushes against your nose.

A comprehensive piece on X and the Digital Services Act, born on the same day.
http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-digital-services-act-main-character.html

The Digital Service’s Act Main Character: the EU Commission finally fines X
    Steve Peers , Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Animated Heaven, via Wikimedia Commons   Intr...

#socialcoop So our Meet.Coop instance has been down for 3 weeks, and from what I see on https://forum.meet.coop/t/meet-coop-update-october-2025/1739/47, it's not clear w…

Meet.coop update October 2025
Me and Nick worked on the servers again today. Everything me and Nick have access to is now backed up now using encrypted backups (Restic and Borgbase). For anyone wondering this is the current plan with recordings: Can I recover my recordings despite service being down? - #3 by kawaiipunk Unfortunately we still don’t have all the access we need to complete our work. We are still missing: ssh/root access to ca.meet.coop Keycloak sso.meet.coop master realm access Hetzner account access - f…

Whelp the day finally came when @… and I moved to a paid @… plan.

Nach sieben Wochen - René Benko blitzt mit Haftbeschwerde beim OLG ab #News #Nachrichten

The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution
and scam compounds
nearly doubled in 2025,
according to a conservative estimate.
Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.
https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-funded-…

Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding
The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.

Far from a lost year: Raiders developed some foundational pieces on O-line https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/far-from-a-lost-year-raiders-developed-some-foundational-pieces-on-o-line-3696094/

On the UK SSES 1st Phase ESA Regs (2026) - UK central government consulting to enable flexibility from domestic heat pumps etc #smartGrid #flexibleDemand #SSES

On the UK SSES 1st Phase ESA Regs (2026)
UK central government consulted on frameworks to enable the untapped flexibility from small scale devices #smartGrid #SSES #ESA #EHA

Mastodon（Fedibird）からこんにちは
実は自宅サーバー勢でもあったりします。面白そうなのでお邪魔しますー。
@…

❤️ https://mackuba.eu/2026/02/04/pds-undockered/

Snap reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.72B, vs. $1.7B est., DAUs up 5% to 474M, vs. 478M est., and announces a $500M share buyback; SNAP jumps 7% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/snap-q4-earnings-report-2025.html

Raiders name Matt Robinson Safeties Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-matt-robinson-safeties-coach

BOFH excuse #100:
IRQ dropout

from my link log —
Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform.
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/
saved 2021-02-09

Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi “hat” attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old A…

AMD knackt erstmals 10 Milliarden US-Dollar Quartalsumsatz
Das Jahr 2025 lief für AMD erfreulich, unter anderem mit einem Verkaufsrekord von Ryzen-CPUs. Die Aktie fällt trotzdem um über zehn Prozent.
https://www.…

カレー納めは計画中。問題は、どのカレーにするか……

Das sind die, die sich bei Rückkehr über #Fachkräftemangel beschweren:
In der deutschen #Automobilindustrie wurden 2025 erneut viele Stellen abgebaut. Laut #VDA sank die Zahl …

Viele ins Ausland verlagert: Automobilzulieferer bauten 2025 Tausende Stellen ab
Das Hoch in der Automobilbranche ist längst vorbei, mit der Corona-Zeit bricht der Markt ein. In Deutschland werden seitdem Zehntausende Jobs gestrichen, so auch im vergangenen Jahr. Teilweise werden die Stellen in anderen Ländern kompensiert.

Beong-Soo Kim will serve as USC’s 13th President, according to a community-wide email sent Wednesday.
Kim has served as USC’s interim president since July 2025.
The election by the Board of Trustees was unanimous.
A Feb. 5 email from Suzanne Nora Johnson, chair of the USC board of trustees, stated that Kim,
formerly general counsel and senior vice president at USC,
would not be a candidate for the presidency in order to “dedicate all of his efforts to being a fa…

Beong-Soo Kim to be USC’s next president - Daily Trojan
As interim president, Kim launched the USC Open Dialogue Project and oversaw USC layoffs and budget reductions.

Memo: Bloomberg Media now has 707,000 paying subscribers, reports revenue up 6% YoY, subscriptions revenue up 10%, and advertising and sponsorship revenue up 5% (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/bloomberg-media-700000-subscribers-2025/
…

Bloomberg Media Tops 700,000 Subscribers as Revenue Rises 6% in 2025
According to a memo obtained by ADWEEK, the publisher posted gains across subscriptions, advertising, and live events.

Unbequeme Analyse - Sanfter Ton aus USA, harte Forderungen an Europa #News #Nachrichten

Snap reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.72B, vs. $1.7B est., DAUs up 5% to 474M, vs. 478M est., and announces a $500M share buyback; SNAP jumps 5% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/snap-q4-earnings-report-2025.html

Snap shares rise on fourth-quarter earnings that beat on sales
Snap released on Wednesday its fourth-quarter earnings that beat on sales but missed on revenue guidance.

Raiders name Andrew Janocko Offensive Coordinator https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-andrew-janocko-offensive-coordinator

from my link log —
Several ways is which software can be surprisingly slow.
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/06/surprisingly-slow/
saved 2021-04-07

Home Heat Pumps: 2-day Installation Open Letter (2025) - Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed... #heatpump #netZero #winter -

Home Heat Pumps: 2-day Installation Open Letter (2025)
Distress winter replacements of a gas boiler with heat pump are possible and needed... #heatpump #netZero #winter

らーぬんだ

AI Chipmaker Cerebras raised a $1B Series H led by Tiger Global at a $23B valuation, up from $8.1B in September 2025 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/cerebras-raises-1-billion-in-funding-at…

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
https://bsky.app/profi…

@jeffatwood.bsky.social
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US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/googl…

あさだね

‼️Die #Petition
"Stärkere Einschränkung der Verfügbarkeit von Feuerwerkskörpern bzw. von Böllern um den Jahreswechsel vom 27.05.2025"
hat bisher 84 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29916 Unterschriften bis zum 11.03.2026.

Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% gain in South Korea's Kospi, the world's best-performing major stock index in 2025 (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Fubo's CEO says NBCUniversal has been unwilling to restart carriage talks with Fubo; NBCUniversal channels have been unavailable on Fubo since November 2025 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/fubo-comcast-nbc-discussions-stall/

Fubo CEO says Comcast severed talks on NBC deal in January
NBC Universal stopped negotiating with Fubo in early January, Fubo CEO David Gandler said on Tuesday.

あけていない引っ越し時のダンボールを、そのまま次の引っ越し先に持っていくレベルの目のそらし方

A languid spiral galaxy appears draped against deep space in a stunning new image from the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope.
Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at scale,
observing billions of galaxies stretching as far away as 10 billion light-years from Earth.
The effort could reveal how galaxies form and evolve and how the universe has expanded over its 13.8-billion-or-so-year history.

Sparkling Galaxy Merger Shines in New Euclid Space Telescope Image
The Euclid Space Telescope is decking the halls with boughs of starlight

Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/most-active-fintech-inve…

Y Combinator Was By Far The Most-Active Fintech Investor in 2025, Data Shows
All told, global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion for 2025 compared to $40.8 billion in 2024, per Crunchbase data. The investors who provided all that capital included a mix of private equity and alternative investors, with venture capital firms and accelerators next in line.

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q4 ad revenue rose 9% YoY to $11.38B, vs. $11.84B est., and YouTube's annual revenue surpassed $60B across ads and subscriptions (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-q4-2…

YouTube Ad Revenue Hits Record $11.38 Billion in Q4, but Falls Short of Expectations
YouTube had its biggest-ever ad sales to date for Q4 2025, but revenue of $11.38 billion came in under Wall Street forecasts.

In #SachsenAnhalt wurden 2025 insgesamt 59 neue #Windräder und über 23.000 neue #Photovoltaikanlagen in Betrieb genommen.
Besonders stark wuchs der Zubau bei

Mehr Wind, mehr Sonne: Rekord beim Ökostrom-Ausbau in Sachsen-Anhalt
Sachsen-Anhalt setzt 2025 weiter auf Wind- und Solarenergie. Die Zahl der Anlagen und die Gesamtleistung erreichen Rekordwerte.

Driven by the AI boom, chipmakers posted $400B in sales in 2025; FactSet projects revenue for Nvidia, Intel, Broadcom, AMD, and Qualcomm to reach $538B in 2026 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…

It’s hard to articulate just how quickly batteries for grid storage are coming online.
These massive arrays of cells can soak up electricity when sources like solar are available and prices are low,
and then discharge power back to the grid when it’s needed most.
Back in 2015, the battery storage industry had installed only a fraction of a gigawatt-hour of battery storage capacity across the US.
That year, it set a seemingly bold target of adding 35 gigawatt-hours by …

Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Prices Fall to $108 Per Kilowatt-Hour, Despite Rising Metal Prices: BloombergNEF | BloombergNEF
BloombergNEF’s new framework and scorecard provides a tool for investors to analyze country-level climate risk and resilience.

The NYT reports Q4 revenue up 10.4% YoY to $802.3M, subscription revenue up 13.9% YoY to $381.5M, and operating profit up 10.2% YoY to $161.6M (The New York Times Company)
https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2026/02/Q4-2025-Earnings-Release.pdf

Shares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M in 2024 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/a…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Adobe ramped up its ads in 2025, spending $1.4B amid AI competition and Wall Street skepticism, representing a significantly higher share of sales than rivals (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q4 ad revenue rose 9% YoY to $11.38B, vs. $11.84B est., and YouTube's annual revenue surpassed $60B across ads and subscriptions (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-q4-2…

YouTube Ad Revenue Hits Record $11.38 Billion in Q4, but Falls Short of Expectations
YouTube had its biggest-ever ad sales to date for Q4 2025, but revenue of $11.38 billion came in under Wall Street forecasts.

Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/japan-s-re…

Japan's Renesas to sell timing solution segment to US-based SiTime for $3bn
Chipmaker divesting non-core businesses after seeing a loss in 1st 9 months of 2025

Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Results (Alphabet)
https://s206.q4cdn.com/479360582/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/2025q4-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf

Eight Sleep, which sells smart mattress accessories to track sleep patterns and adjust temperatures, raised $50M at a $1.5B valuation, up from $500M in 2021 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/eight-sleep-raises-50m-at-1-5b-valuation/

Eight Sleep raises $50M at $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Eight Sleep said it was free-cash-flow positive in 2025, and plans to use the new funding for new products, global expansions, and clinical validation.

Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-piv

AMD reports $390M in revenue from MI308 AI chip sales in China in Q4; CEO Lisa Su says orders were "from very early in 2025" but shipped in Q4 after US approval (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

AMD rakes in $390m from AI chip sales to China but warns of uncertainty
Company sees $100m more revenue from China as Beijing weighs rules on Nvidia, other foreign chips

AI voice startup ElevenLabs raised a $500M Series D led by Sequoia at an $11B valuation, taking its total funding to nearly $800M, and reports $330M in 2025 ARR (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/voice-ai-start

A profile of Obsidian, a game studio Microsoft acquired in 2018, as it seeks to expedite game development and reduce costs after releasing three titles in 2025 (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/googl…

SIA: chip sales hit $791.7B in 2025, up 25.6% YoY, with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel accounting for $301.9B, up 40%; SIA expects sales to reach $1T in 2026 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/global-chip-sal…

Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $113.8B, Google Cloud revenue up 48% to $17.7B, Google Services revenue up 14% to $95.9B, net income up 30% to $34.46B (Alphabet)
https://s206.q4cdn.com/479360582/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/2025q4-…