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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 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/google-io-2026-date/

Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20
Following the interactive puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2026 is taking place May 19-20...

Vom AI-Hype zur AI-Angst: Warum Tech-Aktien 2026 so stark verlieren
Backlash: Big-Tech-Aktien notieren seit Jahresbeginn im Minus. Die Wall Street ist über das Disruptionspotenzial besorgt.
https://www.…

„Derweil ist auch das SO36 von der Insolvenz betroffen. Durch ausbleibende Einkünfte aus Ticketvorverkäufen fehlen der Konzertlocation, die fußläufig etwa zwei Minuten von der Konzertkasse entfernt liegt, nun knapp 40.000 Euro. Eine Crowdfunding-Kampagne soll nun den Schaden minimieren.“
KOKA36: Kreuzberger Konzertkasse meldet Insolvenz an

1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: #GenAI

Open Source and GenAI?

Ukraine is ready. We don't need war. We always act in mirror response, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/ukraine-is-ready-we-dont.html

Vincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holman are barred from future attendance after Justice Department files revealed their roles in efforts to secure Jeffrey Epstein’s access to DEF CON.
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/02/def

DEF CON bans hackers, technologists named in Epstein documents
Vincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holman are barred from future attendance after Justice Department files revealed their roles in efforts to secure Jeffrey Epstein’s access to DEF CON.

The Writers Guild Staff Union calls a work stoppage, one month before the WGA begins AMPTP negotiations, accusing the WGA West of bad faith bargaining (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/wga-west-staff-strike-ahead-of-amptp-negoti…

WGA West Staff Goes On Strike Ahead Of Writers Union’s AMPTP Negotiations
The WGA West staff has called a strike after negotiating its first contract with union management since September

Confused about this artwork/book case stand

@… restock the k ern hat pretty pleeeeease

Social media addiction trial: Mark Zuckerberg says increasing engagement on Instagram is not a company goal and that Meta removes underage users it identifies (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/meta-mark-zuckerberg-social-media-safety-trial.html…

Zuckerberg testimony: Upping engagement on Instagram was not a company goal
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in a closely watched social media and safety trial that could reshape the industry.

„Unreal Tournament 2004“ gratis und modernisiert: Community-Patch 3374 ist da
Ein neuer Patch nach 20 Jahren: Die OldUnreal-Community hat „Unreal Tournament 2004“ überarbeitet. Das Spiel kann legal gratis heruntergeladen werden.

Russian, Belarusian athletes to compete under national flags at 2026 Winter Paralympics: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/18/russian-belarusian-athletes-to-compete.html

Matthias Mewes, SPD, jubiliert im DLF, weil schon 80% der Hausarztpraxen die #ePA benutzen und verschweigt, dass die Geld kriegen, wenn sie Leute dazu überreden.
Und trotzdem sind 20% nicht dabei.

Amnesty research: a government customer of spyware maker Intellexa hacked the iPhone of journalist Teixeira Cândido in Angola in 2024 via Predator spyware (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/inte

Intellexa's Predator spyware used to hack iPhone of journalist in Angola, research says | TechCrunch
Amnesty International says it found evidence that a government customer of Intellexa, a sanctioned surveillance vendor, used its Predator spyware against a prominent journalist in Angola.

@… I think dB volume is only one part of the equation, most of the whistles I’ve tested max out at about ~120 dB with a heavy blow. A good estimate for a speaking voice is ~60 dB. The frequency of a whistle plays a part in how far the sound carries too. The triple tone whistle has three different pitches, so it’s a more full sound. Happy to answer questions

Spekulationen über KI-Anwendung: Rasanter Kursanstieg von Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi mit Kursgewinnen am Dienstag – getrieben durch Spekulationen über Einplatinencomputer als kostengünstige Alternative für den Betrieb von OpenClaw.

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 (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/nvidia-india-ai-vc-data-center-partners.html…

Nvidia is partnering with major Indian VC firms in search for the country's next AI start-ups
Nvidia is expanding its partnerships in India, including with venture capital firms, as it bets on the country's AI ecosystem that has drawn massive Big Tech investments. 

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,255,340 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/snapchat-launches-creator-subscription-in-the-u-s/…

Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in the US | TechCrunch
Snapchat will let creators set their monthly subscription price.

Warum es keine gute Idee ist, den Google AI Mode zu benutzen, und welche handfesten Nachteile das nach sich ziehen kann: https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/google-weiss-wie-du-denkst-ai-mode-datenschutz-dsgvo

Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more call for guardrails on some infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/17/ai-data-viruses-biosecurity

AI's big biosecurity blind spot
Once high-risk biological data hits the open web, it can't be recalled.

KI-Update kompakt: Demokratie, Pentagon vs. Anthropic, Produktivität, KI-Musik
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://w…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,256,080 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Ich werde kein #Tesla-Fan mehr, aber dass die Leute, die da arbeiten, vernünftige Arbeitsbedingungen haben müssen, stimmt ja trotzdem.
Zu den kommenden Betriebsratswahlen, um die es sehr harte Auseinandersetzungen gibt, und um was es eigentlich geht:
https…

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 (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/17/cftc-prediction-markets-mike-selig

U.S. commission fights states on prediction markets: "We will see you in court"
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a legal campaign to defend its regulatory turf on prediction markets.

Neue durch tektonische Aktivitäten entstandene Strukturen auf dem Mond entdeckt
Forscher haben Strukturen in den Mondmaren untersucht, die auf Erdbeben hinweisen. Diese könnten auch bemannte Missionen treffen.

1 killed, 25 injured across Ukraine as Russia launches latest mass missile, drone attack: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/killed-injured-across-ukraine-as.html

Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, letting CarPlay users access apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/18/ios-26-4-carplay-support/

iOS 26.4 Brings CarPlay Support for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
With iOS 26.4, CarPlay users will be able to use third-party chatbots with CarPlay. AI services like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT will be accessible...

Gutes Interview zur Frage, wie gefährlich Social Media für Kinder und Jugendliche sind, und welche weiteren Faktoren dabei übersehen werden.
https://kleinstadt.ch/mit-verboten-werden-jugendliche-zum-schweigen-gebracht/

Angst vor Vertrauensverlust: Perplexity verzichtet auf Werbung
Während der Konkurrent OpenAI in ChatGPT Werbung testet, schafft Perplexity in seinem Chatbot Anzeigen wieder ab. Diese untergrüben das Vertrauen der Nutzer.

Investigation: How Russian drones exploit European technologies to strike Ukraine, and beyond: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/18/investigation-how-russian-drones-exploit.html

Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a "spatial dataflow" architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/18/efficient-computer-r…

Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end - SiliconANGLE
Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end - SiliconANGLE

RE: #Palantir

Volumetrisches 3D-Druckverfahren ermöglicht schnelles und präzises Drucken
Ein neues, volumetrisches 3D-Druckverfahren baut Objekte komplett auf, und das sehr schnell: Ein millimetergroßes Objekt entsteht in weniger als einer Sekunde.

DG Matrix, which builds solid-state transformers to handle up to 2.4 MW and boost data center power efficiency, raised a $60M Series A led by Engine Ventures (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/dg-matrix-raises-60m-to-make-dat…

Exclusive: DG Matrix raises $60M to make data center power smarter | TechCrunch
The startup is making solid-state transformers capable of intelligently aggregating power from a number of different sources before sending it to data center racks.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@derspiegel/politik-9804pdu1z/-/a-V8WKmdesSXKaW78EdSPuAg:a:2114916517-/0
"zum zweiten Mal viel Geld gespendet" und "mit Großspenden versorgt" sind bei mir …

Nach Druck aus Hollywood: ByteDance setzt Seedance 2.0 Grenzen
Der TikTok-Eigentümer ByteDance will Änderungen an seinem KI-Videogenerator Seedance 2.0 vornehmen. Zuvor hatte Hollywood erheblichen Druck ausgeübt.

OpenAI partners with six Indian education institutions, including IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad, and AIIMS New Delhi, to provide ChatGPT Edu access to 100K students (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-pushes…

OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills | TechCrunch
OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year.

Russland verabschiedet Gesetz zur Mobilfunkabschaltung
Die Eingriffe des russischen Staates bei der Internetnutzung werden massiver. Die Duma verabschiedet eine Gesetzesänderung zur Mobilfunkabschaltung.
https://www.…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bkastl/116085231249861997
This:

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $200M from Autodesk, part of a larger round; the companies are exploring integrating World Labs' AI models in Autodesk products (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/worl

World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk to bring world models into 3D workflows | TechCrunch
The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases. 

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Niederlande: Polizei gibt Mann versehentlich Datenzugang und nimmt ihn dann fest

Es gibt einen interessanten Kontrast zwischen "Die Kids sind Digital Natives, die bewegen sich im Netz wie die Fische im Wasser" und "Die Gehirne sind noch nicht fertig, die Kleinen müssen vor dem Internet beschützt werden".

Dreamer - why we built it! -- Dreamer is the name of the platform and company I started with Hugo ... (David Singleton/flurries of latent creativity)
https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2026-02-17-introducing-dreamer/

Angriff der KI-Schwärme: Wie simulierte Mehrheiten die Demokratie bedrohen
Ein Forschungsteam warnt vor koordinierten KI-Agenten, die durch vorgetäuschten Konsens und soziale Dynamiken die öffentliche Meinung manipulieren könnten.

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non-technical users build agentic AI apps (David Singleton/flurries of latent creativity)
https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2026-02-17-introducing-dreamer/

Die Annahme, dass Menschen ab 18 emotional stabiler seien als jüngere, und deswegen dann mit gefährdenden oder manipulativen Social-Media-Inhalten gut klar kämen, weswegen sich aktuelle Vorschläge so auf Jugendliche konzentrieren, halte ich für völlig falsch.
#SocialMediaVerbot

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kinderschutz: Spanien nimmt Social-Media-Riesen ins Visier
ht…

A look at MGX, Abu Dhabi's AI investment vehicle with stakes in Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI; the firm plans to spend up to $10B annually over the next few years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/op…

Das SPD-Papier zum #SocialMediaVerbot ist ein interessanter Schachzug: Es ist ja keine Position von Partei oder Fraktion, sondern ein 'Impulspapier' von einigen SPD-Politiker*innen. Die damit den Eindruck geschaffen haben, dies sei *die* Position der SPD.
Es ist ja nicht mal irgendwo auf einer SPD-Website veröffentlicht (oder gut versteckt), vermutlich deswegen.
Wär…

50 Millionen Mal Recht gegeben: Wie der DSA die Willkür der Plattformen bricht
Fast jede 3. Beschwerde über Löschungen und Sperren war in der EU erfolgreich. So wirkt sich der DSA nach zwei Jahren auf Meinungsfreiheit und Kontrolle aus.

Figma reports Q4 revenue up 40% YoY to $303.8M, vs. $293.15M est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates; FIG jumps 15% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/figma-fig-q4-earnings-report-2025.html

Figma stock jumps 20% as company sees AI monetization accelerating growth
The design software company maintained its gross margin even as more people adopted the Figma Make artificial intelligence tool.

„Pflege-Tinder“ und „Pflege-Kompass“ sollen pflegenden Angehörigen helfen
Der „Pflege-Kompass“ von Nui Care soll Gutachten verständlich machen, ein „Pflege-Tinder“ Angehörige lokal vernetzen. Das soll die häusliche Pflege entlasten.

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.

Pixel 10a: Google legt sein Mittelklasse-Smartphone neu auf
Google legt mit dem Pixel 10a sein Mittelklasse-Smartphone neu auf. Die neue Generation ist mehr Feinschliff als Revolution.
https://www.

Sources: Meta has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and plans to release it in 2026 with health features and Meta AI (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-revives-plan-smart-…

Meta Revives Plan for Smart Watch, Targets 2026 Launch
Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Meta’s plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved ...

Für Galaxy S25 und weitere: Samsung verteilt wieder Play-Dienste-Updates
Nach mehrmonatiger Pause hat Samsung die Verteilung von Play-Dienste-Updates für seine Galaxy-Smartphones und -Tablets wieder aufgenommen.

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 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/02/17/legal-…

Legal AI Startup Legora Eyes $400 Million Raise At $5 Billion-Plus 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.

Fokus Ungarn: Kammergericht zwingt X zur Datenfreigabe für Wahlforscher
Ein Berliner Urteil verpflichtet die Musk-Plattform X zur Herausgabe von Daten an Bürgerrechtler, um Desinformation vor den Wahlen in Ungarn zu untersuchen.

Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its $100B round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/openai-funding-o…

Übertakter-RAM: G.Skill einigt sich auf OC-Kennzeichnung
Eine US-Sammelklage warf G.Skill Täuschung bei RAM-Taktfrequenzen vor. Der Hersteller zahlt deswegen 2,4 Millionen US-Dollar.
https://www.

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 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/…

KI-Pakt mit Indien: Deutschland festigt globale Digital-Allianzen
Digitalminister Wildberger vertieft nach einem KI-Abkommen mit Kanada nun auch die technologische Zusammenarbeit mit der indischen IT-Großmacht in Neu-Delhi.

Effizientes Solarmodul der Welt: Ein praxisnäherer Rekord
Ein Großteil aller Solarzellen kommen aus China. Doch in Deutschland wird weiter geforscht und auch produziert. Geht vielleicht doch noch etwas?
https://ww…

Battery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech firms amid AI disruption concerns (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/tech-inves…

Panne im „heute journal“: Am Sonntagabend zeigte das ZDF in einem Beitrag über das Vorgehen der US-Grenzpolizei ICE ein KI-generiertes Video – ohne Kennzeichnung. 🧐
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11179788?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon…

OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-evmbench/

Google erweitert AirDrop-Unterstützung für Pixel-9-Serie – aber nicht für das 9a
Google erweitert die AirDrop-Unterstützung für weitere Pixel-Geräte: In den kommenden Wochen soll die Pixel-9-Serie zur Pixel-10-Reihe dazustoßen.

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 (Lauren Rosenthal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Was für Social Media in US-Suchtprozess auf dem Spiel steht
In einem ersten US-Prozess dieser Art müssen Geschworene entscheiden, ob Social-Media-Plattformen gestaltet wurden, um süchtig zu machen.
https://www.…

The European Commission opens a full DSA investigation into Shein over sales of child-like sex dolls that "could constitute child sexual abuse material" (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Schweizer Alpine Drone Consortium will feste Test-Drohnenflugzonen in den Alpen
Das schweizerische Alpine Drone Consortium will Testflüge von Drohnen in den Schweizer Alpen vereinfachen. Die Schweiz soll so das "Drone Valley" bleiben.

Speicherkrise: Playstation 6 könnte bis 2028 oder 2029 verschoben werden
Die Speicherkrise setzt auch Konsolenhersteller unter Druck: Während die Playstation 6 vor einer Verschiebung stehen soll, könnte die Switch 2 teurer werden.

At India's AI Summit, Sundar Pichai announces the America-India Connect Initiative to build new fiber optic lines between India, the US, and other countries (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Danaher agrees to acquire US medical tech company Masimo for $9.9B, paying $180 per share, a nearly 40% premium on February 13's close, set to close in H2 2026 (Stuart Biggs/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Remitly co-founder Matt Oppenheimer steps down as CEO, will be succeeded by Banco Santander executive Sebastian Gunningham (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/remitly-ceo-steps-down-succeeded-by-banco…

Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI announces two models at the AI Impact Summit that it says are tailored to Indian languages and cultures (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/upstart-sarva…

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from a16z, Nvidia, AMD, and others to advance its world models focused on robotics and scientific discovery (Alicia Tang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/ai-pion…

Crypto lending firm Ledn sold $188M in securitized bonds backed by bitcoin loans, making it the first deal of its kind in the market for asset-backed debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/crypto-…

Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/ro…

eBay reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $3B, vs. $2.87B est., GMV up 10% to $21.2B, and forecasts Q1 profit above estimates; EBAY jumps 6% after hours (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/eb…

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 (Pierre Paulden/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-…

Microsoft says it is on pace to invest $50B by 2030 to help expand AI across the "Global South"; it unveiled $17.5B worth of AI investments in India in 2025 (Abu Sultan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/micros

Q&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expense management company to over $1B revenue, the "SaaS apocalypse", using AI agents to review expenses, and more (Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/ramp-founder-eric-glyman-on-the-many

Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
Eric Glyman is the cofounder and CEO of Ramp, the finance automation platform that now powers over 2% of all corporate spend in the US.

Uber plans to spend $100M to build fast-charging, autonomous vehicle charging stations in the US, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area, LA, and Dallas (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple's 40-day correlation to the Nasdaq 100 fell to 0.21 last week, the lowest since 2006, making it an appealing alternative to the AI-fueled volatility (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers like Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, raised $70M led by StepStone to expand into gaming, sports, and music (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla, down from a 7.5% stake in August 2025; ether is down 60% from its August 2025 peak (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

SEC filing: Liftoff withdraws its IPO filing without specifying a reason, less than two weeks after the mobile ad platform postponed plans to price its IPO (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Some private software companies including McAfee released earnings early to reassure investors worried about an AI-linked selloff, dubbed the "SaaSpocalypse" (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A US judge rules ex-Palantir employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding Percepta, but declines to stop their work (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Saudi-backed AI company Humain invests $3B in xAI, becoming a "significant minority shareholder" in a deal that happened just prior to SpaceX's xAI acquisition (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

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 (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Samsung shares surged 5.4% to a record high after a report said the company plans to price HBM4 chips at ~$700 per unit, 30% higher than the previous generation (Kurt Schussler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Source: Benchmark's 2020 fund is now worth 10x and 2024 fund is 3x what investors put in, based on cash distributions and the paper value of its investments (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Dubai-based fractional property investment startup Stake raised a $31M Series B led by Emirates NBD PJSC; the platform facilitates investments starting at ~$136 (Zainab Fattah/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mexico-based online used car dealer Kavak raised $300M led by a16z, the first Latin American deal for a16z's Growth fund, after raising $700M in September 2021 (Michael O'Boyle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its Amazon stake by 75% to ~2.3M shares in Q4 2025; Berkshire bought 5.1M NYT shares, worth ~$352M in December (Alexandre Rajbhandari/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says he asked the country's prosecutor office to investigate X, TikTok, and Meta over the alleged "creation and dissemination" of CSAM (Macarena Munoz Montijano/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20