Tootfinder

London-based Dwelly, which aims to roll up independent UK real estate agencies and modernize their operations using AI, raised £32M in equity and £37M in debt (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/25/dwelly-

A startup buying up U.K. real estate brokers and streamlining their processes with AI gets $93 million in funding to fuel expansion
Dwelly's new funding round is being led by General Catalyst and Trinity Capital

If you wish to defame me at least spell my name right

Donnerstag: Änderungen bei Google-Suche, USA gegen Datenhoheit anderer Länder
Google-Überarbeitung wegen DMA USA gegen lokale Clouds Nvidias neue Finanzrekorde Cyberangriff mit KI-Chatbots Wachstum der Online-Werbung #heiseshow

Got spring crocuses if you want ’em: #Photography

One of the things that's most frustrating about the hype cycle around OpenClaw is that so much of what people are excited about is just... software? You can automate doing lots of cool stuff with your inbox with deterministic software that's been around for decades, and it won't delete your inbox! And much of it is easier to install than OpenClaw is!

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,262,490 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

And the #ArtemisII stack is back in the VAB, arriving around 1:00 UTC today: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/25/nasa-artemis-ii-rocket-returns-for-repairs/ - while in the assembly building, technicians will troubleshoot the helium flow issue to the rocket’s upper stage, replace batteries on the rocket’s upper stage, core stage, and solid rocket boosters as well as service its flight termination system.

A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll conducted just before last night’s speech found that 65 percent of American adults disapprove of the president’s handling of inflation, and that 57 percent disapprove of how Trump has handled the economy overall.
Rep. Suzan DelBene,
the chair of House Democrats’ campaign arm,
said focusing on affordability would force Republicans
“to campaign on more broken promises.”

“He is very disconnected from the struggle that American …

Analysis | Trump to Democrats: ‘You caused that problem’
The Washington Post’s essential guide to power and influence in D.C. Americans aren’t happy about the economy or immigration. Trump said that’s Democrats’ fault.

Hey Spiegel: BINGO! Hab ich was gewonnen?

Four years ago today, the original Steam Deck LCD was released 🎂🎉🍻 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/happy-four-years-to-the-steam-deck-still-the-top-pc-gaming-handheld

Happy four years to the Steam Deck - still the top PC gaming handheld
Four years ago today, the original Steam Deck LCD released, with it going on to change how everyone sees handheld gaming PCs and Linux for gaming.

Broadcaster Sinclair reports Q4 revenue of $836M, down 17% YoY, and net income down 38% YoY to $109M, core advertising revenue up 14% to $354M (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/sinclair-q4-2025-earnings-report/

Sinclair logs financial loss during 2025, weak distribution fees weigh on Q4 revenue
Sinclair reported lower 2025 earnings as political ads cooled, but growth in core advertising and sports demand boosted its outlook for 2026.

Patel Fires F.B.I. Personnel Tied to Inquiry Into Trump and Classified Records - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/patel-fbi-firings-trump-classified-records.html

ich bin ein teenage dirtbag baby

You: "I can just change my prompt one more time, then certainly it will generate what I want"
The chatbot:

Poisoning AI training data is, unfortunately, really not that hard.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/poisoning-ai-training-data.html

"Redliche Normdaten in unserer Zeit"
https://wiki.dnb.de/spaces/GND/blog/2026/01/26/483428935/Redliche Normdaten in unserer Zeit
"Anfang des Jahres wurden die

ad222 Malik ist der Profi in Profit
https://audiodump.de/2026/02/26/ad222-malik-ist-der-profi-in-profit/
Hier hört ihr es zuletzt: Airdropshipping is a thing! Die normalen Non-techie creeps sind wieder da und veraschieben brandaktuelle Themen, besprechen…

ad222 Malik ist der Profi in Profit -
Hier hört ihr es zuletzt: Airdropshipping is a thing! Die normalen Non-techie creeps sind wieder da und veraschieben brandaktuelle Themen, besprechen Immich, Linux, und Scheidungen. Außerdem ist Chris von Bravery wieder dabei mit einem Update aus der Ukraine.

Honoured to share that my research on the destructive side of “creative destruction” keeps on rockin! 🎉 #Germany is about to give China the heat pump market. The solar panel story? On repeat. #Wärmepumpe.

PDFs are already shit for users, so no surprise LLMs barf on them:
“The war against PDFs is heating up”
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/24/the-war-against-pdfs-is-heating-up (

Déchets maquillés et enfouis illégalement en Espagne : six entrepreneurs de Gironde jugés pour un juteux trafic - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/dec

Déchets maquillés et enfouis illégalement en Espagne : six entrepreneurs de Gironde jugés pour un juteux trafic
Trois sociétés, implantées en Gironde, et six hommes comparaissent ce jeudi et vendredi devant le tribunal correctionnel de Bordeaux. Ils auraient acheminé au moins 8 000 tonnes de plastique et de ferraille dans la province espagnole de Saragosse.

A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens (Tim Anderson/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/cloudflare_nextjs_api_ai/

Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI
: Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in

#heiseshow: Autonomes Fahren, Archive.today, Lieferkettengesetz
In der #heiseshow: BMW bremst beim autonomen Fahren (Level 3), Wikipedia verbannt Archive.today und die EU stutzt ihr Lieferkettengesetz massiv zusammen.

rip light yagami, you would've loved the epstein files

At least 5 killed, 18 injured in Russian attacks against Ukraine over the past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/25/at-least-killed-injured-in.html

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/116135721451095116
100%. Did it to spend more time with my son but even when he'll need me a bit less I probably would not go back to a 40 hour work week.

Nexstar lays off on-air staffers at LA's KTLA and New York's WPIX, after similar cuts at WGN in Chicago, as the company pursues a merger with Tegna (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/nexstar-layoffs-ktla-wpix-tegna-deal/

Nexstar lays off workers at KTLA, WPIX amid push for TEGNA merger
Nexstar Media Group has issued layoff notices to around a dozen on-air workers at television stations in the country's two biggest TV markets.

"Trump had a lot of time to make his case, and what he said, again and again, was that the American people don’t know what they’re talking about."
Opinion | Trump’s State of the Union Was a Win for Democrats - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sotu-2026.html

The Indian Removal Act:
Andrew Jackson’s controversial policy divided America during the pre-civil-war era
Unchecked expansionism and disregard for the rule of law
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/20

"Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes" by Curt Rice
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/guest-post-diamond-open-access-needs-institutions-not-heroes/

Sources: Apple is in talks with Visa, Mastercard, and Indian banks ICICI, HDFC, and Axis as it plans to launch Apple Pay in India around mid-2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-26/apple-in-talks-with-…

Google ändert wohl bald Suchergebnisse - wegen drohender DMA-Strafe der EU
Die EU kritisiert Googles wettbewerbsfeindliche Suchergebnisse. Um einer DMA-Geldbuße zu entgehen, sollen Konkurrenzangebote bald prominenter platziert werden.

RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/114784441809248259
They called me a madman

Most of Ukraine remains exposed to Russian ballistic missiles, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/most-of-ukraine-remains-exposed.html

Sources: in a draft funding agreement, the Trump administration seeks to limit editorial freedom safeguards for two US-funded overseas news outlets (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/trump-radio-free-europe.html

Trump Officials Seek to Break Editorial ‘Firewall’ at U.S.-Funded News Agencies
Two federally funded newsrooms received a draft funding agreement that could give President Trump’s appointees the power to veto their new hires for editors in chief and chief executives.

The price of silver smashed through the $90 mark Wednesday morning
for the first time in weeks
as the metal recoups gains it lost after a late January crash,
though the precious metal remains far from the record highs it previously hit above $120.
KEY FACTS
The price of silver is $90.68 as of 9:25 a.m. EST, up nearly 4% but down slightly from a high of $91.18 reached earlier in the morning.

Silver Breaks $90 Mark Again—Fueled By Tariff Uncertainty, Iran Tensions
Silver has recouped some of the losses that it suffered following a price crash in late January.

Nano-cage removes up to 98% of PFAS in tap water tests
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-nano-cage-pfas.html

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116126171849888717
I keep coming back to this quote. Almost every day TBH.

Klimaschutz verliert in Unternehmen an Priorität
Trotz Klimazielen stockt die Transformation in Unternehmen und Banken in Deutschland. Unsichere politische Vorgaben und fehlende Anreize bremsen den Wandel.
https://www.

Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Claude, a first step toward blacklisting Anthropic; Lockheed confirms it was contacted (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/25/anthropic-pentagon-blacklist-claude

Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic
The Pentagon asked at least two major defense contractors to assess their reliance on Claude.

'You can't turn off your emotion' — Inside a Ukrainian morgue as war deaths mount: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/you-cant-turn-off-your.html

Sächsisches Luftfahrtprojekt zielt auf Markt für Regionalflieger
Am Flughafen Leipzig/Halle entsteht ein Werk zum Bau eines kleinen, sparsamen Regionalflugzeugs. Regionalflüge sollen dadurch nachhaltiger werden.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a Rohingya refugee from Burma,
was nearly blind and spoke no English.
He was dropped off by agents in Buffalo on the other side of town from his home.
His family was not notified of his release.
Police are investigating his death
https://www.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google; it will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/alphabet-owned-r…

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google | TechCrunch
Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google's domain.

AMC Theaters To Introduce Subscription Fee For Premium Seating Reservations
https://deadline.com/2026/02/amc-theaters-subscription-fees-best-seats-1236736615/

The Tampa Bay Times starts monthly "article clubs" for news stories, to discuss the substance of a chosen story and look at the reporting process (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-tampa-bay-times-s…

The Tampa Bay Times starts a monthly “book club” for news stories
The idea is not just to discuss a story's substance, but to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at the reporting process and decision-making that shape the published article.

Ukraine fires ATACMS again, hitting Russian command post and depots in occupied territory: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/ukraine-fires-atacms-again-hitting.html

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bericht: US-Regierung verstärkt Bekämpfung von Initiativen zur Datenhoheit

Filing: C3.ai plans to cut ~26% of its workforce; the company had ~1,200 employees as of April 2025; C3.ai shares drop 20% after hours on weaker FY guidance (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…

Outrage last night at SOTU
when @repilhan.bsky.social guest
AMERICAN DISABLED CITIZEN,
Aliyah Rahman was ARRESTED
for simply standing up ..
No Outburst
No Sign
She stood silent
Remember she was assaulted by ICE
Outrage !
https://bsky.app/profile/pa…

Over 1,000 people:
Hundreds of United Methodists rally to dismantle ICE outside Capitol
https://religionnews.com/2026/02/25/hundreds-of-united-methodists-rally-to-dismantle-ice-outside-capitol/

Odesa couple faces life in prison for $30 scheme to register Starlink for Russia’s military: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/odesa-couple-faces-life-in.html

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Urteil: Freunde-Finder-Funktion von Facebook rechtswidrig
http…

Nvidia says the US government granted it a license to ship a small number of H200 chips to Chinese customers, but it's unclear if Beijing will allow any imports (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…

Vance is hyping Trump’s so called
“war on fraud”
while suspending $259 million in Medicaid payments to Minnesota.
This from the same Trump whose charity was shut down for fraud and who paid $25 million over Trump University.
Trump doesn’t fight fraud.
He is the fraud.
https://bsky…

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Vance is hyping Trump’s so called “war on fraud” while suspending $259 million in Medicaid payments to Minnesota. This from the same Trump whose charity was shut down for fraud and who paid $25 million over Trump University. Trump doesn’t fight fraud. He is the fraud.

GAO report offers new details on the workers agencies lost last year - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2026/02/gao-report-offers-new-details-workers-agencies-lost-last-year/411702/

Medvedev threatens nuclear strike on Ukraine, claims right to a ‘symmetrical response’: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/medvedev-threatens-nuclear-strike-on.html

Nvidia übertrumpft seinen Rekord noch mal um 20 Prozent
Die weltweiten Finanzmärkte atmen auf: Nvidia liefert ab. Der Quartalsumsatz steigt auf 68 Milliarden US-Dollar.
https://www.hei…

The UK's Virgin Media O2 launches Europe's first satellite-to-mobile service, powered by Starlink and initially available for £3/month on select Samsung devices (Paul Sandle/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

The FBI
-- at the direction of Director Kash Patel
-- has fired at least a half-dozen agents tied to the 2022 search of Donald Trump's home in Florida,
six people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Three of the sources said at least 10 employees overall were dismissed,
-- from support personnel to agents and supervisors.

Kash Patel fires at least 6 FBI agents tied to Mar-a-Lago search
The dismissals come as the FBI director said his phone records were obtained by authorities during the Biden administration in connection with Trump probes.

White House officials believe ‘the politics are a lot better’ if Israel strikes Iran first - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/white-house-politics-israel-strikes-iran-00799456

'Our sacrifices are worth freedom' — Ukrainian troops who have fought since 2014 look back: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/our-sacrifices-are-worth-freedom.html

Anthropic unveils scheduled tasks in Cowork, enabling Claude to complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically (Claude/@claudeai)
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2026720870631354429

Claude (@claudeai) on X
New in Cowork: scheduled tasks. Claude can now complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically: a morning brief, weekly spreadsheet updates, Friday team presentations.

Seth Meyers:
Trump Throws Tantrum at SOTU, and
Tries to Co-Opt Men’s Hockey Olympic Gold Medal Victory
https://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/55311_Seth_Meyers-_Trump_Throws_Tantrum…

Seth Meyers: Trump Throws Tantrum at SOTU, Tries to Co-Opt Men's Hockey Olympic Gold Medal Victory
Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump throwing a tantrum when Democrats refused to stand and clap for him at the State of the Union.

Complete blockade of Crimea and ruin of headquarters in Donbas! Why are Russian elites fleeing?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/complete-blockade-of-crimea-and.html

Court says the IRS can continue to share immigrants’ taxpayer data with ICE | Federal News Network
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2026/02/court-says-the-irs-can-continue-to-share-immigrants-taxpayer-data-with-ice/

The FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification

FTC says it won’t enforce COPPA against proper use of age verification tools
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions against website and online service providers who collect, use and share personal data using age verification technologies.

The idea for the program started back in 2021,
as severe drought conditions enveloped agricultural powerhouse states across the country.
The $400 million, according to Montaño Greene, was set to be distributed through the Commodity Credit Corporation,
a financial institution used to implement specific agricultural programs established by the federal government.
By the close of 2024,
she said the Biden administration had entered final agreements with selected r…

Did the USDA just forget about $400M in drought aid for farmers?
More than a year later, not a dollar has been spent — and no one knows what happened to the money.

Canada announces $1.4 billion military aid package for Ukraine, expands sanctions against Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/canada-announces-billion-military-aid.html

For most of these people, this is an inconvenience, not career-ending. With their connections, they'll have different jobs in no time at all...
Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey Resigns From Monolith Amid Epstein Emails - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/bob-kerrey-resignation-monolith-epstein.html

OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M over several years (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-hires-meta…

OpenAI Hires Meta AI Researcher Who Previously Led Apple’s Models Team
OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed. Ruoming Pang, who led AI infrastructure for Meta Superintelligence Labs, which is developing new AI models, left the company last week and has joined OpenAI. Pang, who was aggressively recruited by OpenAI over several months, told

Ukrainian RANGERS capture RUSSIAN weapons and documents #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/ukrainian-rangers-capture-russian-weapons.html

The consensus among European countries on supporting Ukraine has largely held.
But upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in France, Italy, Denmark and elsewhere in 2026 and 2027 could shift the balance of power in key allied countries.
The elections are, at the very least, likely to absorb political attention
and divert focus from unresolved questions.
These include questions around the use of frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine’s reconstruction, wher…

The three big challenges facing Ukraine when the war ends
When a peace deal is reached, it will mark the start of a considerable new challenge: reconstruction.

Cisco warns of critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023, as CISA and international partners issue emergency directives (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

US, Ukraine to hold talks in Geneva Feb. 26, Trump envoy says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/24/us-ukraine-to-hold-talks.html

AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $100M to fund joint initiatives to develop an infrastructure platform for powering AI applications (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/amd…

Donald Trump claimed in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night
to have ushered in a “turnaround for the ages”
by citing a list of familiar falsehoods and inaccurate claims.
In nearly two hours of remarks, Trump sought to persuade voters unhappy with his handling of affordability and immigration enforcement
that the economy was “roaring” and that deportations were focused on criminal migrants.
And he again sowed doubt in the upcoming midterm elections

Fact-Checking Trump's 2026 State of the Union Address

Sensor Tower: EA led all publishers in 2025 with 200M PC and console downloads, ahead of its $55B deal to go private; Fortnite had the top console player base (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/electronic-arts-game-downloa…

Electronic Arts Leads 2025 Game Downloads, Finds Gaming Report
Video game publisher and developer Electronic Arts came out on top in 2025, according to Sensor Tower’s 2026 State of Gaming Report.

Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 30% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.18B est., and forecasts Q1 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/snowflake-expects-annual-p…

Analysis: overseas investors bought a net $2.77B of Taiwan equities on February 24, the most since December 2005, signaling confidence in an AI driven chip boom (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/ai-s…

Mumbai-based digital payments processor BillDesk agrees to acquire the Indian business of Worldline for an equity value of ~$70M, set to close in H2 2026 (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Billdesk to acquire Worldline’s India operations; deal values business at $70 million
Billdesk is set to acquire the India payments business of French payment giant Worldline for an estimated equity value of $70 million. In a press release Worldline said that it will be entering into a long-term technology and software pact with Billdesk, through which Worldline’s software stack will continue to remain operational in India. At an enterprise level the value of the deal was pegged at $43.6 million.

Deutsche Bank partners with Google Cloud to build agentic AI to monitor 1TB of daily communications and 40 channels for market abuse and data loss prevention (William Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Sources: Saronic, which is building autonomous warships, is raising up to $1.5B at a ~$7.5B pre-money valuation; Saronic was last valued at $3.4B a year ago (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/autonomous-warship-s…

Autonomous Warship Startup Saronic Raising at $7.5 Billion Valuation
Saronic, a startup that builds autonomous warships, is raising as much as $1.5 billion in a financing that would value the company at about $7.5 billion, before including the investment, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Kleiner Perkins, the storied venture capital firm that ...

Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech's robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/skild-ai-ceo-robotics-brain-davos

Skild AI's CEO on building one brain for every robot
My full Sources Live interview with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak from Davos.

Tech companies are increasingly turning to GPU-backed debt, a model pioneered by CoreWeave, using SPVs to shift debt off their balance sheets (Michelle Chan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3ea1c95d-468e-4cc6-a221-492243e48a5b

Sources: Amazon plans to invest up to $50B in OpenAI, $35B of which could hinge on an IPO or AGI milestone; OpenAI is discussing custom models for Amazon (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazons-50-billion-investment-openai-…

Amazon’s $50 Billion Investment in OpenAI Could Hinge on IPO, AGI
Amazon’s decision to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI could hang on whether OpenAI goes public or reaches a loosely defined milestone known as artificial general intelligence, which generally refers to AI that is on par with human abilities, according to three people involved who have ...

Open-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K downloads since its release (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-clou…

OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems
An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

Analysis: super PACs for and against AI regulation have raised $265M ahead of the midterms, with pro-AI groups significantly outraising pro-regulation groups (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c1823595-d0f6-49a4-8a10-3d91c92da8f6

Several UK consultants have left large firms to start AI consultancy startups, as growth in the country's AI consulting sector outpaces the broader market (Nick Huber/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df068853-4bb9-4c5d-8aeb-f3d4b04157d1

London-based digital bank Allica, which caters to over 30K SMBs across the UK, raised a $155M Series D from Ventura Capital and others at a $1.2B valuation (Tom Matsuda/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/allica-bank-unicorn-news/

Allica Bank becomes Europe’s newest unicorn with $155m Series D
The funding comes from Ventura Capital, GLG, Sona AM and existing investors TCV and Blue Owl

A look at VW's robotaxi unit MOIA, which has 100 test vehicles across Germany, Norway, and the US, and plans to launch its robotaxis this year in LA with Uber (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8ee5c17c-1eb2-41d6-9a7f-288ea9e66a45

Zoom reports Q4 revenue up 5.3% YoY to $1.25B, vs. $1.23B est., online revenue up 2.6% to $489.7M, and forecasts Q1 adjusted profit per share below estimates (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/zoom-fore

New York's AG sues Valve over its use of loot boxes, accusing the game developer of violating state gambling laws and threatening to addict children to gambling (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/n

Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential acquisition of PayPal or its assets; PYPL jumps 7% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-24/payments-processor-stripe-e…

Sources: CoreWeave is seeking an ~$8.5B loan from banks, backed by a contract Meta signed last year to pay CoreWeave up to $14.2B for its services (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-24/coreweave-seeks…

A look at Motif Technologies and Upstage, South Korean AI startups competing with SK Group and LG in the race for a national AI foundation model (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-24/south-kor…

Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/nvidia-…

Alibaba Cloud releases a cheap AI coding tool built on open-source models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, as well as Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax models (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-25/…

SambaNova, which says its SN50 AI chip runs 5x faster than its rivals and will be deployed by SoftBank, raised a $350M Series E led by Vista Equity and Cambium (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-24/in…

ADT agrees to acquire Origin Wireless for $170M to integrate advanced AI motion classification into its popular home security suite starting in 2027 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: MacBook Pros with touch screens, due this fall, will have a Dynamic Island and a refreshed, dynamic UI optimized for touch or point-and-click input (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20