Tootfinder

AheadComputing, which develops a breakthrough RISC-V CPU architecture for AI, raised a $30M Seed2 led by Eclipse, Toyota, and Cambium, for $53M in total funding (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/21/aheadcomputing-lands-3…

HII to Build Small Surface Combatants for US Navy (HII)
https://hii.com/news/hii-to-build-small-surface-combatants-for-us-navy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p96#a251219p96

from my link log —
Fairphone and /e/ team up to build open source, Google-free, sustainable smartphone.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/fairphone-and-e-team-up-to-build-open-source-sustainable-smartphone/…

I build robots to save lives: Here’s why Europe must invest in Ukraine’s civil security: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/i-build-robots-to-save.html

Derrick Ross from Shakespeare reckons there open web is in trouble because you got to be a dev to build a website.
He seems to think his app Shakespeare can make it easier to make a web app by using ai 😕
"Build me a Twitter like website" is the kind of instruction he thinks it will handle.
A local app running on your own machine, though calling the big ai model apis. Including if you have the power at home to run deep seek or open models.
I find myself suspecting it'd be hard for vibe coders who aren't devs to tell if they had vibe coded buggy insecure software or not.
#vibeCoding #nostershire

Cowboys DC Christian Parker on new scheme: 'You build it around the players' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-dc-christian-parker-new-scheme-you-build-it-around-the-players

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/europeans-are-dangerously-reliant-on-us-t…

India joins Pax Silica, a US-led initiative that aims to build secure supply chains for semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, and critical technologies (Rajesh Roy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pax-silica-india-us-trump-modi-994d1ce…

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.
EDIT: Diskussions under this are fine, but I do not want this to turn into an ad hominem attack to Cory. Be fucking respectful

Matchbox 1/76 Sd.KfzII/7.5cm PAK40/BMW R.75 (Full Build) - YouTube
#miniaturepainting

Fun project for some mechanically and musically inclined YouTuber: build an IRL version of the Hut-Zut from Dr. Seuss.

Maybe it’s not work but something else in your life that stops. I don’t know…but you do. What in your life allows the country to continue to function normally? What’s a plug that you can personally pull?
Look for that. Think about it. And get yourself ready. Build up your savings now. Build up your psychological readiness now.
And then…
9/

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts,
a panel made up of Donald Trump's appointees,
on Thursday approved his proposal to build a ballroom larger than the White House itself
where the East Wing once stood.
https://www.

"Living in Europe is no protection against Donald #Trump bricking your digital life."
#DigitalSovereignty

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Ulrika Spacek:
🎵 Build a Box Then Break It
#UlrikaSpacek
https://ulrikaspacek.bandcamp.com/track/build-a-box-then-break-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Co5pvgXrllEjwMePHomaR

Another connection between Epstein and the cyber world.
Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-ariane-de-rothschild-ehud-barak-swis…

The GCVE.eu initiative will take part in hackathon.lu (14–15 April, Luxembourg), alongside core developers of GCVE-related projects. See you there to build, experiment, and collaborate!
#gcve #cve #opensource

I needed to build up our inventory of parts to build our network testing products.
So I discover:
1. The Chinese vendor who makes the motherboards has stopped shipping to the US.
2. The memory I need - pretty basic 16gb DDR 4 and 5 SODIMS - unavailable or more than quadrupled in price.
3. M.2 NVME SSDs - unavailable or much higher prices.
F**k those AI companies especially the one that bought all those memory wafers it can't use just to block its competition…

Weren't they gonna build a high-rise hotel there? It's been a few years. #Milwaukee

Goodbye #Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices…

If I were voting today in D4 I'd rank Jeremy Greco first because he's the only pro–Sunset Dunes candidate and seems cool generally; he's a longtime co-op worker at Other Avenues and wants to make it easier to start co-ops.
I'd rank Natalie Gee second. It sucks she wants to turn the park back into a highway, but so do all the non-Jeremy candidates, and she's the only one I trust to tax the rich to build affordable housing.

It's Interesting today that the popularization of @…'s concept of "enshittification" is leading us to really think hard about how various methods of vendor lock-in enable corporations to abuse users. We see how first there's lock-in then quickly abuse follows, and recognize that the only way out of this trap is to build systems where users can leave at will.
But it's interesting that in this time of rising fascism no one is making the connection to fascism, as both increased lock in and enshittification of government. And no one is making the connection between the need to make systems optional to avoid enshittification, and libertarian socialist arguments against the systemic lock-in (and following abuse) of capitalism and the state.

exposure to sexual exploitation. We can help Europeans build and join alternatives that can serve this function properly.
4/4

Raiders continue to build coaching staff under Klint Kubiak https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-continue-to-build-coaching-staff-under-klint-kubiak-3620783/

m-dash, n-dash... o-p-dash or op-dash is clearly the minus sign.
time to start using q-dashes. this typographical character allows you to glitch to the end of an infinite scrolling timeline, turn off your computing device, and build new architectures of boredom

"Why would you build a giant goat out of straw if you didn't intend to burn it down?" #goatwatch2025

A #gongfarmer in the wild!
#DCCRPG https://piefed.soci…

Keep Android Open and Stop Google from limiting APK file usage
https://keepandroidopen.org/
Direct link to the petition (one way of action ):
h…

RE: #n8n kicked this build of by sen…

"The camps are coming – in our United States"
First, you build the fences
https://www.forwardky.com/first-you-build-the-fences/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Medium Build:
🎵 Last Time
#NowPlaying #MediumBuild
https://open.spotify.com/track/6EWbV0FVnL9CHiSrMyhtpR

Build infrastructure all day.
Build software all evening.
At least it keeps me off the street.

Interestingly enough ghcr.io seems to remember old repo-names when pushing an image (probably as long as they originally came from my github). Once I renamed to sth new the build went through. It is also telling, in the larger scheme of things, that I was adding flatpak removal to the code, only to find out I previously wrote a just action for that 🤣 Keeping ourselves busy, are we? 😜

How do you build influence without authority?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCA61_lkzDg

I wonder if I currently have the *longest* #11ty build out there? 25 minutes and 19 seconds!
To be fair, 24 minutes and 50 seconds of that is retrieving remote data, which unfortunately can't be sped up. From cache, though, it's a nifty 39 seconds to write 3600 files, before any significant effort to optimize.

Kana, which builds AI marketing agents to perform data analysis, audience targeting, campaign management, and more, emerges from stealth and raised $15M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/kana-emerges-from-s…

Carney offers to ‘broker a bridge’ to build giant anti-Trump trade club
#EU #Canada #CPTPP
Via @… (& @…)

Rare good news for now, but don't trust the Planning Inspectorate to uphold the rejection.
Scheme to build 2,150 homes in Greater Manchester countryside REJECTED - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/scheme-build…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Badge Époque Ensemble:
🎵 You Can Build a Palace, or You Can Please People
#BadgeÉpoqueEnsemble
https://badgeepoque.bandcamp.com/track/you-can-build-a-palace-or-you-can-please-people-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5AQ16FVcogNYg3lp1lW13N

Museums don't build job skills. That's what many people think. But our newest experiential learning program is not only preparing these #UniversityOfGeorgia students for their next step, it's also building bridges between campus and community.

@…

Minimize dependency on the irrational nation states, build deterrence against aggression, build alliances with other trustworthy rational nations.
The UNSC has been less and less relevant and is now largely useless.

@…

Minimize dependency on the irrational nation states, build deterrence against aggression, build alliances with other trustworthy rational nations.
The UNSC has been less and less relevant and is now largely useless.

quick and easy way to build a website for your r package: #rstats #package

Universal Music Group partners with music creation platform Splice to build "advanced commercial AI tools" for musical artists (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu

I was involved in web development in the early days. (The 1990s!) It was fun, exciting, it was good. What ruined it was people who did not love the web getting involved. People who didn’t use the web like they loved it, people who didn’t understand it, people who cared more about money than the web.
The web got wrecked because we let too many assholes get involved & call the shots but it’s not too late. We can still take back the web for us. We can continue to build out the web we…

The Epstein saga engulfs Les Wexner -- and the Ohio he helped build (Henry J. Gomez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/epstein-saga-engulfs-les-wexner-ohio-rcna258821
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p20#a260220p20

Broker Coach Podcast
Helping mortgage brokers build valuable businesses...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods

Still having issues with a 3D print, already cleaned printer, lubed vertical screws, used IPA on chrome and carbon rods, thoroughly cleaned build plate, cold pulled nozzle, dried filament… I think it might be this specific batch of filament having issues

Wouter constant is talking about permissionlessness. Nostr is a protocol that doesn't need some central server to authenticate your requests. Which is good. But this means that, say, children can use it without parents permission.
Online safety act and others are closing down the internet to protect them kids. So can nostr have accounts that do need permission? Can it be made kid safe? Of only to satisfy crazy governments under parent pressure.
Weboftrustfoundation exists to try and build kidstr, some kind of nostr for children.
Mostly just asking questions so far. How can it work? How can it avoid labelling vulnerable people to exploit?
#nostr #permissionlessness #nostrshire

In the time I've been offline, I've been doing a lot and feeling a lot more mentally healthy. I've been exploring nomadnet a bit, looking at reticulum. I'm definitely going to go back to my break and being online much less regularly.
I actually totally forgot about the anniversary of the shooting, which is the first time that's happened since... uh... the shooting, I think.
I've definitely realized that, on some level, I've definitely used Mastodon (and formerly Twitter) as a coping mechanism, often in order to deal with the stressful things that I've found out about on Mastodon or Twitter.
But, again, none of those things really change our core job: build community. And that's part of what I've been neglecting, and what I can focus on more when I'm not spending as much time talking to people all over the world indirectly. Like, I can just chat directly with folks and talk about this shit.
Yeah, I do think there's value in this community. I don't think it's really screaming into the void (at least, not most of the time). But I know that I need the balance to be way farther on the side of direct engagement with comrades doing and building.
So that's what I'm gonna go back to. I feel as though it's a good sign that with all the writing about getting shot that I've been doing, and all the thinking about that, that the actual anniversary of the shooting I'm actually just thinking about bread.
And that seems like a good note to leave on. I'm gonna go back to some hacker shit.

I say it again: they need to keep the dementia patient busy, so they give him something familiar to play with
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@AmandaMarcotte/115746731024779684

INVITATION: Join us for the 4th MIT Global Humanities Initiative Conference on “STEMAH = The University of the Future” on November 20/21 (KST)
https://ift.tt/wchL9tn
ANN: US Naval History Conference: “Military and Politics: Proper Participation or Perilous…
via Input 4 RELCFP

After that come back, definitely a let down to see the #Bears lose. But they had a good season and lost to a better team, so hopefully they can build on that next season. #nfl

Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney speech at Davos. It was a good one. This is how he ended it, but it is worth watching in full, including the Q&A afterward.
“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.
The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.
That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Canada #USA

spam of the day
> Hi there, I am [generic chinese name], a senior full-stack developer with 7 years of experience. I’m looking to partner with someone in the US who can handle the client-facing communication side of projects, while I focus on the technical work and delivery.
> The idea is simple:
> You handle communication − I build the solution − We share the profit.
I should have setup per-contact email long ago, so I know how I got on the spam list of John …

"Austria’s military has already dumped Microsoft and moved to open-source services hosted in Europe, and some German regional governments have done the same. Danish schools were told to abandon Google laptops by the Danish data protection authority in 2024. The new Dutch government says digital sovereignty will be a national priority"
#DigitalSovereignty

Santa #Python came super early in 2026!
With build 1.4.0, it is now possible to easily dump effective package metadata!
So getting the version of a package in the current directory is now as easy as `pipx run build --metadata 2>/dev/null | jq -r .version`.
This is NOT like parsing pyproject.toml or whatever. It builds the package and looks at the result. So it works even with…

Next-level rent-seeking behavior lol https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/115730529166857536

Falcons vs. Cardinals prediction: Atlanta's offensive talents will be too much for Arizona's defenders

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-vs-cardinals-where-…

Lap space is limited. We have to build upward

DataLane, which is using AI to build an identity graph to map local businesses across the US, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Amplify Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/12/16/datalane-amp…

from my link log —
How to build a personal webpage from scratch.
https://rutar.org/writing/how-to-build-a-personal-webpage-from-scratch/
saved 2022-09-29

Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China from military bases
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/poland_china_car_ban/

Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power plant in Ohio, set to produce 9.2 GW for AI data centers, as part of the US-Japan trade deal (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/trade-war/trump-ta…

Google’s vibe-coding tool, Opal,
is making its way to Gemini.
The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool,
which lets you build AI-powered mini apps,
inside the Gemini web app,
allowing users to create their own custom apps,
which Google calls Gems.
Introduced in 2024,
Gems are customized versions of Gemini designed for specific tasks or scenarios.
For instance, some of Google’s pre-made Gems include
a learning coach,…

Top Raiders head coach candidate could build quality staff around him https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/15/top-raiders-head-coach-candidate-could-build-quality-st…

Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e1978d5-535b-4241-872f-38db778df694

“I can easily imagine a situation where the USA will demand #Greenland from Denmark and will threaten to deactivate our weapons and let #Russia attack us when we refuse. Buying American weapons is a security risk that we can not run.” -- Rasmus Jarlov. Chair, Danish parliament’s defence committee.

I'm curious what they're going to build here next. #Glendale

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

Bills vs. Browns prediction: Buffalo stifles Shedeur Sanders, increases winning streak to four games

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bills-vs-browns-where-to-watch-pick-odds-p…

Behind The Business
The raw, real, and unfiltered podcast that takes you behind the scenes of what it really takes to build a thriving coaching business...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/rising-coaches/

Getting started with Shiny to make interactive web-apps with R: #rstats

Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build interactive AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/technology/humans-ai-anthropic-xai.html<…

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a…

Trump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/trump-gaza-military-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p33#a260219p33

Indiana passes bill to lure Bears from Chicago https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47977218/indiana-unanimously-passes-bill-lure-bears-away-chicago

China cites Biden’s message to Xi
that Japan could build nuclear weapons ‘overnight’
Beijing releases 30-page report that includes a call for international community to
‘take concrete and strong measures’
against Japan’s nuclear ambitions
https://…

Vibe coding startup Emergent raised a $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after a $23M Series A in September 2025, and claims 5M users (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/emergent-vibe-coding-funding-khosla-s…

Archetype, which builds AI to interpret sensor data from the physical world, raised a $35M Series A and launches tools to build and deploy physical agents (Grace Priscilla Teo/Tech in Asia)
https://www.techinasia.com/news/samsung-joins-35m-series-a-for-…

I did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…

London-based Fyld, which makes AI tools to assist infrastructure and utility fieldwork operators, raised a $41M Series B led by Energy Impact Partners (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/17/ai-field…

Anthropic details the "Assistant Axis", a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

At a recent all-hands meeting, Google's head of AI infrastructure Amin Vahdat said Google must double AI compute capacity every six months to meet demand (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/google-says-it-must-dou…

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers in the US, such as electricians, to keep up (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough…

Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised a $100M Series D at a $1.5B valuation, up from $830M in March (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/insurance-platform-nirvana-val…

Sources and docs: the US "effectively gutted" the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb

RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/ai-cloud-startup-runpod-h…

Esusu, which offers a rent reporting API to Zillow, banks, and others to help renters build credit scores, raised a $50M Series C at a $1.2B valuation (Krysta Escobar/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/esusu-funding-renters-credit-scores.html

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is establishing a new "top-level" initiative called Meta Compute to build "tens of gigawatts" of AI infrastructure during this decade (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/meta-compute-ai-infrastructure<…

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

Boltz, which is developing open frontier AI models for biomolecular research, raised a $28M seed led by Zetta, Amplify, and a16z at a valuation of $125M (Andrew Dunn/Endpoints News)
https://endpoints.news/exclusive-boltz-raises-28m-seed-to-build-ope…

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…

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/

Meta say it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon-os-third-party-headset-cancelled-asus-lenovo/

Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16% (Issie Lapowsky/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/tiger-global-unicorn-investment-crash/

Yotta says it is investing $2B to deploy Nvidia's Blackwell B300 GPUs at its Noida data center campus in India to create one of Asia's largest AI superclusters (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.i…