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Outset, which develops AI agents that help Microsoft and other companies conduct customer research and surveys, raised a $30M Series B led by Radical Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/202…

Exclusive: Customer research startup Outset raises $30M
Radical Ventures led the round.

When a customer leaves, #Backblaze asks to hear from said customer in their goodbye-mail. If the customer takes the time to write a reason, they get a mail suggesting they sign up for their ticket system followed by an answer by an AI. Then, the former customer becomes angry.

DMA: Google droht hohe EU-Geldstrafe wegen Play Store
Google könnte Anfang nächsten Jahres mit einer möglicherweise hohen Geldstrafe der EU rechnen, wenn es keine weiteren Anpassungen am Play Store vornimmt.
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NYT's Zach Seward details the "Manosphere Report", an in-house LLM-powered tool that summarizes new episodes from about 80 podcasts with largely male audiences (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-the-

How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”
The daily podcast round-up is just one way the Times is adopting in-house AI transcription and summarization tools.

Flip, which offers an Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $31M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/vertical-ai-based-customer-service-flip-raise/<…

Flip Raises $20M Series A For Its Verticalized Approach To AI-Based Customer Service
Flip, a startup that claims to offer an Amazon Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Studie: Kürzere Fahr- und Wartezeiten durch autonomen ÖPNV
Autonom fahrende Fahrzeuge könnten in den nächsten Jahrzehnten den ÖPNV laut einer Studie deutlich attraktiver machen – auch auf dem Land.
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Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it "would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-says-no-upfront-p…

Sources: Chinese officials told customs agents that Nvidia H200 chips are barred from China and instructed local tech companies not to buy them unless necessary (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-cu…

Samsung says it sent the first commercial HBM4 shipments to customers, as it seeks to supply Nvidia and compete with memory rivals like SK Hynix and Micron (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Coastal Cloud, a Florida-based Salesforce consulting partner, for $700M, in a bid to boost its AI and US customer business (Mark Haranas/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/tcs-bu

TCS Buys Salesforce Star Coastal Cloud For $700M To Create ‘Top Five Salesforce’ Firm
Tata Consultancy Services acquires Salesforce partner Coastal Cloud and ListEngage to boost AI revenue, American customers and Salesforce business.