Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/all-time-high-f…
Samsung bringt rotierende Werbekacheln auf Smart-TV-Startbildschirme
Mit einem neuen Anzeigenformat auf seinen Smart-TVs will Samsung den Startbildschirm weiter monetarisieren.
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US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter open-weight model that it says compares to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/tiny
Worth, which aims to help financial services onboard and underwrite SMBs, raised a $30M Series A led by Fulcrum Equity Partners, following a $25M seed round (Brian Contreras/Inc)
https://www.inc.com/brian-contreras/fintech-startup-stax-unic…
Sources: C3.ai is in talks to merge with Automation Anywhere, which would go public in the deal; C3.ai's market cap is now ~$1.7B, a tenth of its 2020 valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/c3-ai-talks-merge-startup-autom…
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses: Zwei neue Modelle in den Startlöchern
Meta bereitet offenbar die Einführung zweier neuer Smart Glasses vor. Darauf deuten Prüfdokumente der US-Telekommunikationsbehörde FCC.
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