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Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/dylan-patels-semia…

Dylan Patel’s SemiAnalysis Mulls Raising Venture Fund
SemiAnalysis, the top chip and infrastructure research firm founded by Dylan Patel, is considering raising money to invest in startups, according to someone with direct knowledge of the discussions. The talks are in the early stages, and the firm does not yet have a target, but it could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The move to raise a venture capital fund would formalize

Het is gedaan ....
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Raiders report: Vanderbilt QB expresses desire to play with Maxx Crosby https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-vanderbilt-qb-expresses-desire-to-play-with-maxx-crosby-3597012/

Freitag: TikTok bestätigt Investoren-Deal, Tastenverzögerung verrät Nordkoreaner
TikTok-Joint-Venture mit Oracle IT-Maulwurf bei Amazon.com Urteil gegen personalisierte Werbung Malware auf Fähre Verbraucherschutzpodcast zu Glasfaser

An artificial intelligence data center development venture has signed a multimillion-dollar deal that will allow it to ⚠️consume over 40% of a Pennsylvania town’s excess water supply.
PennLive reported on Monday that Carlisle Development Partners,
a joint venture created by developers Pennsylvania Data Center Partners and PowerHouse
Data Centers, had signed a $14.1 million agreement that will let it tap into the public water and sewer systems of Middlesex Township, Pennsylva…

Data center giant secures $14 million deal to consume 40% of Pennsylvania town’s excess water
The data center will get access to 400,000 gallons of water per day—enough to serve over 2,300 homes.

so this password manager paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058 starts with:
> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane
with

Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers
Zero Knowledge Encryption is a term widely used by vendors of cloud-based password managers. Although it has no strict technical meaning, the term conveys the idea that the server, who stores encrypted password vaults on behalf of users, is unable to learn anything about the contents of those vaults. The security claims made by vendors imply that this should hold even if the server is fully malicious. This threat model is justified in practice by the high sensitivity of vault data, which makes …

Anthropic launches Agent Skills, which let AI assistants perform specialized tasks using modular instructions, and says Microsoft, Cursor, and others use them (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-launches-enterprise-age…

Crypto VC firm Dragonfly closes a $650M fund, its fourth, as the crypto VCs go through a "mass extinction event"; Dragonfly backed Polymarket's Series B (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/dragonfly-fou…

Exclusive: Crypto venture firm Dragonfly closes $650 million fourth fund—even as blockchain VCs face ‘mass extinction’
An inside look at the fast-rising firm, from its early Polymarket bet to its mysterious founding partner.

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…

Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-venture-capital-big-fun…

In A.I. Boom, Venture Capital Firms Are Raising Loads More Money
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.