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Mondprogramm Artemis: NASA plant zusätzlichen Start im kommenden Jahr
Die NASA will jetzt doch auch 2027 eine Mission zum Mond starten, landen soll die Crew dort dann aber noch nicht. Das könnte dafür 2028 gleich zweimal erfolgen.

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…

Austin's Star Is Still Shining Bright: Venture Funding To City's Startups Hits All-Time High
Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by Crunchbase data, which shows startups headquartered in the Lone Star State’s capital raised a record $7.19 billion in venture funding in 2025.

A web-based LibreOffice could be interesting!
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/

LibreOffice Online: a fresh start - TDF Community Blog
LibreOffice is a desktop application, but we get many requests for a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure. Several years ago, project members started to develop LibreOffice Online, but in 2022 the Board of Directors at The Document Foundation voted to freeze the project and put it in the “attic”, for reasons that have now been superseded. Earlier this month, the current Board of Directors decided to revoke those votes to give new life to the proje…

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

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama | TechCrunch
30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a U.S. company.

Streaming-Streit: Oberlandesgericht Köln verbietet Übernahme der ARD-Mediathek
Nach einer Schlappe für Joyn in München bestätigt nun das Oberlandesgericht Köln: Private Streaming-Portale dürfen ARD-Inhalte nicht direkt ungefragt einbetten.

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…

Worth, the Startup From the Founders of Stax, Just Raised $30 Million to Deliver 'Simplicity for Small Businesses'
The brother and sister team of Sal Rehmetullah and Suneera Madhani are banking on AI for their young fintech startup.

Mondmission Artemis-2: Zweitägiger Countdown soll in Nacht zu Dienstag starten
In der Nacht auf Donnerstag will die NASA zum ersten Mal seit 1972 Menschen zum Mond schießen. Jetzt hat sie aufgelistet, was bis dahin noch alles klappen muss.

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…

C3.AI in Talks to Merge with Startup Automation Anywhere
C3.AI, founded by tech industry veteran Thomas Siebel, is in talks to merge with privately held startup Automation Anywhere, which will effectively go public in the deal, according to people familiar with the discussions. C3.AI, which sells AI to large companies and government agencies, was the ...

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Streit um KI-Klausel: Kommende Netflix-Originals ohne deutschen Ton?
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AI sales startup Clay launches its second employee tender offer in under nine months, valuing it at $5B, up from $3.1B in August and $1.5B in its May 2025 offer (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/dealbook…

Clay, an A.I. Sales Start-Up, Lets Employees Cash Out. Again.
The company is part of a newer generation of software upstarts holding multiple tender offers where workers can sell stock before going public.