Tech

Texas Instruments plans to buy US chip company Silicon Labs in a $7.5B deal, paying $231/share in cash, closing in H1 2027; Silicon Labs has a $4.5B market cap (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Texas

Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl parodying the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will also air a 60-second pre-game ad (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago AI

Uber plans to expand its robotaxi services to Hong Kong, Madrid, Houston, and Zurich in 2026; Hong Kong will be Uber's first autonomous market in Asia (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Hong Kong Uber Asia

Uber reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $14.4B, Gross Bookings up 22% YoY to $54.1B, trips up 22% YoY to 3.8B, and a $296M profit, below est.; UBER falls 8%+ (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago Uber 4Q

Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (www.theregister.com)
11 days ago Alibaba AI Tencent

AMD Hints the Next-Gen Xbox Console Could Launch Next Year (games.slashdot.org)
11 days ago Xbox AMD

Sources: Reno-based chip startup Positron raised a $230M Series B from the QIA and others to build high-speed memory chips, taking its total raised to $300M+ (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Startup

Prosus agrees to a multiyear AWS cloud and AI deal that runs into “hundreds of millions of dollars”, as it seeks to expand in Europe, India, and Latin America (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Europe U.S. India AI Latin America

Q&A with Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, on the game turning 10, evolving as a developer, working solo, cozy game growth, and more (www.ign.com)
11 days ago

German chipmaker Infineon reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY €3.66B, above €3.62B est., expects to raise investments to €2.7B in 2026, and forecasts growing AI demand (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Germany AI

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says initial plans to raise $15B to $20B were a “misconception”; sources say Tether's advisers have floated raising as little as $5B (www.ft.com)
11 days ago

Pinterest fires two employees who it says “wrote custom scripts” that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs (www.bbc.com)
11 days ago Layoffs

A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M+ dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (www.coindesk.com)
11 days ago Darknet

Galaxy Digital reports a Q4 net loss of $482M, above $282M est., driven primarily by the crypto market crash, and says its trading volumes declined ~40% QoQ (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago 4Q

Say Hello To GoogleSQL (developers.slashdot.org)
11 days ago

A profile of Obsidian, a game studio Microsoft acquired in 2018, as it seeks to expedite game development and reduce costs after releasing three titles in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Microsoft

An interview with Kai-Fu Lee on his startup 01.ai, which builds agentic AI tools for companies, why he thinks China will beat the US in consumer AI, and more (www.ft.com)
11 days ago China Interview Startup AI

Sources: banks are marketing at least $56B in investment-grade data center construction loans tied to Oracle's leases, as they seek out new buyers for the loans (www.ft.com)
11 days ago Oracle

AMD reports $390M in revenue from MI308 AI chip sales in China in Q4; CEO Lisa Su says orders were “from very early in 2025” but shipped in Q4 after US approval (asia.nikkei.com)
11 days ago China AI 4Q AMD

OpenAI's Lead Is Contracting as AI Competition Intensifies (slashdot.org)
11 days ago AI

Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY (news.crunchbase.com)
11 days ago Fintech Y Combinator

Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (asia.nikkei.com)
11 days ago Tokyo

Sources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's license to sell China H200s, but the State Dept. seeks tighter restrictions, delaying final approval (www.ft.com)
11 days ago China Nvidia

Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago

Walmart Joins $1 Trillion Club (slashdot.org)
11 days ago Walmart

Adobe reversed its plans to discontinue Animate after creators expressed frustration, stating it won't get new features but will remain available “indefinitely” (www.theverge.com)
11 days ago Adobe

Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use auto-deleting “ephemeral messaging tools” (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago

KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B (www.cnbc.com)
11 days ago

Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital (siliconangle.com)
11 days ago AI

Sources: US-based Arcee AI is pitching investors on a $200M+ funding round valuing it at over $1B, as it plans to train an open-weight model with 1T+ parameters (www.forbes.com)
11 days ago AI

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