Tech

Israeli drone OS developer Xtend merges with New York-listed JFB to list on Nasdaq at a $1.5B valuation, including a $152M investment from Eric Trump and others (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-2-18 Trump Israel Drone New York

China Once Stole Foreign Ideas. Now It Wants To Protect Its Own (slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 China

Raspberry Pi stock rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally, amid demand for single-board computers to run low-cost AI agents like OpenClaw (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-18 Raspberry Pi AI

Render, which is positioning itself as an alternative to Salesforce-owned Heroku, raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation, says 4.5M+ developers use its tools (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-18 Salesforce

Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI falls 10%+ (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-18

London-based Fyld, which makes AI tools to assist infrastructure and utility fieldwork operators, raised a $41M Series B led by Energy Impact Partners (siliconangle.com)
2026-2-18 Energy AI London

Mazda Finally Admits Its Infotainment System Is the Worst (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Qualcomm says UK consumer association Which? is withdrawing its chip royalties lawsuit that sought £480M for 29M iPhone and Samsung users, after a CAT trial (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-18 iPhone Samsung

'Software Isn't Dead, But Its Cosy Business Model Might Be' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says he asked the country's prosecutor office to investigate X, TikTok, and Meta over the alleged “creation and dissemination” of CSAM (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 Spain

Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Israeli endpoint security company Koi Security, sources say for ~$400M; Koi raised $48M across two rounds, per PitchBook (en.globes.co.il)
2026-2-18 Israel

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 (fortune.com)
2026-2-18

Valve's Steam Deck OLED Will Be 'Intermittently' Out of Stock Because of the RAM Crisis (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Airbnb expands its Reserve Now, Pay Later feature globally, after a US pilot for domestic travel saw a 70% adoption rate for eligible bookings (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 Airbnb

Danaher agrees to acquire US medical tech company Masimo for $9.9B, paying $180 per share, a nearly 40% premium on February 13's close, set to close in H2 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18

Sony Tech Can Identify Original Music in AI-Generated Songs (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 AI Sony

Temporal, which builds open-source software to ensure “durable execution” of code, raised a $300M Series D at a $5B valuation, up from $2.5B in October 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-18

Mexico-based online used car dealer Kavak raised $300M led by a16z, the first Latin American deal for a16z's Growth fund, after raising $700M in September 2021 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 U.S. Mexico Latin America

Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B, its 10th fund and the firm's largest ever; sources say Thrive distributed just 64% of all capital raised during the 2021 peak (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17

Google's Android XR design docs and developer tools hint at the XR glasses' details, including mandatory physical buttons and “Glimmer” UI design language (9to5google.com)
2026-2-17 Android Google

UK activist investor Palliser says Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, is an “undervalued and overlooked” AI play due to its “advanced ceramics” used in chips (www.ft.com)
2026-2-17 Japan AI

The European Commission opens a full DSA investigation into Shein over sales of child-like sex dolls that “could constitute child sexual abuse material” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 Europe Child Abuse

Dubai-based fractional property investment startup Stake raised a $31M Series B led by Emirates NBD PJSC; the platform facilitates investments starting at ~$136 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 Startup Dubai

How locals in Potters Bar, a town near London, are challenging Equinix's $5B data center plans, as the UK reclassifies “green belt” land to boost construction (www.wired.com)
2026-2-17 London

Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B-parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-17

Q&A with Replit CEO Amjad Masad, who says India is Replit's second-largest market by active users, on integrating Razorpay's tech, AI's impact on SaaS, and more (www.moneycontrol.com)
2026-2-17 SaaS India AI

EU Parliament Blocks AI Features Over Cyber, Privacy Fears (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17 AI

Indian conglomerate Adani Group announces plans to invest $100B to build renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centers across India by 2035 (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-17 India Energy AI Renewable

10 Extreme Laws That Tried to Engineer Society (listverse.com)
2026-2-17

10 Box Office Bombs That We Should Have Predicted in 2025 (listverse.com)
2026-2-17

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