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Google signs a power purchase agreement with Ormat to supply up to 150 MW of geothermal energy to its Nevada data centers through NV Energy starting in 2028 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 Google Energy

Sources: Western Digital plans to raise $3.09B by selling a Sandisk stake at $535-$555/share, a 9.4% discount to Tuesday's close; the offering is oversubscribed (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 Western Digital

Source: Benchmark's 2020 fund is now worth 10x+ and 2024 fund is 3x what investors put in, based on cash distributions and the paper value of its investments (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18

Some private software companies including McAfee released earnings early to reassure investors worried about an AI-linked selloff, dubbed the “SaaSpocalypse” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 AI

Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers like Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, raised $70M led by StepStone to expand into gaming, sports, and music (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18

Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 AI Apple

Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 SpaceX

SEC filing: Liftoff withdraws its IPO filing without specifying a reason, less than two weeks after the mobile ad platform postponed plans to price its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 IPO Mobile

Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin (www.bloomberg.com)
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

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

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

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

Sources: Moonshot, the Chinese startup behind Kimi chatbot, is targeting a $10B valuation in a funding round expansion after securing $500M at a $4.3B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 China Startup chatbot

Nifty IT Index, which tracks Indian IT stocks, has slumped about 15% so far in February on worries about AI and is on track for its worst month since March 2020 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 India AI

Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 Drone SpaceX

Data analytics company Fractal, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, raised $313M in its Mumbai IPO; its shares fell 5% amid a weak Indian IPO market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 India IPO AI

Sources: Sony is considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, as the AI boom fuels huge memory chip demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-16 AI Sony

OpenAI retired GPT-4o on February 13, angering loyal users, 20K+ of whom signed a petition; 4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-16 chatbot

Credit derivatives trading on specific tech companies continues to rise, amid concerns that they may be borrowing too much to fuel AI development (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-16 AI

India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to $600M in equity led by Blackstone, plus $600M in debt, to deploy 20K+ GPUs in India for AI training (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-16 India Startup AI Equity

A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-16 China AI Entrepreneur

Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-16 Apple Tesla MacBook Aluminum

A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-15 WeChat

Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegally monopolized the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-14 Microsoft AI

IBM says it plans to triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026 “for all these jobs that we're being told AI can do”, affecting a wide range of departments (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-14 IBM AI

Applied Materials reports Q1 revenue down 2% YoY to $7.01B, vs. $6.86B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; AMAT jumps 12%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-13

In a memo to US lawmakers, OpenAI accused DeepSeek of using distillation techniques to train the next generation of R1 and “free-ride” on leading US AI models (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-13 AI

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