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eBay reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $3B, vs. $2.87B est., GMV up 10% to $21.2B, and forecasts Q1 profit above estimates; EBAY jumps 6%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 eBay 4Q

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from a16z, Nvidia, AMD, and others to advance its world models focused on robotics and scientific discovery (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Robot Nvidia AMD

Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 IPO Retail

Saudi-backed AI company Humain invests $3B in xAI, becoming a “significant minority shareholder” in a deal that happened just prior to SpaceX's xAI acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 AI SpaceX

Uber plans to spend $100M+ to build fast-charging, autonomous vehicle charging stations in the US, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area, LA, and Dallas (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 Uber Autonomous Car San Francisco

At India's AI Summit, Sundar Pichai announces the America-India Connect Initiative to build new fiber optic lines between India, the US, and other countries (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 U.S. India AI

Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its Amazon stake by 75%+ to ~2.3M shares in Q4 2025; Berkshire bought 5.1M NYT shares, worth ~$352M in December (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 Amazon Warren Buffett 4Q Berkshire

SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla, down from a 7.5% stake in August 2025; ether is down 60% from its August 2025 peak (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 AI Battery

Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI announces two models at the AI Impact Summit that it says are tailored to Indian languages and cultures (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 India Startup AI

A look at MGX, Abu Dhabi's AI investment vehicle with stakes in Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI; the firm plans to spend up to $10B annually over the next few years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 AI

Filing: Nvidia unloaded 1.1M Arm shares, worth about $140M based on Arm's closing price on Tuesday, sometime in Q4, bringing Nvidia's stake to zero (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 4Q Nvidia

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

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