Techmeme
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Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is raising a $350M+ Series E led by Vista Equity Partners; Intel plans to invest $100M to $150M (Reuters)
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Nvidia stock closes up 7.87% after Jensen Huang said the tech industry's surging capex for AI infrastructure is justified, appropriate, and sustainable (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
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Sources: London-based 9fin, a data provider for debt markets, is in talks to raise as much as $150M at a pre-money valuation of $1B, about 20x its ARR of ~$50M (Bloomberg)
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Galaxy Digital stock jumps 17%+ after the company approved a share buyback program of up to $200M over the next 12 months (CoinDesk)
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Croatian-founded Daytona, which aims to build infrastructure for large-scale agent workloads, raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
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A civil subpoena shows the US DOJ is investigating Netflix for potential anticompetitive tactics as DOJ probes the company's proposed acquisition of WBD (Wall Street Journal)
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Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party voice-controlled AI chatbots in CarPlay within the coming months; it won't let users replace CarPlay's Siri button (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)
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Amazon's annual tax bill fell 87% YoY to $1.2B in 2025, as profits grew 45% to ~$90B, mostly due to GOP's depreciation breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill (Brian Faler/Politico)
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London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management platform, raised a $24.5M Series A led by AlbionVC as it seeks to expand across Europe (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
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Crypto.com co-founder Kris Marszalek buys the domain AI.com for $70M, the highest disclosed price for a domain name, as he plans a site offering an AI agent (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
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Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE that accommodates local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
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Waymo says it is using DeepMind's Genie 3 to create realistic digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
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Analysis: Claude Code currently authors 4% of all public GitHub commits and is on track to cross 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026 (Doug O'Laughlin/SemiAnalysis)