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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, consistency, and more, for Free and Pro users; it features a 1M token context window in beta (www.anthropic.com)
2026-2-18

Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 AI Paris

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

Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/s (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits (www.axios.com)
2026-2-18 CFTC

Automattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 NLP WordPress AI

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

Figma and Anthropic partner to launch Code to Canvas, letting users import code generated in Claude Code directly into Figma as editable designs (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-18

Ireland now also investigating X over Grok-made sexual images (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Ireland

Poland arrests suspect linked to Phobos ransomware operation (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Poland

3 years of web hosting is currently just $50 in this lifetime deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18

New Keenadu backdoor found in Android firmware, Google Play apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Android Google

What 5 Million Apps Revealed About Secrets in JavaScript (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18

Microsoft Teams outage affects users in United States, Europe (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Europe Microsoft

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

99% of Adults Over 40 Have Shoulder 'Abnormalities' on an MRI, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 Snapchat

Braintrust, which helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised an $80M Series B led by Iconiq at an $800M post-money valuation (www.axios.com)
2026-2-18 AI

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

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