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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

How LLMs are dismantling the moats that made vertical SaaS defensible, and why the market selloff is structurally justified but temporally exaggerated (x.com)
2026-2-17 SaaS

Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest “reasoning” models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-2-17 AI Mathematics

Secondhand Laptop Market Goes 'Mainstream' Amid Memory Crunch (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17

Indian IT giant Infosys partners with Anthropic to develop AI services for telecoms, with plans to expand to finance, manufacturing, and software development (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-17 India AI Manufacturing

UK software firm Pinewood's stock fell ~31% on Feb. 16 after Apax Partners withdrew its £575M takeover offer, citing “prevailing challenging market conditions” (www.ft.com)
2026-2-17

Sources: US healthcare manufacturer Danaher is nearing a deal to buy medtech company Masimo for ~$10B; Masimo is in an IP dispute with Apple over Apple Watch (www.ft.com)
2026-2-17 Apple

Micron, which has undertaken a $200B US expansion, says it can currently meet about 50%-66% of demand for some key customers, as AI drives memory chip demand (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-17 AI

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

Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to commit investments ranging from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-2-17 India AI

Valve says the Steam Deck OLED may be “intermittently” out of stock due to memory and storage shortages; it has been out of stock in the US for a few days (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-17

Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-2-17 AI Sony

The Music Industry Enters Its Less-Is-More Era (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17

Micron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-2-17 AI

Letter and sources: Starboard plans to nominate a majority slate to Tripadvisor's board; Starboard holds a 9% stake, and TRIP has dropped ~46% in the past year (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-17

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