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Sources: Niantic is in talks to sell its games unit to Saudi Arabia-controlled Scopely for ~$3.5B; the deal would include Pokémon Go and other mobile games (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-19 Mobile Arabia Saudi Arabia

HP will acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's Ai pin business will be wound down, and Humane's team, including its founders, will join HP (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-19 AI Asset

Sources: Silver Lake is in exclusive talks to acquire a majority stake in Intel's Altera unit (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-19 Intel Silver

Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offers crypto security tools, raised a $50M Series B led by Ribbit and says it stopped 71M attacks in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-19 New York

The EU says WhatsApp now faces the DSA's VLOP rules after Meta said on February 14 that Channels had ~46.8M MAUs in the EU in H2 2024, above the 45M threshold (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-19 WhatsApp

Cambridge, UK-based Luminance, which uses AI to draft and review legal documents, raised a $75M Series C led by Point72, after a $40M Series B in April 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-18 AI

Baidu reports Q4 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.7B, above $4.6B est., and a ~$717M net income, above ~$540M est., as its search and AI businesses face competition (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-18 AI 4Q

xAI unveils DeepSearch, a reasoning chatbot that explains its thought process for queries and is capable of doing research, brainstorming, and data analysis (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-18 chatbot Data Analysis

Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence is raising $1B+ led by Greenoaks Capital Partners, which plans to invest $500M, at a valuation of $30B+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-18 Startup

Dream, which offers cybersecurity tools to governments and critical infrastructure firms, raised $100M led by Bain at a $1.1B valuation, up from $190M in 2023 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-18

An analysis of credit and debit card data shows TikTok Shop passed Shein and Temu in US sales in January 2025, growing 153% to Shein's 26% and Temu's 28% (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-17

Chinese President Xi meets with Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and more, signaling Beijing's support for the long-marginalized sector (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-17 China Jack Ma Alibaba

A look at Apple's and Meta's robotics efforts; sources say Apple is working on a 27" Studio Display successor to launch by 2026 and considering monetizing Maps (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-17 Apple Robot

A look at Apple's and Meta's robotics efforts; sources: Apple is working on a 27" Studio Display successor to launch by 2026 and considering Maps monetization (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-17 Apple Robot

Meta's Joel Kaplan says Meta “won't shy away” from taking up its case with President Trump if the EU uses its rules to unfairly target Meta's products (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-17 Trump

Sources: DOGE is sending termination notices to USDS staff who worked as IT experts for the US government since the Obama era; USDS has been renamed as DOGE (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-16

Sources: Apple plans to refresh the Vision Pro with Apple Intelligence, a new Spatial content app, and a revamped guest mode in visionOS 2.4, as early as April (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-16 Apple Intelligence

Sources: Apple's Siri overhaul faces engineering problems and software bugs; some features, planned for April 2025, may have to be postponed until May or later (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-16 Apple

CB Insights: a record 1,200 VC-backed unicorns have yet to IPO or get acquired; Carta: fewer than 30% of 2021 unicorns raised funding in the past three years (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-16 IPO

Industry executives say US crypto miners are facing delays in receiving new equipment from Bitmain and other Chinese suppliers amid heightened customs scrutiny (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 China

Sources: SoftBank-backed eFishery, Indonesia's high-profile agritech startup, cuts over 1,000 jobs, or ~90% of its workforce, and weighs a potential liquidation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Startup Indonesia

The website of Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial shows the crypto project has sold 24B+ of its 25B WLFI tokens after a slow start, implying sales of $1.25B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Trump

Tether acquires a minority stake in the iconic Italian football club Juventus, as part of a broader push to integrate digital assets into sports franchises (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Italy Asset

DeepSeek's rise has the turned the spotlight on its hometown, Hangzhou, the capital of the Zhejiang province, which has earmarked ~$13.7B to fund tech companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15

Sources: Spotify hopes to launch a Music Pro tier in 2025, a $6/month add-on that will include higher-quality audio, early access to concert tickets, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Spotify

Sources: humanoid robot startup Figure is in talks to raise $1.5B led by Align Ventures and Parkway VC at a $39.5B valuation, up from $2.6B in February 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Startup Robot

Filing: Anthropic asks a court to nix a DOJ remedy that would block Google from investing in AI startups, saying it would harm Anthropic and the competition (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Google Startup AI

Sources: Apple's overhaul of Siri faces engineering problems and software bugs; some features, planned for April, may have to be postponed until May or later (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Apple

Source: xAI is canvassing potential investors, including Sequoia Capital and a16z, for a roughly $10B funding round that would value the company at about $75B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15

Source: TSMC is considering taking a controlling stake in Intel's factories at the request of Trump's team; it is unclear whether Intel is open to a transaction (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-15 Trump Intel

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