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Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY — Global venture funding to fintech startups increased by 27% in 2025 to its highest level in several quarters, boosted by later-stage deals, Crunchbase data shows.
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Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B — Chipmaker divesting non-core businesses after seeing a loss in 1st 9 months of 2025 — Renesas' clocks and timing business was formerly part …
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Sources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's license to sell China H200s, but the State Dept. seeks tighter restrictions, delaying final approval — The state department has pushed for close scrutiny before approving export licences — Michael Acton in San Francisco …
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Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% — Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running Into Big Problems After leaning on its partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft is playing catch-up in the chatbot race.
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Adobe reversed its plans to discontinue Animate after creators expressed frustration, stating it won't get new features but will remain available “indefinitely” — It won't get new features, but it will still be available. … Adobe is no longer planning to discontinue Adobe Animate on March 1st.
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Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use auto-deleting “ephemeral messaging tools” — OpenAI accused Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company of “systematic and intentional destruction” …
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KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B — Private equity firm KKR and Singapore Telecommunications will acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator ST Telemedia Global Data Centres …
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Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital — Agentic artificial intelligence for health plan claims operations startup Alaffia Health Inc. announced today that it has raised $55 million in new funding to accelerate growth …
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Sources: US-based Arcee AI is pitching investors on a $200M+ funding round valuing it at over $1B, as it plans to train an open-weight model with 1T+ parameters — The American startup is pitching investors on a $1 billion+ valuation to train a model over a trillion parameters …
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Source: Anthropic plans an employee tender offer at a valuation of at least $350B, the same valuation discussed in the company's ongoing $20B fundraising — Anthropic is working on a deal to let some employees sell shares in the company at a valuation of at least $350 billion …
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