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Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration, launching with $635M in capital (Wall Street Journal)

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6 February 2026

Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration, launching with $635M in capital (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration, launching with $635M in capital  —  Erebor founder Palmer Luckey was one of the tech industry's early Trump supporters and is known for his penchant for Hawaiian shirts

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Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users  —  Spotify is rolling out a new “About the Song” feature that lets users explore the stories behind the music they're listening to, the company announced on Friday.

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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)

Reuters:
Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is raising a $350M+ Series E led by Vista Equity Partners; Intel plans to invest $100M to $150M  —  Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners is leading a new funding round of over $350 million in artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems …

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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)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia stock closes up 7.87% after Jensen Huang said the tech industry's surging capex for AI infrastructure is justified, appropriate, and sustainable  —  The tech industry's surging capital expenditures for AI infrastructure are justified, appropriate and sustainable, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday on CNBC's “Halftime Report.”

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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)

Bloomberg:
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  —  Debt intelligence provider 9fin Ltd. is in talks to raise fresh capital at a valuation of as much as $1 billion as it seeks …

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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)

CoinDesk:
Galaxy Digital stock jumps 17%+ after the company approved a share buyback program of up to $200M over the next 12 months  —  The repurchase plan follows a volatile earnings week and signals confidence in the firm's balance sheet.  —  What to know:

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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)

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:
Croatian-founded Daytona, which aims to build infrastructure for large-scale agent workloads, raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark  —  Daytona is building agent-native infrastructure to support large-scale, stateful agent workloads through fast, flexible computing environments designed for long-running execution.

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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)

Wall Street Journal:
A civil subpoena shows the US DOJ is investigating Netflix for potential anticompetitive tactics as DOJ probes the company's proposed acquisition of WBD  —  As it probes bids for Warner, the department is asking if the streamer has engaged in conduct that could make it a monopoly

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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)

Nitin T Bhat / Heroku:
Heroku says it is transitioning to a “sustaining engineering model”, as it focuses on “helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI”  —  Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support.

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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)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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  —  Apple Inc. is preparing to allow voice-controlled artificial intelligence apps from other companies in CarPlay …

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