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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 (Michael O'Boyle/Bloomberg)

Michael O'Boyle / Bloomberg : Mexico-based online used car dealer Kavak raised $300M led by a16z, the first Latin American deal for a...

17 February 2026

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 (Michael O'Boyle/Bloomberg)

Michael O'Boyle / Bloomberg:
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  —  Mexico-based online used car dealer Kavak raised $300 million in an equity round led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to the startup's chief executive officer.

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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 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Krystal Hu / Reuters:
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  —  Software startup Temporal has raised $300 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at $5 billion …

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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 (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)

Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg:
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  —  The backer of OpenAI, Stripe, SpaceX and Skims says it's taking “ride-or-die” approach to investing.

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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 (David Keohane/Financial Times)

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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  —  Toto should make more of its sideline in the chip supply chain, Palliser urges

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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 (Joel Khalili/Wired)

Joel Khalili / Wired:
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  —  The residents of Potters Bar are working to protect the “green belt” of farms, forests, and meadows that surround London …

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Google's Android XR design docs and developer tools hint at the XR glasses' details, including mandatory physical buttons and "Glimmer" UI design language (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Google's Android XR design docs and developer tools hint at the XR glasses' details, including mandatory physical buttons and “Glimmer” UI design language  —  Android XR glasses are coming in 2026.  Here's what you can expect from the user interface and experience.

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The European Commission opens a full DSA investigation into Shein over sales of child-like sex dolls that "could constitute child sexual abuse material" (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

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The European Commission opens a full DSA investigation into Shein over sales of child-like sex dolls that “could constitute child sexual abuse material”  —  Shein risks hefty European Union penalties after regulators opened a full-scale probe into sales of child-like sex dolls on the Chinese e-commerce platform.

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Dubai-based fractional property investment startup Stake raised a $31M Series B led by Emirates NBD PJSC; the platform facilitates investments starting at ~$136 (Zainab Fattah/Bloomberg)

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Dubai-based fractional property investment startup Stake raised a $31M Series B led by Emirates NBD PJSC; the platform facilitates investments starting at ~$136  —  Stake, a Dubai-based fractional property investment platform, raised $31 million in a second fund-raising round that will help …

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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 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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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  —  Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit.

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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 (Bhavya Dilipkumar/Moneycontrol)

Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol:
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  —  The AI coding wars are heating up.  As tech giant and AI upstarts race to redefine how software is built …

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