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Top Story OpenAI announced one of the largest private funding rounds in history on Friday, raising $110 billion against a $730 billion pre-money valuation from Amazon ($50 billion), Nvidia ($30 billion), and SoftBank ($30 billion). The round remains open with additional investors expected to join, potentially adding another $10 billion
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Top Story Investors are now aggressively rotating capital out of high-flying semiconductor stocks and into a battered software sector that is finally proving it can turn AI capabilities into cold, hard cash. Conversely, software companies, which spent much of 2024 and 2025 in a technical bear market, are seeing a
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Top Story Meta Platforms announced a historic five-year agreement to buy up to $60 billion worth of AMD artificial intelligence chips, including an option for Meta to acquire up to 10% of AMD. Under the deal, AMD will deliver six gigawatts of AI computing capacity, beginning with its MI450 platform
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Top Story MatX, an AI chip startup founded by two alumni of Google's semiconductor business, has raised more than $500 million in a new funding round to produce hardware that competes with Nvidia Corp., with the company now valued at several billion dollars. The financing was led by
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Top Story The enterprise software market is weathering its most volatile period since the 2022 rate hikes, as a massive sell-off - now being dubbed the "SaaSpocalypse" - wipes out nearly $1 trillion in market value. On February 23, 2026, the bloodletting reached a fever pitch, with major
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Top Story ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Forces Copyright Reckoning as AI Video Quality Leaps Forward ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video generation model, launched February 12, has created cinematic videos of celebrities in absurd situations that have gone viral online, with the new model being among the
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Top Story ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, launched this week as one of the most sophisticated AI video generation models to date, has triggered fierce resistance from Hollywood studios and creators who say the tool enables "blatant" copyright infringement. The model generates 15-second videos from text prompts
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Top Story Fei-Fei Li's World Labs Raises $1 Billion for Spatial Intelligence Revolution World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in new funding from investors including AMD, Nvidia, software firm Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Sea.
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Top Story The "AI Scare Trade" reached a crescendo yesterday as global markets witnessed what analysts called a "violent rotation of capital" away from service-oriented sectors including wealth management, financial services, and real estate. The catalyst was a convergence of technological breakthroughs, specifically the launch of
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Top Story Infosys and Anthropic Partner to Build Enterprise AI Agents with Claude Models Indian IT services company Infosys has announced a partnership with artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to develop enterprise-grade AI agents using Claude models. The collaboration targets enterprise customers looking to deploy sophisticated AI agents across their operations,
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Top Story ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator has triggered a major legal confrontation with Hollywood, as studios and trade groups accuse the Chinese company of "blatant" copyright infringement just days after its launch. The Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin demanded ByteDance "immediately
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Top Story The India AI Impact Summit 2026 opens today at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, running through February 20 and representing a shift from safety-focused summits to discussions on tangible AI impact, implementation, and governance. The five-day event draws delegations from over 100 countries, including 15-20 heads of government,