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Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B to a growth-stage fund, taking its AUM to $21B+ (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)

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Russian space company Bureau 1440 says it launched 16 broadband internet satellites, an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network to rival SpaceX (Anthony Halpin/Bloomberg)

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How Palantir became a flashpoint on the US campaign trail due to its ICE work, ahead of the midterms; six lawmakers publicly refuse any further Palantir funds (Joe Miller/Financial Times)

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Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been "disrupted" due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

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Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 7.3% YoY to ~$17B, narrowly above est., its slowest growth since 2023, as EV sales failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand (Bloomberg)

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In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will "never forget" nor "forgive" Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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European VC firm Hummingbird raised $800M to find "misfit" founders, taking its total assets to ~$2B, after backing Kraken and AI vibe coding startup Lovable (Financial Times)

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London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, a £1.7B pre-tax profit, up from £1.1B in 2024, and customers up 33%, as it moves to become a bank (Elena Vardon/Wall Street Journal)

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SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B to buy cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Samsung to supply DRAM and HBM (Bloomberg)

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Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on AI impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with search function in Google's mandated default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

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US Senators Warren and Banks urge suspending Nvidia AI chip export licenses to China and Southeast Asia, following Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw's indictment (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

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Sources: Nintendo plans to cut Switch 2 production this quarter to 4M units, down ~33% from 6M, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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Report: Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveils XuanTie C950, a 5nm server chip with 3.2 GHz clock, and claims it to be "the highest performing RISC-V CPU in the world" (Reuters)

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Japan's Sakana AI launches Sakana Chat, its first consumer chatbot, marking a shift from its business focus as competition to localize generative AI intensifies (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)

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Munich-based Interloom, which aims to capture tacit knowledge for AI agents from businesses' operational records, raised a $16.5M seed led by DN Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

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SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit as it commits another $30B to OpenAI (David Keohane/Financial Times)

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How Nvidia became the AI industry's most powerful financier, investing billions in startups and supporting customers who couldn't otherwise afford its chips (Wall Street Journal)

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