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UK- and Spain-based sustainability data platform Dcycle acquires Germany’s ESG-X to accelerate DACH expansion

Rahul Raj / eu-startups - Dcycle, a UK and Madrid-based sustainability data management platform, today announced the acquisition of ESG-X, a Munich-based software company specialising in AI-powered sustainability reporting solutions, to expand its presence in the DACH region. The …

#climate #analytics #datascience #saas #enterprise #business #environment #europe #acquisitions #eu

Dcycle Acquires German ESG Platform ESG-X To Expand In DACH Region

26 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Dcycle acquires ESG-X to scale sustainability data management in Europe

26 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

UK- and Spain-based sustainability data platform Dcycle acquires Germany’s ESG-X to accelerate DACH expansion

26 days / eu-startups / Rahul Raj

Washington Post CEO resigns, leaving no clear strategy

Max Tani / semafor - Will Lewis and Jeff Bezos presided over a sharp decline at the definitive Washington newspaper.

#digitaltransformation #business #jobs #us #culture #bezos #layoffs #media

7 Insights From Washington Post’s Strategy To Win Back Traffic via @sejournal, @martinibuster

26 days / searchenginejournal / Roger Montti

The death of sportswriting

26 days / axios / Neal Rothschild

Washington Post CEO resigns, leaving no clear strategy www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

27 days / bsky / @semafor.com / semafor.com

WAPO news www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

27 days / bsky / @carpenter22.bsky.social / carpenter22.bsky.social

Semafor: "Washington Post CEO resigns, leaving no clear strategy." www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

27 days / bsky / @jayrosen.bsky.social / jayrosen.bsky.social

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27 days / bsky / @beverlymann19.bsky.social / beverlymann19.bsky.social

Washington Post CEO resigns, leaving no clear strategy

27 days / semafor / Max Tani

Former Tumblr head Jeff D’Onofrio steps in as acting CEO at the Washington Post

27 days / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

New York lawmakers introduce bill that aims to halt data center development for three years

Cheyenne MacDonald / engadget - On Friday, New York State Senators Liz Krueger and Kristen Gonzales introduced a bill that would stop the issuance of permits for new data centers for at least three years and ninety days to give time for impact assessments and to update regulations. The …

#climate #cloud #techpolicy #energy #government #business #datacenter #environment #us #law

New York is considering two bills to rein in the AI industry

26 days / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

New York Lawmakers Want to Pause New Data Centres for a Three Year Period

26 days / techpowerup

New York lawmakers introduce bill that aims to halt data center development for three years

27 days / engadget / Cheyenne MacDonald

New York lawmakers propose a three-year pause on new data centers

27 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

OpenAI and Anthropic become AI consultants as enterprise customers struggle with agent reliability

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - AI agents sound great in demos, but getting them to work reliably in the real world is a different story. OpenAI and Anthropic are working directly with enterprise customers to customize their models, because out-of-the-box AI often falls flat.The article…

#ai #enterprise #anthropic #openai #aiethics #genai #business #chatgpt #technology #patching

New research suggests AI model updates are now "significant social events" involving real mourning

27 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI Fights Back Against Critics on Three Fronts

27 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Claude: Speed up responses with fast mode

27 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

You won't need FDEs in 12 months.

27 days / substack / John Hwang

OpenAI and Anthropic become AI consultants as enterprise customers struggle with agent reliability

27 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI Expands Seattle Area Office Fivefold with Major Lease

27 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

OpenAI Hires Hundreds of AI Consultants for Enterprise Push

27 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

The backlash over OpenAI's decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be

27 days / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

Goldman Sachs Taps Anthropic Claude AI for Wall Street Back Office

27 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Anthropic buys Super Bowl ads to slap OpenAI for selling ads in ChatGPT

27 days / reddit / /u/app1310

SpaceX Acquires xAI: How Much Is The Combined Company Worth?

slashgear - Two Elon Musk-owned companies, SpaceX and xAI, have begun a massive merger. What will be the result of the combination and how much will it be worth?

#ai #vc #space #stockmarket #business #aerospace #deeptech #technology #xai #elonmusk

SpaceX Acquires xAI: How Much Is The Combined Company Worth?

27 days / slashgear

20-gigawatt Chinese microwave weapon touted as ‘Starlink’s worst nightmare’ by country's media — portable 5-ton device can deliver full-minute destructive bursts

27 days / tomshardware

Elon Musk wants to be a trillionaire — here's how SpaceX may get him there

28 days / cnbc

Elon Musk Is Betting Another Tech Conglomerate (His) Can Win Over Wall St.

28 days / nytimes / Kate Conger and Jack Ewing

An AI startup founder says he’s planning a ‘March for Billionaires’ in protest of California’s wealth tax

Lucas Ropek / techcrunch - The organizer of the event swears it's not a joke.

#ai #startups #vc #innovation #techpolicy #government #business #economy #regulation #california

San Francisco’s pro-billionaire march draws dozens

26 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

One Man’s Lonely Quest to Rally Support for Billionaires in San Francisco

26 days / wsj / Laura J. Nelson

An AI startup founder says he’s planning a ‘March for Billionaires’ in protest of California’s wealth tax

28 days / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

AI Enters the Race at the Winter Olympic Games

28 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

An AI startup founder says he’s planning a ‘March for Billionaires’ in protest of California’s wealth tax

28 days / techcrunch / Lucas Ropek

Nvidia rises 7% as Jensen Huang says $660 billion capex buildout is sustainable

cnbc - Huang's comments come after key Nvidia customers Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft reported their latest earnings over the past two weeks.

#climate #ai #semiconductors #nvidia #gpu #genai #stockmarket #earnings #business #huang

Big Tech groups race to fund unprecedented $660bn AI spending spree

26 days / ft

The AI Hype Is Over

27 days / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Nvidia CEO Says AI Capital Spending Is Appropriate, Sustainable

27 days / reddit / /u/esporx

China ramps up energy boom flagged by Musk as key to AI race

27 days / techxplore

30,000 NVIDIA Engineers Use Generative AI for 3x Higher Code Output

27 days / techpowerup

NVIDIA CEO Isn’t Worried About Big Tech ‘Splurging’ $660 Billion on the AI Infrastructure Buildout, Saying It Will Ultimately Pay Off

27 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims AI no longer hallucinates, apparently hallucinating himself

28 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

AI wiped out $400 billion this week — and it's only getting started

28 days / axios / Madison Mills

China’s software sector braces for spillover from AI-led global sell-off

28 days / scmp

In my wildest dreams I could never have imagined a more gratuitous sign that AI is a bubble than “chance the rapper, sponsored by coreweave.” It’s beautiful. It’ll be in a movie someday

28 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Benchmark raises $225M in special funds to double down on Cerebras

28 days / techcrunch / Marina Temkin

Anthropic Just Scared Wall Street

28 days / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

One of the more maddening ai bubble weeks crested by headlines that just say “Jensen Huang says actually the buildout is sustainable.” What’s he gonna say? “Nah dude Blackwell will never pay for itself sorry lol” https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/nvidia-ri

28 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Nvidia CEO Says AI Capital Spending Is Appropriate, Sustainable

28 days / reddit / /u/Few_Baseball_3835

Nvidia rises 7% as Jensen Huang says $660 billion capex buildout is sustainable

28 days / cnbc

Crypto.com Founder Buys AI.com in ‘Largest Domain Purchase in History’

Bruce Gil / gizmodo - Is this what a frothy bubble looks like?

#ai #innovation #crypto #genai #business #internet #acquisitions #technology

Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl

26 days / techcrunch / Connie Loizos

ai.com to release decentralised AI agent platform during Super Bowl

28 days / testingcatalog / Erin

The Crypto.com guy bought AI.com (and a Super Bowl ad)

28 days / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Crypto.com Founder Buys AI.com in ‘Largest Domain Purchase in History’

28 days / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

AI.com Sells for $70 Million, the Highest Price Ever Disclosed for a Domain Name

28 days / slashdot / msmash

AI.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70mn in biggest-ever website name deal

28 days / ft

iPhone 18 Pro Max leak touts an unexpected win over Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra

digitaltrends - Leaked battery details suggest Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Max could outlast Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, raising uncomfortable questions about Android's flagship priorities.The post iPhone 18 Pro Max leak touts an unexpected win over Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra ap…

#mobiletech #apple #samsung #business #iphone #batteries #performance #technology #gadgets #smartphone

The Battery Within The iPhone 17 Pro Max Costs Just $12, Yet Apple Charges $119 To Replace It

27 days / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

iPhone 18 Pro Max leak touts an unexpected win over Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra

28 days / digitaltrends

iPhone 18 Pro Max to Feature 5,100 - 5,200mAh Battery and 2nm A20 Pro Chip [Rumor]

28 days / iclarified

iPhone 18 Pro Max battery life to increase again -- but not by much

28 days / appleinsider

Salesforce Shelves Heroku

msmash / slashdot - Salesforce is essentially shutting down Heroku as an evolving product, moving the cloud platform that helped define modern app deployment to a "sustaining engineering model" focused entirely on stability, security and support. Existing customers on credit…

#cloud #software #saas #devops #enterprise #business #apps #acquisitions #api #developertools

Salesforce to stop selling enterprise Heroku subscriptions, scale back upgrades

28 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Salesforce Shelves Heroku

28 days / slashdot / msmash

An Update on Heroku

28 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

An Update on Heroku

28 days / ycombinator

Uber just lost its first sexual assault liability case. Here’s why it matters

Taylor Hatmaker / fastcompany - A federal jury in Arizona has ordered Uber to pay $8.5 million in a lawsuit brought by a passenger who said was sexually assaulted by one of the ridesharing app’s drivers. The case marks the first time that Uber has been found liable for the safety of its…

#techpolicy #business #judiciary #us #uber #travel #law #litigation #safety

Uber Technologies (UBER) Stock: $8.5M Assault Verdict Raises Liability Questions for Investors

28 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Uber ordered to pay $8.5m over claim driver raped passenger

28 days / bbc

Uber just lost its first sexual assault liability case. Here’s why it matters

28 days / fastcompany / Taylor Hatmaker

Uber found liable in precedent-setting sexual assault case

28 days / mashable

Uber held liable, ordered to pay $8.5 million in driver rape suit

28 days / cnbc

Uber ordered to pay $8.5 million to passenger who accused a driver of rape

28 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Uber found liable for sexual assault in first of thousands of similar lawsuits / A federal jury has ordered Uber to pay the victim $8.5 million in damages.

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IREN Stock: Earnings Disaster Wipes Out $1.5 Billion in Market Value

Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR IREN stock fell 11.5% to $39.79 Thursday after reporting Q2 EPS loss of ($0.52) against ($0.07) estimate and $184.7M revenue versus $229.6M forecast. Company swung from $384.6M profit in Q1 to ($155.4M) loss in Q2, representing a massive $540M quarte…

#ai #crypto #genai #stockmarket #earnings #business #bitcoin #technology

Here's what Wall Street analysts are saying after IREN's earnings miss

28 days / coindesk / Will Canny

Bernstein says IREN selloff reflects missing AI deal, not earnings, with bitcoin no longer central to investment case

28 days / theblock / James Hunt

IREN Stock: Earnings Disaster Wipes Out $1.5 Billion in Market Value

28 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Stellantis dives after announcing €22 billion (~$26 billion) charge related to its EV pullback

Claire Yubin Oh / sherwood - The stock is diving in the premarket.

#stockmarket #earnings #business #supplychain #europe #batteries #economy #stellantis #automotive #ev

Stellantis N.V. (STLA) Stock: Slides 27% After $26B Charge and Battery-Plant Exit

28 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

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Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy

28 days / arstechnica / Jonathan M. Gitlin

Stellantis (STLA) Stock Plummets 22% on $26.5 Billion EV Writedown

28 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Stellantis’s Shift Away From Electric Cars Will Cost It $26 Billion

28 days / nytimes / Neal E. Boudette

Stellantis takes massive hit for 'overestimation' of EV shift

29 days / techxplore

Stellantis dives after announcing €22 billion (~$26 billion) charge related to its EV pullback

29 days / sherwood / Claire Yubin Oh

Carmaker Stellantis takes hit over global EV sales slowdown

29 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Intel, AMD server CPUs reportedly suffering from supply shortages in China, leading to increased prices — sources say orders could be delayed by as much as 6 months

tomshardware - The increased demand is said to be partly brought by demand for agentic AI, which need CPUs to execute their tasks.

#ai #semiconductors #china #chips #business #supplychain #cpus #amd #intel #pricing

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

28 days / ycombinator

Intel Panther Lake handheld chips reportedly delayed until Q2 2026 — alleged 'Core G3' series might launch alongside new Arc B360 and Arc B380 iGPUs

28 days / tomshardware

INTEL (INTC) Stock: Gains Momentum While Intel Rations Xeon Chips in China

28 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Intel and AMD Warn of Server CPU Shortages in China, Prices Rise Over 10%

28 days / techpowerup

Intel (INTC) Stock: Company Warns Chinese Customers of Six-Month CPU Delays

28 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Intel and AMD are Notifying Chinese Customers of CPU Shortage

28 days / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Intel, AMD server CPUs reportedly suffering from supply shortages in China, leading to increased prices — sources say orders could be delayed by as much as 6 months

28 days / tomshardware

Intel, AMD notify customers in China of lengthy waits for CPUs

29 days / reddit / /u/sr_local

Intel and AMD CPU Shortages Continue to Worsen as Delivery Times in China Exceed Six Months, Driving Widespread Price Hikes

29 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

ETH Zurich spinout Chiral bags $12M to scale robotic platform for graphene chip integration

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Swiss deeptech startup Chiral has secured $12 million in seed funding to commercialise its robotic platform designed for…

#startups #robotics #hardware #innovation #semiconductors #chips #science #business #deeptech #manufacturing

Chiral Raises $12M in Seed Funding

29 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

Swiss nanotechnology startup Chiral secures €10 million to scale post-silicon chip manufacturing

29 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

ETH Zurich spinout Chiral bags $12M to scale robotic platform for graphene chip integration

29 days / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

Exclusive: Nanomaterials startup Chiral raises $12m seed to build the ‘next ASML’

29 days / sifted

Reddit (RDDT) Stock: Earnings Spark a 20% After-Hours Jump After 70% Revenue Surge and 75% Ad Revenue Growth

Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR Reddit spikes after hours as earnings reveal record revenue momentum Advertising growth fuels strongest quarterly expansion in company history Profit surge highlights major improvement in operating efficiency Full-year results confirm scaling strengt…

#digitalmarketing #stockmarket #earnings #business #reddit #economy #community #media #advertising

Reddit (RDDT) Stock: Rallies on 75% Ad Revenue Jump and User Growth

28 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Reddit search traffic jumps to 80 million weekly active users

29 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity

29 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Reddit (RDDT) Stock: Earnings Spark a 20% After-Hours Jump After 70% Revenue Surge and 75% Ad Revenue Growth

29 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Reddit reported fourth-quarter earnings and revealed strong guidance and $1 billion buyback

29 days / cnbc

Reddit gains after Q4 revenue and earnings exceed expectations, Q1 sales guidance tops estimates

29 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Roblox (RBLX) Stock: Explodes 20% After Earnings as Bookings Hit $2.2B and DAUs Cross 100M

Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR Roblox jumps 20% after earnings crush expectations across the board Bookings surge 63% as Roblox user growth breaks past 100 million AI expansion and creator payouts fuel Roblox platform boom Asia-Pacific drives explosive Roblox growth and engagement…

#gaming #entertainment #stockmarket #earnings #business #apps #videogames

The top 1,000 Roblox creators earned an average of $1.3 million last year

28 days / sherwood / Max Knoblauch

Roblox (RBLX) Stock Explodes 22% as Platform Crushes Q4 Earnings

28 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Roblox Posts Breakout Q4 After Chasing Older Core Gaming Market

29 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Roblox (RBLX) Stock: Explodes 20% After Earnings as Bookings Hit $2.2B and DAUs Cross 100M

29 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Roblox is working to pull in adult players

29 days / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Roblox shares rocket on earnings beat, strong forecast

29 days / cnbc

Roblox surges as it guides for stronger-than-expected full-year bookings, touts AI vision

29 days / sherwood / Max Knoblauch

Bitcoin Giant Strategy Records $12.4 Billion Q4 Loss as MSTR Shares Hit 18-Month Low

André Beganski / decrypt - Michael Saylor called his firm a “digital fortress," but leading Bitcoin treasury Strategy has taken some serious hits in recent months.

#fintech #crypto #stockmarket #earnings #business #bitcoin #treasury #crypto

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Amazon Revenues Up 14 Percent to $213.4 Billion

Paul Thurrott / thurrott - Amazon reported that it earned a net income of $21.2 billion on revenues of $213.4 billion in the quarter ending December 31, 2025.The post Amazon Revenues Up 14 Percent to $213.4 Billion appeared first on Thurrott.com.