Apple Will Begin Manufacturing Mac Minis in Houston Later This Year
John Gruber / apple - Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a significant expansion of factoryoperations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac minito the U.S. for the first time. The company will also expandadvanced AI server manufacturing at the factory and provid…
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How an AI doomsday Substack post caused a mini market crash
Catherine Baab / qz - After a Substack post laid out a striking economic warning, major indexes and a handful of individual stocks sank. The response was telling
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Ethereum Foundation begins staking part of ether treasury, plans to deploy about 70,000 ETH to generate yield
James Hunt / theblock - The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its ether treasury, targeting about 70,000 ETH to generate rewards for operations.
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Apple Hits Record 27% Market Share in Europe as Smartphone Sales Decline [Report]
iclarified - Apple captured a record 27 percent of Europe's smartphone market last year, even as overall industry shipments slipped. The broader European market dipped by 1 percent to 134.2 million units in 2025, weighed down by sluggish consumer demand and a messy tr…
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Stripe Reaches Record Valuation as Global Volume Hits $1.9 Trillion
PYMNTS / pymnts - Stripe was valued at $159 billion in a tender offer designed to provide liquidity to current and former employees, the programmable financial services company said in a Tuesday (Feb. 24) update. The figure is up from the $106.7 billion valuation the compa…
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Bitcoin is crashing for 3 reasons today. They have more to do with the state of the world than the crypto market
Michael Grothaus / fastcompany - It’s another bad day for Bitcoin. Over the past 24 hours, the digital token has declined nearly 4.5%, putting it just above $63,000 and within range of its 52-week low. But this time, Bitcoin’s fall seems to have nothing to do with the token itself—or the…
- Buyers, treasuries and narratives: accumulation reshapes BTC supply (4)
- Liquidations loom as traders fear full-blown capitulation (5)
- Macro shocks force widespread de-risking of volatile assets (3)
- OTHER — market breadth and altcoin pressure (3)
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Buyers, treasuries and narratives: accumulation reshapes BTC supply
Liquidations loom as traders fear full-blown capitulation
Macro shocks force widespread de-risking of volatile assets
OTHER — market breadth and altcoin pressure
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Stocks fall on US tariff uncertainty
J.D. Capelouto / semafor - “Uncertainty is back,” one banker told the Financial Times.
- Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite (3)
- Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling (8)
- Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff (12)
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Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite
Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling
Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff
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Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 7:20 pm / permalink 19615 / 26 stories in 11 days
Amazon to Sink $12 Billion Into Data Centers as Wall Street (and Everyone Else) Turns Against AI Spending
AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - Surely they can just spend their way out.
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IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization
msmash / slashdot - IBM shares plunged nearly 13% on Monday after Anthropic published a blog post arguing that its Claude Code tool could automate much of the complex analysis work involved in modernizing COBOL, the decades-old programming language that still underpins an es…
- Anthropic's Claude Code technical claims (2)
- Developer reaction: COBOL community responds (1)
- Market panic: IBM shares tumble (6)
- Sector ripple: consulting and crypto wobble (2)
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Anthropic's Claude Code technical claims
Developer reaction: COBOL community responds
Market panic: IBM shares tumble
Sector ripple: consulting and crypto wobble
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Strategy (MSTR) Stock: 100th Bitcoin Purchase Brings Holdings to 717,722 BTC
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Strategy made its 100th Bitcoin purchase since adopting its BTC treasury strategy in August 2020. The company bought 592 BTC for ~$39.8 million at an average price of $67,286 per coin. Total holdings now stand at 717,722 BTC, acquired at a total cost…
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Bitmine ups Ethereum treasury stake to 4.42 million ETH, now holds 3.66% of supply
Brian Danga / theblock - Bitmine increased holdings to 4.42 million ETH, controlling 3.66% of supply and generating $171 million staking revenue.
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Syndicate One Raises €22M Second Fund To Support Belgian Tech Founders
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Syndicate One has announced the first close of its second fund at €22 million. The fund was oversubscribed within eight weeks of its initial pitch highlighting strong investor confidence in Belgium’s growing tech ecosystem. This follows the firm’s €6.5 mi…
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More than $140 billion in tariff refunds are at stake. The Supreme Court punted
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / qz - Americans shouldn't bet on getting refunded for the tariffs they have paid up to now. For companies, it's a different story
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Klarna Hits First $1 Billion Revenue Quarter as Banking Users Double
PYMNTS / pymnts - Klarna said in a fourth-quarter earnings report that it doubled its number of banking customers over the past year. During the fourth quarter, Klarna’s number of banking customers grew 101% year over year to reach 15.8 million, the company said in a Thurs…
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Saudi Arabia Invests $3B in Elon Musk’s xAI Empire
eWEEK Staff / eweek - Money talks.In AI, it also buys megawatts. Humain says it has poured $3 billion into Elon Musk’s xAI, a move that spotlights how the AI race is shifting from splashy launches to buildout math: capital, compute, power, and the places you can actually build…
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Bitcoin is about to log its longest losing streak since 2022 as geopolitical nerves hit risk trades
James Van Straten / coindesk - Geopolitical tensions lift the U.S. dollar and crude prices, adding pressure to an already fragile crypto market.
- Altcoins hit by retail selling, liquidity strain and borrowing fixes (4)
- Bitcoin's losing streak: dollar strength, geopolitical nerves, downside hedging (7)
- Institutional engineering: asset-backed deals, ETF flows, mining profits (2)
- Public miners and equities reprice amid dilution and selloffs (3)
Altcoins hit by retail selling, liquidity strain and borrowing fixes
Bitcoin's losing streak: dollar strength, geopolitical nerves, downside hedging
Institutional engineering: asset-backed deals, ETF flows, mining profits
Public miners and equities reprice amid dilution and selloffs
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‘Sentiment is bleak’: bitcoin declines as geopolitical tensions add to risk-off mood
scmp - Bitcoin extended a four-week slide as investors returned to a more cautious macro backdrop.The token dropped as much as 3.2 per cent to US$66,604 on Tuesday, before paring the decline.Bitcoin, which has traded like a high-beta tech proxy in recent months,…
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BitMine grows Ethereum treasury to 4.37 million ETH, sees $252 million annual staking revenue via MAVAN
Naga Avan-Nomayo / theblock - Tom Lee's BitMine said its ether treasury has climbed to 4.37 million ETH as the firm continues aggressive accumulation market prices.
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Michael Saylor's Strategy purchased $168 million in bitcoin last week
Stephen Alpher / coindesk - The company's stack is now 717,131 bitcoin acquired for $54.52 billion, or $76,027 per coin. Bitcoin's current price is $68,000.
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19281 / 10 stories in 17 days
Harvard Cuts Bitcoin ETF Stake, Adds Ethereum Exposure in Q4 Filing
Vince Dioquino / decrypt - Harvard Management Company trimmed its Bitcoin ETF position while starting a new stake in a spot Ethereum fund.
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