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Automattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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SEC filing: Liftoff withdraws its IPO filing without specifying a reason, less than two weeks after the mobile ad platform postponed plans to price its IPO (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)

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Figma and Anthropic partner to launch Code to Canvas, letting users import code generated in Claude Code directly into Figma as editable designs (Deirdre Bosa/CNBC)

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Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin (Bloomberg)

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Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Israeli drone OS developer Xtend merges with New York-listed JFB to list on Nasdaq at a $1.5B valuation, including a $152M investment from Eric Trump and others (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

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Braintrust, which helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised an $80M Series B led by Iconiq at an $800M post-money valuation (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Raspberry Pi stock rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally, amid demand for single-board computers to run low-cost AI agents like OpenClaw (Danilo Masoni/Reuters)

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Cloud infrastructure startup Render raised a $100M Series C extension led by Georgian Partners at a $1.5B valuation, and says 4.5M+ developers use its tools (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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London-based Fyld, which makes AI tools to assist infrastructure and utility fieldwork operators, raised a $41M Series B led by Energy Impact Partners (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

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Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI falls 10%+ (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)

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Qualcomm says UK consumer association Which? is withdrawing its chip royalties lawsuit that sought £480M for 29M iPhone and Samsung users, after a CAT trial (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

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Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Israeli endpoint security company Koi Security, sources say for ~$400M; Koi raised $48M across two rounds, per PitchBook (Assaf Gilead/Globes)

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Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says he asked the country's prosecutor office to investigate X, TikTok, and Meta over the alleged "creation and dissemination" of CSAM (Macarena Munoz Montijano/Bloomberg)

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Crypto VC firm Dragonfly closes a $650M fund, its fourth, as the crypto VCs go through a "mass extinction event"; Dragonfly backed Polymarket's Series B (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

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Danaher agrees to acquire US medical tech company Masimo for $9.9B, paying $180 per share, a nearly 40% premium on February 13's close, set to close in H2 2026 (Stuart Biggs/Bloomberg)

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Airbnb expands its Reserve Now, Pay Later feature globally, after a US pilot for domestic travel saw a 70% adoption rate for eligible bookings (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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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)

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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)

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Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B+ for its tenth and largest fund, lifting its AUM to ~$50B; sources: it distributed 64% of capital raised during the 2021 peak (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)

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