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IBM Cloud, Nutanix, SUSE, and OVHcloud have all independently chosen Traefik as their Ingress NGINX replacement

The Next Web

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, pretax profit up 54% YoY to £1.7B, and customers up nearly 33% YoY, as it moves to become a bank (Elena Vardon/Wall Street Journal)

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Crunchyroll's data breach is 'limited to customer service ticket data,' representatives say

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Foreverland raises €6M to scale its cocoa-free chocolate ingredient across Europe

The Next Web

Filing: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B on 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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Startup Dash0 hits unicorn status with $110M Series B

The Next Web

Foodtech Swish closes $38M Series B at $139M valuation

The Next Web

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

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Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with a search function in Google's mandated Chrome and Android default search engine choice screens (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 its Switch 2 production this quarter by 33%, from 6M to 4M units, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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

Techmeme

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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UK-based Internet Watch Foundation says it identified 8,029 AI-generated images and videos of realistic child sexual abuse in 2025, up 14% from 2024 (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

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The US State Department launches the Bureau of Emerging Threats to tackle current and future threats, including cyberattacks and AI weaponization by adversaries (Shannon K. Kingston/ABC News)

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[Sponsor] npx workos: From Auth Integration to Environment Management, Zero ClickOps

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