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Techmeme - 2025-02-22T02:31:02-05:00

Some physicists are skeptical about Microsoft's claims of achieving a quantum computing breakthrough with Majorana 1, citing the lack of detailed evidence (Davide Castelvecchi/Scientific American) - 2025-02-22T02:30:11-05:00

Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre's stock reached a record high on February 21 after it reported a record $639M net income on $6.1B in revenue in Q4 (Daniel Cancel/Bloomberg) - 2025-02-22T01:55:01-05:00

Renaissance Capital: 12 of 40 fintech firms that went public in the US since 2020 have given positive investor returns; only Shift4 and AppLovin are profitable (Lucinda Shen/Axios) - 2025-02-22T01:30:13-05:00

The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong-listed tech firms, rose 6.5% on February 21, hitting its highest level since early 2022 (Bloomberg) - 2025-02-22T00:15:02-05:00

Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares jumped 14.6% on February 21 after CEO Eddie Wu said it would invest "aggressively" in AI; Alibaba's HK stock is up 70.36% YTD (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times) - 2025-02-22T00:10:02-05:00

Lumotive, whose optical semiconductor tech can "steer" laser light and is an alternative to lidar, raised a $45M Series B co-led by Gates Frontier and MetaVC (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) - 2025-02-22T00:00:53-05:00

The US SEC approves a yield-bearing stablecoin by Figure Markets, which Figure says is the first yield-bearing stablecoin registered as a security with the SEC (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg) - 2025-02-21T23:50:01-05:00

iOS 18.4 dev beta adds Apple Intelligence-powered Priority Notifications, to show important alerts in a separate lock screen section at the top, off by default (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac) - 2025-02-21T22:50:01-05:00

Block shares closed down 17.69% on February 21, their steepest drop since 2020, after Q4 earnings missed est. and guidance for 2025 failed to reassure investors (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) - 2025-02-21T20:45:02-05:00

President Trump signs a memorandum to consider retaliatory measures, including tariffs, on countries that impose digital service taxes on US tech companies (Reuters) - 2025-02-21T20:15:01-05:00

NFT marketplace OpenSea says the US SEC has ended an investigation into the company, after OpenSea received a Wells Notice in August 2024 (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg Tax) - 2025-02-21T19:45:01-05:00

Sources: US negotiators pressing Ukraine for access to its minerals raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Starlink if a deal is not reached (Reuters) - 2025-02-21T19:40:01-05:00

Trump directs CFIUS to limit Chinese investments in key areas, and says US will consider outbound investment restrictions to China in sectors like chips and AI (Bloomberg) - 2025-02-21T19:30:01-05:00

Trump says Tim Cook told him that Apple "stopped two plants in Mexico" and will build products in the US instead, a move Apple hasn't publicly discussed (Bloomberg) - 2025-02-21T19:05:01-05:00

Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokens (Bloomberg) - 2025-02-21T18:05:03-05:00