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Techmeme - 2026-02-04T06:20:58-05:00

Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (Simon Sharwood/The Register) - 2026-02-04T06:20:03-05:00

Sources: Reno-based chip startup Positron raised a $230M Series B from the QIA and others to build high-speed memory chips, taking its total raised to $300M+ (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-04T05:55:00-05:00

Prosus agrees to a multiyear AWS cloud and AI deal that runs into "hundreds of millions of dollars", as it seeks to expand in Europe, India, and Latin America (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-04T05:40:01-05:00

Q&A with Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, on the game turning 10, evolving as a developer, working solo, cozy game growth, and more (Rebekah Valentine/IGN) - 2026-02-04T05:25:02-05:00

German chipmaker Infineon reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY €3.66B, above €3.62B est., expects to raise investments to €2.7B in 2026, and forecasts growing AI demand (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-04T05:10:14-05:00

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says initial plans to raise $15B to $20B were a "misconception"; sources say Tether's advisers have floated raising as little as $5B (Jill R Shah/Financial Times) - 2026-02-04T04:45:01-05:00

Pinterest fires two employees who it says "wrote custom scripts" that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs (BBC) - 2026-02-04T04:25:01-05:00

A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M+ dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk) - 2026-02-04T04:10:02-05:00

Galaxy Digital reports a Q4 net loss of $482M, above $282M est., driven primarily by the crypto market crash, and says its trading volumes declined ~40% QoQ (David Pan/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-04T03:55:01-05:00

A profile of Obsidian, a game studio Microsoft acquired in 2018, as it seeks to expedite game development and reduce costs after releasing three titles in 2025 (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-04T02:30:01-05:00

An interview with Kai-Fu Lee on his startup 01.ai, which builds agentic AI tools for companies, why he thinks China will beat the US in consumer AI, and more (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times) - 2026-02-04T01:55:00-05:00

Sources: banks are marketing at least $56B in investment-grade data center construction loans tied to Oracle's leases, as they seek out new buyers for the loans (Michelle Chan/Financial Times) - 2026-02-04T00:50:01-05:00

AMD reports $390M in revenue from MI308 AI chip sales in China in Q4; CEO Lisa Su says orders were "from very early in 2025" but shipped in Q4 after US approval (Nikkei Asia) - 2026-02-04T00:40:01-05:00

Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) - 2026-02-04T00:10:00-05:00

Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia) - 2026-02-03T23:40:01-05:00