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Techmeme - 2026-02-26T12:25:43-05:00

Sources: US semiconductor companies face worsening rare earth shortages, as shipments still rarely make it to the US despite an October 2025 detente with China (Reuters) - 2026-02-26T12:25:01-05:00

Viture, which ranked top in XR glasses shipments in the US in Q3 2025, per IDC, raised $100M, bringing its funding in the past six months to $200M (Charlie Fink/Forbes) - 2026-02-26T12:01:43-05:00

A Greek court sentences four people, including spyware maker Intellexa's founder, to prison, for using spyware to target journalists, politicians, and others (Nektaria Stamouli/Politico) - 2026-02-26T11:55:03-05:00

Driverless truck startup Einride raised a $113M PIPE at a $1.35B pre-money valuation, down from $1.8B initially attached to its upcoming SPAC deal (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-26T11:50:17-05:00

Encord, whose software helps companies developing AI models manage training data for robots and other uses, raised $60M at a $500M pre-money valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information) - 2026-02-26T11:40:01-05:00

Google says Nano Banana 2 can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, and will become the default image generation model in the Gemini app (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-26T11:35:05-05:00

Sources: PayPal isn't in talks to sell itself, to Stripe or anyone, and has been preparing for months for a potential activist campaign or unwanted takeover bid (Rohan Goswami/Semafor) - 2026-02-26T11:15:55-05:00

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with faster image generation, advanced world knowledge, and precision text rendering and translation (Naina Raisinghani/The Keyword) - 2026-02-26T11:03:25-05:00

Nvidia stock is down 4%+ in intraday trading, as investor concerns around the AI infrastructure boom dampen enthusiasm about its better-than-expected earnings (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) - 2026-02-26T10:35:00-05:00

Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding (Leo Schwartz/Fortune) - 2026-02-26T10:25:01-05:00

OpenAI says it will make London its largest research hub outside of the US, without giving specific details; OpenAI's European headquarters are in Dublin (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters) - 2026-02-26T09:45:37-05:00

Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for "friendliness" (Emma Roth/The Verge) - 2026-02-26T09:35:01-05:00

Total on-chain ransomware payments fell 8% YoY to $820M in 2025, despite a record 50% rise in claimed victims; the median payment grew 368% YoY to nearly $60K (Chainalysis) - 2026-02-26T09:20:00-05:00

Revel, founded by ex-SpaceX Starship software lead Scott Morton to replace legacy systems that test complex hardware like rockets, raised $150M led by Index (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times) - 2026-02-26T08:50:01-05:00

eBay says it plans to cut ~800 jobs, or ~6% of its full-time employees, after laying off ~500 people in early 2023 and ~1,000 staff in early 2024 (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-26T08:40:02-05:00