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Techmeme - 2026-02-23T14:25:52-05:00

Some AI startups are boosting their valuations by raising capital in back-to-back or multitiered deals, raising questions about how much they are really worth (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-23T14:25:15-05:00

Ubicquia, which provides software to utilities, cities, and companies to manage energy infrastructure like transformers, raised a $106M Series D (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios) - 2026-02-23T13:55:11-05:00

Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-23T13:25:13-05:00

Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetune, is splitting its consumer app unit from its GenAI unit LTX to better capture the growth in AI (Echo Wang/Reuters) - 2026-02-23T12:50:01-05:00

Software stocks extend their weeks-long selloff, with AppLovin, Datadog, Workday down 7%+; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-23T12:30:01-05:00

Sources: Trump's "Board of Peace" is exploring a USD-pegged stablecoin for Gaza; a source says it will not be a "Gaza Coin" or a new Palestinian currency (Financial Times) - 2026-02-23T12:15:05-05:00

Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after its stock fell ~46% over the last 12 months, giving PayPal a market value of ~$38.4B (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-23T11:33:33-05:00

Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI (Anthropic) - 2026-02-23T11:30:01-05:00

Finnish quantum computing company IQM plans to go public via a SPAC merger with New Jersey-based Real Asset Acquisition in a deal set to value it at $1.8B (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-23T10:55:05-05:00

OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) - 2026-02-23T10:35:01-05:00

Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the "Xbox everywhere" strategy (Tom Warren/The Verge) - 2026-02-23T10:20:02-05:00

Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First Action begins running ads urging AI regulations in New Jersey; the PAC raised nearly $50M and now aims to raise $75M (Cecilia Kang/New York Times) - 2026-02-23T09:40:01-05:00

Aalyria, a Google spinoff whose software allows routing of traffic across diverse satellite platforms in low earth orbit, raised $100M at a $1.3B valuation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC) - 2026-02-23T09:25:01-05:00

HR app Humand, used by 1.5M+ "deskless" workers in construction, retail, hospitals, and more, raised a $66M Series A led by Goodwater and Kaszek (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-23T08:25:01-05:00

Uber launches Uber Autonomous Solutions, offering services like insurance, roadside assistance, and "AV mission control" tools, and will offer fleet financing (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) - 2026-02-23T08:10:01-05:00