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Techmeme - 2025-02-22T17:50:55-05:00

Filing: Amazon estimated the fair value of its stake in Anthropic at $14B at the end of December 2024, after agreeing to invest $8B in Anthropic so far (Eugene Kim/Business Insider) - 2025-02-22T17:50:00-05:00

DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a "bank run" of over $4B after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; CEO says "about 50%" of funds were withdrawn (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk) - 2025-02-22T15:50:01-05:00

X is rolling out Grok-powered AI tools for advertisers to generate ready-to-use ad copy and imagery and provide campaign performance analysis (Kendra Barnett/Adweek) - 2025-02-22T14:35:04-05:00

An investigation details how Chinese cybercrime groups are turning phished payment card data into new Apple or Google wallets for online and in-store use (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security) - 2025-02-22T13:15:29-05:00

Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the wild West of the financial world (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times) - 2025-02-22T11:01:13-05:00

A look at the debate about whether AI models can truly reason, as some researchers describe the current pattern of reasoning as "jagged intelligence" (Sigal Samuel/Vox) - 2025-02-22T09:40:00-05:00

Many SV startups are using AI to boost productivity in research, coding, and more, reducing reliance on VC money for hiring, fueling "tiny team" success stories (Erin Griffith/New York Times) - 2025-02-22T06:35:02-05:00

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