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Techmeme - 2026-02-18T06:45:51-05:00

A Las Vegas federal appeals court rejects Kalshi's emergency bid for an administrative stay against Nevada's efforts to block the platform, a major setback (Krystal Hur/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-18T06:45:00-05:00

Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its Amazon stake by 75%+ to ~2.3M shares in Q4 2025; Berkshire bought 5.1M NYT shares, worth ~$352M in December (Alexandre Rajbhandari/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T06:30:01-05:00

Q&A with Synthesia founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hitting a $4B valuation, AI regulation, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times) - 2026-02-18T06:10:01-05:00

SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla, down from a 7.5% stake in August 2025; ether is down 60% from its August 2025 peak (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T05:55:01-05:00

WBD joins Disney and Paramount in claiming infringement on ByteDance's AI video tool Seedance and demands ByteDance cease training AI on Warner Bros. characters (Gene Maddaus/Variety) - 2026-02-18T04:55:01-05:00

A US federal judge orders OpenAI to stop using the word "Cameo" for its Sora products and features, in a trademark lawsuit filed by celebrity video app Cameo (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-18T04:15:04-05:00

A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times) - 2026-02-18T03:50:02-05:00

Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI announces two models at the AI Impact Summit that it says are tailored to Indian languages and cultures (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T03:25:01-05:00

Microsoft says it is on pace to invest $50B by 2030 to help expand AI across the "Global South", after unveiling $17.5B in AI investments in India in 2025 (Abu Sultan/Reuters) - 2026-02-18T03:20:03-05:00

Battery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech firms amid AI disruption concerns (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T03:15:02-05:00

As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws attention, a look at India's AI opportunities and the political economy gridlock that threatens its ambitions (Shruti Rajagopalan/Get Down and Shruti) - 2026-02-18T02:35:01-05:00

Q&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expense management company to over $1B revenue, the "SaaS apocalypse", using AI agents to review expenses, and more (Cheeky Pint) - 2026-02-18T02:20:01-05:00

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non-technical users build agentic AI apps (David Singleton/flurries of latent ...) - 2026-02-18T02:00:37-05:00

A look at MGX, Abu Dhabi's AI investment vehicle with stakes in Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI; the firm plans to spend up to $10B annually over the next few years (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T01:20:01-05:00

Bengaluru-based Stable Money, whose app lets users invest in fixed deposits and corporate bonds, raised $25M at a $175M valuation, taking total funding to $65M (The Economic Times) - 2026-02-18T01:05:01-05:00