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Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in the second half of the year, with plans to onboard a provider to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 24, 2026

Ian Allison / CoinDesk: Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in the second half of the year, with…

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A profile of Brazilian neobank Nubank, which aims to enter the US market within 18 months, increasing its number of users by more than 120 million; analysts expect net profit of $2.9 billion in 2025 (Michael Pooler/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 3, 2026

Michael Pooler / Financial Times: A profile of Brazilian neobank Nubank, which aims to enter the US market within 18…

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Checkbox, an AI startup that aims to automate legal procedures, raised a $23 million Series A led by Touring Capital; Checkbox has over 100 customers including SAP and PepsiCo (Anastasia Santoreneos/Forbes Australia)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 30, 2026

Anastasia Santoreneos / Forbes Australia: Checkbox, an AI startup that aims to automate legal procedures, raised a $23 million Series…

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Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera aims to raise up to ~$379.2 million in Hong Kong IPO, offering 104.9 million shares at ~$3.61 each; negotiations are expected to begin on February 10 (Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 30, 2026

Reuters: Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera aims to raise up to ~$379.2 million in Hong Kong IPO, offering 104.9 million…

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Legal AI startup Ivo, which aims to reduce hallucinations by dividing legal exams into more than 400 tasks, has raised a $55 million Series B, according to a source at a valuation of $355 million (Aditya Soni/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 20, 2026

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A look at South Korea’s Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best local AI models, aiming to compete with the United States and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 20, 2026

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A profile of Eric Migicovsky’s Core Devices, a five-person company he says is "not a startup" and aims to be "sustainable"as it builds new Pebble devices (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 13, 2026

Sarah Pérez / TechCrunch: A profile of Eric Migicovsky’s Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is “not a…

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Ford plans to launch an AI voice assistant on its apps this year before expanding it to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to launch Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 8, 2026

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How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the Transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 8, 2025

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Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, has raised a $28 million Series A round co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon (Sally Ward-Foxton/EE Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 7, 2025

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Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

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Increased World Cup-related travel has yet to materialize for U.S. businesses

Pandemic car shortages still drive up new and used car prices

Democrats have all the information they need to end Trump and Vance with a real investigation into Epstein

Trump says he likes high inflation in new disaster for Republicans

Republicans go off the rails and say they don’t need proof to say the election is rigged

Top House Democrat demands answers about Trump’s health after he falls asleep during NBA Finals

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Digital Asset, which is building Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, has raised $355 million, including $100 million from crypto a16z (Bloomberg Law)

Deezer launches AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify and Apple Music, after no company licensed its AI music detection technology (Terrence O’Brien/The Verge)

Russia’s FSB-orchestrated internet outages, intermittent but indiscriminate, have pushed one of the world’s most connected countries to resort to cash and paper cards (Financial Times)

Opendoor announces closure of its India operations and laying off nearly 250 employees, replacing them with smaller, AI-based teams in the United States (Moneycontrol)

Sources: OpenAI plans to significantly lower the price of its tokens in anticipation of similar reductions expected by the company at Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)

Browsing: aims

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in the second half of the year, with plans to onboard a provider to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

A profile of Brazilian neobank Nubank, which aims to enter the US market within 18 months, increasing its number of users by more than 120 million; analysts expect net profit of $2.9 billion in 2025 (Michael Pooler/Financial Times)

Checkbox, an AI startup that aims to automate legal procedures, raised a $23 million Series A led by Touring Capital; Checkbox has over 100 customers including SAP and PepsiCo (Anastasia Santoreneos/Forbes Australia)

Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera aims to raise up to ~$379.2 million in Hong Kong IPO, offering 104.9 million shares at ~$3.61 each; negotiations are expected to begin on February 10 (Reuters)

Legal AI startup Ivo, which aims to reduce hallucinations by dividing legal exams into more than 400 tasks, has raised a $55 million Series B, according to a source at a valuation of $355 million (Aditya Soni/Reuters)

A look at South Korea’s Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best local AI models, aiming to compete with the United States and China (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

A profile of Eric Migicovsky’s Core Devices, a five-person company he says is "not a startup" and aims to be "sustainable"as it builds new Pebble devices (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Ford plans to launch an AI voice assistant on its apps this year before expanding it to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to launch Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the Transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)

Lemurian Labs, which aims to develop hardware-agnostic portability software for AI workloads, has raised a $28 million Series A round co-led by Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon (Sally Ward-Foxton/EE Times)