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Sources: Palo Alto Networks in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi for $400 million; Koi has raised $48 million to date (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 4, 2026

Sophie Shulman / CTech: Sources: Palo Alto Networks in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi for $400 million; Koi…

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Uber in talks to acquire parking reservation app SpotHero; parking app was last valued at $290 million (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 31, 2025

Featured Podcasts Access: ACCESS Wrapped: Our Favorite Guest Moments So Far A show about the inside conversations of the tech…

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Sources: Nvidia in advanced talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based AI21, which builds its own LLMs, for $2-3 billion; the operation would resemble an acquisition (CTech)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 30, 2025

CTech: Sources: Nvidia in advanced talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based AI21, which builds its own LLMs, for $2-3 billion; the…

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Amazon is in talks to invest more than $10 billion in OpenAI at a valuation of more than $500 billion, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft retains rights to sell OpenAI models (News)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 17, 2025

Featured Podcasts Uncapped with Jack Altman: Saam Motamedi from Greylock Partners Conversations with people I admire about things that really…

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Marvell is in advanced talks to buy chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal that could exceed $5 billion; Celestial was valued at $2.5 billion in March 2025 (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 2, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Tim Cook’s Senior Year?, The Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push The Big Technology…

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Walmart in talks to acquire R&A Data to combat counterfeits in the market

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 19, 2025

Walmart is in talks to buy a startup called R&A Data, a company founded by two Israeli scientists that works…

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Databricks is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of more than $130 billion, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1 billion Series K at a valuation of $100 billion (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 18, 2025

Featured Podcasts Decoder with Nilay Patel: Ring’s Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime A show from The Verge about…

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise around $5 billion and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50 billion (The News)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 18, 2025

Featured Podcasts Decoder with Nilay Patel: Ring’s Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime A show from The Verge about…

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Stockholm-based mood coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of around $6 billion, up from $1.8 billion in July when it raised a $200 million Series A (Iain Martin/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 14, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Data Centers in Space + Right-wing AI Politics + A Mystery of Gemini History The future…

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Samsung is in talks with Barclays to launch a consumer credit card in the United States; it’s also exploring a high-yield savings account, a BNPL product, and more (AnnaMaria Andriotis/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 8, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI bailout?, Elon’s $1 trillion payment deal, Amazon continues perplexity The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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

Eco-brutalist resistance in Central Asia – The Diplomate

Uzbekistan’s new migration destination? America. – The diplomat

Trump’s new AI order raises the stakes in Sino-US tech competition – The Diplomat

‘Backrooms’ Producer Peter Chernin Thinks Hollywood Needs to Change

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Lululemon (LULU) first quarter 2026 results

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC massively backfired

Trump is erased as Kennedy Center begins removing his name

Scott Bessent collapses in front of Congress as he tries to defend Trump for not caring about Americans

Shocked Trump Loses Iran War Powers, Ballroom and Arms Fund on Same Day

At the early 2025 senior management meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple’s AI roadmap around the same time (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Memory chip suppliers say CXMT’s DDR5 prices match those of Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron, and that they have a supply advantage in customer markets because they don’t prioritize HBM (Hassan Mujtaba/Wccftech)

Q&A with Google DeepMind’s Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas and Epoch AI’s Phil Trammell on what’s left in short supply after AGI, the redistribution of AI wealth, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet applauds EU tech sovereignty plans, but says substantial EU involvement in leading ‘strategic projects’ is cause for concern (Toby Sterling/Reuters)

How LinkedIn is transforming into a ‘post-grind’ social network as it courts top influencers, who build audiences on business-friendly topics (Isabella Kwai/New York Times)

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Sources: Palo Alto Networks in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi for $400 million; Koi has raised $48 million to date (Sophie Shulman/CTech)

Uber in talks to acquire parking reservation app SpotHero; parking app was last valued at $290 million (The Information)

Sources: Nvidia in advanced talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based AI21, which builds its own LLMs, for $2-3 billion; the operation would resemble an acquisition (CTech)

Amazon is in talks to invest more than $10 billion in OpenAI at a valuation of more than $500 billion, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft retains rights to sell OpenAI models (News)

Marvell is in advanced talks to buy chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal that could exceed $5 billion; Celestial was valued at $2.5 billion in March 2025 (The Information)

Walmart in talks to acquire R&A Data to combat counterfeits in the market

Databricks is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of more than $130 billion, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1 billion Series K at a valuation of $100 billion (The Information)

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise around $5 billion and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50 billion (The News)

Stockholm-based mood coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of around $6 billion, up from $1.8 billion in July when it raised a $200 million Series A (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Samsung is in talks with Barclays to launch a consumer credit card in the United States; it’s also exploring a high-yield savings account, a BNPL product, and more (AnnaMaria Andriotis/Wall Street Journal)