Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Microsoft and Meta each committed nearly $50B in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, pushing major cloud companies' total to $700B+ — Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. each committed nearly $50 billion in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters …
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Israeli-Dutch startup Wonderful AI, which offers AI agents that can handle customer conversations across voice, chat, and more, raised $150M at a $2B valuation — Israeli startup Wonderful has raised $150 million in funding that will accelerate its deployment of artificial intelligence-powered customer support agents.
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: India plans to unveil a ~$10.8B fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking, including subsidizing chip design projects and manufacturing equipment — India plans to unveil a more than 1 trillion rupee ($10.8 billion) fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking …
Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more — Microsoft Corp. is making a push for more Africans to adopt its artificial-intelligence tools as the US tech giant competes …
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Sources: Alibaba-backed PixVerse, which develops AI video generation tools, raised a $300M Series C led by CDH; the company says the round values it at $1B+ — PixVerse has raised $300 million in fresh funding, people familiar with the matter said, elevating the startup backed …
Bloomberg: Amsterdam-based Nebius says Nvidia plans to invest $2B in the startup as it plans to build AI data centers and deploy 5GW+ of Nvidia systems by the end of 2030 — Nvidia Corp. will invest $2 billion in Nebius Group NV as part of a strategic partnership to develop and build artificial …
Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon starts its bond sale, targeting ~$37B to ~$42B in an offering in dollars and euros, in potentially one of the biggest-ever corporate bond sales — Amazon.com Inc. has kicked off what is likely to be one of the biggest corporate bond offerings ever, in the latest blockbuster fundraising …
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Meta emails advertisers about “location fees” in select European countries to cover digital services taxes, starting July 1; Google and Amazon have similar fees — Meta Platforms is asking advertisers to cover the costs of digital services taxes, levies imposed by countries on local sales made by technology firms.
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Nexthop AI, which offers specialized switches to reduce power consumption and latency for hyperscalers, raised $500M led by Lightspeed at a $4.2B valuation — Nexthop AI, an artificial intelligence infrastructure startup, has raised $500 million in a deal led by Lightspeed Venture Partners …
Bloomberg: AT&T says it plans to spend $250B+ over the next five years to build out its US infrastructure, including high-speed fiber; AT&T spent $21B on capex in 2025 — AT&T Inc. pledged to spend more than $250 billion over the next five years to expand its telecom network infrastructure in the US …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Microsoft launches the E7 bundle for $99/user/month, a 65% jump; of the 450M+ business users that paid for its tools in January, only ~3% also paid for Copilot — Microsoft Corp. is launching a new bundle of workplace software with the aim of getting more people to use its artificial intelligence tools for the office.
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber expands its Women Drivers matching feature nationwide to major US markets including New York City, Philadelphia, and DC, amid mounting assault cases — Uber Technologies Inc. said that a feature designed to match female riders and drivers will be available nationwide …
Bloomberg: Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active clients in December 2025, to list event contracts, its first international expansion — Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. is expanding outside the US for the first time, partnering with Brazil's XP Inc. to list event contracts.
Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese AI circuit board maker Victory Giant plans a Hong Kong IPO as soon as April that may raise $2B+; Chinese regulators approved the IPO last week — Victory Giant Technology (Huizhou) Co., a Chinese maker of printed circuit boards, is preparing for a Hong Kong listing …
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board — Nscale, a UK developer for artificial intelligence data centers, has raised $2 billion in funding and added a trio …
Bloomberg: OpenClaw mania hits China: AI labs launch tools to help users deploy OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts a policy encouraging free OpenClaw services, and more — Chinese software shares surged Monday after local government agencies joined tech leaders such as Tencent Holdings Ltd …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic — Emil Michael made his name in Silicon Valley a decade ago as an aggressive dealmaker for a startup — Uber Technologies Inc. …
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022 — Flink SE raised funds in a round that values the firm at $900 million, in a sign that the grocery delivery startup has stabilized …
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education — Roblox creators are raking in hundreds of thousands a month from simple games like ‘Fisch,’ even as major studios cut jobs and cancel blockbusters.
Bloomberg: In a Twitter shareholder trial, former CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal disputed Musk's claims that they lied to him about the percentage of spam accounts — Two former top executives at Twitter Inc. sought to beat back Elon Musk's narrative at a jury trial that they lied to him about the makeup …
Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40B, its largest-ever borrowing denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI — SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking a loan of as much as $40 billion to mostly help finance its investment in US tech giant OpenAI …
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: Nominal, which makes software for the defense, space, energy, and automotive sectors, raised an $80M Series B extension led by Founders Fund at a $1B valuation — Founders Fund is leading an $80 million investment in Nominal Inc., a startup aiming to modernize factories and make manufacturing more efficient.
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Analysis: Nintendo's software sales are under threat from soaring NAND prices; in December, the average game sales per console were 2.18, down from 3.88 in 2018 — Demand for Nintendo Co.'s profit-earning game software is under threat from soaring prices for data storage …
Bloomberg: China's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba, is down 28% since October 2025, shedding nearly $600B in market value — The ongoing selloff in China's megacap technology stocks shows little sign of easing, as investors fret over spiraling spending amid heated competition.
Bloomberg: JD.com reports Q4 revenue up 1.5% YoY to ~$51B and a ~$391M net loss, its first loss in nearly four years, on weak Chinese spending and a food delivery battle — JD.com Inc. reported its first quarterly loss in nearly four years following a costly foray into food delivery …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Boston-based Whoop, which makes screenless fitness bands, says it plans to grow staff by up to 75% in 2026, adding 600+ roles, ahead of a likely IPO — Whoop Inc., the maker of popular screenless fitness bands, plans to increase its staff by as much as 75% this year to fuel growth ahead of a potential initial public offering.
Eamon Farhat / Bloomberg: A UK trial by the National Grid, Nvidia, and others finds AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, adjusting consumption when asked — AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, according to the results of a UK trial, a finding …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Grow Therapy, which connects patients with therapists covered by their insurance, raised a $150M Series D at a $3B valuation and hits $1B+ in annual revenue — Sequoia Capital-backed mental health startup Grow Therapy has reached a $3 billion valuation with new funding.
Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, vows to “pull out all the stops” to fight back after the US moved to bar Anthropic — Congressional Democrats are vowing to contest the Trump administration's unprecedented actions against the artificial …
Bloomberg: The US-led Iran bombing campaign causes longer delivery times for Amazon, Shein, and others in the Middle East, one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets — Major e-commerce platforms are warning of longer delivery times to the Middle East after the US-led bombing campaign …
Bloomberg: Shanghai-based MiniMax reports 2025 revenue up 159% YoY to $79M, above ~$71.4M est., and a $1.87B net loss, up from a ~$465.2M loss in 2024, after its IPO — MiniMax Group Inc. reported a better-than-expected 159% surge in revenue in 2025, reflecting the torrid growth that's drawn investors to China's leading OpenAI rivals.
Bloomberg: Inside the world's largest crypto casino Stake, which claims ~4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebs like Drake and influencers on Kick — Drake just needed some juice. In 82 minutes of online slots play, the Canadian rapper's starting balance of $3.5 million worth of Bitcoin had dwindled to $422,355.
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Polymarket trades on contracts tied to strikes on Iran hit $529M, and six new accounts profited a total of $1M by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28 — As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in.
Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours — AI coding agents promised to make software development easier. Instead they've kicked off a high-pressure race to build at any cost.
Bloomberg: China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral — Days after back-flipping AI humanoids dazzled China with a new year performance alongside dancers, a small research firm jolted US markets …
Bloomberg: Equinix and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board agree to acquire atNorth Holding, a pan-Nordic data center operator, valuing atNorth at $4B including debt — Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Equinix Inc. have agreed to acquire atNorth Holding AB, a pan-Nordic data center operator owned by Partners Group Holding AG.
Bloomberg: The Japanese government plans to invest ~$1.6B in Rapidus over the next two fiscal years to help it mass-produce 2nm logic chips and potentially challenge TSMC — Japan's Rapidus Corp. secured investment totaling ¥267.6 billion ($1.7 billion) from the government and dozens …
Tamsin McMahon / Bloomberg: xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen is leaving the company, the seventh of 12 xAI co-founders to depart; Elon Musk put Pohlen in charge of Macrohard earlier this month — xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen said he is leaving Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup, the latest founding executive to depart …
Mathieu Dion / Bloomberg: Montreal-based Stay22, which helps publishers and creators earn money from online sales, raised $122M from Summit Partners and reports $1B+ in 2025 transactions — Private equity firm Summit Partners is investing $122 million in Montreal's Stay22 Technologies Inc., a startup that offers technology …
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: As studios like Arc Raiders maker Embark embrace AI for non-essential game elements, gamers worry that AI squeezes the art out of games, amid industry job cuts — Games and AI, seemingly a perfect match, are off to a rocky start — A backlash against the spreading use of AI in video games has grown …
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Revolut says 58% of reported job scams globally came from Telegram in 2025, dwarfing other platforms for these cases, based on an analysis of 10B+ transactions — Most job scams reported to finance app Revolut Ltd. last year started their journey on the Telegram messaging platform …
William Shaw / Bloomberg: Deutsche Bank partners with Google Cloud to build agentic AI to monitor 1TB of daily communications and 40+ channels for market abuse and data loss prevention — Deutsche Bank AG and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are looking to agentic artificial intelligence to help bolster trading surveillance …
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: A top US export control official says Nvidia has yet to sell any H200 chips to China, two months after President Trump's decision to allow AI chip shipments — Nvidia Corp. has yet to sell any of its H200 chips to China two months after President Donald Trump's decision to allow shipments …
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: Sources: SAP investors and partners raise doubts about the company's AI products; VW tested SAP's flagship AI assitant Joule and did not find it mature enough — SAP SE's investors and partners are raising doubts about a suite of artificial intelligence products that Europe's …
Anuradha Raghu / Bloomberg: Malaysia blocks access to Grindr's and Blued's websites and says it may engage with Google and Apple to curb the LGBTQ dating apps in the Muslim-majority nation — Malaysia has blocked access to LGBTQ+ networking and dating sites Grindr and Blued, with authorities reviewing legal measures …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI use Workday tools and “no amount of vibe coding” could replace them; WDAY is down about 40% YTD — Workday Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aneel Bhusri said leading AI companies like Anthropic — which investors fear …
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: A look at Motif Technologies and Upstage, South Korean AI startups competing with SK Group and LG in the race for a national AI foundation model — Motif Technologies and Upstage take on SK and LG in the race for a national AI foundation model. — While pursuing his doctorate in mathematics …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: ADT agrees to acquire Origin Wireless for $170M to integrate advanced AI motion classification into its popular home security suite starting in 2027 — Security company ADT Inc. has bought AI startup Origin Wireless Inc. for $170 million in a deal that will allow it to upgrade …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: MatX, an AI chip startup founded by two alumni of Google's chip business, raised $500M+ led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness to compete with Nvidia — MatX, an AI chip startup founded by two alumni of Google's semiconductor business, has raised more than $500 million in a new funding round …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Basis, which builds AI agents to help accounting firms with tasks like tax returns, raised $100M led by Accel at a $1.15B valuation, for $138M in total funding — AI-for-accounting startup Basis has surged to unicorn status with a new funding round as advances in artificial intelligence rattle the financial services markets.