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Tech Across the Globe

Amazon’s big-box bet:  The online retailer is planning a 229,000-square-foot store selling groceries and general merchandise in a suburb of Chicago that resembles big-box stories of its rivals.

AI power play: OpenAI and SoftBank have jointly invested $1 billion in SB Energy, a collaborator in their ambitious US buildout of data centers to power AI.

Tel Aviv unicorn: Israeli cybersecurity startup Torq closed a $140 million funding round at a valuation of $1.2 billion. The company automates tasks with AI agents.

Revalued

Andreessen Horowitz raised $15 billion in 2025 — the biggest funding haul ever for the venture capital firm and more than double what it raised the previous year — with plans to invest in industries including artificial intelligence, defense and biotech. Co-founder and general partner Ben Horowitz said the firm’s goal is “ensuring that America wins the next 100 years of technology.”

Must Read

China’s No.1 paid app on the iPhone App Store today is called “Are you dead yet?” Vlad Savov writes about the social issue it addresses — serving as a tool for people living alone to check in with family or friends — and explains how the issue knows no geographic or generational boundaries in today’s Tech In Depth essay.

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This Week In Game On

Jason Schreier writes in this week’s Game On about being in the uncomfortable position at the center of an internet frenzy about Grand Theft Auto VI. Much to his dismay, Schreier writes, aggregators chewed up and spit out fairly noncontroversial comments he made about game development on a podcast to push a narrative that Take-Two Interactive and its Rockstar Games studio would once again delay the release of the long-awaited game in the hit series.

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