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Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: India AI Summit sparks $240B investment pledge led by Reliance, Adani and Google
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 announced a historic $240 billion AI investment pledge. Reliance committed $110 billion for AI infrastructure over seven years, Adani pledged $100 billion through 2035, and Google disclosed a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam along with new subsea cable routes. The Indian government also added 20,000 GPUs to its AI arsenal.
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By the numbers: OpenAI raises $110B in corporate funding
News•Feb 25, 2026
Bildup AI Expands Nationwide with New Cohort and AI Learning Centres in Enugu, Abuja and Lagos, Democratizing AI Education for...
Bildup AI, Nigeria’s leading AI education provider, announced a new nationwide cohort and the opening of AI Learning Centres in Enugu, Abuja and Lagos. The expansion is funded by a $400,000 oversubscribed angel round and offers hybrid online‑in‑person programs across sectors such as agriculture, retail, healthcare and technology. The platform promises 60‑80% cost reduction and 70% faster learning compared with traditional methods, targeting students, professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate teams. Applications are now open via bildup.ai.
By Techpoint Africa
News•Feb 25, 2026
Maintaining Compliance when Adopting AI in Regulated Industries
Regulated firms can integrate AI without sacrificing compliance by leveraging automated testing. Continuous validation mitigates risks from non‑deterministic model behavior, frequent updates, and limited explainability. The approach preserves audit‑readiness, traceability, and documented evidence across frameworks such as SOX, HIPAA, and...
By SmartBear – Blog
News•Feb 25, 2026
Sustainable All‐Inorganic Double Perovskite Memristors Enabling Synaptic Learning and Cognitive Emulation
Researchers have demonstrated lead‑free all‑inorganic double perovskite Cs2AgBiBr6 memristors that combine robust analog resistive switching with biologically relevant synaptic plasticity. The devices rely on reversible Ag⁺ ion migration to form filamentary conduction paths, as confirmed by impedance spectroscopy, c‑AFM, and...
By Small (Wiley)
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
The Platform That Broke Your SEO Strategy Is Now an AI Shopping Engine
Reddit announced a test of an AI‑powered product carousel that appears in its internal search results, surfacing items discussed in community threads and supplemented by partner product feeds. The feature, currently limited to U.S. users and consumer‑electronics queries, turns Reddit...
By eCommerce Fastlane
News•Feb 25, 2026
Netskope NewEdge AI Fast Path Reduces Latency for Enterprise AI Workloads
Netskope introduced NewEdge AI Fast Path, a suite of network‑optimizing capabilities that route AI traffic through low‑latency, secure paths across public, private and neo‑cloud environments. The service cuts time‑to‑first‑token for conversational models, speeds up multi‑prompt agentic workflows, and enhances retrieval‑augmented...
By Help Net Security
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
Brainomix Raises £18.8m for AI Stroke and Lung Tools
Brainomix announced a £18.8 million Series C extension, adding £4.8 million to accelerate its AI‑driven imaging platforms. The capital will fund rapid US deployment of Brainomix 360 Stroke, which automates acute stroke assessment, and E‑Lung, a CT‑based tool for fibrosing lung disease. The company, already...
By Health Tech World
News•Feb 25, 2026
Cagent: Dockers Newest Low Code Agentic Platform
Docker unveiled Cagent, an open‑source, low‑code framework that lets developers launch AI agents using a single YAML file instead of extensive code. The platform integrates the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Docker Model Runner to support multiple LLM providers and...
By DZone – DevOps & CI/CD
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
Beyond Vitals Spot Checks: Sibel Health and LookDeep Health Combine Wearable Monitoring with Real-Time Bedside AI
Sibel Health and LookDeep Health announced a strategic partnership that merges Sibel’s FDA‑cleared ANNE® One wearable, which continuously captures clinical‑grade vitals, with LookDeep’s aimee™ bedside AI that adds real‑time visual and audio context. The combined platform targets emergency departments, general...
By HealthTech HotSpot
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
Fragments: February 25
Laura Tacho’s recent study shows 92.6% of developers rely on AI assistants, claiming roughly four saved hours per week and that AI now writes about 27% of code autonomously. The data also suggests AI can halve onboarding time, yet averages...
By Martin Fowler
News•Feb 25, 2026
Anthropic Clarifies How Claude Bots Crawl Sites and How to Block Them
Anthropic updated its crawler documentation, detailing three distinct user agents—ClaudeBot, Claude‑User, and Claude‑SearchBot—and their respective functions. ClaudeBot gathers public web content for training Anthropic’s generative AI models, Claude‑User retrieves pages in response to user queries, and Claude‑SearchBot indexes sites to...
By Search Engine Land
News•Feb 25, 2026
Cartwheel Claims AI Can Make 3D Animation Tasks as Much as 100x Faster
Cartwheel, a New York‑based AI animation platform, claims its technology can accelerate 3D animation workflows by up to 100 times. The startup was founded by former OpenAI researcher Andrew Carr and ex‑Google Creative Lab leader Jonathan Jarvis. Its tools are aimed at game...
By GamesBeat
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
Draftwise Launches AI-Driven Playbook Studio
Draftwise unveiled Playbook Studio, an AI‑driven tool that scans a firm’s contracts and deal history to generate a customized, deployable playbook in roughly five minutes. The solution reportedly slashes NDA drafting and review time from an hour to two minutes...
By Artificial Lawyer
News•Feb 25, 2026
Joule with SAP Signavio Solutions Is Now Generally Available
SAP announced that Joule, its generative‑AI platform, is now generally available integrated with SAP Signavio. The solution adds a natural‑language conversational layer to process models, allowing users to query owners, flow descriptions, and regional variations instantly. Joule orchestrates workflows across...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 25, 2026
MathWorks Joins EDGE AI Foundation
MathWorks announced its membership in the EDGE AI Foundation, a consortium dedicated to energy‑efficient artificial intelligence for edge devices. The partnership will let engineers leverage MATLAB and Simulink to train, integrate, and deploy AI models on embedded hardware while validating...
By Engineering.com
News•Feb 25, 2026
Veza Expands Platform with AI Access Agents for Enterprise Identity Governance
Veza announced the launch of Veza Access Agents, AI‑driven tools that automate identity and access governance for both human users and autonomous AI agents. The agents, built on AWS Bedrock, provide natural‑language interfaces for risk queries, permission visualizations, and AI‑assisted...
By Help Net Security
News•Feb 25, 2026
AI Erodes Trust in Hiring as 40% of UK Employers Extend Probation Periods
Deel’s survey of 500 UK HR leaders shows AI‑generated applications are eroding trust in traditional hiring. Forty percent of employers have already extended probation periods, and 77 % say assessing authenticity before hire is harder. CVs and cover letters are now...
By Employer News (UK)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Helm.ai Driver Achieves Vision-Only Urban Autonomy, Unlocking Scalability From Level 2+ Through Level 4
Helm.ai unveiled a production‑ready, vision‑only software stack that can power advanced Level 2+ driver assistance today and scale to Level 3 and Level 4 urban autonomy without HD maps or lidar. The system relies on the company’s Factored Embodied AI architecture, separating perception...
By RoboticsTomorrow
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
Rewiring Leadership for the New Age
In the digital era, leadership is moving from command‑and‑control to orchestrating a trustworthy ecosystem of people, machines, and processes. The article outlines an "agentic" model that distributes decision rights, adopts policy‑first delegation, and embeds transparency and ethical guardrails. Structural changes...
By Future of CIO
News•Feb 25, 2026
Elly Debuts AI-Native Hiring Platform and Raises $8M
Elly launched an AI-native hiring platform and closed an $8 million funding round led by Sorenson Capital, with Atomic and Next Wave Capital participating. The platform consolidates sourcing, interviewing, and applicant tracking into a single AI-driven system, automatically capturing interview insights...
By HRTechFeed
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
February Global Regulatory Brief: Digital Finance
Recent regulatory developments across major economies highlight growing scrutiny of AI, cybersecurity, and operational resilience in finance. In the UK, the Treasury Committee criticised the FCA and BoE for a reactive stance, urging AI‑specific guidance and stress testing by 2026....
By Tech Disruptors
News•Feb 25, 2026
Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much
Tech CEOs, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, are baffled by a growing public backlash against AI, despite years of hype and massive investment. A 2025 Pew Research poll shows 60 % of Americans demand more personal control over...
By Futurism AI
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
Spark, Lakehouse & AI: A Deep Conversation with Bart Konieczny
In a recent Data Engineering Central podcast, Bart Konieczny discussed the evolving synergy between Apache Spark, lakehouse architectures, and artificial intelligence. He highlighted Spark's latest performance enhancements, including Catalyst optimizer refinements and native GPU acceleration. Konieczny explained how lakehouses bridge...
By Confessions of a Data Guy
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
New Global Report: Executive Insights on AI Strategy, Risks, and Readiness
A new global report by the ERM Initiative and AICPA & CIMA surveyed 1,735 executives across eight regions and industries, revealing stark gaps in AI talent, technology, and governance readiness. While 73% of early‑adopter firms report strategic advantage from AI, only about...
By NC State ERM Initiative – Resource Center/Blog
News•Feb 25, 2026
If the Bot Lies, Who Pays?
A federal court in Georgia dismissed Mark Walters’ defamation lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the complaint lacked the required fault element. The ruling underscores that AI systems themselves cannot be liable for defamation because they lack intent and legal personhood. Liability...
By Talkers
News•Feb 25, 2026
PorterShed Launches Virtual Accelerator Programme with MyBertie.AI, Supported by the Western Development Commission
PorterShed has launched a six‑week virtual accelerator, “Get PSSF Ready with PorterShed x Bertie,” to help West Irish tech founders craft competitive applications for Enterprise Ireland’s Pre‑Seed Start Fund. The pilot, beginning 23 March, pairs PorterShed’s mentorship and launch track with...
By Irish Tech News
News•Feb 25, 2026
Bullhorn GRID Report: Staffing Firms Using AI See Stronger Growth, Faster Placements
Bullhorn’s 16th annual GRID report, based on a survey of nearly 2,300 recruitment professionals worldwide, finds that staffing firms that adopt artificial intelligence experience markedly stronger revenue growth and faster candidate placements. Top‑performing agencies are four times more likely to...
By HRTechFeed
News•Feb 25, 2026
Jira’s Latest Update Allows AI Agents and Humans to Work Side by Side
Atlassian introduced “Agents in Jira,” allowing AI agents to be assigned, tracked, and managed alongside human users within the Jira dashboard. The feature, now in open beta, lets teams assign tickets to AI, set deadlines, and monitor progress with the...
By TechCrunch Enterprise
News•Feb 25, 2026
Y Combinator Grad and AI Insurance Brokerage Harper Raises $47M
Harper, an AI‑native insurance brokerage founded by Y Combinator alumnus Dakotah Rice, announced a $46.8 million Series A and seed round led by Emergence Capital. Launched in 2024, the platform automates underwriting, routing, and document collection, enabling it to process over 1,000 policies...
By TechCrunch Venture Feed
Podcast•Feb 25, 2026•40 min
EP 721: 3 New NotebookLM Updates You Can’t Miss: Editable Slides, Mobile Updates and More
In this episode Jordan dives into three major NotebookLM updates: enhanced mobile capabilities that let users edit infographics, slide decks, and generate full‑screen video overviews on their phones; a new conversational studio generation workflow that lets users iteratively chat with...
By Everyday AI
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
BRYTER Offers Vibe Coding, Returns to Its Roots
Bryter, originally a no‑code workflow platform for lawyers, has launched a general‑release of “vibe coding,” a conversational AI‑driven approach that lets users build applications by describing logic in natural language. The feature blends Bryter’s no‑code roots with generative AI, enabling...
By Artificial Lawyer
News•Feb 25, 2026
Datamaran Launches Regulatory Monitoring Solution to Help Companies Navigate ESG Complexity
Datamaran, a leader in AI‑powered risk tools, unveiled a standalone Regulatory Monitoring solution that aggregates global ESG and sustainability regulations. The platform blends machine‑learning analysis with expert‑curated intelligence, delivering personalized alerts and visual dashboards for sustainability, legal, and compliance teams....
By AiThority
News•Feb 25, 2026
Scality RING Becomes Back-End Object Store for WEKA NeuralMesh
Scality and WEKA announced that Scality RING will serve as the back‑end object store for WEKA’s NeuralMesh high‑performance AI file system. The partnership leverages NeuralMesh’s SSD‑based front‑end with RING’s cost‑efficient, disk‑based object tier, delivering up to ten times faster performance than...
By Blocks & Files
News•Feb 25, 2026
Cherry Bekaert Strengthens AI Security and Compliance Offerings Through Enkrypt AI Alliance
Cherry Bekaert announced a strategic alliance with Enkrypt AI, integrating the firm’s risk and compliance expertise with Enkrypt’s automated AI security platform. The partnership delivers real‑time guardrails, testing, validation, and continuous monitoring to help clients meet emerging standards such as...
By AiThority
News•Feb 25, 2026
Progressive Robotics Launches AnyStack: A Turnkey Solution for Mixed Palletizing in Modern Logistics
Progressive Robotics unveiled AnyStack, a turnkey robotic palletizing system that combines an industrial arm, AI‑driven vision, and intelligent stacking software into a single, ready‑to‑deploy cell. The solution dynamically identifies cases, calculates optimal stacking sequences, and builds stable mixed‑SKU pallets even...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Feb 25, 2026
FIPP Announces a Trio of AI-Related Actions for Its Members
FIPP has launched three AI‑focused initiatives to help its publishing members navigate the rapid rise of generative AI. An AI Working Group, led by Elsa Esparbé and Tim Bulley, will craft a strategic framework to protect IP and audiences. The federation also...
By FIPP
News•Feb 25, 2026
AI’s Big Payoff Is Coordination, Not Automation
AI’s most powerful economic effect is lowering the cost of translating disparate data and workflows, not merely automating prediction or creation. By extracting structure from unstructured sources, AI creates a shared, real‑time view that lets teams coordinate without agreeing on...
By Harvard Business Review
News•Feb 25, 2026
Crossplane & AI: The Case for API-First Infrastructure
AI‑assisted development has moved the primary bottleneck from writing code to the myriad tasks that follow a git push, such as provisioning, policy enforcement, and drift remediation. Most existing platforms keep the desired state in Git while the actual state...
By Crossplane Blog
News•Feb 25, 2026
SiMa.ai and STIGA S.p.A. Partner for AI-Powered Autonomous Robotic Lawn Mowers
STIGA S.p.A. has partnered with SiMa Technologies to embed SiMa.ai’s low‑power Physical AI ML‑SoC into its next‑generation robotic lawn mowers for both consumer and commercial use. The integration enables ultra‑low‑latency, edge‑based decision‑making while reducing power draw, resulting in lighter, more...
By The AI Insider
News•Feb 25, 2026
How Algorithms and Drones Are Replacing Ukraine’s Infantry
Four years into the Ukraine‑Russia war, Kyiv’s ground forces have dwindled to as low as 30‑60% of authorized strength, prompting a rapid shift toward a machine‑centric defense. The Ukrainian military now relies on dense networks of drones, ground robots and...
By DefenseWorld/DW
News•Feb 25, 2026
WAN-IFRA Introduces the NextGen AI Leaders Programme to Equip Emerging News Executives with Practical AI and Leadership Skills
WAN-IFRA has launched the NextGen AI Leaders Programme, a tuition‑free 12‑week initiative aimed at equipping 24 emerging news executives aged 25‑40 from Europe, the Middle East and Africa with practical AI and leadership skills. Backed by the Google News Initiative,...
By WAN-IFRA
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
AC Whyte Tests AI Tool that Cuts BoQ Processing Time by 65%
Glasgow‑based contractor AC Whyte piloted Erand’s AI‑enabled procurement tool, slashing Bill of Quantities (BoQ) processing time by 65% – from roughly 13 hours to 4.5 hours per BoQ. The hybrid system combines natural language processing, rule‑based trade classification and human‑in‑the‑loop...
By BIM+ (Construction Computing)
News•Feb 25, 2026
Valo Health CEO: We Don’t Want Investors To Drive the Science
Valo Health is reshaping drug development by applying AI to human causal biology, aiming to raise clinical success rates from roughly 10% to 20%. The company leverages over 17 million de‑identified patient records and Mendelian randomization to pinpoint genetically validated targets....
By MedCity News
News•Feb 25, 2026
Lightrun Debuts Real-Time AI Site Reliability Engineer for Autonomous Software Remediation
Lightrun Inc. unveiled an AI‑powered Site Reliability Engineer that can generate missing runtime evidence on‑the‑fly, eliminating the need for redeployments. The tool leverages the company’s patented Sandbox and Runtime Context engine to capture live, line‑level execution data, prove root causes,...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Feb 25, 2026
Kinfolk Closes $7M Seed Round for AI-Driven HR Platform
London‑based Kinfolk announced a $7.2 million seed round led by AlbionVC, bringing its total capital to $8.5 million. The startup offers an AI‑native HR workforce‑operations platform that combines agentic AI, Slack/Teams integration, request management, lifecycle automation, and analytics. Kinfolk positions the solution...
By Tech.eu
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
Generate Biomedicines (GENB) IPO Deck
Generate Biomedicines (GENB) filed its IPO prospectus, unveiling a programmable biology platform that engineers therapeutic proteins previously considered undruggable. The company highlighted a pipeline featuring oncology and immunology candidates that have progressed to Phase 2 trials, supported by early efficacy signals....
By IPO Candy
News•Feb 25, 2026
Autonomous Robot Runs Quantum-Inspired Optimization in Real Time
Japanese tech giant Toshiba and MIRISE Technologies have embedded their Simulated Bifurcation Machine, a quantum‑inspired optimization engine, into an autonomous mobile robot. The on‑board FPGA runs a new multi‑object tracking algorithm at 23 frames per second, delivering up to 23%...
By The AI Insider
News•Feb 25, 2026
SolveAI Raises $50M to Help Employees Build Their Own Enterprise Software
London‑based SolveAI announced a $50 million funding round – $45 million Series A led by GV and a $5 million pre‑seed from Accel – to scale its AI‑driven no‑code platform. The solution lets employees across functions generate fully compliant enterprise applications using natural‑language prompts,...
By Tech.eu
Blog•Feb 25, 2026
Wordsmith + Cognia Partner For AI Powered Managed Services
Wordsmith and ALSP Cognia Law have announced a strategic partnership to provide AI‑powered managed legal services. The collaboration combines Wordsmith's generative AI platform with Cognia's legal engineering and delivery expertise, offering technology, implementation, and operational support to in‑house legal teams....
By Artificial Lawyer
News•Feb 25, 2026
Trump Administration to Use Pentagon AI to Set Mineral Reference Prices — Gallium and Germanium Among First Four Targets
The Trump administration will deploy DARPA’s Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN) AI system to establish reference prices for critical minerals, starting with germanium, gallium, antimony and tungsten. The tool calculates fair values by stripping out alleged Chinese market...
By Tom's Hardware
News•Feb 25, 2026
Budget 2026: Godongwana Talks up AI, Data Infrastructure
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana used the 2026 budget launch to declare data and artificial intelligence infrastructure as critical as electricity, ports and transport. He announced plans to expand data‑centre capacity, citing 55 existing facilities and R50 billion of investment expected over...
By ITWeb (South Africa) – Public Sector