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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 19, 2026
AI You Can Trust, Insights You Can Use: Lever’s Latest Innovations, Built for Confident Hiring
Lever unveiled a suite of AI‑driven hiring tools designed around trust and actionable insight. The platform now leverages IBM’s watsonx for built‑in governance, offering transparent recommendations and bias monitoring. New features like the AI Screening Companion and automated early assessments aim to surface strong candidates while flagging fraudulent applications. An enhanced analytics dashboard turns hiring data into foresight, and workflow upgrades such as Undo Hire add flexibility for recruiters.
By Lever Blog
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI Personas Turn UX Research Into Organizational Superpower
Most UX teams have a bottleneck problem. You've done the research. You know what users need. But every time someone across the organization has a question about users, they have to come to you. You become the gatekeeper. Not by choice. Just...
By Paul Boag
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Chat‑Enabled Apps Turn Errors Into Instant Fixes Anywhere
💬 Having each of your sites/apps as a chat is such a logical idea once you do it It can message you if there's an error (I had this for years already, every server, PHP or JS error or unexpected problem...
By Pieter Levels
News•Feb 19, 2026
Comesa Probes Meta for Locking Rival Chatbots Out of WhatsApp
The COMESA Competition and Consumer Commission (CCCC) has opened an investigation into Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd for allegedly abusing its dominant position by amending WhatsApp Business Solution Terms in October 2025 to block rival AI chatbot providers. The probe follows...
By The East African
News•Feb 19, 2026
At AI Summit, Prime Minister Modi Pitches India as Global Hub for Artificial Intelligence
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the India AI Impact Summit to position the country as a global AI hub, urging firms to design and develop AI in India and export it worldwide. He highlighted India’s massive digital user base...
By Fast Company AI
News•Feb 19, 2026
Echo360 Partners with Exxat to Advance Skills-Based Learning
Echo360 announced a partnership with Exxat to extend its AI‑powered video assessment tool, GoReact, into experiential education programs worldwide. The collaboration leverages an LTI integration that lets institutions blend skill practice, observation, and feedback across healthcare and human services curricula....
By HR Tech Series
News•Feb 19, 2026
Exclusive: Ownwell Lands $30M To Help Homeowners Lower Their Property Tax Bills
Ownwell, an AI‑driven property‑tax appeal startup, closed a $50 million Series B round—$30 million in equity and $20 million in debt—bringing its total equity funding to $54 million since 2020. The company now serves over 500,000 residential and commercial owners across 12 states, having processed...
By Crunchbase News AI
News•Feb 19, 2026
UGREEN Expands Its NAS Lineup with New AI-Powered Flagship Series, Signaling the Era of the Smart Private Cloud
UGREEN unveiled its AI‑powered NAS flagship iDX series, positioning the devices as smart private‑cloud hubs that process data locally with on‑device large language models. The top‑end iDX6011 Pro packs an Intel Core Ultra 7 CPU, 96 TOPS of AI compute, 64 GB LPDDR5X memory...
By Irish Tech News
News•Feb 19, 2026
Something Big Is Happening — But Not What You Think
Ralph Losey challenges Matt Shumer’s viral claim that AI will soon replace white‑collar workers, arguing that while capability is accelerating, progress is jagged and domain‑specific. He highlights persistent hallucinations in legal AI, the limited relevance of benchmark curves, and the...
By EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Marketplace Briefing: Inside Marc Lore and Melissa Bridgeford’s AI Shopping Agent Wizard
Wizard, the AI shopping agent co‑founded by Marc Lore and Melissa Bridgeford, has moved from a stealth B‑to‑B conversational commerce model to a consumer‑facing platform. Founded in 2021, the startup spent years refining its technology before publicly debuting in February...
By Modern Retail
News•Feb 19, 2026
AI-First Ambitions Tested by Infrastructure and Skills Gaps
UK entrepreneurs are rapidly embedding AI into products and operations, with 70 % warning that firms not adopting AI risk being outcompeted within five years. However, 89 % cite domestic skills shortages as a growth limiter, and 85 % say digital trust and...
By Startups Magazine
News•Feb 19, 2026
Health Systems Must Connect with Patients in More Meaningful Ways
Health systems are accelerating digital transformation post‑COVID, with HIMSS research showing that hospitals possessing advanced digital maturity are 3.25 times more likely to earn higher safety grades and experience lower infection and adverse event rates. The pandemic also shifted patients from...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 19, 2026
ThoughtSpot Launches Agentic Data Prep to Transform How Teams Profile, Mash Up, and Secure Data for AI Workloads
ThoughtSpot unveiled the next‑generation Analyst Studio, adding SpotCache, a native spreadsheet interface, and an agentic data‑prep engine. SpotCache lets users cache data snapshots for unlimited queries at fixed cloud costs, while the spreadsheet UI brings Excel‑style flexibility under enterprise governance....
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Imaging Data Liquidity: The Foundation of Multimodal Medical Intelligence
Healthcare’s imaging assets—radiology and digital pathology—are evolving from isolated diagnostic tools into a strategic, enterprise‑wide intelligence layer. Current PACS and VNA infrastructures were built for episodic access, limiting data recombination, longitudinal analysis, and outcome linkage. The article argues that achieving...
By MedCity News
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Repeating Prompts Boosts LLM Performance Without Extra Compute
Repeat, Repeat: Why Simply Repeating a Prompt Can Make LLMs Smarter In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we explore the surprisingly simple idea behind “Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs,” a new study from Google Research that challenges how...
By Satya Mallick
News•Feb 19, 2026
Adronite Secures $5M Series A to Scale AI Code Platform
Adronite announced a $5 million Series A round led by Gatemore Capital Management, appointing Gatemore’s Liad Meidar as board chair. The funding will accelerate development of its AI‑powered platform that scans entire software codebases across more than 20 languages, delivering deterministic, explainable...
By Just AI News
News•Feb 19, 2026
‘We Are at Risk’: Mistral CEO Warns Against US Dominance in AI
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch warned at the AI Impact Summit that a handful of U.S. tech giants are monopolising AI development and infrastructure, creating a risk of excessive leverage. He contrasted Mistral’s €12 bn valuation with OpenAI’s $850 bn-plus market cap, underscoring...
By Sifted
News•Feb 19, 2026
Why AI Misreads The Middle Of Your Best Pages via @Sejournal, @DuaneForrester
Large language models exhibit a "dog‑bone" weakness, performing well on the opening and closing sections of long texts while struggling with the middle. Research from Stanford and recent papers such as ATACompressor confirm that attention bias and aggressive context compression...
By Search Engine Journal
News•Feb 19, 2026
Criminals Outpacing Banks as Firms Struggle with AI Defence, Report Warns
A new State of Financial Crime 2026 report from ComplyAdvantage reveals that financial institutions are falling behind AI‑enabled criminal networks. Over 600 senior compliance leaders reported 99% detection weaknesses, with only 33% employing AI for core AML functions and manual...
By The Fintech Times
News•Feb 19, 2026
Execution, Not Chat: How Agentic AI Changes Supply Chain Operations
Agentic AI is shifting supply chain management from advisory chatbots to autonomous execution across ERP, WMS, and TMS systems. By embedding bounded autonomy, situational awareness, and direct action authority, these agents compress the detect‑decide‑act loop and reduce the costly “execution...
By Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR)
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI Scribes Should Aid Notes, Not Replace Trainee Assessments
Should residents and med students get access to AI scribes? Or does it risk critically de-skilling them? My 7 thoughts: 1/ Students are increasingly using scribes in all aspects of their life. I’m not in school anymore but I suspect many...
By Joshua Liu, MD
News•Feb 19, 2026
Fiverr Shifts Focus to High-End Work as AI Transforms the Gig Economy: 2025 Results and 2026 Outlook
Fiverr reported a 10% revenue increase to $430.9 million in 2025 and achieved a record adjusted EBITDA margin of 21.3%, underscoring strong profitability. The company deliberately shed 14% of its active buyers while average spend per buyer rose 13.3% to $342,...
By HRTechFeed
News•Feb 19, 2026
Brian Platz – The Future of AI in HR: Privacy, Security, and Transformation Opportunities
The latest HRtech podcast episode examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping human resources, emphasizing the need for robust data privacy and security frameworks. It outlines practical steps HR leaders can take to protect employee information while leveraging AI-driven insights. The...
By HRTechFeed
News•Feb 19, 2026
Czech Navigara Raises Over €2M With Support From CEE Funds
Czech startup Navigara secured a $2.5 million seed round, backed by Inovo VC, Rockaway Ventures and QQ Capital, to commercialise its AI‑driven engineering analytics platform. Founded in 2022, the company translates development‑stack data into clear performance indicators that quantify the impact...
By The Recursive
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
A Reflection on eDiscovery Today’s 2026 State of the Industry Report: The AI Adoption Gap and What’s Next for eDiscovery
The 2026 State of the Industry Report from eDiscovery Today highlights a widening AI adoption gap across legal firms. Only about 35% of respondents report using advanced AI tools for document review, while the majority remain reliant on legacy workflows....
By Legal Tech Daily (aggregator)
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
Claude 4.5 vs GPT 5.2 vs Gemini 3 Pro : Different Coding Workflows Explored
The guide pits Claude 4.5, GPT 5.2, and Gemini 3 Pro against each other across pricing, coding depth, web‑design quality, and workflow integration. Claude 4.5 delivers the most detailed outputs and fastest long‑running tasks but at a premium price. GPT 5.2 balances affordability with customization, offering...
By Geeky Gadgets
News•Feb 19, 2026
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Kenco’s 2026 Innovation Report reveals that supply‑chain leaders are leaning heavily on AI and proven technologies to offset inflation and labor‑shortage pressures. While 83% of respondents maintain a dedicated innovation budget, only 35% increased it year‑over‑year, and half allocate at...
By Manufacturing Tomorrow
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
Building AI Sales Reps: How ShowMe Orchestrates Voice, Video, and Multi-Agent Workflows to Close Deals
ShowMe, an AI‑native startup founded in April 2025, has built a multi‑agent platform that lets digital sales reps conduct live voice calls, video demos, and multi‑day follow‑ups. The system splits a single sales conversation into specialized sub‑agents—conversation, evaluator, and creator—coordinated...
By Product Talk
News•Feb 19, 2026
From Rocks to Row Crops, TerraClear Broadens Its Capabilities with Launch of Fully Autonomous Robot
TerraClear has launched TerraScout, a fully autonomous robot that captures high‑resolution field imagery for rock‑mapping and weed identification across broad‑acre row crops. The machine can map over 1,000 acres per day at speeds up to 15 mph, collecting more than 4 billion...
By AgFunderNews
News•Feb 19, 2026
35-Year SEO Veteran: Great SEO Is Good GEO — But Not Everyone’s Been Doing Great SEO via @Sejournal, @Theshelleywalsh
In a recent interview, 35‑year SEO veteran Grant Simmons clarified that great SEO and generative‑engine optimization (GEO) are fundamentally the same when executed holistically, emphasizing topical authority and brand consistency. He explained that LLMs evaluate content at the passage level,...
By Search Engine Journal
News•Feb 19, 2026
Kong and Solace Partner to Unify API and Real-Time Data and Event Streaming
Kong Inc. and real‑time data specialist Solace have joined Kong’s Premium Technology Partner Program to deliver a unified, governed data fabric. The partnership merges Kong’s API and AI gateway capabilities with Solace’s high‑performance event streaming, enabling a single control plane...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Rapidata Emerges to Shorten AI Model Development Cycles From Months to Days with Near Real-Time RLHF
Rapidata, a startup, has built a platform that crowdsources RLHF feedback through mobile app users, turning ad slots into short annotation tasks. By tapping 15‑20 million global users, it can deliver up to 1.5 million annotations per hour, shrinking feedback loops from...
By VentureBeat
News•Feb 19, 2026
AI Turns Weather Data Into Sales
Retailers have long known weather drives sales, but few have turned forecasts into actionable insight. New AI platforms now ingest long‑range weather data and feed it directly into ecommerce functions such as demand planning, pricing, personalization, fulfillment and ad activation....
By Practical Ecommerce
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
Combine Google Gemini 3 & NotebookLM for Superpower Productivity
Google Gemini, a multimodal large‑language model, now integrates with Notebook LM’s citation‑rich knowledge bases. The partnership grounds Gemini’s creative outputs in verifiable sources, dramatically reducing hallucinations. Users can cross‑reference multiple notebooks, enabling seamless research, content creation, and personalized AI assistants. This...
By Geeky Gadgets
News•Feb 19, 2026
How AI Upgrades Enterprise Treasury Management
Enterprises are shifting treasury management from error‑prone spreadsheets to AI‑driven automated pipelines. Infosys’ Ashish Kumar and IBS FinTech CEO CM Grover highlight that real‑time data integration with ERP, trading platforms, and banks is essential for AI to add value....
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Feb 19, 2026
Serviceplan Group Partners with Luma AI to Deploy AI for Creative Across Global Ops
Serviceplan Group announced a strategic partnership with Luma AI to embed generative‑AI tools across its global creative operations. The collaboration introduces a "House of AI" digital twin that mirrors the agency’s entire marketing‑communication value chain, covering strategy, development, production and delivery....
By Campaign Middle East
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
Strengthening Deployment Architecture – The Rise of BYAIM in eDiscovery
In 2026 eDiscovery has moved from experimental AI tools to a foundational, industry‑wide nervous system. Generic, off‑the‑shelf models now face a "Plateau of Generalization," prompting firms to seek strategic control over their intelligence. The Bring Your AI Model (BYAIM) approach...
By Legal Tech Monitor
News•Feb 19, 2026
Autotech Ventures Bets Big on Hard-to-Copy Logistics Startups
Autotech Ventures, a $600 million industrial‑focused VC, is targeting logistics startups that are hard to replicate, leveraging its deep network of global manufacturers and carriers. The firm highlighted investments in GenLogs, a data‑rich freight intelligence platform, and Augment, an end‑to‑end AI...
By FreightWaves
Podcast•Feb 19, 2026•5 min
VC10X Micro - Why Safety Is No Long a Priority for AI Giants
The episode examines how AI giants like Anthropic and OpenAI are deprioritizing safety as they chase trillion‑dollar valuations, highlighted by Anthropic’s safety lead quitting and a $20 billion funding round at a $350 billion valuation. It explores the tension between capital‑market incentives...
By VC10X
News•Feb 19, 2026
ProEnergy Supply, OpenSolar Partner on Distributor Inventory Platform
ProEnergy Supply (PES) has launched an AI‑driven transactional gateway that integrates directly with OpenSolar’s new Shop platform, allowing solar designers to purchase equipment in real time. The solution connects live inventory to distributors’ ERP systems, reaching over 28,000 active solar...
By Solar Power World
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Next 24 Months Decide AI’s Alignment Future
AI 2027 isn’t a forecast. It’s a fork in the road. • Agentic systems scale faster than oversight • Superhuman capability arrives before alignment • Power concentration is inevitable — governance isn’t • The risk is misaligned optimization, not “evil AI” The next 24 months matter...
By Giuliano Liguori
News•Feb 19, 2026
Meta Pours $65 Million Into State Elections to Back AI-Friendly Politicians
Meta is committing $65 million to influence state elections across the United States, establishing four Super PACs that target both Republican and Democratic candidates. The spending begins in Texas, where Meta is building three AI data centers, and in Illinois, supporting...
By THE DECODER
News•Feb 19, 2026
NVIDIA Adds Cosmos Policy to Its World Foundation Models
NVIDIA introduced Cosmos Policy, a post‑trained robot control policy built on its Cosmos Predict‑2 world foundation model. By encoding actions, future states and reward signals as latent video frames, the single diffusion‑based model achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on the LIBERO and...
By The Robot Report
News•Feb 19, 2026
Accenture Ties Promotions to AI Tool Usage While some Employees Call the Tools "Broken Slop Generators"
Accenture has begun monitoring weekly logins to its generative AI tools and tying usage data to promotion decisions for senior staff. Employees must demonstrate regular AI adoption to be considered for leadership roles, while staff in 12 European countries and...
By THE DECODER
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Sound Cues Turn Task Completion Into Micro‑Relaxation
I set up Claude Code to play a human exhale every time it finishes a task. Why? 👂 It’s a helpful cue to look back at the screen 👂 It’s more efficient when I’m managing multiple tasks 👂 It’s a psychological...
By Allie Miller
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Show Process, Not Perfection, in AI Take‑Home Interviews
A question I get all the time: “How do I prepare for AI engineering interviews? Especially now that companies give 24-hour take-homes?” Here’s the uncomfortable answer. Most people prepare for interviews as if they were trivia games. They memorize definitions. They collect question lists. They grind...
By Louis Bouchard
News•Feb 19, 2026
Exclusive: Plaid CTO Talks AI Strategy, New Foundational Model to Power Next Phase of ‘Intelligent Finance’
Plaid announced a new transactional foundational AI model, built in‑house from its de‑identified financial data, to power what it calls “intelligent finance.” CTO Will Robinson said the model moves Plaid beyond open‑finance connectivity toward smarter, personalized transaction insights and tighter...
By This Week in Fintech
Social•Feb 19, 2026
LLMs Now Handle Task Lists—Unthinkable Three Years Ago
it's crazy to think that only 3 years ago, the idea of asking an LLM to generate and manage a task list was practically non-existent
By Yohei Nakajima
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Unverified AI Decisions Risk Catastrophic Consequences
Relying on AI to make important decisions without verification can lead to catastrophic outcomes. https://t.co/PZYzLfjyYE
By Satya Mallick
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI Becomes Core: Budgets Rise, Teams Accelerate In‑House Execution
7 Key Takeaways from Stensul’s 2026 MarTech Outlook Report - https://t.co/58rLpJuLMz "#AI is no longer treated as a side experiment; instead, organizations are increasing martech budgets, investing directly in AI-powered tools, and reshaping teams and workflows to bring more execution...
By Tom Pick