
Meta adds $21 billion to CoreWeave AI cloud partnership
Meta announced an additional $21 billion commitment to AI cloud provider CoreWeave, bringing the total partnership value to $35.2 billion. The new five‑year deal runs from 2027 to 2032 and will power Meta’s expanding AI workloads, including its Muse Spark model, on CoreWeave’s Nvidia‑GPU‑dense data centers.
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The International Solar Alliance announced a Global Mission on AI for Energy at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, targeting more than 120 member countries. The programme aims to fast‑track AI‑enabled clean‑energy solutions for planning, grid management and decentralized solar, building on India’s citizen‑centric Energy Stack. It brings together policy alignment, financing and skill development to let nations leapfrog legacy infrastructure. Demonstrations such as the One Solar App and digital‑twin tools were presented as proof‑of‑concept.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) ordered the removal of Galgotias University stalls from the India AI Impact Summit 2026 after a controversy erupted. The secretary emphasized that the summit should remain focused on advancing India’s artificial‑intelligence agenda,...

Microsoft announced a $50 billion commitment to accelerate artificial‑intelligence adoption across the Global South by 2030. The plan, unveiled at the India AI Impact Summit, follows a five‑pronged approach covering infrastructure, skills training, multilingual models, local innovation and impact measurement. Microsoft...
Data is objective only in appearance. Behind every dataset lies a human decision about what to measure

Every iconic tech company follows the same pattern. I’ve seen it repeat again and again. → The visionary founder who bends reality → The designer who shapes taste and experience → The quiet engineer who makes it actually work Different names. Same archetypes. Apple had them. Tesla had...
Enterprise networks face unprecedented strain as AI workloads surge, generating unpredictable, high‑volume traffic across regions. A recent Broadcom study shows only 49% of organizations believe their networks can meet AI’s bandwidth and latency demands, despite 99% adopting cloud strategies. Retrieval‑augmented...
Generative AI’s rapid consumer adoption has exposed enterprises to data leakage risks, prompting security teams to reassess protection strategies. Traditional DLP solutions are expensive and cumbersome, limiting their use to large organizations. Two viable paths emerge: purchasing enterprise‑grade GenAI licenses...

A bipartisan wave of state legislation is targeting the use of artificial intelligence in health‑insurance decisions, with at least nine states passing or proposing limits on AI‑driven claim denials and prior authorizations. President Trump’s December executive order seeks to preempt...
DeVry University, serving over 32,000 adult learners, launched DeVryPro – an agentic AI built on Salesforce Agentforce – to provide 24/7 enrollment and support assistance. The AI extracts information from handbooks, catalogs and career services, automating course enrollment, payments and...

Ericsson has launched Agentic rApp as a Service, an AI‑powered network optimisation platform available through AWS Marketplace. The solution leverages agentic AI and a natural‑language interface to reason about network conditions and execute closed‑loop optimisations via the O‑RAN R1 interface,...

At Davos, historian Yuval Noah Harari and fintech founder Nikhil Kamath debated the intersection of artificial intelligence and religion. Harari warned that AI could assume the role of religious authority, crafting new doctrines and spawning AI‑led sects. He suggested algorithms...
Tools for Humanity unveiled Orb, a spherical hardware device that scans a user’s iris to create an encrypted IrisCode, which becomes a World ID stored in the World App. The device uses a high‑resolution camera and AI anti‑spoofing to verify...

EY’s Global Assurance Talent Leader Sandra Oliver says the firms that combine AI technical capability with human‑centered skills will dominate the AI‑driven future. EY is investing heavily in upskilling its 130,000‑plus assurance professionals, embedding generative AI tools such as EYQ...
IntelliGenesis launched CYBERSPAN, an AI‑driven network detection and response solution tailored for managed security service providers. The platform offers a multi‑tenant, agentless architecture that can be deployed on‑premises or in the cloud, integrating with existing SIEM, SOAR and ticketing tools...
Snowflake unveiled Cortex Code, an AI‑driven coding assistant embedded in its data platform, at the Build conference in London. The tool can generate, explain, and optimize SQL and Python code, handle data‑engineering and analytics tasks, and is context‑aware of schemas, governance...

In a new study, authors created a physician-validated benchmark spanning 10 text-based and multimodal tasks, against which they evaluated leading large language models (LLMs). "Then, we developed “Dr. CaBot,” an AI discussant designed to produce written and slide-based video presentations...
🔥🔥🔥 This hits on something that has bothered me for most of my career... Much of what orgs do to "assess risk" is largely performative, and has very little do with actual risk. Impact is what matters. Your AI Pentester Found...

Wearable Devices unveiled the Mudra Experience Studio, a developer platform that unifies neural‑input gestures into a single codebase for XR, mobile and desktop applications. The studio supplies production‑ready SDKs, a standardized gesture taxonomy and AI‑powered IDE integration, eliminating the fragmentation...
Researchers at KAIST unveiled an AI‑driven method that extracts wavelength‑dependent information from standard optical coherence tomography (OCT) to automatically detect lipid‑rich coronary plaques. The weakly supervised deep‑learning model learns from frame‑level labels, eliminating the need for pixel‑wise annotations and works...

CAI closed 2025 with nearly $1.4 billion in revenue, maintaining a five‑year compound annual growth rate of about 10%. The firm expanded its AI‑driven service desk, partnered with Talkdesk and ServiceNow, and saw public‑sector revenue grow over 14%. Staffing placements rose...

SANS Institute and cybersecurity firm siberX have launched NOW // AI, an immersive simulation program built on the SANS AI Blueprint. The curriculum targets executives and security teams, focusing on three pillars—Protect AI, Utilize AI, and Govern AI—to tighten risk...

Swedish RegTech startup Hybridity announced a €2 million funding round to accelerate commercialisation of its AI‑driven compliance platform Hy5. The round brings the company’s total capital to €5 million and adds investors such as Henrik Ekelund, Hans Otterling and family office Fonos....
AI has moved beyond experimentation. It is no longer an add-on or productivity boost. It is becoming the invisible backbone of healthcare, education, finance and public systems. What we are witnessing is not another tech cycle, but the construction of a new...
Researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital introduced M‑PACT, an AI‑driven liquid‑biopsy platform that classifies pediatric brain tumors from cerebrospinal fluid with 92% accuracy. The deep neural network was trained on over 5,000 DNA methylation profiles covering about 100 tumor...

Enterprise AI is being deployed as core infrastructure that routinely infers personal identity attributes such as gender, voice, and facial characteristics. In Google Gemini Meet Notes, a non‑binary user who selected "Rather not say" was mis‑gendered as "she," illustrating how...

A new review in Nanoenergy Advances argues that graphene‑family memristors and photomemristors can dramatically lower AI’s energy footprint by merging sensing, memory, and computation in a single nanoscale device. The paper shows sub‑volt switching, power consumption as low as 200 nW,...

Retool’s 2026 “Build vs. Buy” report shows 35% of enterprises have already replaced at least one SaaS application with a custom‑built solution. The survey of 817 professionals found 78% plan to increase internal tool development in 2026, with workflow automation...

Lasso Security unveiled Intent Deputy, a runtime behavioral‑intent framework that secures autonomous AI agents by interpreting their decision flow and operational context. The solution claims 99.83% threat detection at sub‑50 ms latency and a 570‑fold cost advantage over cloud‑native guardrails. By...

Harvey has hired Joe Cohen as a legal innovation partner to help law firms reimagine AI‑driven service delivery, business models, and operations. Cohen will work with firm leaders to align AI strategies with long‑term business priorities. He arrives after a...

Harvey has appointed Joe Cohen as its new legal innovation partner, tasked with helping law‑firm leaders reshape service delivery, business models, and operations through AI. Cohen brings over a decade of legal‑tech experience, most recently directing Advanced Client Solutions at...
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The Search Engine Journal webinar, hosted by Loren Baker, will teach marketers how to reliably track AI prompts across answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Nick Gallagher, Sr. SEO Strategy Director at Conductor, will present a step‑by‑step...

Nylas' 2026 State of Agentic AI report, based on a survey of over 1,000 developers and product leaders, reveals that 94% would consider switching AI vendors to obtain stronger, scalable, and compliant agentic capabilities. Currently, 67% are already building or...

AltaClaro, a legal‑training specialist, unveiled DepoSim, an AI‑driven deposition simulator built with Verbit.ai. The platform creates realistic, on‑demand deposition scenarios and automatically transcribes witness testimony using Verbit’s speech‑to‑text engine. After each session, litigators receive structured, objective performance metrics and actionable...

KnowBe4 released a white paper highlighting the U.S. public sector’s exposure to escalating cyber threats, with ransomware affecting an estimated 43 % of local governments by 2025. The report identifies four core challenges: relentless attacks, chronic staffing shortages, mounting compliance pressures,...

Drata, the leading agentic trust management platform, announced the opening of its new San Francisco headquarters, marking a strategic commitment to the tech hub after a five‑year anniversary. The company reported 190% year‑over‑year enterprise customer growth, 60% revenue growth, and...
Assume it will go wrong. Work back from there. Israeli thinking an entrepreneur building a computer vision company once told me in Tel Aviv. I have the most complete lists of those working on AI anywhere. Really of smart people in all fields. Lucky...

Krisp AI Note Taker expands its meeting suite by adding real-time accent conversion alongside its established noise cancellation. The voice‑AI platform now offers AI‑generated transcripts, summaries and action items while normalizing diverse accents, improving clarity for participants. To date, the...

Intellinetics, a NYSE American‑listed digital transformation solutions provider, announced Alison Forsythe as its new President and Chief Executive Officer effective February 17, 2026. Forsythe brings over 20 years of SaaS and enterprise software leadership, most recently as CEO of AI‑powered...

Clutch and Conductor’s 2026 State of Content Report shows content marketers are boosting investment as SEO expands into AI search. Eighty‑seven percent plan to increase budgets next year, and one‑quarter now write primarily for large language models. The survey of...

ScribeRyte AI introduced ClickNote, a free Chrome extension that automatically inserts AI‑generated SOAP notes into any browser‑based EMR. The tool leverages ambient speech technology, multilingual support, and HIPAA‑secure protocols to streamline documentation. ScribeRyte claims providers can reclaim up to ten...
In this episode, Petra Durnin, a veteran CRE researcher and tech‑to‑impact strategist, explains why the industry’s biggest hurdle isn’t more tools but cleaner, more integrated data. She walks through her career trajectory, from a temp analyst to leading data and...

Kipu Health announced Elevate 2026, a three‑day customer conference in Carlsbad, California, showcasing its AI‑native Kipu Helix Intelligent Operating System for behavioral health. The event gathers executives, operators and administrators to explore AI‑driven strategies, hands‑on programming and peer insights. Kipu...

Peptris, a Bengaluru‑based AI drug‑discovery startup, closed a Rs 70 crore ($7.7 million) Series A round co‑led by IAN Alpha Fund and Speciale Invest. The capital will accelerate its pipeline, moving novel chemical entities and repurposing programs toward clinical readiness within 24 months. Peptris’ platform...
robots building robots… • unitree dropped a video of their g1 humanoid assembling robot legs in their own shenzhen factory using the unifolm embodied ai model. yes, robots building robots at actual production speed • the tasks are real bimanual...
How AI Is Redefining Enterprise Cloud Competition #Cloud competition has fundamentally shifted from #infrastructure costs to #AI capabilities, with companies like #ByteDance and partnerships between #OpenAI and #Snowflake proving that AI-first platforms are now the fastest-growing segment. #Enterprise leaders must...
AI medical advice: Not ready for prime time. A study by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, published in The Lancet Digital Health, reveals vulnerabilities in medical AI systems. https://t.co/ArD323yhzL #research #AI #healthcare #medicine

AI agents become fintech’s retention weapon…as banks are left in the dust • Agents own the relationship end-to-end • No more “customer churn” surprises • Revenue sticks instead of leaks • Banks stuck in pilot purgatory #fintech #tech #finserv #AI @BetaMoroney @efipm @BrettKing @spirosmargaris @jasuja @enricomolinari @mikeflache https://t.co/6I8skF6dkR
messaging ai from your chat apps feels so much more natural clearly how all agents should work
A small team created an AI made operating system in a weekend at Stanford University. Now do you get why @hackwithtrees was so epic?

Join me in Zurich at the NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum next month. I'll explore why many financial institutions are missing the mark in my keynote 'Your Bank’s AI Strategy Is Wrong.' https://t.co/XIQySs0LfD @qubevents #RegTech #Qubevents #NextGenPayments #Zurich https://t.co/RqffMqTRZS