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Updated 3h 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
Claude Users Spike 11% After Super Bowl as Anthropic Mocks OpenAI's Move to Bring Ads to ChatGPT
Anthropic leveraged Super Bowl ad spots to highlight its ad‑free Claude chatbot, sparking an 11% rise in daily active users and a 6.5% lift in website traffic. The campaign propelled Claude into the top‑10 free apps on the Apple App Store, outpacing OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Meta. OpenAI’s response on X was defensive, drawing criticism for referencing a rival. Analysts say the episode underscores the growing importance of privacy‑centric positioning in the generative‑AI market.
By Mint AI
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Kling 3.0 Sets New Standard for AI Video Production
The Kling Report. For those interested in AI video. I'm running a series of reports. Having AI read my lists here on X (I have about 50,000 people in AI industry on them) looking for interesting trends. I've been having a...
By Robert Scoble
News•Feb 19, 2026
Neom Partners with DataVolt on $5bn Hyperscale Datacentre Project for Digital Infrastructure
Neom has signed a landmark $5 billion agreement with Saudi‑based DataVolt to build the Kingdom’s first green‑AI hyperscale data centre in Oxagon. The facility will operate at net‑zero, powered entirely by renewable energy and equipped with advanced cooling to support generative...
By ComputerWeekly – DevOps
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
Paine Schwartz Partners Chooses Intapp DealCloud to Accelerate Firm Growth Through AI Innovation
Private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners (PSP) has selected Intapp DealCloud to modernize its data, relationship, and pipeline management. With $6.5 billion in assets under management, PSP will use DealCloud’s AI‑driven relationship intelligence, sourcing, and Microsoft SharePoint integration to centralize deal...
By Legal Tech Daily (aggregator)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Middle East Weekly: Baidu’s Apollo Go Operates Driverless Fleet at WGS, QIA Commits USD 2 Billion to Startups, Qatar Signs...
At the 2026 World Governments Summit in Dubai, Baidu’s Apollo Go deployed the event’s only fully autonomous ride‑hailing fleet, showcasing Chinese driverless technology on a high‑profile international stage. Meanwhile, Qatar Investment Authority announced a $2 billion expansion of its fund‑of‑funds program to...
By KrASIA
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI-Powered X Reader: What Would You Ask It?
I'm building a new kind of X news reader with @blevlabs' AI (which is better at analyzing X than any other AI that's available now). One that reads all 150,000 posts going through my lists every day. If you had AGI,...
By Robert Scoble
Podcast•Feb 19, 2026•19 min
Why Stack Overflow and Cloudflare Launched a Pay-per-Crawl Model
In this episode, Stack Overflow’s Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang chat with Cloudflare VP Will Allen about the newly launched pay‑per‑crawl model that lets publishers charge crawlers for access. They explain how AI‑driven content scraping has upended the traditional open‑versus‑block...
By Stack Overflow Podcast
News•Feb 19, 2026
TBWA Alum Launch AI-Native Shop with Hitachi as Founding Client
Two former Omnicom executives, James Sparano and Kevin O’Sullivan, are launching JK, an AI‑native creative and strategy shop that promises to shrink traditional planning cycles from months to days. The boutique is self‑funded and begins operations on Feb. 19. Hitachi has...
By Adweek
News•Feb 19, 2026
Dave Page: Building Ask Ellie: A RAG Chatbot Powered by pgEdge
pgEdge introduced Ask Ellie, an AI‑powered documentation chatbot built directly on PostgreSQL using the company’s open‑source extensions. The system follows a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern: Docloader ingests docs, Vectorizer creates vector embeddings, and the RAG Server retrieves relevant chunks and...
By Planet PostgreSQL (aggregator)
News•Feb 19, 2026
How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Consulting
AI is fundamentally reshaping consulting by replacing lengthy analysis and PowerPoint‑heavy engagements with faster, outcome‑focused projects. Firms are leveraging in‑house and public AI tools to accelerate insight generation, while clients increasingly use the same technology, shifting value from “what is”...
By TechCentral (South Africa)
News•Feb 19, 2026
AI Adoption Is Rising in Retail, but Efficiencies Remain Surprisingly Underwhelming
AI adoption is accelerating in retail, with roughly 70% of firms reporting use of some AI technology. Despite this uptake, more than 80% of senior executives say AI has not noticeably affected employment or productivity over the past three years....
By Retail Gazette
News•Feb 19, 2026
Accenture Links Promotion Prospects to Employees’ Use of AI
Accenture announced that regular use of artificial‑intelligence tools will be a visible factor in promotion decisions for senior roles. The firm is now logging weekly AI‑tool access, including its proprietary AI Refinery, as part of talent discussions. It has already...
By Personnel Today
News•Feb 19, 2026
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Chooses EBO’s Patient Portal
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out EBO’s Intelligent Patient Portal (IPP) as part of its digital transformation, offering a conversational AI interface that guides patients through appointment management and care tasks. The portal is built on...
By HTN – Health Tech Newspaper (UK)
News•Feb 19, 2026
3 AI Fears in Higher Education
Across U.S. campuses, AI adoption is prompting unease rather than excitement, as leaders, faculty, and students grapple with rapid change. Students in computer‑science tracks fear AI will erode future job prospects, while staff worry about automation replacing knowledge‑work roles. Educators...
By EDUCAUSE Review
News•Feb 19, 2026
Zyphra Releases ZUNA: A 380M-Parameter BCI Foundation Model for EEG Data, Advancing Noninvasive Thought-to-Text Development
Zyphra unveiled ZUNA, a 380‑million‑parameter foundation model for EEG signals that uses a masked diffusion auto‑encoder to fill missing channels and boost spatial resolution. The model leverages a novel 4D rotary positional encoding to treat EEG data as spatiotemporal points,...
By MarkTechPost
News•Feb 19, 2026
Elsevier ClinicalKey AI Adds NEJM, The Lancet, and HIPAA Compliance
Elsevier has upgraded its ClinicalKey AI platform by adding full‑text access to more than 130 top‑tier medical journals, including NEJM and The Lancet, and by integrating clinical guidelines from leading societies. The new version introduces real‑time traceability, linking AI‑generated answers...
By HIT Consultant
News•Feb 19, 2026
4 Ways to Automate Plaud with Zapier
Plaud, an AI notetaker with wearable hardware, captures in‑person and virtual conversations and generates transcripts and summaries. By linking Plaud to Zapier, users can automatically route those outputs to file storage, note‑taking apps, task managers, and communication platforms. The integration...
By Zapier – Blog
News•Feb 19, 2026
AI Breakthrough Could Replace Rare Earth Magnets in Electric Vehicles
Scientists at the University of New Hampshire used artificial intelligence to compile a searchable database of 67,573 magnetic compounds, uncovering 25 previously unknown high‑temperature magnets. The AI system extracts experimental data from literature, predicts magnetic behavior, and records temperature thresholds....
By ScienceDaily Robotics
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
Blackstone’s “Defensive Pivot” Week: Home Services Deal + AI Infrastructure:
Blackstone announced the acquisition of Champions Group, a leading home‑services provider, while Odyssey and its management retain a minority stake. Simultaneously, the firm is leading a financing round of more than $1 billion for Neysa to build India’s premier AI‑infrastructure platform....
By HedgeCo.net – Blogs
News•Feb 19, 2026
Make in India, Think in Dialects: Why Sarvam’s AI Bet Feels Personal
At the India AI Impact Summit, Sarvam AI unveiled two indigenous large language models—30 billion and 105 billion parameters—trained from scratch on Indian languages. Both models employ a Mixture‑of‑Experts architecture to boost efficiency while keeping performance across reasoning, coding, and tool use....
By ET CIO (India)
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
Brookfield “Top-Performing Alternative Firm” Unshaken in 2026 by AI or Private Credit:
Brookfield Asset Management has emerged as the top‑performing alternative firm in 2026, outpacing peers as AI and private‑credit turbulence reshape the industry. Its portfolio is anchored in global infrastructure, renewable power, and essential services that generate contracted, inflation‑linked cash flows....
By HedgeCo.net – Blogs
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
AI in M&A: McKinsey, For One, Welcomes Our New Gen AI Overlords
McKinsey’s latest survey shows generative AI is reshaping M&A, delivering roughly 20% cost savings and accelerating deal cycles by 30‑50%. While 42% of respondents believe AI can transform the transaction process, only 30% are using it at moderate to high...
By DealLawyers.com Blog
News•Feb 19, 2026
How Clarins Reached 70% Conversion and Doubled Its Basket Size in Brick-and-Mortar Test of Shade-Matching Tech
Clarins piloted its AI Shade Finder in 20 French and UK stores, using an iPhone‑based spectroscopic tool to match foundation shades. The trial lifted conversion to 70% and doubled average basket size, while boosting associate confidence and prompting cross‑selling of...
By Glossy
News•Feb 19, 2026
Law Firm Introduces AI Chatbot for Job Interviews
London boutique Mishcon de Reya has deployed an AI‑powered chatbot to conduct first‑round graduate interviews. The tool, built by Bright Network, pulls data from each applicant’s submission to generate a customized conversation and produces a transcript for the firm’s early‑careers...
By Personnel Today
News•Feb 19, 2026
JioHotstar, OpenAI Launch ChatGPT Content Search
JioHotstar announced a partnership with OpenAI to embed ChatGPT‑powered voice discovery into its streaming app. The new multilingual cognitive search lets users speak natural language queries to receive context‑aware recommendations for both on‑demand and live sports content. The assistant also...
By Advanced Television
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Tailor and Sync Prompts per Model for Success
Since I now use multiple models, I customize all of my prompt files (soul, identity, skills etc) for each model. This critically important. For example, Opus 4.6 prompt best practices says don’t use ALL CAPS to emphasize things. GPT5.2 explicitly...
By Matthew Berman
News•Feb 19, 2026
Figma's Answer to the AI Software Sell-Off
The episode examines Figma’s latest AI integration with Anthropic’s Claude Code, exploring how the partnership emerged organically and what it means for the design‑to‑code workflow. Host discusses Figma’s steep stock decline amid a broader SaaS AI sell‑off and probes CEO...
By Sources
News•Feb 19, 2026
Agentic AI Era: Cloud Security Shifts From Asset Protection to Identity-First Zero Trust
At the ETCIO Cloud Summit, leaders from Starbucks India and Jio argued that cloud security must shift from protecting static assets to continuously validating identities, especially as AI agents and autonomous workloads proliferate in hybrid environments. They emphasized that bots,...
By ET CIO (India)
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Agent Identities Demand New Sandboxing and Access Controls
Agent identities is going to be a super fun and hard problem for software in the coming years. Most agentic systems today assume that the agent can do everything the user can do, and just operate as an extension of...
By Aaron Levie
Podcast•Feb 19, 2026•0 min
Stop Layering AI on Your GTM Stack
In this episode, Emir Atli, co‑founder and CRO of HockeyStack, explains why the traditional, tool‑heavy GTM stack can’t simply have AI bolted on—it must be rebuilt around a unified, AI‑native platform with a single data foundation. He outlines HockeyStack’s evolution...
By The GTM Newsletter
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI's Easy; Scaling Software 100x Faster Is the Real Hurdle
What people seem to be struggling with the most is not the truly novel parts of building with AI, it's the table stakes. It's not the AI part that's so hard (turns out systems have never been wholly deterministic 😉), it's...
By Charity Majors
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
AI Racing Drone Beats Human Controlled FPV Racing Drones on Aerial Racetrack: An Overlooked ‘AlphaGo Moment’ with Future War Implications
In April 2025, an autonomous racing drone equipped with a neural‑network AI outperformed three human FPV champions at the A2RL Drone Championship in Abu Dhabi. The AI‑controlled craft completed the complex aerial course faster than the pilots, marking the first...
By Small Wars Journal
News•Feb 19, 2026
From Acceleration to Exposure: Why AI Demands Mature AppSec
AI‑driven development is dramatically speeding code creation, reviews and releases, but application security (AppSec) has not kept pace. Autonomous AI actions now make decisions on dependencies, configurations and remediation, turning isolated flaws into system‑wide risks. When AppSec foundations are immature,...
By iTnews (Australia) – Government
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News•Feb 19, 2026
[Tutorial] Building a Visual Document Retrieval Pipeline with ColPali and Late Interaction Scoring
The tutorial demonstrates how to build a visual document retrieval pipeline using the open‑source ColPali model. It walks through creating a stable Python environment, rendering PDF pages as images, and generating multi‑vector embeddings for each page. Late‑interaction scoring matches natural‑language...
By MarkTechPost
News•Feb 19, 2026
Q4: Omnicom’s IPG Merger Is An AI Test Case
Omnicom reported Q4 results after closing its $13.5 billion acquisition of Interpublic Group, positioning AI as the chief growth driver for the merged firm. The company highlighted its Omni platform, now integrated with Acxiom’s Real ID and Flywheel’s Commerce Cloud, to...
By Chief Marketer
News•Feb 19, 2026
Q4: Omnicom’s IPG Merger Is An AI Test Case
Omnicom reported its first earnings after completing the $13.5 billion acquisition of IPG, positioning AI as the core growth engine for the combined firm. The company highlighted its Omni platform, now linked with Acxiom’s Real ID and Flywheel’s Commerce Cloud, to...
By AdExchanger
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
EDiscovery AI: Trial, Deposition, and Discovery Preparation with Early Case Intelligence Solutions
eDiscovery AI introduced its Early Case Intelligence™ suite—Insight ECI™, Case Elements™, and CaseBot™—to accelerate litigation preparation. The platform leverages AI to turn raw electronically stored information into actionable intelligence, supporting deposition strategy, discovery planning, and trial readiness. By automating early...
By ACEDS Blog
News•Feb 19, 2026
Just 15 Minutes of Lawyer Work – AI-Driven Law Firm Targets Remortgages
Former DLA Piper UK managing partner Paul Firth is launching AI‑driven law firm LEXcelerate, promising to cut remortgage lawyer time to 15 minutes and complete transactions in nine working days. The platform automates about 90% of administrative tasks, delivering roughly...
By Legal Futures (UK)
News•Feb 19, 2026
CJC Calls for Declaration About AI Use in Drafting Witness Statements
The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has issued an interim report proposing that litigators must declare they have not used AI to generate the content of trial witness statements, while allowing AI assistance for other court documents provided the responsible lawyer’s...
By Legal Futures (UK)
News•Feb 19, 2026
IPAA ACT Virtual AI Summit: Building a Trusted Digital Future
The Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) is hosting a virtual AI Summit on 18 March 2026. The half‑day event will focus on building a trusted digital future for the public sector, featuring breakout sessions on workforce upskilling, AI governance, digital stewardship,...
By The Mandarin (Australia)
Blog•Feb 19, 2026
UK Medical Device Testing Hits Record High as MHRA Backs Growth in Brain and AI Technology
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency reported a 17% rise in approved clinical investigations for 2025, setting a record high. Average approval times fell to 51 days, outpacing the 60‑day target, while neurotechnology now accounts for roughly a...
By Med-Tech Insights
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Momentum.io Showcases Enterprise AI's True Work System
Congratulations to Santiago Suarez Ordoñez , Ashley Wilson , Moiz Virani , and the entire Momentum.io team. It’s been a privilege to support you on this journey. Momentum embodied several themes we consistently look for in native AI companies: --> Replacing the...
By Mark Roberge
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI-Powered Video Editing Now Built Into My Editor
The video editor I use. Now I can make AI videos right in there. Smart. Oh, got a Kling report I'll run shortly here. It's amazing what AI can learn from everyone's posts.
By Robert Scoble
News•Feb 19, 2026
‘An AlphaFold 4’ – Scientists Marvel at DeepMind Drug Spin-Off’s Exclusive New AI
Isomorphic Labs unveiled IsoDDE, a proprietary AI engine touted as an “AlphaFold 4”‑level breakthrough in drug discovery. The 27‑page technical report claims the model outperforms AlphaFold 3, the open‑source Boltz‑2, and traditional physics‑based methods in predicting binding affinity and antibody‑protein interactions. Researchers...
By Nature – Health Policy (topic)
Social•Feb 19, 2026
UBS Accelerates AI to Transform Banking Operations
UBS Steps Up AI Initiatives to Reshape Banking Operations - Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News - FintechNewsCH https://t.co/lzgbtiumUP
By Oliver Bussmann
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI's Rapid Diffusion Outpaces Our Adaptation Capacity
AI is eating industries and jobs. For sure. But new ones will be created. However, we’ve never seen tech diffuse this rapidly. It’s the speed of digestion that we are struggling with the most. https://t.co/KApUVISD5g
By Daniel Newman
Social•Feb 19, 2026
AI Boosts HR Efficiency, Yet Demands Human Empathy
The Paradox of #AI in #HRStrategy: Efficiency, Empathy, and the Human Factor https://t.co/LiIGmm7GKI #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #CPO #Hiring #Recruitment #PeopleManagement #Culture #Change #FutureofHR #HRCurator
By Dave Millner
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Anthropic Predicts Autonomy Surge Till
per @AnthropicAI ‘s own numbers, interesting that 99.9 percentile model autonomy straightlines up through 2025 and immediately takes a nosedive after opus 4.6 launch. you can really see the efficiency work start to kick in after the pioneering work of...
By Swyx (Shawn Wang)
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Sonnet 4.6 Delivers Fast AI Chrome Performance
AI Chrome extensions felt largely unusable because of how slow they were. Sonnet 4.6 is the first one that changes that for me. While in meetings, I am kicking off browser tasks and unlike Opus 4.5, it actually finishes before...
By Allie Miller
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Update Governance Now or Drown in Agentic AI Chaos
Agentic AI is rising, but are your governance frameworks still stuck in 2023? Autonomous systems don't wait for committee approval. CIOs: lead the orchestration or get buried by the chaos. 🤖⚡️ Deep dive here: https://t.co/dJs86sTyRD #CXOtalk #AgenticAI #TechLeadership
By Tim Crawford