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Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: India AI Impact Summit pledges $240B AI investment
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.
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By the numbers: OpenAI raises $110B in corporate funding
News•Feb 18, 2026
Niqo Robotics Showcases 3-in-1 Precision AI Robot at Southwest Ag Summit 2026
Niqo Robotics unveiled its 3‑in‑1 AI robot at the Southwest Ag Summit, demonstrating a single‑pass solution for precision weeding, crop thinning, and targeted spraying. The showcase followed a successful pilot that generated the company’s first commercial order in the region. Expanded AI models now support onions, broccoli, kale, tomatoes and other specialty crops, addressing labor shortages and input cost pressures. The robot’s integrated approach promises lower soil compaction, reduced chemical use, and improved per‑acre economics for growers in Arizona and California.
By RoboticsTomorrow
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Stand Out in AI-Driven Content Overload
Content is already saturated, but AI is making it infinite. Now the biggest threat to creators is becoming invisible and getting lost in the wave of videos posted everyday. Today we dive into how you can defend yourself against it,...
By Colin and Samir
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI’s $10B Future Lies in Boring Legal Automation
This AI startup just hit an $11B valuation by solving one of the most boring problems in tech.... Harvey is reportedly raising $200M and has reached: - $190M in ARR - 1,000 customers - 100,000 lawyers on the platform So what problem do they actually...
By Ryan Allis
News•Feb 18, 2026
INL Enlists NVIDIA on ‘PROMETHEUS’ AI Effort to Halve Nuclear Deployment Timelines Under DOE Genesis Mission
Idaho National Laboratory has teamed with NVIDIA to launch PROMETHEUS, an AI‑driven autonomous reactor demonstration under the DOE Genesis Mission. The partnership targets a 50% reduction in nuclear deployment timelines and multi‑billion‑dollar cost savings by embedding AI across design, licensing,...
By POWER Magazine
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Needs Real‑Time Context, Not Just Bigger Models
The AI industry doesn’t have a model problem. It has a supply chain problem. Across the enterprise, we see a consistent pattern: sophisticated models operating in isolation from customer reality — think of it as “Brain in a Jar.” The model can...
By Heidi Bullock
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
AI Quoting Hits Retail. Specialty Gains Leverage
The episode examines the February 2026 selloff in U.S. insurance broker stocks, triggered by the launch of AI quoting tools from Insurify and Tuio on ChatGPT. While the market panicked, assuming AI would disintermediate all broker services, the discussion highlights...
By P&C Insurance Executive Intelligence (The Intelligence Council)
News•Feb 18, 2026
NextGen Supply Chain Conference 2026 Opens Speaker Submission Process
The NextGen Supply Chain Conference 2026 has opened its speaker submission window, inviting senior supply‑chain leaders to present case studies at the event scheduled for Oct. 21‑23, 2026, in Nashville’s W Hotel. The conference’s theme, “Innovate. Upskill. Transform.”, signals a shift...
By Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR)
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Productivity Tricks Don’t Scale to Real Team Workflows
Most AI productivity hacks you see on LinkedIn don't work. They work for one person, on their own laptop, with no one else involved. That's not your reality. Your reality is shared Google Docs with 14 contributors. Confluence pages that...
By Ed Biden
News•Feb 18, 2026
Recurring Revenue Strategies for the AI Business Era
The article examines how AI’s high variable costs are reshaping recurring‑revenue models, moving firms away from flat‑rate SaaS subscriptions toward hybrid, usage‑based, and outcome‑based pricing. It cites McKinsey data showing 50% of firms plan AI adoption and highlights that 72%...
By SmartData Collective
News•Feb 18, 2026
Sumo Logic Moves Into Sovereign Cloud Regions in Europe
Sumo Logic announced the extension of its cloud‑native analytics platform into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and an AWS data center in Switzerland. The move lets customers keep logs, telemetry, and security data within national borders, satisfying GDPR and other...
By ChannelE2E
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Travel Breaks Routine, Fuels Original Thinking in AI Era
I just spent a month in Australia. And I want to talk about what it actually did to my brain. Something happens when you pull yourself out of your routine and put yourself somewhere unfamiliar. You start to wake up a...
By Allie Miller
News•Feb 18, 2026
Spirent Luma Brings Agentic AI to Network Testing, Slashes Triage Time
Spirent Communications, now part of Keysight, launched Luma, an agentic AI platform that automates network test case generation, root‑cause analysis, and knowledge retrieval. Built on a domain‑specific knowledge graph, deterministic rule engine and a suite of 10‑12 specialized AI agents,...
By Network World (sitewide)
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Workflow Replaces WhaleWisdom for Fund Portfolio Tracking
With 13Fs for Q4 out, retweeting this AI workflow (which I quite like). I will be building a stack of a couple dozen funds I follow to get a quick look at their portfolios: new additions, size ups/downs and portfolio...
By Brett Caughran
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Build a 2026 Digital Store Using AI Tools
How To Build A Digital Product Store With AI In 2026 WATCH HERE 👉 https://t.co/ijT1ejXe7l In this video, I show you step-by-step how to build a digital product store using AI in 2026, including how to generate product images, write high-converting...
By Kamil Sattar
News•Feb 18, 2026
AI Agents and How to Govern Them: Tailscale, Sayvint Offer Solutions
AI agents are moving from occasional chat tools to always‑on assistants, prompting enterprises to confront identity‑governance gaps. Tailscale introduced Aperture, an open‑alpha governance layer that ties AI usage to user or workload identities, offering policy controls, audit‑ready session logs, and...
By Biometric Update
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Will Slash Decades-Long Lag in Medical Adoption
It can take decades for new medical research to change what happens in the exam room. AI is going to massively accelerate this process. The dissemination of medical research into clinical practice is not slow because the science is slow. It...
By Dereck Paul, MD
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Google Grants TPU Compute Awards for Keras 3 Researchers
If you're a researcher in academia using Keras 3 (PhD student, postdoc, professor...) and you want to train on TPUs, you could receive compute awards from Google for your research. Google is running a new academic grant program, separate from...
By François Chollet
News•Feb 18, 2026
Snowflake Partners: AI’s Impact Can Withstand A Potential Bubble
Snowflake’s ecosystem of solution partners says AI’s impact will endure despite concerns of a bubble. Executives from BlueCloud, RiskSpan, Viewnear and Slalom stress that solid data foundations and cost‑driven efficiencies are essential for sustainable AI adoption. They note a shift...
By CRN (US)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Outcome-Based Business Models Gain Traction In The Channel As A Way To Navigate AI Economics
Solution providers are abandoning hourly billing in favor of outcome‑based models as AI automation turns software development into a commodity. Eduardo Ramos founded Viewnear to align pricing with measurable client results, leveraging Snowflake’s data platform and AI tools. RiskSpan and...
By CRN (US)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Snowflake CEO: ‘I’m Not In The Business Of Selling AI. I’m In The Business Of Creating Value.’
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy told CRN that the company’s focus is on creating customer value, not merely selling AI. He highlighted the rapid expansion of Snowflake’s partner ecosystem to more than 14,200 global partners, a 22% year‑over‑year increase. Ramaswamy emphasized...
By CRN (US)
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
Beyond Just Do It with Linda Cereda
Former Nike Global VP of Marketing Data, Linda Cereda, explains how the brand built a scalable marketing data engine by prioritizing operating model over technology. She details the SNKRS app’s scarcity‑driven launch, the use of zero‑party data to slash forecasting...
By The Martech Weekly (TMW)
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Agentic AI Surges as Top Enterprise Priority
Futurum’s latest Enterprise Software Decision Maker Survey reveals Enterprise AI ROI Shifts as Agentic Priorities Surge ▪The Agentic Shift: Autonomous Agents/Agentic AI claimed the #1 technology priority for 17.1% of decision-makers, up from 13.0% in 2H 2025—a 31.5% year-over-year increase and...
By Tiffani Bova
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News•Feb 18, 2026
[Webinar] AI Trade Secrets: Litigation Trends and Risk Management - March 4th, 9:00 Am - 10:00 Am PST
Fenwick & West’s March 4 webinar will examine the surge in trade‑secret litigation targeting AI companies’ core assets, such as algorithms, training data, and deployment strategies. The session will dissect recent high‑profile cases and the sizable damages awarded, highlighting how employee...
By JD Supra – Legal Tech
News•Feb 18, 2026
Milwaukee Sheriff Moves to Integrate Biometrica Despite MPD Facial Recognition Freeze
Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office has signed a letter of intent to partner with Biometrica, aiming to access its UMbRA facial‑recognition database. The draft contract would let the sheriff’s office search a de‑identified collection of mugshots, felony warrants and missing‑person images,...
By Biometric Update
News•Feb 18, 2026
Amazon Halts Blue Jay Robotics Project After Less than 6 Months
Amazon has halted its Blue Jay warehouse robotics project less than six months after its public debut. The multi‑armed robot, unveiled in October to speed same‑day delivery, was built in roughly a year—significantly faster than Amazon’s prior robot programs. Amazon says...
By TechCrunch Robotics
News•Feb 18, 2026
CharmHealth Advances Its AI Strategy With MCP Server
CharmHealth introduced its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, a secure, standardized interface that lets AI applications access electronic health record (EHR) data directly within the clinician’s workflow. The server translates natural‑language requests from large language models into structured EHR interactions,...
By Digital Health Global
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Helped Me Pick the Perfect Perfume for My Wife
I used AI to find the right perfume for my wife and I don’t regret it https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/gemini/i-used-ai-to-find-the-right-perfume-for-my-wife-and-i-dont-regret-it
By Lance Ulanoff
News•Feb 18, 2026
National Robotics Week 2026 Underscores Robotics as a Critical U.S. Industry and Workforce Engine
National Robotics Week runs April 4‑12, 2026, spotlighting robotics as a strategic U.S. industry. Organized by MassRobotics, the week aggregates over a hundred events nationwide, linking manufacturers, startups, and research labs. Partnerships such as Microsoft’s sponsorship of STEM sessions and...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Feb 18, 2026
OpenAI Must Stop Using ‘Cameo’ Term in Sora App, Judge Rules
A U.S. district judge granted a preliminary win to video‑request platform Cameo, ordering OpenAI to stop using the "Cameo" label for its Sora AI video feature, citing likely consumer confusion and recent deep‑fake controversies. OpenAI had previously renamed the feature...
By Mashable AI
News•Feb 18, 2026
AI Connected to Slightly More Hiring, but Growth Favors Older Workers with Less Exposure
Payroll data from Gusto shows that small businesses that increase AI‑exposed work see modest revenue gains and a slight rise in hiring. For every 10‑point boost in AI exposure, monthly revenue climbs about 2.2% after six months, while headcount grows...
By Accounting Today
News•Feb 18, 2026
ECL Targets AI Data Centers with Fuel-Agnostic Power Platform
ECL unveiled FlexGrid, a power‑agnostic platform that lets modular data centers draw electricity from hydrogen, natural gas, renewables or diesel. The system is designed for AI training and inferencing workloads, allowing operators to start with modest 2‑10 MW grid connections and...
By Network World (sitewide)
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Enhances, But Can't Replace Human Insight in Journalism
A wonderful evening with the @Columbia Knight-Bagehot Fellows — journalists taking a deep dive into business, economics, finance and technology at a moment when rigorous reporting has never mattered more. We talked about leadership, resilience and AI — and the responsibility...
By Arianna Huffington
News•Feb 18, 2026
Pakistan Super App for Gov’t Services, Document Verification Advances Toward Launch
Pakistan’s government is set to launch a mobile "Super App" that will consolidate public services, document verification, and digital payments into a single platform. The initiative builds on NADRA’s National Digital Identity system and the existing Pak ID app, leveraging...
By Biometric Update
News•Feb 18, 2026
‘The Future Is About Fixing Business Problems:’ New Charter CEO On AI‑Native MSP Strategy
New Charter Technologies is reshaping the managed services provider (MSP) model by embedding AI into its core operations, turning reactive support into automated, self‑healing processes. The company recently hired Microsoft veteran Michelle Curtis as chief revenue officer to drive a...
By CRN (US)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Williams-Sonoma to Test Ads in ChatGPT
Williams‑Sonoma has joined OpenAI’s ad pilot, becoming one of the first retailers to test sponsored placements inside ChatGPT. The experiment will surface high‑end home‑goods ads to free and Go users as they ask product‑related questions, while paid subscribers remain ad‑free....
By Retail Dive
News•Feb 18, 2026
Don’t Run From Scary Times. Here’s How AI Helps You Prioritize What Really Counts
Amid economic uncertainty, the article urges businesses to double down on core strengths and customer relationships, using AI as a strategic ally. It highlights how AI can surface top‑performing products, personalize marketing, and provide real‑time data to guide decisions. By...
By Entrepreneur
News•Feb 18, 2026
Frist Cressey Ventures Raises $425M Fund to Invest in AI-Native Care
Frist Cressey Ventures closed an oversubscribed $425 million Fund IV, lifting its assets under management close to $1 billion. The new fund zeroes in on early‑stage, AI‑native healthcare companies that can reshape care delivery. Strategic limited partners such as Cigna, MedStar Health and...
By HIT Consultant
News•Feb 18, 2026
Loman AI Expands POS Partnerships with SpotOn
Loman AI announced a new partnership with SpotOn, extending its voice‑AI phone answering service to another leading restaurant point‑of‑sale platform. The integration lets the AI pull real‑time menu, reservation and inventory data directly from the POS, enabling more natural, accurate...
By Food On Demand
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
Amazon Sellers Have 2 Weeks to Ensure Compliance of Tools They Use
Amazon will amend its Business Solutions Agreement (BSA) effective March 4, 2026, adding a new Agent Policy that governs AI and automated tools accessing Seller Central. Sellers received notice on February 17 and now have a two‑week window to confirm that any third‑party...
By EcommerceBytes
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
Yotta Plans $2B NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Supercluster Deployment in India
Yotta Data Services announced a $2 billion deployment of 20,736 liquid‑cooled NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, creating one of Asia’s largest AI superclusters. The system, slated to go live by August 2026 at its Greater Noida hyperscale data centre, includes a four‑year, $1 billion...
By HPCwire
Podcast•Feb 18, 2026•29 min
Safer, Faster Public Transportation: AC Transit’s AI-Powered Upgrade with Hayden AI - Ep. 290
In this episode, AC Transit CTO Ahsan Baig and Hayden AI CEO Marty Beard discuss how AI‑powered, edge‑computing cameras mounted on buses detect vehicles illegally blocking bus lanes and stops, improving on‑time performance, safety, and accessibility. The system leverages NVIDIA...
By The AI Podcast (NVIDIA)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Identy Joins Africa’s Push for Digital Identity in Humanitarian Healthcare
Identy is partnering with the volunteer NGO HumanCoop to roll out offline facial‑recognition tools for undocumented patients in northern Mauritania, creating portable digital medical IDs that work without internet. The initiative will initially cover the Bir Mogrein community of over 2,500...
By Biometric Update
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI-Driven Care Replaces Outdated Pharmacy Tear Sheets
⚡ How AI, Data, and Innovation are Rewriting the Future of Care Let's take a closer look at education in medicine and healthcare. But let's start with a simple question. 🤔 Are you happy with that generic "tear sheet" of information...
By John Nosta
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Platforms Must Prioritize Trust Over Ad Revenue
Perplexity is stepping away from advertising, arguing that trust matters more than short-term revenue. As AI platforms become primary sources of answers and decisions, even subtle commercial influence can undermine credibility. The real monetization challenge in AI isn’t scale. It’s building sustainable...
By Spiros Margaris
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Optimistic AI Startups Can Disrupt the Doomsday Narrative
So many doomsday predictions from the biggest AI players...who also need to justify massive capex. If you're a startup with a more optimistic and nuanced take on the future of work, this is your opportunity. The dominant narrative is ripe...
By Ashley Mayer
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Hiring You Now: Boardy AI Disrupts Investing
Someday soon AI will hire you. @boardyai is already doing that today. You talk to it on the phone. Helps you build your company. Very disruptive to all sorts of investors.
By Robert Scoble
Social•Feb 18, 2026
GenAI Turns Specs Into Self‑healing Tests, Ending E2E Trap
E2E testing is a trap. You write the script. The UI updates. The pipeline explodes 💥 I’ve been testing Kane AI by @TestMuAI (formerly LambdaTest). It finally breaks the cycle. It’s a GenAI agent that turns plain English (or JIRA specs) into resilient, self-healing...
By Data Chaz
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Sales Agent Raises $14M, Beats Human Reps
In this episode of Founder Firesides,@snowmaker talks to the founders of @simpleailab, @catheryn_li & @Zach_Kamran, who just raised a $14M seed. Simple AI gives businesses an AI sales agent that handles inbound calls end-to-end and outperforms their human reps. https://t.co/keftLeBwrc
By YCombinator
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Agentic AI Enables Accurate Rare Disease Diagnosis via DeepRare
Another good use case for agentic AI in medicine: diagnosis of rare diseases. Exemplified by DeepRare https://t.co/XBd68V3iDl https://t.co/rBl5yn95sI
By Eric Topol
Social•Feb 18, 2026
New AI Agent Beats ChatGPT with Persistent Memory
I’ve been testing a new AI agent that actually remembers who I am. Meet @getsurething. It hits 59.3% on the `REAL-Agent Benchmark`, crushing both OpenClaw and ChatGPT. And unlike them, it has Persistent Memory, SOC 2 security, and connects to 1000+ apps 🔥 Let's...
By Data Chaz