🎯Today's AI Pulse
Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: Telcos pivot to AI revenue models as new monetisation frameworks emerge
A GSMA Intelligence report released at MWC 2026 shows telecom operators are shifting AI projects from internal cost‑saving tools to revenue‑generating services. The study outlines three new monetisation models—AI Connectivity Provider, AI Compute Provider, and AI Solutions Partner—backed by pilots from Singtel, Reliance Jio, Deutsche Telekom, SK Telecom and KDDI.
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By the numbers: OpenAI raises $110B in corporate funding
News•Feb 18, 2026
Rox Heart Radio: Why AI?
Rox Heart Radio released a new episode titled “Why AI?” featuring host Roxana Mehran in conversation with cardiology researchers Ami Bhatt and Rohan Khera. The trio explores how artificial intelligence is poised to reshape cardiovascular care, from imaging interpretation to risk prediction. They highlight concrete use‑cases, such as AI‑driven echocardiography analysis and genomics‑based disease modeling. The podcast also addresses practical hurdles like data privacy, bias, and regulatory uncertainty.
By TCTMD
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Use AI to Build SaaS Moats, Not Fear
AI isn't the threat to your SaaS. How you use it is. Today... live podcast: The NRR Battle 2026. We'll talk about building moats and leveraging AI to make your SaaS even more valuable while your competitors are running scared. We go live...
By Lincoln Murphy
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Amplifies Bias; Build Software Wisely, Not Endlessly
AI is an amplifier of your intellect and values. A mirror of your soul. If you were a confirmation bias person, AI can be catastrophic for you. There’s some way to contort almost any prompt to give you the answer you’re...
By Guillermo Rauch
News•Feb 18, 2026
Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using AI
Unity announced a new AI-powered tool that can generate entire casual games from natural‑language prompts, aiming to eliminate traditional coding. The company will showcase a beta version at the Game Developers Conference in March. Unity frames the technology as a...
By Futurism AI
Social•Feb 18, 2026
New 4‑Week “Classy Vibing with AI” Workshop Launch
It’s not often I launch a new online workshop. Later today is the debut of Classy Vibing with AI! Each of the four weeks features an instructional video and optional assignment. Here’s a 30-second teaser from the first video: https://youtu.be/PXZeHLDLCSg
By Tony Vincent
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Agents Let You Build Vision Apps without Coding
🚀 Building a Computer Vision app - without writing a single line of code. In this walkthrough, we used an AI coding agent to create a real-time face detection application that can blur or pixelate faces on a live video feed....
By Satya Mallick
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
AI Will Make Medical Scan Reports Twice as Easy for Patients to Understand – Study
A systematic review of 38 studies covering more than 12,000 radiology reports found that AI tools like ChatGPT can rewrite scan findings in language understandable to 11‑13‑year‑old readers. Patients rated the AI‑simplified reports almost twice as easy to comprehend, while...
By Health Tech World
News•Feb 18, 2026
Canva Gets to $4B in Revenue as LLM Referral Traffic Rises
Canva closed 2025 with a 20% jump in monthly active users, reaching over 265 million, and pushed its annual recurring revenue to $4 billion. The platform’s AI‑driven tools, including a mini‑app creator used by more than 10 million users, helped double its B2B...
By TechCrunch Apps
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
The MSP Agentic AI Execution Gap in Service Delivery
A recent Omdia white paper reveals that while 70% of managed service providers (MSPs) say they use agentic AI, only 10% have deployed it in core IT service desk or security functions. The majority are stuck in internal experiments, whereas...
By ITSM.tools
News•Feb 18, 2026
From Pilot Purgatory to Productive Failure: Fixing AI's Broken Learning Loop
AI pilots frequently stall between proof‑of‑concept and production, often due to outdated quarterly KPIs, governance vacuums, and slow feedback loops. Executives argue that linear metrics clash with AI’s dynamic nature, causing drift and delayed corrective action. To close the gap,...
By InformationWeek
News•Feb 18, 2026
Livi Partners with CloudFit to Bridge Healthcare and Holistic Wellbeing Through AI-Powered Preventative Health Platform
Livi, Europe’s leading digital‑first healthcare provider, has partnered with AI‑driven holistic platform CloudFit to launch an integrated preventative health solution. The collaboration lets Livi GPs refer patients to CloudFit’s fitness, nutrition and lifestyle coaching, creating a continuous care loop between...
By Health Tech Digital (UK)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Wabash Unveils AI-Powered TrailerHawk to Combat Cargo Theft
Wabash introduced TrailerHawk, an AI‑driven trailer system that combines computer vision, facial recognition, and digital seals to create an end‑to‑end chain of custody for freight. The solution issues real‑time alerts, geofenced lock controls, and automatically documents loading activities, integrating directly...
By FleetOwner
News•Feb 18, 2026
“End-to-End AI” Films Are Here: Kuku’s AI Impact Summit Demo Hints at a Content Flood
At the AI Impact Summit 2026, Kuku FM CEO Lal Chand Bisu unveiled India’s first “AI‑first micro drama,” a short‑form film produced entirely by artificial intelligence across script, dialogue, post‑production, and marketing assets. Bisu announced that Kuku already releases hundreds...
By YourStory
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
Buy versus Build an LLM: A Decision Framework for Governments
Large language models are emerging as core digital infrastructure for governments, offering capabilities from routine citizen services to high‑stakes policy analysis. Policymakers must decide whether to purchase commercial offerings, build domestic models, or adopt hybrid solutions, each with trade‑offs in...
By GovLab — Digest —
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
Samsung Begin Mass Production of Up to 36GB HBM4 Memory With Performance for AI Computing
Samsung Electronics has begun mass production of its next‑generation HBM4 memory, shipping 24‑36 GB stacks that deliver 11.7 Gb/s per pin and up to 3.3 TB/s bandwidth per stack. The new DRAM uses Samsung’s 6th‑gen 10 nm‑class 1c process and 12‑layer stacking, offering a...
By StorageNewsletter
News•Feb 18, 2026
India’s Fintech Powerhouse Cashfree Payments Expands AI Ambitions with ‘Cashfree Here’ Launch
Cashfree Payments introduced Cashfree Here, an in‑chat payment solution unveiled at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, allowing users to complete transactions directly within AI chat applications. The product leverages Cashfree’s existing API banking infrastructure to embed checkout, tokenised card...
By PaySpace Magazine
News•Feb 18, 2026
New Ecommerce Tools: February 18, 2026
This week’s ecommerce rollout spans AI‑driven marketing, new payment options, and expanded livestream shopping. Mailchimp unveiled predictive analytics, ChatGPT‑powered content tools, and an omnichannel dashboard, while Klarna entered Google Pay in the UK and Amazon launched Pay by Bank for...
By Practical Ecommerce
News•Feb 18, 2026
Tech-Powered Credit Reform Could Add £7bn to the UK’s GDP, Report Claims
ClearScore’s new white paper argues that modernising credit‑worthiness assessments with open‑banking data and AI could add up to £7 bn to the UK’s annual GDP. It highlights that 17 million adults face a £2 bn credit supply gap, with up to 60% of...
By UKTN (UK Tech News)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Vantor Partners with Google AI to Automate Intelligence Reports for Government Agencies
Vantor, a commercial Earth‑observation satellite operator, announced a partnership with Google to run Google Earth AI models inside classified, air‑gapped government networks. The AI will automatically generate text‑based intelligence reports from Vantor’s own, third‑party, or sovereign imagery, cutting analysis time...
By SpaceNews
Podcast•Feb 18, 2026•44 min
LawNext on Location: Lunch with Alex Su of Latitude Legal In Alameda, Calif.
In this live LawNext episode, Bob meets Alex Su, CRO of Latitude Legal, over lunch in Alameda to discuss Alex’s unconventional career—from BigLaw associate to legal‑tech sales leader—and his viral TikTok presence that critiques law firm culture. Alex explains how...
By LawNext
News•Feb 18, 2026
AI Enables a Who’s Who of Brown Bears in Alaska
In this episode, researchers from EPFL and Alaska Pacific University discuss PoseSwin, an AI system that identifies individual brown bears in Alaska despite seasonal changes in weight and coat. By focusing on stable head features and incorporating pose-aware transformer models,...
By AIhub
News•Feb 18, 2026
Brightpick Partners with NAPA on Robotic Fulfillment Deployments at DCs
Brightpick announced a strategic partnership with NAPA to roll out AI‑powered robotic fulfillment across the retailer’s distribution centers. After a successful 2025 pilot, the 2026 agreement will see more than 100 Brightpick goods‑to‑person robots deployed at an initial site, with...
By Modern Materials Handling
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
Making Authenticity a Competitive Edge for Publishers
Publishers face a surge of AI‑generated content, with 50% of new web articles and one‑third of YouTube Shorts now created by algorithms. Advertisers are moving away from sheer volume metrics toward outcomes that require verified, engaged audiences. The article outlines...
By Digital Content Next (InContext/Blog)
News•Feb 18, 2026
Agentic Siri From Apple Benefits for Healthcare Technology
Apple’s new Apple Intelligence platform transforms Siri into an autonomous, agentic health assistant that blends on‑device generative models with Private Cloud Compute. The system can traverse HealthKit, Mail, and other apps to execute multi‑step clinical tasks, from real‑time vitals monitoring...
By healthcare.digital
News•Feb 18, 2026
1606 Corp to Acquire Plot of Land in Texas for AI Data Center Development
1606 Corp signed a non‑binding term sheet to acquire roughly 132 acres in Lufkin, Texas, including a 55 MW natural‑gas power plant and a 50,000 sq ft warehouse for an AI‑focused data center. The transaction is priced at about $11.67 million, combining $7.5 million in...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 18, 2026
EU Needs to Abandon AI ‘Doomerism,’ White House Official Says
U.S. White House senior AI adviser Sriram Krishnan warned the EU to abandon its "doomerism" and focus on innovation rather than heavy regulation. He criticized the 2024 EU AI Act as stifling for entrepreneurs, citing Austrian coder Peter Steinberger’s move...
By Politico Europe – Technology
News•Feb 18, 2026
Why Corporate Reputation Matters More than Ever in the Age of AI and Polarization
Corey duBrowa, CEO of Burson, argues that corporate reputation is the most valuable yet misunderstood asset in today’s AI‑driven, politically polarized market. Executives face heightened pressure to navigate AI governance debates, regulatory uncertainty, and a global rightward shift while maintaining...
By Fast Company AI
News•Feb 18, 2026
Kingland Announces New Applied-AI Solutions with the Cloud & AI Platform
Kingland Systems unveiled a new suite of applied‑AI solutions built on its Cloud & AI platform, aimed at automating document‑heavy processes for public accounting firms, banking and capital‑markets institutions, and insurers. The platform adds an orchestration layer that combines document...
By AiThority
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
The Standardization Trap: Why Deploying AI Agents in Healthcare Require Requires a Palantir-Style Approach to “Forward Deployed” Custom Workflow Engineering
The episode dissects the gap between commoditized AI agent infrastructure and the bespoke workflow engineering needed for healthcare deployments, arguing that while 60‑70% of the tech stack (LLMs, orchestration, vector stores, compliance layers) can be standardized, the remaining 30‑40% requires...
By Thoughts on Healthcare Markets & Tech
News•Feb 18, 2026
Smart Moves: The Man Overseeing Balfour Beatty’s AI Plan
Balfour Beatty has launched a multimillion‑pound artificial intelligence programme aimed at a "productivity revolution" across its construction portfolio. The initiative is being led by a newly appointed AI chief, who will embed machine‑learning tools into design, scheduling and site safety...
By Construction News – Tech (UK)
News•Feb 18, 2026
How Can AI Support Knowledge Management
AI is becoming a core enabler for knowledge management, helping firms capture, organize, and reuse both tacit and explicit knowledge as senior employees retire. Research shows only 8% of organizations consistently retain retiring workers' expertise, while AI tools can automate...
By APQC Blog
Podcast•Feb 18, 2026•59 min
Ahref's State of SEO
In this episode of Voices of Search, host Tyson Stockton talks with Ahrefs senior leader Patrick Stokes about the rapidly evolving SEO landscape, especially the impact of AI and automation. Stokes shares his mixed feelings—excitement for faster content creation but...
By Voices of Search
Blog•Feb 18, 2026
Your Foreign AI Vendor’s Black Box Is an Ethics Problem, Not a Technical One
Boards and senior leaders are confronting a growing dilemma: critical AI systems supplied by foreign vendors operate as opaque black boxes, delivering efficiency while limiting auditability. Ethicists Vera Cherepanova and Brian Haman argue this is fundamentally an ethical issue of...
By Corporate Compliance Insights
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Pilot 1.40 Cuts Costs, Adds Smart Model Routing
Pilot v1.40.0 delivered 📦 > Sonnet 4.6 default for simple/medium tasks > 40% cost drop on most executions > Opus 4.6 reserved for complex work > Haiku stays on classifiers > near-Opus quality — preferred 59% over Opus 4.5 > smart routing: complexity detected, model matched model_routing.enabled:...
By Aleksei Petrov
News•Feb 18, 2026
Building and Testing in One Flow: BrowserStack Meets Cursor
BrowserStack announced a new plugin for the AI‑native editor Cursor, embedding its testing cloud, test‑management tools, and AI agents directly into the IDE. The integration lets developers generate test cases from requirement documents with a single prompt, launch real‑device sessions...
By BrowserStack – Blog
News•Feb 18, 2026
Circuit Raises $30M in Funding
Circuit, an Austin‑based AI platform for manufacturing and service firms, announced a $30 million financing round. The round was led by a roster of high‑profile backers including Jim Breyer, Lew Cirne, and other tech investors. CEO Tyson Tuttle said the capital...
By FinSMEs
News•Feb 18, 2026
Q&A with Synthesia Founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on Growing the London-Based Enterprise AI Video Platform, Hitting a $4B Valuation,...
Synthesia, the London‑based AI video platform, has scaled to a $4 billion valuation as it expands its enterprise customer base. Founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli discussed the company’s mission to overhaul content creation using synthetic video and the strategic steps driving...
By Techmeme
News•Feb 18, 2026
Westcon-Comstor and UiPath Forge Closer Ties in EU Growth Drive
Westcon‑Comstor has signed a pan‑European distribution agreement to become UiPath’s strategic distributor, creating a unified route‑to‑market for AI‑powered automation services. The partnership equips channel partners with professional services, presales expertise, and a flexible Flex financing solution to speed deal closures....
By ITPro
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Transforms Unknown Genetic Variants Into Actionable Insights
A “Variant of Unknown Significance” is a genetic finding that can’t yet be interpreted, leaving families with uncertainty instead of answers. Now, AI agents can help connect sequencing data with scientific literature and biological context to turn VUS into traceable, evidence-backed...
By Catherine Adenle
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Cross‑team Context Fuels Smarter Autonomous Marketing
imagine if your marketing dept knew exactly what your dev team has been working on that’s what @layers enables in an agentic world, with their code-aware autonomous marketing the take-away pattern is to use context from department A to help department B...
By Yohei Nakajima
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Tech Alone Won’t Drive AI; Practices Must Evolve
RT I compare this genAI moment to early web and cloud eraswhen transformation only happened after we changed practices (agile, DevOps, design thinking), not just technology. Same story, new stakes. #CIO #AI #DigitalTransformation @Star_CIO https://t.co/xfrVmpSIJN
By Isaac Sacolick
Social•Feb 18, 2026
AI Tokens: The New Fifth Lever for Scaling Intelligence
In his famous “how to get rich” thread, naval talks about four types of leverage - labor, capital, media, code. And now there is a fifth. AI Tokens. Look for business models that scale with intelligence - AI tokens. Learn how to use...
By David Hoffman
Social•Feb 18, 2026
EU Parliament Bans AI Chatbots over US Data Security Concerns
The European Parliament banned AI chatbots like Claude and Copilot from lawmakers' devices, citing cybersecurity risks from cloud data uploads to US firms https://t.co/KCPJ57Qqs1 #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews https://t.co/uigKl4zdY7
By Tim Hughes
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Anthropic to Spend $80B on Cloud Partners by 2029
Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google, and Microsoft at least $80B through 2029 to run Claude on their cloud servers; cloud providers get a cut of Anthropic's AI sales revenue https://t.co/cMedWWo2tz #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews https://t.co/sDR7IGPcsA
By Tim Hughes
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Eightfold AI Bias Lawsuit Likely Just the Tip
Eightfold #AIbias suit: Just the ‘tip of the iceberg’? @HR_Exec https://t.co/stdZRYvq2H #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #CPO #Hiring #Recruitment #PeopleManagement #Culture #Change #FutureofHR #HRCurator
By Dave Millner
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Agentic AI: Governance Layer Turns Generative Models Production‑Ready
Agentic AI isn’t smarter GenAI. It’s governed autonomy. GenAI → creates Agents → execute Agentic AI → coordinates, controls, and recovers That outer ring is where AI becomes production-ready. https://t.co/XZmbrKLKWj
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Eight Must‑Know AI Analytics & Optimization Tools
RT @MktgtTechAI Review: The Top 8 AI Analytics & Decision Optimization Tools https://t.co/2u84oWYpJW #AI #analytics #martech
By Tom Pick
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Human Ambition + AI-First Drives Microsoft Customer Success
How human ambition and AI-first differentiation are helping @Microsoft customers go further with AI https://t.co/bq306Z1fts @AiqIntelligence @BlackRock @dentsu_global @Ecolab @HeyEpic @harvey_ai @InSilicoMeds @KraftHeinzCo @ManusAI @MercedesBenz @Nasdaq @RalphLauren @SchneiderElec @educacaosp @Telstra @Toyota @nvidia @Azure #WEF26 #Cloud
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Launch of “Classy Vibing with AI” Workshop
It’s not often I launch a new online workshop. Later today is the debut of Classy Vibing with AI! Each of the four weeks features an instructional video and optional assignment. Here’s a 30-second teaser from the first video: https://t.co/11qXAVDl1v
By Tony Vincent
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Karpathy Offers Free 3.5‑hour Deep Dive Into ChatGPT
Still can’t believe @karpathy released this 3.5-hour free deep dive on how ChatGPT actually works for free 🤯 https://t.co/Qs7EabRgMW
By Data Chaz