What'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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Seedtag and IRIS.TV have partnered to bring privacy‑first, neuro‑contextual AI targeting to Connected TV by integrating IRIS.TV’s program‑level content signals into Seedtag’s Liz engine. The collaboration enhances contextual precision at the program and scene level, allowing media buyers to set granular guardrails without sacrificing scale, and replaces fragile identity‑based signals with rich content metadata and intent scores. Daniel Church, Head of CTV at Seedtag, explains how this approach improves transparency, relevance, and performance for local and retail advertisers while remaining compliant with privacy regulations.

The tutorial walks through building a fully interactive exploratory data analysis (EDA) workflow inside a Python notebook using PyGWalker. It starts with advanced feature engineering on the Titanic dataset, creating buckets, segments, and DuckDB‑safe columns for both row‑level and aggregated...
Agentic AI Explained: The Future of Autonomous AI Systems in Business & Technology 📽️ https://t.co/9GBCWdMbfw What if AI could set its own goals and make independent decisions — just like a human? Agentic AI represents the next evolution of artificial...

Cloudflare unveiled Agents SDK v0.5.0, merging stateful Durable Objects with a Rust‑based Infire inference engine to run AI agents directly at the edge. The SDK lets each agent keep a persistent SQLite store of up to 1 GB, eliminating external database calls...

Google is converting Lookalike audiences in Demand Gen campaigns from strict targeting buckets into AI‑driven optimization signals starting March 2026. The new model lets the system expand beyond the predefined Lookalike pool, using similarity tiers as guidance rather than hard...
One reassuring thing about teaching leaders to work with AI: They've been building AI skills their whole careers... without realizing it. The trick is unlocking what they already know so they can level up with AI. Judgment, context, and institutional memory...

Oxford AI professor Michael Wooldridge warned that the rush to commercialise artificial intelligence could trigger a Hindenburg‑style catastrophe, shattering public confidence. He argues that intense market pressure forces firms to release tools before their capabilities and flaws are fully understood....
A new study presents a cloud‑native microservice architecture designed for insurance analytics, leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Spark to replace legacy monolithic systems. The design enables real‑time data ingestion, continuous AI model deployment, and automated scaling across services. Performance tests...

Microsoft has brought two new data halls online in São Paulo, marking the first operational facilities under its $2.7 bn AI and cloud commitment to Brazil through 2027. The launch was announced at the Microsoft AI Tour by country president Priscyla Laham,...
Global App Testing shows how AI boosts real‑world testing accuracy by expanding coverage beyond scripted flows. By training models on historical test data and user behavior, AI pinpoints high‑risk edge cases across devices, networks, and regions. The approach blends AI‑driven...

Restaurant operators have long used kiosks and mobile ordering, but a 12‑point drop in friendliness scores and a 33% customer avoidance rate signal that front‑of‑house automation is backfiring. Savneet Singh argues that AI should shift to back‑of‑house tasks—inventory forecasting, real‑time...

Google’s AI Search still relies on the classic retrieval‑ranking pipeline, with large language models applied only after a multi‑stage filtering process. Jeff Dean describes a "filter‑first, reason‑last" architecture that narrows billions of indexed pages to a few thousand candidates before...
Meridian, an AI‑driven financial modeling startup, emerged from stealth with a $17 million seed round at a $100 million post‑money valuation. The funding was led by Andreessen Horowitz and The General Partnership, joined by QED Investors, FPV Ventures, and Litquidity Ventures. Meridian...

The Marine Corps has fielded six Digital Transformation Teams (DXTs) and plans two additional deployments to complete coverage across its three Marine Expeditionary Forces. These teams operationalize the service’s 2024 AI strategy by piloting AI solutions, managing risk, and closing...
Quesma unveiled BinaryAudit, an independent benchmark that measures how well artificial‑intelligence models can spot hidden threats in software binaries. The tool aims to shift binary analysis from a reactive, post‑breach activity to a proactive safeguard applied before deployment, during updates,...

The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist trailer spotlights a heated debate between AI optimists and risk advocates. Directors Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell interview figures such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, DeepMind co‑founder Demis Hassabis, Anthropic co‑founder Dario Amodei, alongside AI‑risk...
Kipu Quantum announced the general availability of Rimay, a quantum‑enhanced feature extraction service that plugs into existing classical machine‑learning pipelines. The platform leverages digitized counterdiabatic driving on IBM’s 156‑qubit processors to capture higher‑order data correlations inaccessible to classical algorithms. Early...
In his February 2026 presidential column, Dr. Qihui‑Jim Zhai urges the pathology community to embrace digital pathology and AI tools rather than wait for perfect solutions. He argues that resistance risks being left behind as laboratories worldwide adopt these technologies to...

The Guardian has launched a year‑long reporting series called Reworked that puts workers at the centre of the AI‑driven transformation of workplaces. The initiative will document how AI systems affect scheduling, pay, promotions and creative output across sectors such as...

Waymo’s Ojai engineering vehicle, previously observed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, was photographed in Scottsdale, Arizona. The sighting confirms that Waymo is extending its autonomous‑driving tests beyond California to the Southwest. Scottsdale’s streets provide a new data set of urban...

AI has become the baseline for security vendors in 2026, with advanced generative AI and agentic features now considered essential rather than differentiators. Leaders like MicroAge note that clients increasingly expect AI‑enhanced upgrades across their security stacks. As large language...

University of British Columbia’s Peter A. Allard School of Law has created an AI‑driven legal aid tool that generates targeted questions instead of direct answers when students input case scenarios. The project, led by lecturers Jon Festinger and Nikos Harris,...
In this interview, Jiajun Wu discusses his long‑standing focus on physical scene understanding—building AI that can see, reason about, and interact with the real world. He explains his hybrid methodology that combines bottom‑up deep recognition, top‑down graphical models, and differentiable...

PSP Growth Managing Director Momei Qu told Bloomberg Surveillance that the market is acting irrationally, with NVIDIA’s stock sliding despite record AI‑related capital expenditures announced by the so‑called “MAG 7” firms. Qu said investors are torn between fears that massive AI...

Quest Software unveiled the Trusted Data Management Platform, a unified suite that combines data modeling, cataloging, governance, quality, and a marketplace to deliver AI‑ready data across enterprises. The solution promises up to 54% faster data‑product delivery, up to 40% cost...

Mass General Brigham is actively scouting emerging health technologies, with AI‑assisted robotics at the forefront. The system envisions robots handling specimen transport, medication delivery, and post‑operative equipment sterilization to ease staff workload and reduce sharps injuries. A limited COVID‑era pilot...

Generative AI is now a strategic priority, with 90% of surveyed leaders citing productivity and efficiency as primary motivators. A new Institute for Public Relations study shows communicators act as translators between IT and the broader workforce, often becoming early...
Sphinx announced a $7 million seed round, led by Cherry Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Deel Ventures and Singularity Capital. The San Francisco‑based startup builds browser‑native AI agents that embed directly into existing case‑management systems, third‑party portals and internal dashboards...

Dr. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, former AMA president and global CMO of Aidoc, opened HIMSS26’s Physicians’ Forum with a keynote titled “From Hype to Healing: Real‑World AI Integration in Clinical Practice.” He warned that clinicians are overwhelmed and that AI must...
The article argues that traditional, role‑centric talent models are obsolete in the AI era and proposes a new talent architecture built on five pillars. It emphasizes shifting to skills‑based inventories, designing explicit human‑AI collaboration layers, embedding continuous learning into daily...
Colliers announced a multiyear, record‑high AI investment, raising its IT capital expenditures to a level never seen in the company’s history. The spend is expected to deliver productivity gains and higher margins within two to three years across its commercial...
CathWorks, an AI‑driven startup that creates non‑invasive FFR assessments from routine angiograms, survived the pandemic by leaning on Medtronic’s early minority investment and strategic guidance. After automating its 3‑D coronary modeling to cut analysis time from 22 minutes to two,...
Indicio has launched Proven AI for Digital Travel, enabling travel companies to verify a passenger’s digital passport within chatbot and AI‑assistant interactions. The solution uses a wallet‑held Digital Travel Credential (DTC) that is cryptographically validated without querying a central database. By...

Dynatrace announced accelerated growth by surpassing $1 billion in AWS Marketplace sales and earning the AWS Financial Services Competency. The company reported sustained triple‑digit growth over three years, driven by cloud‑native procurement demand. It also secured the AWS Agentic AI Specialization,...

Startups at the India AI Impact Summit are grappling with soaring stall fees and a disappointing quality of visitors, prompting doubts about the return on their investment. Tightened security for VIP delegations and on‑site organizational chaos have further hampered exhibitors’...
While SaaS stocks got destroyed because of the threat of AI, we were spinning up AI agents at @ListKitio that make our team 5x more productive. Agentic workflows helping our AMs do work for our customers they can't and don't...

Artificial Labs has created AgLabs, a new division focused on research and product innovation for agentic AI in specialty insurance. The unit targets the pre‑bind interaction layer, using autonomous broker and underwriter agents to share, verify, and standardize risk data....
Nearly every AI research tool promises insights. Many still can’t tell you how much they matter. And very few connect them to what your whole company should do next. so I decided to try and build a better way Day 4: been using...

SS&C Blue Prism is guiding customers from traditional robotic process automation (RPA) toward agentic AI automation. The firm highlights the limitations of rule‑based RPA for handling unstructured, context‑driven data and showcases its emerging platform that embeds large‑language‑model agents into workflows....
We’re in a consolidation phase with growing cross-sector AI disruption fears, weakening tech leadership, falling yields, and increasing dispersion. This is the environment where you have to be disciplined, look at your portfolio honestly, and ask: – Is this company a potential...

AI isn’t one thing — it’s a stack. Rules → ML → Neural Nets → Deep Learning → GenAI → Agentic AI Agents don’t replace the layers below. They orchestrate them. If GenAI answers, Agentic AI executes. https://t.co/O2k9LnSiHK

DARPA’s RACER program is advancing high‑speed autonomous vehicles that operate in unstructured off‑road terrain without relying on maps or GPS. The initiative has field‑tested modified Polaris RZR and Textron M5 platforms across the Mojave Desert, Camp Roberts, and Fort Hood....
Former Altera CEO Sandra Rivera has joined French AI chip startup @vsora_dsp as chair of the board. I had a chat with her about raising Vsora's profile, raising funding, and competing with Nvidia, AMD and the entire landscape of startups...

Good points from @benthompson @stratechery today. Hybrid AI is the way, and those OS/UIs that manage that best and integrate agentic at the system level are best positioned. https://t.co/b2PY6FuSgR

88% of organizations use AI, but only 5% see measurable value. 📉 The era of "playing with ChatGPT" is over. Boards want results, not experiments. Is your 2026 agenda a strategy or just a wishlist? Watch: https://t.co/dJs86sTyRD #CXOtalk #CIO #AI #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/FgDryZSMhb
Nvidia and Khosla just put $200M into @polyaivoice, and looking at the stats, it makes sense. They already handle 500M+ calls for giants like Marriott & PG&E. Now, you can build a 45-language agent in 5 mins just from a URL. Massive...
My initial take on @Grok 4.20 is that it's very.. pleasant? Fast and accurate responses, handles some advanced stuff very well, nice balance of attitude. I feel it has more horsepower than currently shown though, perhaps that scales with more than 4...

At These Universities, Using AI Isn’t Shunned — It’s a Graduation Requirement - my latest for @The74 (link in first add). https://t.co/58ofbuEUpy
Massive compute capabilities enable a whole new way of manipulating and using data, and a potential bonanza for AI data centers. https://t.co/c1vSecTfww #AIdatacenters #abstractions #virtualtwins #digitaltwins #AgenticAI #semiEDA
AI avatars usually feel a bit 'off'. IMO the eyes always give it away 😅 But Cara-3’s micro-expressions are actually on point 👀