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Updated 1h 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 13, 2026
Ever Raises $31M Series A for AI Auto Retail Platform
Ever announced a $31 million Series A round, bringing its total capital to roughly $100 million, as it emerges from stealth with an AI‑driven auto retail platform. The funding, led by Eclipse, targets the $1.2 trillion U.S. auto retail market, which remains fragmented and manual. Ever’s AI‑native operating system claims to triple sales‑team productivity by automating sourcing, pricing, and transaction workflows. The company will use the capital to expand engineering, scale nationwide, and deepen its leadership team.
By Just AI News
Social•Feb 13, 2026
NEAR Introduces Unified Commerce Layer for AI Agents
The unified commerce layer is here on NEAR. While crypto made markets global, 24/7, and instantaneous in theory, most of the world still runs the old way: fiat, stocks, banks, wires, invoices, passwords. All of this will soon be bypassed by...
By Illia Polosukhin
News•Feb 13, 2026
What if Riders Don't Close a Robotaxi Door After a Ride? Try DoorDash.
Waymo has launched a pilot in Atlanta that enlists DoorDash couriers to close robotaxi doors left ajar, preventing vehicles from moving. The program coincides with Waymo’s rollout of its sixth‑generation driver on Zeekr Ojai minivans, supplementing its existing Jaguar I‑Pace...
By Ars Technica – Cars Technica
Blog•Feb 13, 2026
The People Advantage: Why Clients Still Choose People Over AI in Legal Services
A recent LEX Reception survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers shows that despite AI’s growing role in legal back‑office tasks, clients overwhelmingly prefer human interaction for front‑line service. Eighty‑four percent want to speak to a real person, and 87% actively bypass...
By Attorney at Work
Podcast•Feb 13, 2026•23 min
AI Productivity and Bounced Checks
In this episode of the Dividend Cafe, host David Bonson examines the promise and pitfalls of AI-driven productivity, contrasting the hype with hard data on actual output gains. He outlines nine vulnerabilities in the AI investment narrative, emphasizing that most...
By The Dividend Cafe
News•Feb 13, 2026
Meet Slackbot: Your Personal AI Agent for Work
Slack announced Slackbot, a personal AI agent embedded directly in Slack for every employee, without any installation or training. Leveraging the platform’s native context—messages, files, permissions—the bot can synthesize information, draft content, and analyze documents in seconds. Early users report...
By Slack – Blog
News•Feb 13, 2026
Six Shifts that Will Make or Break Enterprise AI
Enterprises are still treating AI as isolated projects, but future success hinges on six concurrent shifts: autonomous agents as digital coworkers, AI‑native applications, enterprise memory foundations, human‑centric interaction, robust trust and integrity, and simulation‑driven change. CIOs must redesign architecture, operating...
By SiliconANGLE (sitewide)
News•Feb 13, 2026
Unlocking Your Retail Insights with LLMs
Best Buy is leveraging large language models to clean and enrich messy retail data, turning unstructured customer signals into actionable insights. The article stresses that LLM adoption must start with a clear business case rather than hype, especially for tasks like...
By AI Accelerator Institute
News•Feb 13, 2026
AI in Slack: Work Faster and Smarter, Right Where You Are
Slack unveiled a suite of AI‑powered tools designed to live inside its collaboration platform, including a personalized Slackbot companion, enterprise‑wide contextual search, and native AI features for summarizing, translating, and drafting content. The new Slackbot, slated for early‑2026 general availability,...
By Slack – Blog
News•Feb 13, 2026
Ecomm Cowboy Talks AI and Underdogs
Chris Hall launched Ecomm Cowboy, a daily livestream on X and YouTube that breaks down ecommerce news, AI developments, and D2C strategies for online retailers. The hour‑long show, debuting a month ago, aims to both inform operators about the fast‑moving...
By Practical Ecommerce
Social•Feb 13, 2026
AI Cuts Months of Design Work to Hours
1.5 years ago, I spent an entire month designing Theanna from idea to... design. (just design) Last night, I used Claude Code to design and implement a front end for a brand new feature, generate Linear tickets, and assigned to a...
By Nomiki Petrolla
Social•Feb 13, 2026
AI Web Browsing Saves Time, But Risks Mistakes
Letting AI Browse the Web for You Sounds Great — Until It Goes Wrong AI web browsing can save time, but things can quickly go awry — this article highlights the pitfalls and what you need to be aware of. Read more...
By Bernard Marr
News•Feb 13, 2026
Didero Raises $30M Series A for AI Procurement Platform
AI startup Didero announced a $30 million Series A round, co‑led by Chemistry and Headline with participation from Microsoft’s M12 venture fund. The financing will accelerate adoption of its AI‑driven procurement platform, which embeds autonomous agents into existing ERP and communication tools...
By Just AI News
News•Feb 13, 2026
Stanhope AI Raises $8M to Build Adaptive AI for Robotics and Defence
London‑based deep‑tech startup Stanhope AI closed a €6.7 million ($8 million) seed round led by Frontline Ventures to develop adaptive AI for robotics and defence. The company’s “Real World Model” leverages neuroscience principles, especially the Free Energy Principle, to enable edge‑run perception,...
By The Next Web (TNW)
Social•Feb 13, 2026
LoRA Enables Cheap, Efficient Fine‑Tuning of Giant Models
LoRA: Teaching Massive AI Models New Skills Without Retraining Everything In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we break down LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) - a breakthrough technique that makes fine-tuning large language models faster, cheaper, and far more efficient....
By Satya Mallick
News•Feb 13, 2026
ScyAI Secures €2M and Launches AI Risk Platform for Real Assets
Zurich‑based ScyAI closed a €2 million pre‑seed round led by AENU and PT1, bringing together unicorn founders and angel investors. The startup launched an AI‑driven platform that merges operational data with external hazard models to create auditable, asset‑specific climate risk profiles....
By Tech.eu
News•Feb 13, 2026
Alliance Creative Group ACGX Launches AI Video Subscription Platform to Help Brands Publish Consistent Content at Scale
Alliance Creative Group (ACGX) unveiled an AI‑driven video subscription platform that lets brands generate short‑form videos at scale. The service offers per‑video pricing as low as $26, with monthly plans and no long‑term contracts. It targets Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 13, 2026
How Colorado's Educator-Focused AI Roadmap for K-12 Is Guiding Pilots, Professional Development, and Classroom Use
Colorado’s Education Initiative unveiled an educator‑focused AI roadmap that steers K‑12 districts through pilot programs, professional development, and classroom deployment. The plan allocates state grants, sets ethical standards, and defines measurable outcomes to gauge student performance. District leaders cite teacher...
By Education Week — Market Brief (industry)
News•Feb 13, 2026
AI Can’t Improve Healthcare if Clinicians and Staff Aren’t Trained to Use, Orchestrate It
Healthcare systems are rapidly deploying AI for diagnosis, documentation, scheduling and patient communication, but many clinicians and support staff lack the training to use these tools effectively. The article argues that one‑time, checkbox‑style training creates risks such as automation bias...
By MedCity News
Podcast•Feb 13, 2026•32 min
Women in Science, Robotics, Automation, SLAS, and Lilly Updates
The episode opens with a celebration of Women in Science Day, highlighting the historic origin of the term “scientist” and the push for greater female leadership in biotech. Medra CEO Michelle Lee discusses how the company is merging robotics with...
By Touching Base (GEN Podcasts)
Blog•Feb 13, 2026
Migrating to Databricks – A Guide
The guide cautions that moving to Databricks won’t fix weak data fundamentals; organizations must first establish clear dev‑prod separation, version‑controlled code, and cost accountability. It urges teams to define real needs, avoid over‑architecting, and split infrastructure choices from data‑architecture decisions....
By Confessions of a Data Guy
News•Feb 13, 2026
Robot Talk Episode 144 – Robot Trust in Humans, with Samuele Vinanzi
In a recent Robot Talk episode, senior lecturer Samuele Vinanzi discussed how robots can evaluate human trustworthiness using behavioral cues. His work in cognitive robotics merges AI, psychology, and cognitive science to give machines social awareness. Vinanzi’s research emphasizes emotional...
By Robohub
News•Feb 13, 2026
Addverb’s Humanoid Bet: How This Noida Robotics Startup Is Building Physical AI
Addverb, a Noida‑based robotics firm backed by Reliance, has introduced its first humanoid robot—a six‑foot, 80 kg machine capable of carrying 15 kg and equipped with wheels for legs. The humanoid is designed for unstructured factory and warehouse settings where traditional automation...
By Inc42
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Friction, Not AI, Stops Non‑Technical Teams From Adopting
Non-technical teams aren't afraid of AI. They’re afraid of... - Clunky setup processes - Gatekept technical complexity - Theory they can't act on immediately - Having to master abstractions before seeing results - Learning Python just to "get started." - Outdated training models Teams checking out of AI...
By Louis Bouchard
News•Feb 13, 2026
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Volatility, Bing AI Performance Reports, New AI Mode Retail Ads, UCP Checkout & ChatGPT...
Google’s search ranking volatility intensified on February 10, prompting noticeable SERP shifts for sites like Grokipedia. Bing introduced AI Performance reports with a redesigned dashboard, while Google tested contextual overlay cards for AI Overviews and launched new AI Mode shopping ads...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Feb 13, 2026
Google’s Gemini to Be Integrated Into Major UK Property Platform
Rightmove, the UK’s leading digital property portal, will embed Google’s Gemini large‑language‑model into its search service. The integration enables conversational, natural‑language queries and personalised property discovery, letting users describe homes in plain English instead of ticking boxes. Gemini’s AI will...
By UKTN (UK Tech News)
News•Feb 13, 2026
MPA’s Rivkin Calls Out ByteDance Infringement
Charles Rivkin, CEO of the Motion Picture Association, publicly condemned ByteDance’s new AI service Seedance 2.0 for massive unauthorised use of U.S. copyrighted works. He urged the company to halt the infringing activity immediately, emphasizing the threat to creators’ rights and...
By Advanced Television
News•Feb 13, 2026
Startup Organotics Fast Tracks Personalized Brain Drug Trials
Organotics, a new biotech startup, is leveraging patient‑derived brain organoids to accelerate early‑stage testing of neuropsychiatric drugs. By reprogramming a patient’s blood or skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, the company creates vascularized, multi‑region mini‑brains that reflect individual genetics....
By Forbes – Healthcare
News•Feb 13, 2026
Deepfake Business Risks Are Growing – Here's What Leaders Need to Know
Deepfake attacks have moved from a niche concern to a mainstream cybersecurity priority, with 62% of organizations reporting at least one incident in the past year. Hackers are leveraging publicly available AI models, such as Google Gemini, to create convincing...
By ITPro (UK)
Blog•Feb 13, 2026
TSM Launches AI-Powered Minecraft Building App
North American esports organization TSM unveiled osu.ai, an AI‑powered Minecraft building app that lets players generate and construct structures via text prompts, also offering world and character re‑texturing for the Java edition. The tool launched on February 12 and immediately...
By Esports Insider
News•Feb 13, 2026
India’s Computer Vision Health Startup Krigat Wins Supernova AI MEA in Cairo
India‑based health‑AI startup Krigat captured the Supernova AI MEA Champion title in Cairo, outpacing 74 finalists from over 30 countries. The win includes a $10,000 equity‑free cash prize and heightened visibility at the AI Everything MEA summit. Krigat’s platform leverages...
By Indian Express AI
News•Feb 13, 2026
London’s Nscale Signs €1.1 Billion Debt Facility to Deploy Large-Scale GPU Clusters in Europe
London‑based Nscale has secured a €1.1 billion delayed‑draw term loan to fund the purchase of GPU infrastructure for large‑scale AI clusters across Europe. The loan, led by PIMCO, Blue Owl and LuminArx, builds on a €146 million Series A and a record‑breaking €936 million...
By EU-Startups
News•Feb 13, 2026
Kyndryl Wants to Help Enterprises Keep AI Agents in Line – and Avoid Costly Compliance Blunders
Kyndryl introduced a policy‑as‑code feature that converts corporate rules, regulations, and operational controls into machine‑readable policies for AI agents. The capability, embedded in its Agentic AI Framework, ensures agents act only within pre‑approved boundaries, providing deterministic execution, guardrails, and human‑supervised...
By ITPro (UK)
Podcast•Feb 13, 2026•3 min
The Most Underrated Signal Brands Should Optimize For
In this 3‑minute episode, Jordan Cooney talks with Tim Sanders, Chief Innovation Officer at G2, about a surprisingly overlooked SEO signal for AI‑driven search: using concise markdown files that highlight the top four takeaways of a page. Sanders explains that...
By Voices of Search
News•Feb 13, 2026
Ecer.com Transforms Cross-Border B2B with Mobile-First Collaboration
Ecer.com has launched a mobile‑first platform that reengineers cross‑border B2B trade workflows for real‑time collaboration. The solution embeds instant messaging, AI‑powered translation, and remote factory inspection features, allowing buyers and suppliers to communicate and verify credibility on smartphones. By consolidating...
By MarTech Series
Blog•Feb 13, 2026
OpenClaw in the Clinic: A Business Plan for HIPAA-Compliant Deployment of Agentic AI at Scale in Payer and Provider Organizations
The episode dissects OpenClaw, an open‑source, agentic AI platform that can autonomously interact with files, commands, and dozens of applications, and evaluates its viability for payer and provider health organizations. It explains why the default, unsecured version violates HIPAA, outlines...
By Thoughts on Healthcare Markets & Tech
Social•Feb 13, 2026
AI Layoffs Risk Turning Companies Into Stranded Assets
Something worth remembering if you're trying to value the stock market right now: 👇 A corporation can only profit from human labor displacement once. If by engaging in that single cost saving to beef up your bottom line you inadvertently destroy...
By Izabella Kaminska
Social•Feb 13, 2026
II Agent Launches Manga Mode, Eyeing Full Media Expansion
Manga mode now in II Agent Soon manhwa, manhua, then onto anime, donghua & whatever else you can imagine 🤷🏾 Idk if we need spaghetti workflows in future, just teams of agents working with teams of humans to make their imaginations...
By Emad Mostaque
News•Feb 13, 2026
From Chatbot Interactions to Operational Agents - What Enterprise Deployments Reveal About AI Readiness Today
Enterprises are moving from chatbot‑style AI to autonomous agentic systems that can plan, execute, and evaluate tasks with minimal human input. Databricks’ State of AI Agents study of 20,000 firms shows this shift exposes gaps in data visibility, governance, and...
By Diginomica
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Stop AI FOMO: Prioritize Vision, Roadmaps, Measurable Goals
Spinning up just one more AI pilot without clear business problems and success measures only adds to AI debt. The hard and necessary shift is from FOMO projects to vision statements and roadmaps. #AI #CIO https://t.co/VtuS5rQ0ZG
By Isaac Sacolick
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Shift From Keywords to Answering Questions with AEO
Most content still plays by 2015 rules: rank with keywords, wait for clicks, hope for traffic. But AI doesn’t click—it answers. To win in search today, flip your strategy: - Write for questions - Support with data - Format for instant clarity That’s AEO in action. https://t.co/7hZRYIiPIb
By Ross Simmonds
Social•Feb 13, 2026
MiniMax AI Bridges Open-Source Frontier, Drives Zero-Cost Optimization
Congratulations to @MiniMax_AI for closing the closed - open source frontier AI gap for the first time. All models will saturate benchmarks & have amazing daily usage soon so then it becomes about optimisation even as the performance per token ramps. Intelligent...
By Emad Mostaque
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Incentives Keep Frontier AI Labs Private, Excluding Public Investors
it's deeply unfortunate that incentives have aligned such that all these frontier AI labs and other tech companies are way better off staying private and the general public cannot invest in them despite desperately wishing they could.
By Harrison Kinsley
Social•Feb 13, 2026
AI Hype Isn’t Boosting Profit Margins Across the Economy
If AI were living up to its hype, it would be benefiting the ENTIRE ECONOMY. IT ISN'T. Profit margins outside the tech sector would be growing. THEY'RE NOT. https://t.co/GXT1r783t0
By Steve Hanke
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Banking Success Requires Both Technical and Cultural Agility
AI is no longer just a tool in banking operations. Success now depends on technical agility and cultural agility working together. https://t.co/YZfpW5Gt6i
By Brett King
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Ring Ends Police‑alert Partnership After Super Bowl Ad Backlash
Amazon’s Ring Scraps Police-Notification Partnership After Backlash Over Super Bowl Ad About AI-Enabled Dog Finder https://t.co/nG8OTj4GwM via @variety
By Todd Spangler
Social•Feb 13, 2026
AI Spending Lifts some Assets, Hurts Major Stock Valuations
The AI capex boom is absolutely stimulative to *certain* assets in the ecosystem and supply chain, but that won't be Mag7 stock prices from here. Revenue growth is slowing, input prices rising and you can connect the dots on what...
By Quinn Thompson
Social•Feb 13, 2026
AI Generates Statistical Results, Not Guaranteed Software Outputs
AI differs from software; outputs are statistical, not guaranteed, requiring careful training and evaluation. https://t.co/4SGQMgdys0
By Satya Mallick
Social•Feb 13, 2026
One System Beats Twenty Prompts for Real Productivity
Prompt lists don’t make you productive. Systems do. AI helps when you: • standardize inputs • reduce decisions • repeat the same loop One system > 20 prompts. https://t.co/F6ofGD7w6y
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Feb 13, 2026
AI‑linked Firms See Growth, yet Stocks Tumble
The market is now punishing even those companies which are beneficiaries of AI. These businesses are accelerating their revenue growth and their management is explicitly stating that AI is a tailwind, yet their stocks are being crushed. Unreal.
By Puru Saxena