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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 13, 2026
Wesfarmers Hedges AI Bets with Multi-Year Deals with Both Microsoft and Google
Australian retailer Wesfarmers has signed multi‑year agreements with both Microsoft and Google Cloud to accelerate AI adoption across its portfolio. The Microsoft deal brings Azure OpenAI, M365 Copilot and Copilot Studio to divisions such as Bunnings, Kmart and Priceline, while the Google partnership deploys Gemini Enterprise to create agentic shopping experiences and internal AI assistants. Both collaborations focus on supply‑chain optimisation, customer‑facing agents and productivity tools, with Wesfarmers planning to more than double its Copilot footprint. Training programmes will upskill employees on the new AI platforms.
By ARN (Australia)
Social•Feb 13, 2026
AI Startups' Lies Expose Get‑rich‑quick Culture
So much lying with AI startups now This one lied they were a launch partner and had access to Seedance 2.0 already but didn't as ByteDance staff said they never released an API Last week Higgsfield got suspended for shady practices, now...
By Pieter Levels
News•Feb 13, 2026
Video of the Week: Aviation's Digital Inflection Point – From AI Hype to Operational Reality
The aviation industry is moving beyond hype as AI, cloud, biometrics and automation begin to deliver operational gains. Recent pilots in generative AI for disruption management, biometric boarding and dynamic retailing have shown tangible efficiency improvements. However, entrenched legacy systems,...
By CAPA – Centre for Aviation
News•Feb 13, 2026
Video of the Week: Aviation's Digital Inflection Point – From AI Hype to Operational Reality
Airlines are moving beyond hype to embed AI, biometrics and cloud tools into daily operations, yet success hinges on leadership, data integration and talent. Recent pilots in disruption management, biometric boarding and dynamic retail have shown measurable efficiency gains. Persistent...
By CAPA – Centre for Aviation
News•Feb 13, 2026
Custom Kernels for All From Codex and Claude
Hugging Face released a 550‑token CUDA‑kernel agent skill that equips coding agents like Claude and Codex with architecture‑aware optimization knowledge. The skill was used to generate production‑ready RMSNorm, RoPE, GEGLU and AdaLN kernels for a diffusers video pipeline and a...
By Hugging Face
Social•Feb 12, 2026
AGI Arrives When No Test Shows Human‑AI Gap
Reaching AGI won't be beating a benchmark. It will be the end of the human-AI gap. Benchmarks are simply a way to estimate the current gap, which is why we need to continually release new benchmarks (focused on the remaining...
By François Chollet
News•Feb 12, 2026
Over 55% of Enterprise Buyers Ask AI First. Is Your Brand On the Shortlist?
Enterprise buyers are increasingly turning to generative AI before traditional search, with 55% of large firms starting research with AI. This shift moves the sensemaking phase—defining problems, categories, and criteria—upstream into conversational interfaces, effectively shaping the Day One shortlist. Reports show...
By Foundation Marketing (Foundation Inc.)
Blog•Feb 12, 2026
TMTB EOD Wrap
The episode discusses the recent market downturn, highlighted by a 2% drop in QQQs, as AI disruption spreads beyond software and internet sectors into areas like property management and freight logistics. It examines how AI is turning into a net...
By TMT Breakout
News•Feb 12, 2026
TikTok and Fabulate Team up to Scale Creator Content Across APAC with AI at the Core
TikTok has partnered with Fabulate to embed its Symphony generative‑AI suite into the influencer‑marketing platform, creating a unified workflow for brands and creators across APAC. The integration adds AI dubbing, video generation and licensed digital avatars directly into Fabulate’s SparQ 2.0...
By Marketing-Interactive
News•Feb 12, 2026
Trener Robotics Acteris Platform Brings Pre-Trained Physical AI Skills to Industrial Robots
Trener Robotics unveiled the Acteris platform, a software layer that equips existing ABB, Universal Robots and FANUC machines with pre‑trained Physical AI skills. Backed by a $32 million Series A round, the company’s total funding now exceeds $38 million, enabling rapid market expansion...
By New Equipment Digest
News•Feb 12, 2026
Navy Secretary Outlines AI, Unmanned Tech to Advance Golden Fleet Initiative
U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan detailed the Golden Fleet initiative, which pairs AI, autonomous systems and distributed shipbuilding to accelerate fleet growth and modernize the maritime industrial base. Central to the plan is ShipOS, an AI‑driven connective platform that integrates...
By GovernmentCIO Media & Research
Social•Feb 12, 2026
AI Tools Transform Business Acquisition and Franchise Analysis
Building AI tools for business acquisition and franchise analysis. Always down to chat with others innovating in this space. DM me
By Michael (michaelfromgo)
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Google Drives 190× More Traffic than ChatGPT
👀 ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume but Google Sends 190x More Traffic to Websites - An eye opening piece by @patrickstox if you were still thinking in terms of *traffic* as a main indicator or goal from...
By Aleyda Solis
News•Feb 12, 2026
Germany’s Helsing, HENSOLDT Team up on Autonomous Systems for Euro CCA
Germany’s Helsing and HENSOLDT have announced a joint effort to equip Helsing’s CA‑1 autonomous aircraft with AI‑driven combat capabilities. HENSOLDT will integrate its radar, optronics, self‑protection and electromagnetic warfare sensors through its Multi‑Domain Operations Core software. The AI‑pilot, named Centaur,...
By Breaking Defense
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Call Centers Signal AI‑Driven Job Crisis Ahead
A good canary in the coal mine for AI-caused job loss will be call centers. We're currently projecting ~2.75M call center jobs in the US in 2026. In 2016 it was ~2.63M. The global call center market size has grown...
By François Chollet
News•Feb 12, 2026
Booz Allen Announces General Availability of Vellox Reverser to Automate Malware Defense
Booz Allen Hamilton has launched the general availability of Vellox Reverser™, an AI‑driven malware reverse‑engineering platform that automates deep analysis at machine speed. The solution leverages a resilient agentic AI architecture, AWS Lambda, Bedrock and Step Functions to ingest samples,...
By Dark Reading
News•Feb 12, 2026
Why We’ve Built the Future of CRM in Slack
Salesforce is embedding its CRM directly into Slack, creating a unified workspace where customer data and real‑time conversation coexist. The integration leverages AI agents, including the new Slackbot, to read both structured records and chat context, enabling automatic updates, risk...
By Slack – Blog
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Seedance 2.0 Crafts 15‑Second Narrative Arcs
The most interesting thing about Seedance 2.0 is that clips can be just long enough (15 seconds) to have something interesting happen, and the LLM behind it is good enough to actually make a little narrative arc, rather than cut...
By Ethan Mollick
News•Feb 12, 2026
Infrastructure Maturity Defines the Next Phase of AI Deployment
Hitachi Vantara’s State of Data Infrastructure Global Report 2025 finds that infrastructure maturity, not sheer scale, is the primary barrier to reliable AI workloads. Surveying 1,200 large‑enterprise IT leaders, the study classifies firms into Emerging, Defined and Optimized, with only...
By Data Center Frontier
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Public US AI Stocks Let Everyone Share Automation Gains
In a way I prefer the American AI companies because they're mostly public (Google etc) or will be public at some point by IPO (OpenAI, Anthropic) so the people can actually participate and profit from automating them out of their...
By Pieter Levels
News•Feb 12, 2026
Anthropic Raises $30B At $380B Valuation In Second-Largest Venture Funding Deal Of All Time
Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G round that lifts its post‑money valuation to $380 billion, making it the second‑largest venture financing ever and the biggest deal of 2026. The round was led by GIC and Coatue, with co‑lead investors including D.E. Shaw, Dragoneer,...
By Crunchbase News AI
News•Feb 12, 2026
Albertsons Companies Signs On To Test OpenAI ChatGPT Ads
Albertsons Companies has entered OpenAI’s ChatGPT Ads pilot, joining Target, Williams‑Sonoma and Omnicom in testing conversational advertising. The retailer will run Valentine’s Day‑focused ads that appear when users ask for gifts, recipes or party ideas. Ads will be clearly labeled...
By MediaPost
Social•Feb 12, 2026
ARC Advances Driven by Test-Time Adaptation, Not LLM Scaling
Lots of folks spread false narratives about how ARC-1 was created in response to LLMs, or how ARC-2 was only created because ARC-1 was saturated. Setting the record straight: 1. ARC-1 was designed 2017-2019 and released in 2019 (pre LLMs). 2. The...
By François Chollet
News•Feb 12, 2026
Meet Latam-GPT, the New Open Source AI Model for Latin America
Chile’s National Center of Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) unveiled Latam‑GPT, an open‑source large language model tailored to Latin America and the Caribbean. Built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 architecture with 70 billion parameters, the model was trained on 300 billion tokens of Spanish and Portuguese...
By AI Business
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Humanity Is Our Moat in an AI‑Driven Workplace
This week, I met with enterprise technology leaders at the WSJ CIO dinner to talk AI Agents. It was a great discussion. Here is what we covered (and link to the full video): - What remains unique about humans? How can...
By Amjad Masad
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Low IQ, High Agency: AI Trust Wins
The modern age has richly rewarded people with a combination of high intelligence and high agency. Now that many aspects of intelligence are successfully being automated, it seems likely that people with relatively lower intelligence but exceptional agency will come...
By John Carmack
News•Feb 12, 2026
China’s Super-App Ecosystem Offers Preview of AI-Driven Hotel Booking Shift
AI‑driven hotel booking systems are reshaping the travel value chain, shifting decision‑making from travelers to algorithms. China’s super‑app ecosystem—exemplified by Xiaohongshu and Douyin—offers a live preview of this transformation, integrating discovery, trust signals, and instant booking within a single platform....
By Hotel News Resource
News•Feb 12, 2026
GitLab Transcend Showcases How Intelligent Orchestration Helps Accelerate Innovation Velocity Across the Software Lifecycle
GitLab hosted the virtual Transcend event to unveil its Intelligent Orchestration platform, which leverages agentic AI to automate routine tasks across the entire software development lifecycle. CEO Bill Staples highlighted the AI paradox—high coding productivity gains are limited by developers...
By DEVOPSdigest
Blog•Feb 12, 2026
The "Wow" Of Seedance 2.0 Is Not A Business
Bytedance’s Seedance 2.0 lets creators churn out Hollywood‑style short clips at unprecedented speed and cost, turning TikTok into a hub for AI‑driven IP mashups. While platforms like YouTube Shorts now earn more revenue per watch hour than traditional long‑form video,...
By PARQOR (The Medium)
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Free Reforge AI Courses: Prototyping & Evaluation Mastery
Announcing two new Reforge courses: AI Prototyping w/ Ravi Mehta and AI Evals w/ Justin Bauer and Sandhya Hegde 🙌 AI Prototyping Ravi is a former product leader from Tinder, Meta, and Tripadvisor. He has been deep in the weeds, getting his...
By Brian Balfour
Blog•Feb 12, 2026
Are Revenue Managers Doomed in the Age of RMS and AI?
The article argues that AI‑driven revenue management systems (RMS) are automating routine pricing tasks, but they won’t replace revenue managers. While junior operational roles shrink as a single manager can now oversee 20 properties, the profession is shifting toward strategic,...
By Revenue Hub
News•Feb 12, 2026
SPARKHUB Releases Vibeland
SPARKHUB PTE. LTD. launched Vibeland, a one‑click deployment platform tailored for Gemini/Google AI Studio vibe‑coding outputs. The service automatically parses project structure, configures runtimes, assigns domains, and generates shareable product links. It targets developers, designers, entrepreneurs and students who can...
By DEVOPSdigest
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Balancing Prompt Optimization Across Multiple AI Models
How do I solve this: When using multiple models in OC, the prompts can really only be optimized for one model. So other models are suboptimal because the prompts aren't tailored for them. Example: My entire OC stack runs on Opus...
By Matthew Berman
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Automate Prompt Optimization and Logging for OpenClaw
A couple of the biggest unlocks for OpenClaw: > Find prompting best practices for the specific model you use. Load that into a .md file and have your OC reference the best practices. Then schedule a cron to review all your...
By Matthew Berman
News•Feb 12, 2026
Cognibotics Helps Advance Motion Layer for AI-Guided Surgical Robotics in CAISA
Cognibotics is providing the motion‑control layer for the Vinnova‑funded CAISA project, linking AI perception and path‑planning modules in a paediatric heart‑surgery testbed. The collaboration, involving Region Skåne, Lund University and Cobotic, moves into a demonstrator phase using a 350 m² simulated...
By Robotics & Automation News
Social•Feb 12, 2026
AI Solves 1966 Wembley Goal Controversy with Computer Vision
Wembley Goal: How Computer Vision Settled Football’s Most Controversial Moment In this episode of Artificial Intelligence: Papers and Concepts, we revisit the legendary 1966 World Cup Final and the infamous “Wembley Goal” - a moment that sparked decades of debate between...
By Satya Mallick
Social•Feb 12, 2026
From Labor to Compute: Economy’s Next Quantum Leap
1900: Internal Combustion + Electricity = 5x GDP growth. 2026: AGI + Humanoid Robotics + Space-based Energy = 50x GDP growth. This is NOT a cycle; instead, we are in a phase change for the species. The transition from being...
By Peter H. Diamandis
News•Feb 12, 2026
Developers Are Still Weighing the Pros and Cons of AI Coding Agents
Developers are increasingly adopting AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, but they remain wary of the "AI slop"—code that introduces bugs or security flaws. While the tools can accelerate short‑term development, they often lose context in...
By Fast Company AI
Social•Feb 12, 2026
AI Doctor in Pocket Offers 24/7 Monitoring
.@tryprana is an AI primary doctor in your pocket that monitors you 24/7. Connect your wearables to your medical records to monitor for clinical drift. At any moment, you can instantly bring a Board-Certified MD into the chat to review your...
By YCombinator
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Prep Claude Once, Let It Code All Day
Hi, so Claude code is crazy. I’m on calls all day so I prepped Claude with all the things I need it to do. It’s literally building for me while I do CEO work. The prep time took about an...
By Nomiki Petrolla
News•Feb 12, 2026
AI Expert Predicted AI Would End Humanity in 2027—Now He’s Changing His Timeline
Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, who warned that unchecked AI would trigger an apocalypse in April 2027, has revised his timeline, now expecting superintelligence to emerge around 2034. The original "AI 2027" paper attracted attention from U.S. officials, religious leaders, and skeptics,...
By Fast Company AI
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Unify Systems, Consolidate Vendors, Make AI Measurable
The next phase of growth requires unifying systems, consolidating vendors, and finally making AI deliver measurable results. We explore how with Benjamin Conant, Chief Product Officer at @alkamitech and Co-Founder of @Mantl_tech. Watch the full episode: https://t.co/Jamreeb077 https://t.co/pwP81bugEI
By Jim Marous
Social•Feb 12, 2026
AI Data Center Funding Proves Massive, Rapid Growth
There are reasons to argue about financial bubbles in the funding of data centers, but it is increasingly clear from the numbers that the frontier AI companies are showing that AI is, indeed, a very massive business with high demand...
By Ethan Mollick
News•Feb 12, 2026
New AI Approach Weighs Data ‘Temperature’ to Improve Prediction Accuracy
Penn State researchers unveiled ZENN, a zentropy‑embedded neural network that fuses thermodynamic entropy and a data "temperature" parameter to weigh heterogeneous inputs. By separating signal energy from intrinsic noise, ZENN achieves markedly higher prediction fidelity, demonstrated by a 90% accuracy...
By Bio-IT World
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Microsoft Skips LLM Race, Backs OpenAI Instead
Why is Microsoft not competing in the model wars? Like why don't the top LLM benchmarks have Microsoft models in them? Because they already own % in OpenAI? Seems like they should start training their own LLMs no?
By Pieter Levels
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Link Apps to Create a Shared Agent Memory Graph
connect your company apps to build a memory graph your agents (or claw) can access
By Yohei Nakajima
News•Feb 12, 2026
'She Makes Me Laugh': Seniors Are Building Deep Bonds With This Friendly AI Robot
Intuition Robotics’ ElliQ, a voice‑activated AI companion, is forging genuine relationships with seniors living alone, delivering up to 30 daily conversations. In New York, users who kept the robot for a month reported a 95% drop in loneliness, with many describing...
By Entrepreneur
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Scale with Architecture, Not a Flood of AI Tools
“135+ AI tools before it’s too late” is marketing, not strategy. Real leverage = • fewer tools • deeper understanding • cleaner systems Logos don’t scale. Architectures do. https://t.co/swPC3WNryy
By Giuliano Liguori
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Market Shifts to AI Fear, Not Bubble, Concerns
The market is more in “AI fear” mode than “AI bubble” mode currently Everyone fears the left tail in their business
By Andreas Steno Larsen
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Run Full OpenClaw Suite in Browser—No Mac Mini Needed
Your hosted OpenClaw, no Mac Mini required 🔥 https://t.co/N8AEGAQquE is a fully dedicated computer in your browser with EVERYTHING pre-installed → Search (Brave) → Scraping (Firecrawl) → Audio (ElevenLabs) → Media (Fal) You don't need accounts. It just works automatically
By Data Chaz