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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 9, 2026
Smart Stores Aren’t Enough: 2026 Will Be Defined by Smarter Operations
Retail executives predict 2026 will be defined by operational intelligence rather than eye‑catching store tech. A Tech Mahindra‑Coresight study shows 92% of retailers are investing in solutions that tighten data, inventory and decision‑making. The report warns that AI‑driven experiences crumble without real‑time, unified data and inventory visibility. Winners will be those that turn fragmented systems into a single, actionable platform for the holiday season and beyond.
By Retail TouchPoints
News•Feb 9, 2026
Bitcoin Miner Cango Sells $305M BTC to Cut Leverage and Fund AI Pivot
Cango, a Bitcoin mining firm, sold 4,451 BTC on the open market, netting roughly $305 million. The proceeds are earmarked to partially repay a Bitcoin‑collateralized loan and lower the company’s financial leverage. Cango also announced a strategic pivot to provide distributed...
By Cointelegraph
News•Feb 9, 2026
Cineverse Launches Matchpoint® Creative Labs, Leveraging Generative AI to Enable Creative Services for FAST and Ad-Supported Streaming Services
Cineverse has unveiled Matchpoint® Creative Labs, an in‑house agency that delivers motion‑first video advertising for connected TV, FAST and ad‑supported streaming services. The unit blends traditional creative processes with generative AI to produce native‑looking ads, channel IDs and branding assets...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 9, 2026
OpenClaw Adds VirusTotal Scanning to AI Agent Marketplace
OpenClaw has integrated VirusTotal scanning into its ClawHub marketplace to curb malicious AI skills. The workflow hashes each skill, checks VirusTotal signatures, and submits unknown bundles to Code Insight for deeper analysis, flagging or blocking threats. This move follows security...
By eSecurity Planet
News•Feb 9, 2026
QAD | Redzone and TCS Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate AI-Driven Transformation in Manufacturing
QAD | Redzone and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced a strategic partnership to accelerate AI‑driven transformation for mid‑market manufacturers. The alliance combines Redzone’s execution‑first Adaptive ERP platform, Connected Workforce, and Champion AI with TCS’s engineering scale, cloud migration factory, and global manufacturing...
By AiThority
News•Feb 9, 2026
Briya Appoints Brian Creighton to Boost Growth in AI-Driven Healthcare Data
Briya, a health‑AI firm, announced Brian Creighton as Executive Director of Client Strategy to accelerate its U.S. expansion. Creighton brings more than two decades of medical imaging and AI sales experience, most recently as VP of Sales at Merative. He...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 9, 2026
Global AI Set to Develop Data Center Outside Denver, Colorado
Global AI, in partnership with Saudi AI firm Humain, is converting a former Kodak‑Carestream site near Windsor, Colorado into a high‑density AI data center. After purchasing 438 acres for $15.6 million, the company plans to launch an 18‑24 MW facility by the...
By Data Center Dynamics
News•Feb 9, 2026
IBM Announces Global RFP Process for AI-Driven Solutions Shaping the Future of Work and Education
IBM has issued a global request for proposals for the next cohort of its Impact Accelerator, targeting AI-driven solutions in education and workforce development. The program invites nonprofits, government entities, and academic institutions to develop tools that bridge the widening...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 9, 2026
Red Hat and NVIDIA Expand Partnership to Align on Next-Gen AI Infrastructure
Red Hat announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA, introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA—a specialized RHEL edition tuned for the NVIDIA Rubin platform. The collaboration delivers Day 0 support for the Vera CPU, Rubin GPUs and BlueField‑4 DPU across Red...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 9, 2026
Corning and Meta Form Multiyear Partnership for up to $6 Billion to Accelerate U.S. Data Center Buildout
Corning and Meta have signed a multiyear agreement worth up to $6 billion to accelerate the construction of advanced data centers in the United States. Under the deal, Corning will provide Meta with its latest optical fiber, cable and connectivity solutions...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
Podcast•Feb 9, 2026•44 min
375: How AI Is Changing Healthtech Investing, According to Define Ventures’ Lynne Chou O’Keefe
In this episode, Lynne Chou O’Keefe, founder and managing partner of Define Ventures, discusses how AI is reshaping health‑tech investing amid a fragmented healthcare system and the shift toward value‑based care. She outlines three phases of AI adoption—from streamlining administrative...
By AI and the Future of Work
News•Feb 9, 2026
Gather AI, Maker of ‘Curious’ Warehouse Drones, Lands $40M Led by Keith Block’s Firm
Gather AI announced a $40 million Series B round led by Keith Block’s Smith Point Capital, bringing its total funding to $74 million. The Boston startup equips warehouse cameras and autonomous drones with a Bayesian‑based AI that ‘gets curious’ to scan barcodes, expiration...
By TechCrunch Robotics
News•Feb 9, 2026
DataBee Launches DataBee RiskFlow™
DataBee, a Comcast company, unveiled DataBee RiskFlow™, an agentic AI layer that lets security and IT teams ask natural‑language questions about vulnerability, login risk, and compliance evidence. The tool interprets queries, pulls the relevant data from DataBee’s security fabric, and...
By AI-TechPark
Blog•Feb 9, 2026
CIS News
The CIS region’s medical robotics landscape is heating up, highlighted by Kazakhstan’s launch of the MISSO robot for orthopedic care and Intuitive Surgical’s Da Vinci 5 receiving FDA clearance for cardiac procedures. Robocath announced its first‑in‑human study of a next‑generation coronary robot,...
By SurgRob
News•Feb 9, 2026
Outtake Raises $40 Million to Bolster Digital Trust Against AI-Driven Threats
Outtake, a cybersecurity startup, announced a $40 million Series B round to accelerate its unified digital‑trust platform amid a surge in AI‑driven phishing and impersonation attacks. The round, led by ICONIQ and featuring investors such as Satya Nadella and Nikesh Arora, brings total capital...
By SecurityWeek
News•Feb 9, 2026
Datarails Launches Spend Control to Give CFOs Full Visibility on Contracts and Eliminate Zombie Subscriptions
Datarails unveiled Spend Control, an AI‑powered spend‑management platform that uniquely integrates with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. The tool creates a centralized contract hub, automatically extracts key terms, benchmarks market alternatives and drafts renewal requests. By flagging duplicate tools and...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 9, 2026
Corvus Robotics Launches Dedicated Cold Chain Drones for Autonomous Inventory in Sub-Zero Warehouses
Corvus Robotics unveiled Corvus One™ for Cold Chain, an autonomous drone system designed to perform inventory cycle counts inside sub‑zero freezers ranging from –20 °F to ambient temperatures. The drones feature re‑engineered thermal management, adaptive barcode scanners, and flight‑stabilization to handle...
By RoboticsTomorrow
News•Feb 9, 2026
Insurify Launches Industry-First ChatGPT Insurance App
Insurify, a digital insurance broker, has launched what it calls the industry’s first ChatGPT app, letting users research and compare car insurance directly within OpenAI’s platform. The tool taps a proprietary database of over 196 million auto‑insurance quotes and 70,000 verified...
By Fintech Global
Blog•Feb 9, 2026
Why Your Chaotic AI Experiments Aren’t Producing Business Value
Many organizations run chaotic generative‑AI experiments that fail to deliver measurable business value. McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI Report shows only about 10% of firms scale AI agents, with large enterprises nearly twice as likely to move beyond pilots as...
By Drive – StarCIO Digital Trailblazer
Blog•Feb 9, 2026
DISCO Launches Scaled Agentic AI Tool for Large Discovery and Fact Investigation Matters
DISCO unveiled a scaled agentic AI extension to its Cecilia Q&A platform, targeting massive e‑discovery projects with millions of documents and terabytes of data. The enhancement introduces an autonomous multi‑step reasoning engine that can independently break down complex legal queries...
By LawSites (LawNext) by Bob Ambrogi
News•Feb 9, 2026
Takeda, Iambic Sign Multiyear R&D Deal for AI Drug Discovery
Takeda Pharmaceutical announced a multi‑year research agreement with San Diego biotech Iambic to develop AI‑driven small‑molecule drug candidates. The collaboration merges Takeda’s therapeutic expertise with Iambic’s generative AI platform to accelerate hit identification and lead optimization. Joint R&D labs, data...
By Endpoints News
News•Feb 9, 2026
New Devices Might Scale the Memory Wall
Researchers at UC San Diego unveiled a new bulk resistive RAM (RRAM) that switches an entire material layer instead of forming filaments, enabling 3D stacking and selector‑free operation. The devices are 40 nm wide, can be stacked in up to eight layers,...
By IEEE Spectrum AI
News•Feb 9, 2026
Takeda, Iambic Partner in Latest Pharma AI Push
Japan’s largest drugmaker Takeda has signed a multiyear agreement with AI specialist Iambic Therapeutics, potentially worth more than $1.7 billion. The partnership grants Takeda access to Iambic’s AI‑driven drug discovery platform and a protein‑receptor interaction model, targeting small‑molecule treatments for cancer,...
By BioPharma Dive
News•Feb 9, 2026
Google Is Expanding WAXAL Beyond 21 Languages — What It Means for African Researchers
Google has broadened its WAXAL speech dataset initiative, increasing coverage from 21 to 27 Sub‑Saharan African languages and outlining a pipeline for additional tongues. The expansion is driven by a partnership with the Masakhane African Languages Hub, shifting focus toward...
By Techpoint Africa
News•Feb 9, 2026
21 Gemini Prompts HR Can Copy and Paste (with Step-by-Step Prompts)
The article introduces 21 ready‑to‑use Gemini prompts designed to streamline repetitive HR tasks such as job postings, interview guides, onboarding docs, and policy updates. It outlines a seven‑step prompt framework—persona, task, context, format, constraints, clarifying questions, and quality check—to produce...
By AIHR Blog
News•Feb 9, 2026
ZeroToOne.AI and Horizon Media Announce AI Partnership to Power Predictive Behavioral Intelligence Within HorizonOS
ZeroToOne.AI and Horizon Media have forged an enterprise partnership to embed ZeroToOne’s proprietary Large Behavioral Model into HorizonOS, the open operating system powering Horizon’s Blu AI‑native marketing intelligence platform. The model claims over 85% accuracy in forecasting real‑world consumer actions,...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 9, 2026
Loyyal Launches Perxi AI: A WhatsApp Based AI Agent That Simplifies Loyalty for SMEs
Enterprise SaaS firm Loyyal unveiled Perxi AI, the first AI‑driven loyalty agent that operates entirely within WhatsApp. The solution lets small and medium businesses launch and manage branded loyalty programs instantly at zero cost, eliminating traditional software, staffing, and app‑installation...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 9, 2026
No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York
New York’s Department of Labor added an AI‑related option to WARN filings 11 months ago, requiring firms with 50+ employees to disclose if automation caused layoffs. Across 162 companies and roughly 750 notices covering 28,300 workers, none selected the technology...
By WIRED AI
Podcast•Feb 9, 2026•32 min
Why This ATS Is Making Job Seekers Part of Its Mission
In this episode, Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait discusses a strategic shift to prioritize job seekers alongside employers, addressing the "AI Doom Loop" where AI-driven mass applications and filtering exacerbate hiring inefficiencies. He introduces new candidate‑focused features such as My Dream...
By RecTech: The Recruiting Technology Podcast
News•Feb 9, 2026
Neoclouds Capture Growing AI Workload Traffic, Backblaze Says
Backblaze’s Q4 2025 network report reveals a sharp rise in AI‑driven traffic to GPU‑centric neocloud providers, peaking in October before settling at a higher baseline. The surge was concentrated in US‑East data centers, highlighting latency‑sensitive AI data movement. Analysts from McKinsey...
By CIO Dive
Blog•Feb 9, 2026
How Voice-First AI Can Fix Restaurant Schedule Headaches
Restaurant managers view scheduling as a constant, high‑pressure burden rather than a routine task. Traditional scheduling platforms assume desk‑bound, uninterrupted work, forcing managers to juggle complex dashboards while the floor is active. This mismatch creates mental overload, delayed adjustments, and...
By Modern Restaurant Management
News•Feb 9, 2026
Klear.ai Names New CFO to Drive Next Phase of Growth
Klear.ai, an AI‑driven insurance technology firm, announced Logan Thompson as its new chief financial officer. Thompson, a finance veteran with nearly two decades in SaaS, healthcare and professional services, will oversee financial strategy, discipline and governance. His appointment comes as...
By Fintech Global
News•Feb 9, 2026
Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s New AI Newsletter, Is Here
MIT Technology Review has launched "Making AI Work," a limited‑run, seven‑week AI mini‑course newsletter that delivers weekly case studies on real‑world AI deployments. The series spans health care, nuclear energy, education, small‑business operations, finance and personal productivity, ending with a...
By MIT Technology Review
News•Feb 9, 2026
AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?
The New START treaty between the United States and Russia expired on February 5, 2026, leaving the world without its primary nuclear‑arms‑control framework. Researchers at the Federation of American Scientists propose a "cooperative technical means" system that leverages existing satellite constellations...
By WIRED AI
News•Feb 9, 2026
Smart Data Center Market Accelerates with AI, Cloud, and Energy-Efficient Infrastructure
The global smart data center market is projected to grow from $82.6 billion in 2026 to $145.3 billion by 2033, a CAGR of 8.4%. Growth is fueled by surging demand for AI‑driven workloads, cloud computing, and high‑performance computing. Solutions such as data‑center...
By AiThority
News•Feb 9, 2026
IPcook Empowers AI Training Data Acquisition with High-Performance Residential Proxies
IPcook has launched a high‑performance residential proxy service aimed at AI developers needing large, diverse training datasets. The platform delivers over 55 million IPs in 185 locations, with response times under 0.5 seconds and bulk pricing as low as $0.5 per gigabyte....
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 9, 2026
Global Chip Sales Are on Track to Hit $1 Trillion Thanks to AI
Global semiconductor revenue is projected to breach the $1 trillion mark, propelled by explosive AI demand. The Semiconductor Industry Association reported $791.7 billion in sales for 2025, a 25.6% year‑over‑year increase. Tech giants are pouring capital into AI‑focused data‑center infrastructure, accelerating the...
By TechSpot (sitewide)
News•Feb 9, 2026
What AI Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About XRP in ETF-Driven Markets
The crypto market has slowed, with ETF‑driven capital flows now shaping price dynamics more than headline‑driven sentiment. Binance Research reports over $2 billion net inflows into altcoin ETFs, led by XRP and Solana, while Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs have been...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Feb 9, 2026
This Dunkin’ Franchisee Is Using AI to Track Inventory and Predict Donut Demand
Bluemont Group, a Dunkin’ franchisee operating 99 stores, launched Do’Cast—an AI system built with PreciTaste that uses in‑store cameras and predictive modeling to monitor donut inventory and forecast demand. By factoring sales history, weather, holidays and local events, Do’Cast has...
By Fast Company AI
News•Feb 9, 2026
MuseCool Is Using Audio AI to Fix the Biggest Problem in Music Education
MuseCool, a London‑based music school, has launched an AI‑powered practice assistant called The Muse to address chronic practice gaps in traditional music lessons. The system records lesson audio, analyzes performance, and automatically creates short, game‑like practice sessions with analytics for...
By Tech.eu
Blog•Feb 9, 2026
WiMi Hologram Cloud Releases H-QNN Tech, Demonstrating Progress in Practical Quantum Computing
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. unveiled its Hybrid Quantum‑Classical Neural Network (H‑QNN), a new architecture that embeds quantum feature mapping into a classical deep‑learning pipeline. The system demonstrated superior binary classification accuracy on the MNIST handwritten‑digit benchmark, outperforming similarly sized multilayer...
By Quantum Zeitgeist
News•Feb 9, 2026
StackHawk Launches Alliances Program to Help AppSec Teams Navigate the AI Era
StackHawk unveiled the StackHawk Alliances & Resellers Program (SHARP) to empower channel partners in delivering AI‑ready application security. A recent survey shows 87% of firms use AI coding assistants, making rapid, secure development the top 2026 challenge. SHARP promises 30%+...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 9, 2026
Cryptocurrency Markets a Testbed for AI Forecasting Models
Cryptocurrency markets are being leveraged as a high‑speed testbed for AI forecasting models, thanks to their continuous trading and transparent on‑chain data. Developers are deploying LSTM‑based neural networks enhanced with attention mechanisms and NLP sentiment analysis to capture both price...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Feb 9, 2026
ACL Digital Achieves ISTQB® Platinum Partner Status
ACL Digital, an ALTEN Group company, has been awarded the ISTQB® Platinum Partner certification, the highest tier in the International Software Testing Qualifications Board program. The achievement places ACL among a select group of Indian firms with this status and...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 9, 2026
Why Companies In Southeast Asia Are Moving AI Systems Closer To Their Internal Data
AI adoption in Southeast Asia is moving from experimentation with public models to operational deployment that accesses internal documents, workflows, and proprietary knowledge. This transition turns AI from a productivity add‑on into core infrastructure, raising data‑exposure, compliance, and stability concerns....
By TechBullion
Social•Feb 9, 2026
AI Success Mirrors Sports: Master Fundamentals Daily
Most AI programmes fail for the same reason sports teams lose: weak fundamentals. 🏅 In this video, I share 6 lessons from elite sport that make AI adoption work when it moves from pilot to daily workflow: 1️⃣ Clear roles and ownership,...
By Bernard Marr
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Banks' AI Strategies Miss the Mark, Says Speaker
Excited to be speaking at the NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum in March. I'll explore why many financial institutions are missing the mark in my keynote 'Your Bank’s AI Strategy Is Wrong.' To register and access the full agenda: https://t.co/XIQySs0LfD @qubevents https://t.co/kTlwtWVXVs
By Dave Birch
News•Feb 9, 2026
Rankpage Introduces Expanded AI-Driven SEO Offerings to Support Businesses of All Sizes Across Malaysia
Rankpage, a Malaysia‑based AI‑driven SEO agency, announced an expanded suite of AI‑powered search optimization services. The rollout includes a fortified Search Dominance Framework—featuring SERP‑Dominating Technology, Global AI Connectivity Backlink, and a Satellite Ecosystem—and tiered packages priced from RM1,500 to over...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 9, 2026
BullFrog AI to Unveil New Precision AI Capability
BullFrog AI announced a new scenario‑based decision engine to be released on March 25, adding a strategic layer to its bfPREP™ and bfLEAP® platforms. The engine compares drug programs, indications, and trial designs without forcing single numeric scores, and evaluates portfolio...
By AI-TechPark
Podcast•Feb 9, 2026•1h 7m
#345 How to Drive Innovation with Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow
In episode #345, DataFramed hosts Adel Nehme and Richie Cotton sit down with Brian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, to explore how organizations can foster a culture of continuous innovation. Solis emphasizes the importance of aligning innovation with...
By DataFramed