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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 26, 2026
MasterClass Is Working With OpenAI to Build a Business School for the AI Era
MasterClass, OpenAI, and the University of Chicago Booth School have launched MasterClass Executive, an AI‑powered, 12‑week alternative to traditional MBA programs. Priced at $2,500, the cohort‑based course blends Zoom lessons, AI tutoring, and in‑person sessions on Booth’s campus. Applicants face a 10% acceptance rate and must complete a skills‑based challenge before enrollment. The curriculum, designed with Booth professors, covers finance, AI, marketing, and leadership, culminating in AI‑and‑human graded capstone projects.
By Inc. — Leadership
News•Feb 26, 2026
DataJoint Launches Agentic AI Control Layer for Scientific Workflows
DataJoint introduced DataJoint Agentic AI, a governed execution layer that brings semi‑autonomous AI to scientific workflows while preserving provenance and reproducibility. The platform captures multimodal research data with rich metadata and full computational lineage, enabling AI agents to validate inputs,...
By AI-TechPark
Podcast•Feb 26, 2026•0 min
The Good Robot Podcast: The Role of Designers in AI Ethics with Tomasz Hollanek
In this episode, research fellow Tomasz Hollanek explains critical design studies, showing how it encourages both users and designers to question power dynamics and the assumptions behind AI systems. He argues that "good" technology is context‑dependent and that purposeful friction—or...
By AIhub
News•Feb 26, 2026
AI Scare Trade Shatters Two Investing Myths
Bloomberg’s Shuli Ren argues that the AI‑scare trade is reshaping equity valuations, pulling US software stocks lower while South Korea’s Kospi soars 44% this year. The article debunks two entrenched myths: that book value is irrelevant and that aging populations...
By Advisor Perspectives
News•Feb 26, 2026
I Developed an App that Uses Drone Footage to Track Plastic Litter on Beaches
University of Limerick researchers have created a drone‑based system that uses computer‑vision AI to locate plastic litter on beaches and feeds the data into a free mobile app. The platform can identify objects as small as 1 cm from 30 m altitude...
By Robohub
News•Feb 26, 2026
Is AI the End of Lawyers, or the Beginning of Access to Justice?
Generative AI is rapidly entering the legal market, with startups securing billion‑dollar valuations and offering low‑cost, on‑demand advice. While the technology promises to narrow the access‑to‑justice gap for the 93% of low‑income Americans who lack representation, AI “hallucinations” that fabricate...
By Fast Company AI
News•Feb 26, 2026
Clearlake’s Feliciano Tells How to Pick Winners and Losers in AI Disruption
José Feliciano, co‑founder and managing partner of Clearlake Capital, told PE Hub that AI‑driven disruption in public tech and software markets is opening compelling opportunities in the private‑equity space. He explained that as public valuations compress, investors can target companies...
By Private Equity International
News•Feb 26, 2026
Freestar Introduces pubOS, a Unified Publisher Operating System Built to Replace Fragmented Solutions and Navigate the AI Age
Freestar launched pubOS, a unified Publisher Operating System that replaces fragmented ad‑tech stacks with a single, integrated platform. The solution combines Freestar’s proprietary monetization tools—including a custom Prebid wrapper and AI‑driven yield engine—with a marketplace of identity, compliance, and analytics...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 26, 2026
Heineken Recruits New Chief to Build ‘Digital Backbone’
Heineken has named Romain Apert, former Mars Petcare CIO, as its new chief data and technology officer, effective May. Apert succeeds Ronald den Elzen, who is stepping down after a 31‑year tenure that saw the launch of a “best‑connected brewer”...
By DecisionMarketing
Podcast•Feb 26, 2026•0 min
Drug Dealin Ep. 9: Using AI to Find Novel Treatment Options
In Episode 9 of Drug Dealin, hosts Kenny and Shibu demonstrate how patients can use publicly available tools like ClinicalTrials.gov and AI language models to uncover novel treatment options, focusing on a hypothetical Parkinson’s disease case inspired by a TV...
By Big Pharma Sharma
News•Feb 26, 2026
Salesforce Launches Telco-Specific AI Agents to Improve Sales and Customer Retention
Salesforce unveiled Agentforce for Communications, a suite of telco‑specific AI agents designed to automate routine tasks and boost customer engagement. The solution targets a telecom sector facing slowing revenue growth—forecast at 2.9% by 2029—and high churn rates up to 40%....
By SiliconANGLE (sitewide)
Blog•Feb 26, 2026
An AI-Native Architecture That Eliminates GPU Inefficiencies
A recent MIT Technology Review analysis highlighted the massive energy footprint of generative‑AI inference, prompting a search for more efficient silicon. VSORA responded with a purpose‑built Matrix Processing Unit (MPU) that abandons the GPU‑centric SIMT model in favor of tensor‑level...
By SemiWiki
Blog•Feb 26, 2026
YOU(th) Closes US$4.5m Health Screening Round
YOU(th) has secured US$4.5 million to scale its AI‑driven smartphone health‑screening platform, which evaluates over 50 digital biomarkers in under two minutes. The round was led by Callisto Health with participation from caesar., adesso Ventures, Antler, Moonstone, 1024 Ventures and notable...
By Health Tech World
News•Feb 26, 2026
Confluent Intelligence Adds Streaming Agents Into the Mix to Enable Agent-to-Agent Collaboration
Confluent Intelligence has introduced Streaming Agents, built on Google’s Agent2Agent protocol, to enable AI agents to share real‑time context and collaborate across platforms. The preview feature connects data sources such as BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake and LangChain to third‑party systems like...
By SiliconANGLE (sitewide)
News•Feb 26, 2026
Google Opens 'Text Guidelines' To More Advertisers
Google is expanding its AI‑driven "text guidelines" feature to all AI Max and Performance Max advertisers in a global beta. The tool lets brands specify terms or concepts to include or exclude, ensuring AI‑generated headlines and descriptions stay on‑brand, tone‑appropriate,...
By MediaPost
News•Feb 26, 2026
Trace Raises $3M to Solve the AI Agent Adoption Problem in Enterprise
Trace, a Boston-based workflow orchestration startup, announced a $3 million seed round led by Y Combinator and several venture firms. The company builds a knowledge graph from enterprise tools such as email, Slack and Airtable to give AI agents the contextual...
By TechCrunch Enterprise
News•Feb 26, 2026
We’re Expanding Beta Access to Text Guidelines for All Advertisers Globally in AI Max.
Google is rolling out beta access to text guidelines for all advertisers worldwide within its AI Max platform, covering both Search and Performance Max campaigns. The feature now supports every language and industry vertical, letting marketers define prohibited terms or...
By Google Analytics Blog
News•Feb 26, 2026
Google Expands AI Max Text Guidelines Globally
Google has opened beta access to AI Max text guidelines for all advertisers worldwide, covering Search and Performance Max campaigns. The new feature supports every language and industry vertical, letting marketers steer AI‑generated ad copy with plain‑language instructions. Brands can...
By Search Engine Land
News•Feb 26, 2026
ServiceNow Resolves 90% of Its Own IT Requests Autonomously. Now It Wants to Do the Same for Any Enterprise
ServiceNow reports that it resolves 90% of its own employee IT requests autonomously, delivering solutions up to 99% faster than human agents. The company unveiled an Autonomous Workforce framework, the EmployeeWorks product, and a "role automation" architecture to extend this...
By VentureBeat
Podcast•Feb 26, 2026•1h 12m
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Surviving the AI Slop-Pocalypse
In this episode, hosts discuss the looming impact of AI-driven automation on white‑collar work, referencing a viral speculative essay about a 2028 AI crisis and its economic fallout. They explore how agentic AI could collapse B2B SaaS models, reduce demand...
By ACCESS
News•Feb 26, 2026
Figma Partners with OpenAI to Bake in Support for Codex
Figma announced a deep integration with OpenAI’s Codex, allowing designers and engineers to move fluidly between visual design and code within a single workflow. The partnership follows a similar deal with Anthropic’s Claude Code and leverages Figma’s Model Context Protocol...
By TechCrunch Apps
Blog•Feb 26, 2026
AI-Driven Development Fuels Surge in Open Source Vulnerabilities, Black Duck Finds
Black Duck's 2026 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis report finds open source vulnerabilities in commercial codebases have more than doubled year‑on‑year. The average application now contains 581 vulnerabilities, a 107% increase, with 98% of codebases using open source components....
By IT Security Guru
News•Feb 26, 2026
Sinch Expands Its Platform With Agentic Conversations for AI-Powered Customer Engagement
Sinch unveiled Agentic Conversations, a suite that lets enterprises deploy AI agents across messaging, voice and email channels at scale. The platform offers an open, secure infrastructure that integrates with existing enterprise systems and supports both Sinch‑built and third‑party agents....
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 26, 2026
Valant Expands AI-Powered Clinical Notes for Behavioral Care
Valant announced expanded AI Notes Assist, an AI‑driven documentation tool that now supports more than 100 behavioral health note templates, including SOAP, DAP, BIRP and custom formats. Integrated directly into Valant’s secure EHR, the solution generates structured notes from in‑person,...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 26, 2026
Latino-Founded Applevel Reports $40M Valuation, Integrating WhatsApp Into GoHighLevel CRM and OpenAI
Latino‑founded startup Applevel announced a $40 million valuation after scaling its platform that syncs WhatsApp conversations into the GoHighLevel CRM and adds OpenAI‑driven response automation. The solution now serves over 4,500 active users in more than 36 countries and has recruited...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 26, 2026
Kubernetes WG Serving Concludes Following Successful Advancement of AI Inference Support
The Kubernetes Working Group (WG) Serving has been disbanded after successfully establishing the platform as a preferred orchestrator for AI inference workloads. The group’s workstreams gathered requirements from model servers, hardware vendors, and inference providers, leading to the adoption of...
By CNCF Blog
News•Feb 26, 2026
IAB Unveils 2026 NewFronts, Marking a Defining Moment for Streaming, CTV, and AI-Powered Video
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announced the 2026 NewFronts event, scheduled for March 23‑26 in New York, spotlighting AI‑driven video, streaming, and CTV innovations. The four‑day conference will feature live and virtual sessions from tech giants like Google, Meta, and...
By IAB
News•Feb 26, 2026
VAST Data Unveils Polaris for Global AI Data Control
VAST Data introduced Polaris, a global control plane for AI data infrastructure, at VAST Forward 2026. Polaris unifies provisioning, lifecycle management, and orchestration of VAST clusters across public cloud, neocloud, and on‑premises environments, turning distributed deployments into a single operational...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 26, 2026
INTERTRAFFIC: Blickfeld to Demo Lidar Traffic Management Solutions
Munich‑based Blickfeld will showcase its 3D lidar sensors and traffic perception software at Intertraffic Amsterdam in March 2026. The technology creates detailed, privacy‑safe maps of vehicle positions, speeds and classifications, enabling operators to monitor flows and spot incidents such as...
By Traffic Technology Today
News•Feb 26, 2026
AI Revives Ecommerce DIY
Ecommerce firms are embracing AI and automation to revive a DIY spirit, letting non‑technical staff build custom tools. A Northwest retailer equipped employees with OpenAI, Gemini and n8n, creating a price‑monitoring workflow that feeds data into Google Sheets. The approach...
By Practical Ecommerce
News•Feb 26, 2026
Deloitte Launches Toolkit to Help Organizations Move From AI Experimentation to Long-Term Value
Deloitte has introduced Enterprise AI Navigator, an advisory and engineering software suite aimed at moving enterprises from fragmented AI pilots to measurable, organization‑wide value. The platform combines Deloitte’s Ascend project‑management tools with proprietary data to identify suitable processes, model workflow...
By SiliconANGLE (sitewide)
News•Feb 26, 2026
CesiumAstro Acquires Vidrovr to Embed AI in Communications Systems
CesiumAstro announced the acquisition of AI‑focused startup Vidrovr to embed artificial intelligence into its space‑based communications payloads. The deal, closed in late 2025, adds multimodal signal‑analysis and edge‑computing capabilities to CesiumAstro’s software‑defined phased‑array systems, including the Element satellite. By integrating...
By SpaceNews
News•Feb 26, 2026
The Best Slackbot Prompts for Customer Service Teams
Slackbot, Slack’s AI-powered assistant, now integrates with Service Cloud to surface case data, knowledge articles, and team conversations directly within Slack. Early metrics show 96% user satisfaction, 138,000 hours saved each week, and $6.4 million in productivity value. The tool enables agents...
By Slack – Blog
News•Feb 26, 2026
Cognizant's Babak Hodjat Allays Anthropic-Induced AI Impact Fears: 'It Does Not Come Just Automatically Out of the Box'
Cognizant’s chief AI officer Babak Hodjat told Reuters that startup‑driven AI tools such as Anthropic’s Claude are not plug‑and‑play solutions and still require deep engineering, integration and governance expertise. He highlighted that Cognizant already automates about 30% of its coding...
By Mint AI
News•Feb 26, 2026
Google Circle to Search Looks At The Whole Image
Google announced a major upgrade to its Circle to Search feature, enabling the tool to analyze an entire image rather than just the circled portion. Powered by Gemini 3’s multi‑object recognition and visual query fan‑out, the system automatically crops and searches...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Feb 26, 2026
AI Governance Models and Their Role in Managing Ethical AI Challenges
AI governance models are emerging as the decisive factor in enterprise AI adoption, eclipsing pure model performance. Regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act demand documented, auditable systems, turning trust and transparency into competitive assets. Companies that embed proactive risk‑management...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 26, 2026
Autocalls Expands Platform With Full Omnichannel White-Label AI Voice Capabilities
Autocalls announced a platform upgrade that adds full omnichannel, white‑label AI voice capabilities across phone, WhatsApp and web chat, priced at a flat $0.09 per minute. The all‑inclusive rate bundles premium speech synthesis, language models, recognition and telephony, undercutting typical...
By AiThority » Sales Enablement
News•Feb 26, 2026
How This GV Investor Looks For The Next Stripe And Other ‘Compounding’ Startups In Fintech And AI
Elena Sakach, partner at GV, leverages her fintech background to back growth‑stage, “compounding” startups such as Stripe, Ramp and emerging AI‑driven firms. She emphasizes that successful fintechs build trust‑based relationships, expansion economics, and core infrastructure roles, while AI is reshaping...
By Crunchbase News AI
News•Feb 26, 2026
The Use of GenAI Is Turning Innocent Employees Into Insider Threats: Here’s How to Fix It
Enterprise adoption of generative AI tools is soaring, with nearly one in twenty companies regularly using them and internal data uploads to public models increasing thirty‑fold year‑on‑year. Employees often paste confidential contracts or credentials into tools like ChatGPT, unintentionally turning...
By e27
News•Feb 26, 2026
How AI Can Build Organizational Agility
Enterprise leaders facing 2026 economic uncertainty are turning to AI to boost organizational agility. Personiv’s 2025 Executive Outlook Pulse Survey shows 76% of public firms and 45% of private firms already use AI, especially in finance functions like payroll and...
By InformationWeek
News•Feb 26, 2026
‘Piloting’ AI Tools Isn’t Cool Anymore
Large U.S. corporations are abandoning the term “pilot” for AI projects, signaling a move from small‑scale tests toward deployments that deliver measurable value. A MIT study that found 95% of AI pilots failed to generate financial impact, combined with a...
By WSJ – Technology: What’s News
News•Feb 26, 2026
How AI Evolved From Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
Tom Griffiths, a Princeton professor, explains how the quest for a mathematical theory of the mind shaped modern artificial intelligence. He traces AI’s lineage to Enlightenment thinkers who first applied mathematics to mental processes, leading to logic, digital computers, and...
By Fast Company AI
News•Feb 26, 2026
Treasury Calls in Private Sector to Help Departments Scale up AI Use
HM Treasury has launched an external advisory panel that includes IBM, Faculty AI and the Tony Blair Institute to accelerate artificial‑intelligence adoption across UK government departments. The group will evaluate pilot projects, share best‑practice lessons and advise on scaling AI‑driven...
By Civil Service World (UK)
Podcast•Feb 26, 2026•1h
#199: AI Answers - Do Custom GPTs Still Matter? AI Output Validation, 2026 Job Disruption, Preventing Burnout, and Build Vs....
In this AI Answers episode, hosts Paul Reitzer and Kathy McPhillips field 15 live questions from their Intro to AI class, covering topics such as structured prompting, the relevance of prompt libraries, and the practical value of custom GPTs. They...
By The Artificial Intelligence Show
News•Feb 26, 2026
AI Versus Accuracy? We’re Willing to Make the Trade-Off.
Researchers at Northwestern’s GAIN initiative and the Center for News, Technology, and Innovation found that news readers overwhelmingly prefer AI chatbots and summarization tools over direct visits to publisher sites, valuing speed, perceived neutrality, and control. Participants acknowledge the answers...
By Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)
News•Feb 26, 2026
India Launches RailTech Policy to Make Railway Claims Digital
India’s Railways unveiled two digital reforms under its “52 Reforms in 52 Weeks” agenda: the RailTech Policy to systemise innovation and the e‑RCT platform to digitise the Railway Claims Tribunal. The RailTech framework creates a single‑stage portal, offers up to...
By Global Railway Review
Blog•Feb 26, 2026
Operationalizing AI at the Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Governor Waller outlined a systematic rollout of artificial intelligence across the central bank. The Fed has built a common, general‑purpose AI platform that all Reserve Bank employees can access for drafting, summarizing, and analysis. Specialized AI tools support...
By Mostly Economics
News•Feb 26, 2026
Why AI Gives Media Companies a Syncing Feeling
Artificial intelligence has become inseparable from media strategy, yet a pronounced syncing gap threatens its impact. Consumers adopt generative AI tools at breakneck speed, while media firms struggle to translate that demand into sustainable revenue. AI shows clear productivity gains...
By TVBEurope
News•Feb 26, 2026
NationGraph Raises $18M to Expand AI Public Sector Platform
NationGraph announced an $18 million Series A round, led by Menlo Ventures, to scale its AI‑native platform that helps companies navigate the fragmented U.S. government procurement market. The solution aggregates data from roughly 110,000 state, local and education agencies across four million...
By Ventureburn
Blog•Feb 26, 2026
How Takeda Is Harnessing RWE, Patient Insights and Human-Focused AI to Advance Global Access
Takeda is leveraging real‑world evidence (RWE) and human‑focused AI to reshape clinical trial design, patient access, and global market strategies. Chief Medical Officer Awny Farajallah highlights three pillars: robust evidence generation, capability building, and early patient access. RWE is used...
By Xtalks – Biotech Blogs