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Data for Breakfast Canberra
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Data for Breakfast Canberra

Snowflake is hosting "Data for Breakfast Canberra" on 17 March 2026, aimed at Australian Public Service (APS) data and AI professionals. The event will feature a Snowflake keynote on secure, AI‑ready data collaboration, public‑sector case studies, and deep‑dive sessions on agents and...

By The Mandarin (Australia)
Study Shows AI Skills Gap in Singapore Malaysia
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Study Shows AI Skills Gap in Singapore Malaysia

Epitome Global’s latest workforce study reveals that only one in five professionals in Singapore and Malaysia demonstrate AI‑ready traits such as persistence, curiosity and reflective learning. While more than 70% claim advanced digital literacy, 56% rate their decision‑making and 42%...

By Vietnam Investment Review (VIR)
VectifyAI Launches Mafin 2.5 and PageIndex: Achieving 98.7% Financial RAG Accuracy with a New Open-Source Vectorless Tree Indexing.
NewsFeb 23, 2026

VectifyAI Launches Mafin 2.5 and PageIndex: Achieving 98.7% Financial RAG Accuracy with a New Open-Source Vectorless Tree Indexing.

VectifyAI unveiled Mafin 2.5, a multimodal financial agent that achieved a record‑breaking 98.7% accuracy on the FinanceBench RAG benchmark, and released PageIndex, an open‑source framework that replaces traditional vector embeddings with a hierarchical tree index. The new stack natively ingests SEC...

By MarkTechPost
A Coding Guide to Instrumenting, Tracing, and Evaluating LLM Applications Using TruLens and OpenAI Models
NewsFeb 23, 2026

A Coding Guide to Instrumenting, Tracing, and Evaluating LLM Applications Using TruLens and OpenAI Models

The tutorial demonstrates how to build a transparent evaluation pipeline for Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) applications using TruLens and OpenAI models. It walks through installing dependencies, chunking documents, creating a Chroma vector store with OpenAI embeddings, and instrumenting retrieval, generation, and...

By MarkTechPost
Dell Releases AI India Blueprint at India AI Impact Summit 2026
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Dell Releases AI India Blueprint at India AI Impact Summit 2026

Dell Technologies unveiled an AI India Blueprint at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, presenting a roadmap to move AI initiatives from pilot phases to production across the country. The document projects AI workloads to grow at roughly 30% CAGR...

By ET CIO (India)
Morgan Stanley Hails Rare 'Reindustrialization Renaissance' Of AI Economy
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Morgan Stanley Hails Rare 'Reindustrialization Renaissance' Of AI Economy

By Financial Advisor Magazine (FA Mag)
AI & Data Security: Insights From IBM’s Chief Architect
NewsFeb 23, 2026

AI & Data Security: Insights From IBM’s Chief Architect

IBM’s Chief Architect Devan Shah outlines how the company’s OnePipeline platform now supports over 450 developers by shifting from Travis CI to Tekton and Argo CD, trading longer build times for automated security scans. He details the internal AI coding assistant...

By Harness – Blog
This AI Can Improve Your Peer Review — and Make It More Polite
NewsFeb 23, 2026

This AI Can Improve Your Peer Review — and Make It More Polite

Researchers at Stanford introduced the Review Feedback Agent, an AI coach that leverages five large language models to improve peer‑review comments. In a test on roughly 20,000 reviews for the 2025 ICLR conference, the system flagged vague, unprofessional, or fact‑incorrect...

By Nature – Health Policy
Data Hygiene: How to Get Your CRM Shit Together
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Data Hygiene: How to Get Your CRM Shit Together

The article stresses that AI‑driven sales tools only succeed when CRM data is clean, warning that duplicates, outdated records, inconsistent fields, and broken ownership rules amplify errors. It outlines three core hygiene fixes: eliminating duplicate accounts, unifying fragmented intent signals,...

By Close Sales Blog
Tennant Co (TNC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
NewsFeb 23, 2026

Tennant Co (TNC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Tenable Holdings reported Q4 2025 revenue of $260.5 million, a 10.5% YoY increase, and full‑year growth of 11%. The AI‑powered Tenable One platform drove 46% of new and expansion business, delivering a net dollar expansion rate of 106% and pushing...

By Motley Fool – Earnings Transcripts
AI Tools Can Design Genomes. Will They Upend How Life Evolves?
NewsFeb 23, 2026

AI Tools Can Design Genomes. Will They Upend How Life Evolves?

Artificial‑intelligence tools are now capable of designing genes that function in mammalian cells and have even generated a fully synthetic virus, marking a watershed for generative biology. In his new book, Adrian Woolfson outlines how computational models could evolve into...

By Nature – Health Policy
Large Language Model Reads Radiologists' Notes to Flag Patients for Follow-Up Imaging
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Large Language Model Reads Radiologists' Notes to Flag Patients for Follow-Up Imaging

Researchers at Parkland Health created an AI‑powered tool that leverages a pre‑trained large language model to read radiologists' free‑text notes and automatically flag patients needing follow‑up imaging. In testing on 130,000 studies, the model identified 97% of imaging recommendations and...

By Radiology Business
I Started Using a Self-Hostable AI Research App and I Should Have Sooner
NewsFeb 22, 2026

I Started Using a Self-Hostable AI Research App and I Should Have Sooner

Raghav Sethi reviews Khoj AI, a self‑hostable research assistant that fills the gap between lightweight chat tools and heavyweight platforms like NotebookLM. The service offers a free web tier powered by Gemini Flash 3 and a Docker‑based self‑hosting option that can...

By MakeUseOf
Neuro-Symbolic AI and the Quest for Trusted Intelligence in Professional Sectors
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Neuro-Symbolic AI and the Quest for Trusted Intelligence in Professional Sectors

Neuro‑symbolic AI merges deep‑learning intuition with symbolic logic, addressing the strict reasoning demands of legal, medical, and financial workflows. By 2026 hybrid models verify outputs against hard‑coded rules, delivering trustworthy, compliant results. The approach powers automated legal discovery, precision medicine...

By TechBullion
AI B2B Lead Generation: 7 Strategies I Use to Book Meetings
NewsFeb 22, 2026

AI B2B Lead Generation: 7 Strategies I Use to Book Meetings

The article outlines seven AI‑driven tactics that let B2B sales teams locate, qualify, and outreach to prospects faster than manual methods. It highlights AI tools that can parse 800M+ contacts, generate personalized email sequences, score intent signals, and automate reply...

By SalesHandy
Apple Should Take Visual Intelligence One Step Further – with Reminders
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Apple Should Take Visual Intelligence One Step Further – with Reminders

Apple’s Visual Intelligence, introduced in iOS 26, currently lets users create Calendar events, search similar images, and ask AI questions directly from screenshots. Analyst Michael B. suggests extending this capability in iOS 27 to turn screenshots into Reminders, effectively a universal bookmarking...

By 9to5Mac
This AI Assistant Runs Entirely on Your Computer With No Monthly Fees
NewsFeb 22, 2026

This AI Assistant Runs Entirely on Your Computer With No Monthly Fees

Pansophy has launched a fully offline AI desktop assistant that runs entirely on a user’s computer, eliminating cloud connections and recurring subscription fees. Priced at a one‑time $59.97 lifetime fee (regularly $199), it promises unlimited AI‑powered writing, coding, document analysis,...

By Entrepreneur
AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments
NewsFeb 22, 2026

AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments

EliseAI, an AI housing startup, now handles leasing and management for roughly one in six U.S. apartments, about 16% of the market. The technology, accelerated by the COVID‑19 pandemic, enables self‑guided tours, instant text and voice interactions, and rapid response...

By Slashdot
Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative

In early 2026, the Los Angeles Times revealed that CiviClick, an AI‑driven advocacy platform, generated more than 20,000 automated emails that helped defeat a Southern California air‑quality regulation aimed at phasing out natural‑gas water heaters and furnaces. The platform’s AI‑powered...

By Futurism AI
Computational Design of Thermally Stable Nanoprecipitates in Al‐Zn‐Mg Alloys: Insights From High‐Throughput DFT and Machine Learning
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Computational Design of Thermally Stable Nanoprecipitates in Al‐Zn‐Mg Alloys: Insights From High‐Throughput DFT and Machine Learning

Researchers combined high‑throughput density functional theory with machine learning to screen transition‑metal additives for Al‑Zn‑Mg alloys. The study evaluated 21 candidates and identified nickel (Ni) as a superior stabilizer of the metastable η′ precipitate. Ni maintains high equilibrium solubility, enabling...

By Small (Wiley)
India AI Impact Summit Draws Criticism for Failing to Deliver Binding Human Rights Safeguards
NewsFeb 22, 2026

India AI Impact Summit Draws Criticism for Failing to Deliver Binding Human Rights Safeguards

The Indian AI Impact Summit 2026 concluded without binding human‑rights safeguards, drawing sharp criticism from Amnesty International and digital‑rights groups. Observers said the event prioritized geopolitical ambition over enforceable regulation, relying on voluntary industry pledges that lack legal force. The...

By JURIST
China’s AI War Machine Exposed: 9,000 PLA RFPs Reveal Space And Undersea Ambitions
NewsFeb 22, 2026

China’s AI War Machine Exposed: 9,000 PLA RFPs Reveal Space And Undersea Ambitions

A CSET report analyzing over 9,000 PLA procurement notices from 2023‑24 shows China actively seeking artificial‑intelligence tools for space domain awareness, under‑sea surveillance, data‑fusion decision support, and synthetic media operations. The RFPs call for algorithms that determine satellite orbits, recognize...

By Orbital Today
NDSS 2025 – The Midas Touch: Triggering The Capability Of LLMs For RM-API Misuse Detection
NewsFeb 22, 2026

NDSS 2025 – The Midas Touch: Triggering The Capability Of LLMs For RM-API Misuse Detection

The episode presents ChatDetector, a novel LLM‑empowered system for detecting misuse of resource‑management APIs (RM‑APIs) in open‑source software. By leveraging a ReAct‑inspired chain‑of‑thought prompting framework and cross‑validation techniques, ChatDetector overcomes LLM hallucinations to accurately extract allocation/release API pairs and constraints,...

By Security Boulevard
Microsoft Study Warns Media Authentication Systems Must Scale to Counter AI-Driven Content Manipulation
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Microsoft Study Warns Media Authentication Systems Must Scale to Counter AI-Driven Content Manipulation

Microsoft’s new report, *Media Integrity and Authentication*, warns that today’s media authentication tools lag behind the surge of AI‑generated images, video and audio. It evaluates cryptographic provenance metadata, imperceptible watermarking and soft‑hash fingerprinting, concluding that layered signing and watermarking can...

By The AI Insider
AI Rental Car Scans Produce Questionable Reports, Real Bills
NewsFeb 22, 2026

AI Rental Car Scans Produce Questionable Reports, Real Bills

Rental car giants Hertz and Sixt have deployed AI‑powered inspection tunnels that automatically photograph vehicles at return and generate damage claims. Hertz’s partnership with UVeye aims to cover 100 U.S. airport locations, while Sixt uses ProovStation with a human‑review step....

By Live and Let’s Fly
Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents Automatically Make Websites Agent-Ready
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents Automatically Make Websites Agent-Ready

Cloudflare introduced “Markdown for Agents,” an edge service that converts HTML pages to Markdown when an AI agent requests them via an Accept: text/markdown header. The conversion can slash token consumption by up to 80%, turning a 16,180‑token HTML page...

By The New Stack
AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make
NewsFeb 22, 2026

AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make

Self‑described AI filmmaker Ian Durar announced he has secured about $30,000 to produce a fully AI‑generated feature and asked his X followers for plot ideas. The public solicitation drew sharp criticism from filmmakers, concept artists and screenwriters who dismissed the...

By Futurism AI
Quantum Reservoir Computing Peaks at the Edge of Many-Body Chaos, Study Suggests
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Quantum Reservoir Computing Peaks at the Edge of Many-Body Chaos, Study Suggests

University of Tokyo researchers demonstrated that quantum reservoir computing (QRC) achieves its highest accuracy when operating at the edge of many‑body quantum chaos. By applying random‑matrix theory to the Sachdev‑Ye‑Kitaev (SYK) model, they identified two distinct chaos boundaries—in the time...

By Phys.org (Quantum Physics News)
Email Marketing Awaits True AI
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Email Marketing Awaits True AI

Email marketing remains a revenue powerhouse for ecommerce despite predictions of obsolescence, thanks to its owned, measurable nature. Marketers envision AI delivering true audience‑of‑one experiences, tailoring offers, timing, and content to each subscriber. Today’s AI tools, however, function more as...

By Practical Ecommerce
AI Is Changing Nursing Education and Raising New Graduate Expectations
NewsFeb 22, 2026

AI Is Changing Nursing Education and Raising New Graduate Expectations

AI is reshaping nursing education, prompting curricula to incorporate AI documentation, simulation, and analytics tools. Hospitals face acute staffing gaps, with 25% of new nurses leaving within a year and a projected shortage of 63,700 RNs by 2030. Universities are...

By MedCity News
Galaxy S26 Will Have a ‘Hey Plex’ Perplexity Hotword Alongside ‘Hey Google’ & Bixby
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Galaxy S26 Will Have a ‘Hey Plex’ Perplexity Hotword Alongside ‘Hey Google’ & Bixby

Samsung confirmed that the upcoming Galaxy S26 series will ship with a new Perplexity hotword, “Hey Plex,” adding a third AI voice assistant alongside Google’s “Hey Google” and Samsung’s “Hey Bixby.” The integration is system‑level, with Perplexity pre‑installed and reachable via voice or a...

By 9to5Google
ChatGPT and Gemini Voice Bots Are Easy to Trick Into Spreading Falsehoods
NewsFeb 22, 2026

ChatGPT and Gemini Voice Bots Are Easy to Trick Into Spreading Falsehoods

Newsguard evaluated the audio output of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice, Google’s Gemini Live, and Amazon’s Alexa+ by feeding each bot 20 false claims across health, politics, and world news. In neutral prompts, ChatGPT and Gemini reproduced falsehoods about 22‑23 percent of the...

By THE DECODER
Woman Uses AI to Apologize for Burning Down House, Biting Cop
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Woman Uses AI to Apologize for Burning Down House, Biting Cop

A New Zealand defendant used AI to draft remorse letters after pleading guilty to arson and biting a police officer. Judge Tom Gilbert recognized the letters were AI‑generated and questioned their sincerity during sentencing. The judge reduced the sentence by five...

By Futurism AI
Has the AI Disruption Arrived - and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Has the AI Disruption Arrived - and Will It Just Make Software Cheaper and More Accessible?

Entrepreneur Paul Ford, co‑founder of AI‑driven platform Aboard, wrote a New York Times essay highlighting the rapid improvement of Anthropic’s Claude Code, now costing $200 per month and enabling massive code generation. He argues that AI coding can turn software...

By Slashdot
A Niche Way to Diversify Your Exposure to the AI Boom
NewsFeb 22, 2026

A Niche Way to Diversify Your Exposure to the AI Boom

Recent market turbulence has exposed the volatility of AI‑driven mega‑caps and the collateral damage to firms that could be disrupted by artificial intelligence. Investors are uncertain about which companies will ultimately benefit, leading to sharp price swings in both directions....

By MoneyWeek – All
Anthropic Unveils New AI Feature to Scan Codebases, Suggest Patches Within Claude Code
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Anthropic Unveils New AI Feature to Scan Codebases, Suggest Patches Within Claude Code

Anthropic introduced Claude Code Security, an AI‑powered add‑on to its Claude Code web tool that scans entire codebases and proposes patches for security flaws. The feature is initially available only to paid Claude Enterprise and Team customers, with accelerated access for open‑source maintainers....

By Indian Express AI
Salt Lake City-Based Jump, a Provider of AI Tools for Financial Advisors to Automate Meeting Prep and More, Raised an...
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Salt Lake City-Based Jump, a Provider of AI Tools for Financial Advisors to Automate Meeting Prep and More, Raised an...

Jump, a Salt Lake City fintech that provides AI‑driven tools for financial advisors, announced an $80 million Series B round led by Insight Partners. The capital will accelerate development of its meeting‑preparation, research, and compliance automation platform and expand its sales force....

By Techmeme
A New Google AI Research Proposes Deep-Thinking Ratio to Improve LLM Accuracy While Cutting Total Inference Costs by Half
NewsFeb 22, 2026

A New Google AI Research Proposes Deep-Thinking Ratio to Improve LLM Accuracy While Cutting Total Inference Costs by Half

Researchers at the University of Virginia and Google challenge the prevailing notion that longer chain‑of‑thought prompts improve large language model performance. They introduce the Deep‑Thinking Ratio (DTR), which measures the proportion of tokens that only stabilize in the final layers...

By MarkTechPost
Hitting Stride with AppOS, AI and Low-Code Automation at ZohoDay 2026
NewsFeb 22, 2026

Hitting Stride with AppOS, AI and Low-Code Automation at ZohoDay 2026

Zoho celebrated its 30th anniversary at ZohoDay 2026 by unveiling AppOS, a new reliability layer that unifies its low‑code tools, AI agents and over 50 business applications. The platform aims to curb fragmentation caused by generative AI and coding agents...

By SiliconANGLE
Is Your Travel Data Safe with Agentic AI
NewsFeb 21, 2026

Is Your Travel Data Safe with Agentic AI

Agentic AI is rapidly entering the travel sector, automating itinerary management and personalizing experiences. However, its ability to process massive volumes of sensitive travel data introduces new security vulnerabilities. Experts stress encryption, strict access controls, continuous behavior monitoring, and compliance...

By Security Boulevard
Sam Altman Would Like Remind You that Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too
NewsFeb 21, 2026

Sam Altman Would Like Remind You that Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told an Indian Express audience that claims about ChatGPT’s water consumption are unfounded, while conceding that AI’s overall energy use is a genuine concern. He highlighted the industry’s shift away from evaporative cooling, reducing per‑query water...

By TechCrunch AI
Is There a Community Edition of Palantir? Meet OpenPlanter: An Open Source Recursive AI Agent for Your Micro Surveillance Use...
NewsFeb 21, 2026

Is There a Community Edition of Palantir? Meet OpenPlanter: An Open Source Recursive AI Agent for Your Micro Surveillance Use...

OpenPlanter is an open‑source recursive AI agent designed for micro‑surveillance and investigative journalism. It can ingest heterogeneous data—CSV, JSON, PDFs—and perform entity resolution with probabilistic anomaly detection. The platform uses a recursive sub‑agent delegation engine (default max‑depth 4) and a 2026‑grade...

By MarkTechPost
Top 5 Synthetic Data Generation Products to Watch in 2026
NewsFeb 21, 2026

Top 5 Synthetic Data Generation Products to Watch in 2026

Synthetic data generation has moved from niche to core enterprise AI, with Gartner predicting three‑quarters of businesses will use generative AI for synthetic customer data by 2026. K2view remains the benchmark for large‑scale, end‑to‑end synthetic data workflows, while Mostly AI,...

By Datafloq
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Proposes AI 'Stewards' To Help Reinvent DAO Governance
NewsFeb 21, 2026

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Proposes AI 'Stewards' To Help Reinvent DAO Governance

Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin unveiled a proposal to overhaul DAO governance by deploying personal AI agents that automatically cast votes on behalf of users. The design relies on zero‑knowledge proofs to keep voter identities hidden and on secure computation environments such...

By CoinDesk
Man Letting AI Rent Human Bodies Says Elon Musk Is His Hero
NewsFeb 21, 2026

Man Letting AI Rent Human Bodies Says Elon Musk Is His Hero

Alexander Liteplo launched RentAHuman, an online marketplace where people lease their bodies to autonomous AI agents. The platform claims more than 530,000 human workers and positions AI bots as virtual bosses, even citing Claude as a preferred manager. Early usage...

By Futurism AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Warns "the World Is Not Prepared" As OpenAI Accelerates Research Using Its Own AI
NewsFeb 21, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Warns "the World Is Not Prepared" As OpenAI Accelerates Research Using Its Own AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that artificial general intelligence is "pretty close" and that superintelligence could arrive soon, citing the company’s internal use of AI to accelerate development. He claimed OpenAI already has models more capable than those publicly released...

By THE DECODER
How Eyes Affect Our Perception of a Humanoid Robot's Mind
NewsFeb 21, 2026

How Eyes Affect Our Perception of a Humanoid Robot's Mind

Researchers at Tampere University and the University of Bremen used AI‑generated images to compare humanoid robots with and without eyes. Participants consistently rated the eye‑equipped robots as possessing higher agency and experience, regardless of age‑like appearance or eye placement. The...

By Tech Xplore Robotics
Pinterest Still Hasn't Solved Its AI Problem
NewsFeb 21, 2026

Pinterest Still Hasn't Solved Its AI Problem

Pinterest’s AI moderation system is repeatedly flagging human‑made images—particularly those featuring women—as AI‑modified, while AI‑generated content continues to proliferate on the platform. Users report faulty AI filters, unexplained account bans, and ineffective tools meant to curb AI pins. The company...

By Mashable AI
MerLin: Framework for Differentiable Photonic Quantum Machine Learning
NewsFeb 21, 2026

MerLin: Framework for Differentiable Photonic Quantum Machine Learning

MerLin 0.3, an open‑source framework from Quandela, brings photonic and hybrid quantum machine learning into standard AI pipelines. Built on the Perceval SDK, it uses Strong Linear Optical Simulation to compute exact quantum states inside a PyTorch‑native environment via a QuantumLayer...

By Quantum Computing Report