News•Feb 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. Independent testing has exposed frequent false positives caused by lighting and reflections, leading to surprise bills averaging several hundred dollars. Regulators and consumer advocates are questioning the lack of human oversight and the opaque dispute process.
By Live and Let’s Fly
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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)
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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 (sitewide)
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 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
News•Feb 21, 2026
Amazon: AI-Assisted Hacker Breached 600 Fortinet Firewalls in 5 Weeks
Amazon’s Integrated Security team warned that a Russian‑speaking threat actor leveraged generative AI services to automate a campaign that compromised more than 600 FortiGate firewalls in 55 countries between Jan 11 and Feb 18, 2026. The attackers scanned for internet‑exposed management ports,...
By BleepingComputer
News•Feb 21, 2026
Melbourne Airport Deploys Veovo Intelligent Airport Platform to Enhance CX and Operational Efficiency
Melbourne Airport has rolled out the Veovo Intelligent Airport Platform, a web‑based system that unifies flight, resource and operational data into a single source of truth. The platform leverages management‑by‑exception alerts and continuous integration to improve real‑time coordination among operations...
By Future Travel Experience
News•Feb 21, 2026
ECI Expands Alliance with FormedAI to Deliver AI-Powered AP Automation for E-Automate Cloud Users
ECI Software Solutions has broadened its partnership with FormedAI to embed AI‑driven accounts payable automation into the e‑automate Cloud platform for North American dealers. The integration brings the same data‑capture and invoice‑processing engine that served self‑hosted users to cloud deployments,...
By ERP News
News•Feb 21, 2026
Anthropic Debuts Claude Code Security – AI Now Scan Vulnerabilities in Your Entire Codebase
Anthropic launched Claude Code Security, an AI‑driven tool that scans entire codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches. Powered by Claude Opus 4.6, it uses frontier reasoning to map data flows and identify complex bugs that traditional SAST tools miss. Internal tests...
By GBHackers On Security
News•Feb 21, 2026
Anthropic Updates Claude Code with Desktop Features that Automate More of the Dev Workflow
Anthropic has launched new desktop features for Claude Code, enabling the AI to spin up development servers, display running web apps, auto‑detect and fix errors, and perform code reviews directly in the diff view. For GitHub projects, Claude now monitors...
By THE DECODER
News•Feb 21, 2026
‘SaaS Is Dead’ Is Counterfactual, Ask Us Again in 10 Years: Salesforce Heads Amid AI Summit 2026
At the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, Salesforce executives pushed back against the "SaaS is dead" narrative, arguing that their cloud platforms remain essential for AI‑driven enterprises. They highlighted that over 20,000 customers are already integrating Salesforce AI...
By Indian Express AI
News•Feb 21, 2026
EC-Council Expands AI Certification Portfolio to Strengthen U.S. AI Workforce Readiness and Security
EC‑Council announced its Enterprise AI Credential Suite, adding four role‑based AI certifications and an updated Certified CISO v4 program. The launch targets the estimated $5.5 trillion global AI risk exposure and a U.S. reskilling gap of 700,000 workers. It aligns with recent...
By The Hacker News
News•Feb 21, 2026
Sam Altman vs Elon Musk: Why OpenAI’s CEO Says Space-Based Data Centres Won’t Matter This Decade
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed Elon Musk’s proposal for orbital data centres, calling the concept “ridiculous” for the current decade. Altman argued that launch costs and the difficulty of servicing GPUs in space make space‑based AI compute infeasible in the...
By Indian Express AI
News•Feb 21, 2026
Authors, Illustrators Push for Copyright Owner Class in Case Against Google AI
A coalition of authors and illustrators has asked the court to certify a class that would include any copyright owner whose works were used to train Google’s Gemini AI. Judge Eumi Lee pressed both sides on the feasibility of such...
By Courthouse News Service
News•Feb 20, 2026
Krafton Introduces Terminus KIRA, Open-Source AI Agent Enhancing Game Development Workflows
Krafton unveiled Terminus KIRA, an open‑source AI agent designed to streamline game‑development workflows. Built as a desktop “virtual colleague,” KIRA repackages the internal KRIS system and adds self‑critique prompts to existing large language models. In Terminal‑Bench tests it achieved a 74.8%...
By Inven Global
News•Feb 20, 2026
How Arintra’s Coding AI Helped Mercyhealth Boost Revenue by 5%
Mercyhealth, a 6‑hospital system serving northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, deployed Arintra’s AI‑driven coding platform across 37 sites in 2023. The technology automates chart coding, writes medical codes directly into the EHR, and flags missed reimbursement opportunities. Since implementation, the...
By MedCity News
News•Feb 20, 2026
Microsoft to Train 20 Lakh Teachers in AI by 2030, Launches Initiative in Delhi
Microsoft announced its "Microsoft Elevate for Educators in India" program, aiming to train 2 million teachers across 2 lakh institutions by 2030. The rollout began in Delhi, covering 75 CM SHRI schools where educators received hands‑on training with Microsoft Copilot. Partnerships with CBSE,...
By Indian Express AI
News•Feb 20, 2026
From Mental Health Issues to Cancer Care: AI Startups Reimagine Healthcare Access with Smart Diagnostics, Digital Tools, Tele-Doctors
At the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, several startups unveiled AI‑driven solutions aimed at widening healthcare access. Clinics on Cloud introduced “Health ATMs” that combine on‑site screenings for 60+ conditions with tele‑doctor consults, claiming 90‑95% laboratory‑grade accuracy. Other launches...
By Indian Express AI
News•Feb 20, 2026
Hong Kong: PolyU Advances Intelligent Transport Solutions
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University secured HK$18.6 million from the Smart Traffic Fund to launch three AI‑driven transport projects. One develops an end‑to‑end intelligent driving system for logistics using multi‑modal sensor fusion and a 360° bird’s‑eye view framework. A second creates...
By OpenGov Asia
News•Feb 20, 2026
Gensler’s 2026 Design Forecast: AI, Agility and Adaptation Redefine the Future of the Urban Built Environment
Gensler released its 2026 Design Forecast, highlighting how artificial intelligence, design agility, and climate adaptation are reshaping the urban built environment. The report adds country‑specific insights, showing Europe’s livability focus, Asia’s dense‑city innovation, and the Middle East’s resilience priorities. Six...
By FM Link
News•Feb 20, 2026
AI News: Italy Sets the Rules for AI in the Workplace
Italy’s AI Act (Law No. 132) became effective on 10 October 2025, making Italy the first EU nation with a comprehensive national AI framework. The law classifies AI systems used for employment decisions as high‑risk, mirroring the EU AI Act, and imposes strict...
By National Law Review – Employment Law
News•Feb 20, 2026
AI Apps On The Google Play Store Are Leaking Customer Data And Photos
AdGuard is offering its Family Plan as a lifetime subscription for $15.97 through February 22, covering up to nine devices. The deal bundles enterprise‑grade ad blocking, tracker suppression, malware and phishing protection, and built‑in parental controls. Users receive continuous updates without...
By Mashable AI
News•Feb 20, 2026
Media Authentication an Emerging Front in Battle Against Deepfakes: Microsoft Report
Microsoft released a report on media integrity and authentication (MIA), detailing techniques such as C2PA provenance, imperceptible watermarking, and soft‑hash fingerprinting to verify digital content origins. The study concludes that no single method can stop deepfakes, urging a layered approach...
By Biometric Update
News•Feb 20, 2026
5 Things To Know On Anthropic’s Claude Code Security
Anthropic announced that its Claude Code platform will now include Claude Code Security, an AI‑driven vulnerability‑scanning feature that reads and reasons about code like a human researcher. The tool, launched in a limited research preview, aims to uncover complex issues...
By CRN (US)
News•Feb 20, 2026
Ten63 Therapeutics Secures New Funding
Ten63 Therapeutics, an AI‑driven drug‑discovery firm spun out of Duke and TTIC, announced a strategic investment from Chugai Venture Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing total capital to over $45 million. The company leverages its BEYOND generative‑chemistry platform...
By VC News Daily
News•Feb 20, 2026
Chyron Paint 10.3 Adds New Visualization Features for Live Action
Chyron has launched Paint 10.3, adding AI‑driven active graphics, a flexible speedometer tool, and an enhanced zone blur feature for live sports production. The active graphics layer can animate visuals using AI player‑tracking or manual key‑framing, reducing manual effort. The...
By TVTechnology
News•Feb 20, 2026
KPMG Named SAP Global Strategic Service Partner
KPMG has been elevated to SAP’s Global Strategic Service Partner tier, positioning its cloud‑native Velocity platform as a core delivery engine for large‑scale ERP transformations. The partnership emphasizes modular accelerators and an AI‑first approach that streamline design, configuration, and testing...
By ERP Today
News•Feb 20, 2026
Microsoft: ‘Summarize With AI’ Buttons Used To Poison AI Recommendations via @Sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Microsoft’s Defender Security Research team unveiled a new threat called “AI Recommendation Poisoning,” where website buttons labeled “Summarize with AI” embed hidden prompt‑injection instructions. Clicking these buttons feeds AI assistants a URL‑encoded command that tells the model to remember the...
By Search Engine Journal
News•Feb 20, 2026
On the Radar: The Role of T-Glass in AI
T‑glass, an ultra‑thin glass fiber fabric with low thermal expansion, is becoming essential for AI chips in smartphones and data‑center servers. Its high tensile strength and heat‑dissipating properties stabilize substrates as chips grow larger and more power‑dense. Nitto Boseki dominates...
By CompositesWorld
News•Feb 20, 2026
AI Empowers Cyber Criminals. Could It Also Help Schools Fight Them?
School districts are experimenting with generative and agentic AI to bolster cybersecurity, but results are mixed. While vendor‑built AI features provide more reliable insights than generic models, many districts still rely on traditional tools due to staffing and budget constraints....
By GovTech — Education (K-12)