News•Feb 19, 2026
Echo360 Partners with Exxat to Advance Skills-Based Learning
Echo360 announced a partnership with Exxat to extend its AI‑powered video assessment tool, GoReact, into experiential education programs worldwide. The collaboration leverages an LTI integration that lets institutions blend skill practice, observation, and feedback across healthcare and human services curricula. GoReact already serves more than 500 universities, and the new alliance adds Exxat’s clinical education platform to its ecosystem. A joint webinar on March 5, 2026 will showcase how the combined solution prepares learners for real‑world practice.
By HR Tech Series
News•Feb 19, 2026
Exclusive: Ownwell Lands $30M To Help Homeowners Lower Their Property Tax Bills
Ownwell, an AI‑driven property‑tax appeal startup, closed a $50 million Series B round—$30 million in equity and $20 million in debt—bringing its total equity funding to $54 million since 2020. The company now serves over 500,000 residential and commercial owners across 12 states, having processed...
By Crunchbase News AI
News•Feb 19, 2026
UGREEN Expands Its NAS Lineup with New AI-Powered Flagship Series, Signaling the Era of the Smart Private Cloud
UGREEN unveiled its AI‑powered NAS flagship iDX series, positioning the devices as smart private‑cloud hubs that process data locally with on‑device large language models. The top‑end iDX6011 Pro packs an Intel Core Ultra 7 CPU, 96 TOPS of AI compute, 64 GB LPDDR5X memory...
By Irish Tech News
News•Feb 19, 2026
Marketplace Briefing: Inside Marc Lore and Melissa Bridgeford’s AI Shopping Agent Wizard
Wizard, the AI shopping agent co‑founded by Marc Lore and Melissa Bridgeford, has moved from a stealth B‑to‑B conversational commerce model to a consumer‑facing platform. Founded in 2021, the startup spent years refining its technology before publicly debuting in February...
By Modern Retail
News•Feb 19, 2026
Something Big Is Happening — But Not What You Think
Ralph Losey challenges Matt Shumer’s viral claim that AI will soon replace white‑collar workers, arguing that while capability is accelerating, progress is jagged and domain‑specific. He highlights persistent hallucinations in legal AI, the limited relevance of benchmark curves, and the...
By EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model)
News•Feb 19, 2026
AI-First Ambitions Tested by Infrastructure and Skills Gaps
UK entrepreneurs are rapidly embedding AI into products and operations, with 70 % warning that firms not adopting AI risk being outcompeted within five years. However, 89 % cite domestic skills shortages as a growth limiter, and 85 % say digital trust and...
By Startups Magazine
News•Feb 19, 2026
Health Systems Must Connect with Patients in More Meaningful Ways
Health systems are accelerating digital transformation post‑COVID, with HIMSS research showing that hospitals possessing advanced digital maturity are 3.25 times more likely to earn higher safety grades and experience lower infection and adverse event rates. The pandemic also shifted patients from...
By Healthcare IT News (HIMSS Media)
News•Feb 19, 2026
ThoughtSpot Launches Agentic Data Prep to Transform How Teams Profile, Mash Up, and Secure Data for AI Workloads
ThoughtSpot unveiled the next‑generation Analyst Studio, adding SpotCache, a native spreadsheet interface, and an agentic data‑prep engine. SpotCache lets users cache data snapshots for unlimited queries at fixed cloud costs, while the spreadsheet UI brings Excel‑style flexibility under enterprise governance....
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Imaging Data Liquidity: The Foundation of Multimodal Medical Intelligence
Healthcare’s imaging assets—radiology and digital pathology—are evolving from isolated diagnostic tools into a strategic, enterprise‑wide intelligence layer. Current PACS and VNA infrastructures were built for episodic access, limiting data recombination, longitudinal analysis, and outcome linkage. The article argues that achieving...
By MedCity News
News•Feb 19, 2026
Adronite Secures $5M Series A to Scale AI Code Platform
Adronite announced a $5 million Series A round led by Gatemore Capital Management, appointing Gatemore’s Liad Meidar as board chair. The funding will accelerate development of its AI‑powered platform that scans entire software codebases across more than 20 languages, delivering deterministic, explainable...
By Just AI News
News•Feb 19, 2026
‘We Are at Risk’: Mistral CEO Warns Against US Dominance in AI
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch warned at the AI Impact Summit that a handful of U.S. tech giants are monopolising AI development and infrastructure, creating a risk of excessive leverage. He contrasted Mistral’s €12 bn valuation with OpenAI’s $850 bn-plus market cap, underscoring...
By Sifted
News•Feb 19, 2026
Why AI Misreads The Middle Of Your Best Pages via @Sejournal, @DuaneForrester
Large language models exhibit a "dog‑bone" weakness, performing well on the opening and closing sections of long texts while struggling with the middle. Research from Stanford and recent papers such as ATACompressor confirm that attention bias and aggressive context compression...
By Search Engine Journal
News•Feb 19, 2026
Criminals Outpacing Banks as Firms Struggle with AI Defence, Report Warns
A new State of Financial Crime 2026 report from ComplyAdvantage reveals that financial institutions are falling behind AI‑enabled criminal networks. Over 600 senior compliance leaders reported 99% detection weaknesses, with only 33% employing AI for core AML functions and manual...
By The Fintech Times
News•Feb 19, 2026
Execution, Not Chat: How Agentic AI Changes Supply Chain Operations
Agentic AI is shifting supply chain management from advisory chatbots to autonomous execution across ERP, WMS, and TMS systems. By embedding bounded autonomy, situational awareness, and direct action authority, these agents compress the detect‑decide‑act loop and reduce the costly “execution...
By Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Fiverr Shifts Focus to High-End Work as AI Transforms the Gig Economy: 2025 Results and 2026 Outlook
Fiverr reported a 10% revenue increase to $430.9 million in 2025 and achieved a record adjusted EBITDA margin of 21.3%, underscoring strong profitability. The company deliberately shed 14% of its active buyers while average spend per buyer rose 13.3% to $342,...
By HRTechFeed
News•Feb 19, 2026
Brian Platz – The Future of AI in HR: Privacy, Security, and Transformation Opportunities
The latest HRtech podcast episode examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping human resources, emphasizing the need for robust data privacy and security frameworks. It outlines practical steps HR leaders can take to protect employee information while leveraging AI-driven insights. The...
By HRTechFeed
News•Feb 19, 2026
Czech Navigara Raises Over €2M With Support From CEE Funds
Czech startup Navigara secured a $2.5 million seed round, backed by Inovo VC, Rockaway Ventures and QQ Capital, to commercialise its AI‑driven engineering analytics platform. Founded in 2022, the company translates development‑stack data into clear performance indicators that quantify the impact...
By The Recursive
News•Feb 19, 2026
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Kenco’s 2026 Innovation Report reveals that supply‑chain leaders are leaning heavily on AI and proven technologies to offset inflation and labor‑shortage pressures. While 83% of respondents maintain a dedicated innovation budget, only 35% increased it year‑over‑year, and half allocate at...
By Manufacturing Tomorrow
News•Feb 19, 2026
From Rocks to Row Crops, TerraClear Broadens Its Capabilities with Launch of Fully Autonomous Robot
TerraClear has launched TerraScout, a fully autonomous robot that captures high‑resolution field imagery for rock‑mapping and weed identification across broad‑acre row crops. The machine can map over 1,000 acres per day at speeds up to 15 mph, collecting more than 4 billion...
By AgFunderNews
News•Feb 19, 2026
35-Year SEO Veteran: Great SEO Is Good GEO — But Not Everyone’s Been Doing Great SEO via @Sejournal, @Theshelleywalsh
In a recent interview, 35‑year SEO veteran Grant Simmons clarified that great SEO and generative‑engine optimization (GEO) are fundamentally the same when executed holistically, emphasizing topical authority and brand consistency. He explained that LLMs evaluate content at the passage level,...
By Search Engine Journal
News•Feb 19, 2026
Kong and Solace Partner to Unify API and Real-Time Data and Event Streaming
Kong Inc. and real‑time data specialist Solace have joined Kong’s Premium Technology Partner Program to deliver a unified, governed data fabric. The partnership merges Kong’s API and AI gateway capabilities with Solace’s high‑performance event streaming, enabling a single control plane...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Rapidata Emerges to Shorten AI Model Development Cycles From Months to Days with Near Real-Time RLHF
Rapidata, a startup, has built a platform that crowdsources RLHF feedback through mobile app users, turning ad slots into short annotation tasks. By tapping 15‑20 million global users, it can deliver up to 1.5 million annotations per hour, shrinking feedback loops from...
By VentureBeat
News•Feb 19, 2026
AI Turns Weather Data Into Sales
Retailers have long known weather drives sales, but few have turned forecasts into actionable insight. New AI platforms now ingest long‑range weather data and feed it directly into ecommerce functions such as demand planning, pricing, personalization, fulfillment and ad activation....
By Practical Ecommerce
News•Feb 19, 2026
How AI Upgrades Enterprise Treasury Management
Enterprises are shifting treasury management from error‑prone spreadsheets to AI‑driven automated pipelines. Infosys’ Ashish Kumar and IBS FinTech CEO CM Grover highlight that real‑time data integration with ERP, trading platforms, and banks is essential for AI to add value....
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Feb 19, 2026
Serviceplan Group Partners with Luma AI to Deploy AI for Creative Across Global Ops
Serviceplan Group announced a strategic partnership with Luma AI to embed generative‑AI tools across its global creative operations. The collaboration introduces a "House of AI" digital twin that mirrors the agency’s entire marketing‑communication value chain, covering strategy, development, production and delivery....
By Campaign Middle East
News•Feb 19, 2026
Autotech Ventures Bets Big on Hard-to-Copy Logistics Startups
Autotech Ventures, a $600 million industrial‑focused VC, is targeting logistics startups that are hard to replicate, leveraging its deep network of global manufacturers and carriers. The firm highlighted investments in GenLogs, a data‑rich freight intelligence platform, and Augment, an end‑to‑end AI...
By FreightWaves
News•Feb 19, 2026
ProEnergy Supply, OpenSolar Partner on Distributor Inventory Platform
ProEnergy Supply (PES) has launched an AI‑driven transactional gateway that integrates directly with OpenSolar’s new Shop platform, allowing solar designers to purchase equipment in real time. The solution connects live inventory to distributors’ ERP systems, reaching over 28,000 active solar...
By Solar Power World
News•Feb 19, 2026
Meta Pours $65 Million Into State Elections to Back AI-Friendly Politicians
Meta is committing $65 million to influence state elections across the United States, establishing four Super PACs that target both Republican and Democratic candidates. The spending begins in Texas, where Meta is building three AI data centers, and in Illinois, supporting...
By THE DECODER
News•Feb 19, 2026
NVIDIA Adds Cosmos Policy to Its World Foundation Models
NVIDIA introduced Cosmos Policy, a post‑trained robot control policy built on its Cosmos Predict‑2 world foundation model. By encoding actions, future states and reward signals as latent video frames, the single diffusion‑based model achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on the LIBERO and...
By The Robot Report
News•Feb 19, 2026
Accenture Ties Promotions to AI Tool Usage While some Employees Call the Tools "Broken Slop Generators"
Accenture has begun monitoring weekly logins to its generative AI tools and tying usage data to promotion decisions for senior staff. Employees must demonstrate regular AI adoption to be considered for leadership roles, while staff in 12 European countries and...
By THE DECODER
News•Feb 19, 2026
Exclusive: Plaid CTO Talks AI Strategy, New Foundational Model to Power Next Phase of ‘Intelligent Finance’
Plaid announced a new transactional foundational AI model, built in‑house from its de‑identified financial data, to power what it calls “intelligent finance.” CTO Will Robinson said the model moves Plaid beyond open‑finance connectivity toward smarter, personalized transaction insights and tighter...
By This Week in Fintech
News•Feb 19, 2026
Freeform Raises $67M Series B to Scale up Laser AI Manufacturing
Freeform announced a $67 million Series B round to accelerate its metal 3D‑printing platform. The capital will fund the upgrade from the GoldenEye system to the AI‑native Skyfall printer, which will employ hundreds of lasers to produce thousands of kilograms of parts...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Feb 19, 2026
The 'Last-Mile' Data Problem Is Stalling Enterprise Agentic AI — 'Golden Pipelines' Aim to Fix It
Enterprise AI is hitting a ‘last‑mile’ data bottleneck as messy operational data hampers model inference. Empromptu’s ‘golden pipelines’ embed automated ingestion, cleaning, labeling and governance directly into the AI application workflow, shrinking data‑preparation cycles from weeks to under an hour....
By VentureBeat
News•Feb 19, 2026
Belkasoft Advances AI-Assisted DFIR With Major Update To Belkasoft X And BelkaGPT
Belkasoft released a major update to its DFIR platform Belkasoft X and the offline AI assistant BelkaGPT. The upgrade adds context‑aware conversational Q&A, expands relevance scoring to up to ten artifacts, and introduces a GPU‑enabled BelkaGPT Hub for media processing. It...
By Forensic Focus
News•Feb 19, 2026
Google Plans $15B Subsea Cable to Boost AI Infrastructure
Google announced a $15 billion America‑India Connect subsea cable project spanning five years and four continents. The initiative adds new landing points in Visakhapatnam and creates redundant fibre‑optic routes linking India to Singapore, South Africa, Australia and the United States. By...
By Telecoms Tech News
News•Feb 19, 2026
Google AI Mode Works In 53 New Languages
Google announced that its AI Mode now supports 53 additional languages, bringing the total to just under 100. The expansion covers languages spoken by more than a billion people worldwide, ranging from major tongues like Hindi and Arabic to regional...
By Search Engine Roundtable
News•Feb 19, 2026
China’s AI Build-Out Forces a Rapid Shift to Liquid Cooling — Massive Clusters Put Pressure on Domestic Suppliers to Shift...
China’s rapid AI compute expansion is forcing a wholesale shift from air to liquid cooling in data centers. Dozens of domestic firms, led by Envicool whose shares have tripled, are scaling liquid‑cooling solutions to support 42 "10,000‑card" clusters delivering over...
By Tom's Hardware
News•Feb 19, 2026
Aurasell Launches AI-Native OS for GTM Workflows
Aurasell announced the launch of the world’s first AI‑native Go‑To‑Market Operating System (GTM OS) that layers intelligent, automated workflows onto any existing CRM such as Salesforce or HubSpot. The platform promises to double productivity and deliver measurable impact within two...
By Demand Gen Report
News•Feb 19, 2026
Artificial Intelligence Drives Autonomous Networks, Customer Service Gains
Nvidia’s State of AI in Telecommunications survey of 1,038 industry leaders shows AI is now a revenue engine, with nine‑in‑ten respondents reporting cost reductions and higher earnings. Autonomous networks top the AI use‑case list, accounting for 50% of reported ROI,...
By ComputerWeekly
News•Feb 19, 2026
How to Build AI Ready Knowledge Foundations: What Leaders and KM Teams Must Get Right
AI tools promise faster answers, but inconsistent results reveal a deeper issue. APQC research shows AI merely magnifies the quality of an organization’s underlying knowledge assets. Companies that invest in structured, high‑quality, governed content—taxonomy, metadata, and lifecycle management—see more reliable...
By APQC Blog
News•Feb 19, 2026
Minky Couture Selects Domo AI, Data Products Platform to Boost Operational Visibility
Minky Couture, the Utah‑based luxury blanket retailer, has chosen Domo’s AI and Data Products Platform to unify data across inventory, supply chain, marketing, finance, and store operations. The platform will enable governed data products that deliver near real‑time performance tracking,...
By Retail Customer Experience
News•Feb 19, 2026
Anthropic: It’s “Critical” To Bring Company Products to EHR
Anthropic is pushing its Claude AI model into electronic health record (EHR) systems, arguing that integration is essential for real‑time clinical value. The company highlighted a roster of 25 healthcare partners, including Abridge, Novo Nordisk, Genmab and Banner Health, to showcase both...
By MedCity News
News•Feb 19, 2026
“AI Didn’t Create the Cracks in the System, It Exposed Them”: Q&A with Oz Etzioni, Clinch
In a Q&A with Clinch CEO Oz Etzioni, the interview highlights how AI has exposed deep fractures in traditional advertising workflows built on siloed point solutions. The surge in creative permutations and real‑time media demands has turned these fragmented systems...
By ExchangeWire
News•Feb 19, 2026
Using AI to Generate Passwords Is a Terrible Idea, Experts Warn
Cybersecurity firm Irregular found that popular AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini generate highly predictable passwords with low entropy. Tests showed repeated strings and narrow character selection, yielding only about 27 bits of entropy for a typical...
By ITPro
News•Feb 19, 2026
PromptSpy Ushers in the Era of Android Threats Using GenAI
ESET researchers have identified PromptSpy, the first Android malware that leverages Google’s Gemini generative AI to maintain persistence on infected devices. The AI receives a real‑time XML snapshot of the screen and returns JSON‑formatted tap instructions, allowing the app to...
By WeLiveSecurity
News•Feb 19, 2026
DBS Pilots System that Lets AI Agents Make Payments for Customers
DBS Bank, in partnership with Visa, has launched a pilot that enables AI agents to complete payments on behalf of customers using tokenised card credentials. The trial, dubbed Visa Intelligent Commerce, has already processed real‑world transactions such as food and...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Feb 19, 2026
The Geopolitics of AGI
RAND’s Geopolitics of AGI initiative released a webinar on February 19, 2026, examining how advanced artificial intelligence, including potential artificial general intelligence, could reshape global politics and security. Speakers Jim Mitre and Joel Predd outlined the strategic implications of an...
By RAND Blog/Analysis
News•Feb 19, 2026
OpenClaw: What Teachers Need To Know
OpenClaw is a free, open‑source AI agent that runs on a user’s computer, promising greater privacy than cloud‑based alternatives. Early adopters, especially tech‑savvy teachers, report that it outperforms rivals like Google Auto Browse in research and lesson‑plan summarization, though its...
By Tech & Learning (TechLearning)
News•Feb 19, 2026
Smarter Flood Monitoring: Cutting Delays and Costs
AI specialist Purple Transform and delivery partner Central Alliance deployed the SIYTE platform to unify flood‑monitoring sensors and cameras on Network Rail’s Western Route. The single web‑and‑mobile interface gave engineers real‑time visibility of the drainage ecosystem, replacing fragmented data silos....
By Rail Engineer
News•Feb 19, 2026
MSD and Mayo Clinic Team up to Advance AI in Drug Development
Merck (MSD) and Mayo Clinic have launched a research partnership that blends Mayo's Platform architecture and multimodal clinical‑genomic data with MSD's virtual‑cell technologies. The collaboration gives MSD direct access to de‑identified imaging, lab, molecular and notes data to train and...
By Hospital Management