News•Feb 12, 2026
Anthropic To Help Pay For Data Centre Grid Costs
Anthropic announced it will cover the grid costs associated with its AI data centres, partnering with utilities to estimate and offset residential electricity price hikes. The company will also finance infrastructure upgrades, invest in new power generation, and implement demand‑response measures during peak periods. This move follows similar voluntary programs by OpenAI and Microsoft amid community push‑back and looming legislation. The initiative aims to shift the financial burden of AI‑driven power consumption away from everyday consumers.
By Silicon UK
News•Feb 12, 2026
Framestore Aims to Revolutionise Production with AI Platform
Framestore has teamed up with i*wot studios, the creators behind Amazon’s The Wheel of Time, to develop an AI‑enabled platform that unifies production workflows across film, TV, animation, immersive experiences, social media, user‑generated content and gaming. The platform will consolidate...
By TVBEurope
News•Feb 12, 2026
AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI
TrendAI, the new business unit of Trend Micro, warns that AI skills—executable artifacts that blend human‑readable text with LLM instructions—represent a dangerous attack surface. These skills, used in products like Anthropic’s Agent Skills, OpenAI’s GPT Actions, and Microsoft’s Copilot Plugins, can...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Feb 12, 2026
Stripe Launches X402 Payments On Base, Letting AI Agents Transact Autonomously With USDC
Stripe unveiled a preview of its x402 payments feature on the Base blockchain, allowing autonomous AI agents to move funds using Circle’s USDC stablecoin without human oversight. The solution leverages Base’s Ethereum‑layer‑2 scalability to deliver near‑instant settlement and low transaction...
By PaySpace Magazine
News•Feb 12, 2026
First Commercial Robotaxi Service Begins in Downtown Abu Dhabi
WeRide and Uber have launched the first commercial robotaxi service in downtown Abu Dhabi, expanding coverage to roughly 70% of the city’s core districts. The fleet has quadrupled since its December 2024 debut, now exceeding 200 autonomous vehicles across the...
By Autonomous Vehicle International
News•Feb 12, 2026
Auto Browse: What Teachers Should Know About Google’s New AI Agent
Google launched Auto Browse, an AI agent built on Gemini that can control Chrome tabs and interact with Gmail and Calendar. The feature is bundled with Google AI Pro ($20 per month) and AI Ultra ($250 per month) subscriptions and aims to automate web...
By Tech & Learning (TechLearning)
News•Feb 12, 2026
Relx Reassures as AI Fears Hit Data Stocks
Relx posted FY2025 revenue of £9.59 bn, a 7% increase, with operating profit climbing to £3.03 bn and earnings per share rising to 112.6p. The company also raised its full‑year dividend to 67.5p and completed £1.5 bn of share buybacks. These results arrived...
By City A.M. — Economics
News•Feb 12, 2026
Swedish Lassie Fetches $75 Million to Scale Automated Claims and Prevention-First Pet Care
Swedish pet insurer Lassie secured $75 million in a Series C round led by Balderton Capital and other investors, fueling AI‑driven claims automation and European expansion. The startup’s app blends insurance with preventive care, rewarding healthy pet behavior and processing 60% of...
By ArcticStartup
News•Feb 12, 2026
Amazon Ads Launches Creative Agent for Professional-Quality Ads
Amazon Ads unveiled Creative Agent, an AI‑driven partner inside Creative Studio that lets UK advertisers generate professional video and display ads via a conversational chat interface. The tool taps Amazon’s retail insights and product data to research audiences, brainstorm concepts,...
By ChannelX (formerly Tamebay)
News•Feb 12, 2026
Real-World AI & Inference Engines: Redefining Geospatial Analytics| GeoBuiz Summit 2026
At GeoBuiz Summit 2026, Erik Jorgensen, CEO of Vexcel Imaging, introduced Real‑World AI as a Service, a platform that fuses geospatial data, foundation models and inference engines to make the physical environment directly queryable. The keynote highlighted multimodal geospatial embeddings...
By Geospatial World – Smart Infrastructure
News•Feb 12, 2026
AI Productivity Gains Offset by Rework Costs, Study Finds
Workday’s global study of 3,200 employees reveals that nearly 40% of AI‑driven productivity gains are erased by rework, as staff spend significant time correcting low‑quality outputs. While 77% of workers report faster workflows, roughly 37% of saved time is consumed...
By HRD (Human Capital Magazine) US
News•Feb 12, 2026
With AI Backlash Building, Marketers Reconsider Their Approach
Marketers are pulling back on AI‑centric messaging as consumer trust erodes. While 82% of ad executives think Gen Z and millennials view AI‑generated ads favorably, only 45% of those consumers actually feel positive, widening a gap since 2024. Studies show AI‑created...
By Digiday
News•Feb 12, 2026
Why Do Sovereign AI Projects Fail? IBM’s Chief Scientist Ruchir Puri on the Pitfalls Governments Face
At the AI Everything 2026 conference in Cairo, IBM Research chief scientist Ruchir Puri warned that sovereign AI initiatives are tripping over three core organisational flaws: chaotic data, unrealistic expectations, and cultural resistance. He explained that without unified data governance,...
By Indian Express AI
News•Feb 12, 2026
India at the Digital Turning Point: How Virtual Twins, AI and Data Are Rewiring Industry
The final India Leadership Talks episode highlighted how virtual‑twin technology and model‑based engineering are moving from promise to practice across manufacturing, infrastructure and life sciences. Leaders from Godrej, KPMG and IndianOil Adani Ventures described a shift from basic digitalisation to...
By ET EnergyWorld (The Economic Times)
News•Feb 12, 2026
Companies Are Using ‘Summarize with AI’ to Manipulate Enterprise Chatbots
Microsoft's research reveals a new AI hijacking technique called AI recommendation poisoning, where "Summarize with AI" buttons embed hidden prompts that bias enterprise chatbots toward a vendor’s products. Over two months, researchers found 50 instances across 31 companies in sectors...
By CSO Online – Security
News•Feb 12, 2026
Police.AI - New Tech Tools for UK Law Enforcement
The UK Home Office has launched Police.AI, a national centre to centralise AI procurement, policy and deployment across policing agencies. Early rollout includes 40 additional live facial‑recognition vans and a suite of tools such as deep‑fake detection and predictive analytics....
By RUSI
News•Feb 12, 2026
Why Upsun Is the Multi-Cloud PaaS Technical Leaders Are Choosing in 2026
A recent Journal du Net evaluation positions Upsun, formerly Platform.sh, as the leading multi‑cloud PaaS for 2026, highlighting its ability to deploy across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM and OVHcloud with identical workflows. The platform distinguishes itself with instant byte‑perfect...
By Platform.sh – Blog
News•Feb 12, 2026
OpenEnv in Practice: Evaluating Tool-Using Agents in Real-World Environments
OpenEnv, an open‑source framework from Meta and Hugging Face, lets AI agents interact with real‑world tools through a standardized gym‑style API. Turing contributed a production‑grade Calendar Gym that mimics authentic calendar systems with access controls, partial visibility, and multi‑step workflows....
By Hugging Face
News•Feb 11, 2026
Hippocratic AI Announces New Key Executive Appointments to Further Accelerate Growth
Hippocratic AI announced three senior executive hires—Dr. Anoop Sangha as Associate Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Eduardo Reis as Vice President of Strategy, and Niloy Sanyal as Chief Marketing Officer—to deepen clinical expertise, strategic AI leadership, and market reach. The appointments...
By Digital Health Global
News•Feb 11, 2026
Q&A: How Utah Valley University Is Using AI to Help Students Succeed
Utah Valley University’s Ask Wilson AI assistant, built by the Kahlert Applied AI Institute, is embedded in Canvas and answers course‑specific questions, links to lecture recordings, and offers 24/7 coaching. After a pilot in fall 2023, it now serves 2,000 students across...
By EdTech Magazine (Higher Ed)
News•Feb 11, 2026
Agentic Cloud Operations: A New Way to Run the Cloud
Microsoft introduced Azure Copilot’s agentic cloud operations, an AI‑driven model that embeds intelligent agents into the entire cloud lifecycle. The agents translate telemetry from health, cost, performance, and security into coordinated actions, covering migration, deployment, observability, optimization, resiliency, and troubleshooting....
By Azure Blog
News•Feb 11, 2026
Development for Everyone: AI Coaching in Action with Kirsten Moorefield
AI coaching is emerging as a scalable solution for personalized employee development, moving beyond traditional high‑potential‑only models. In a Talent Development Leader podcast, Kirsten Moorefield, co‑founder of Cloverleaf, explains how AI‑driven coaches can level the playing field and deliver tailored...
By ATD (Association for Talent Development) — Watch & Learn (webinars)
News•Feb 11, 2026
AI Native Accounting Foundation Launches to Cut AI Hype
The AI Native Accounting Foundation, a new nonprofit, was launched to help accounting and finance professionals cut through AI hype and adopt practical, responsible solutions. Founded by Kacee Johnson and Bebe Kim, the group will operate vendor‑neutrally while offering education,...
By Accounting Today
News•Feb 11, 2026
Ray-Ban Maker EssilorLuxottica Says It More than Tripled Meta AI Glasses Sales in 2025
EssilorLuxottica reported that it sold more than 7 million Meta‑powered AI glasses in 2025, more than tripling the combined 2023‑24 volume of 2 million units. The sales surge spans its flagship Ray‑Ban line and the newer Oakley smart‑glasses, driven by a $799...
By CNBC Earnings
News•Feb 11, 2026
Why the Gaming Industry Is Insulated From a Potential AI Crash
The gaming sector has rapidly integrated AI tools for tasks ranging from NPC design to procedural content generation, yet experts say AI remains an efficiency enhancer rather than a production necessity. A potential AI market crash would likely strain fundraising...
By GamesBeat
News•Feb 11, 2026
Mistral Cites Euro Vision With $1.4B for Swedish AI Data Center
Mistral, the French AI vendor, announced a $1.43 billion investment to build an AI data center in Borlänge, Sweden, slated to open in 2027. The project, hosted by EcoDataCenter, will run large‑scale foundation models on Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs and rely...
By AI Business
News•Feb 11, 2026
Why AI Pilots Stall Without Operating Discipline
AI adoption is now common in North American electric utilities, with over 80% reporting some use of the technology. Yet many pilots stall because they are treated as side projects rather than core operations. The article stresses that embedding AI...
By POWER Magazine
News•Feb 11, 2026
Forterro Defies European IT Spending Caution with Strong Cloud and AI-Driven Growth in 2025
Forterro posted €375 million in 2025 revenue, delivering double‑digit growth in sales, recurring revenue, and bookings despite a cautious European IT climate. Cloud bookings surged 30% year‑over‑year, pushing recurring revenue to 74% of total. Net revenue retention hit 114% and gross...
By ERP News
News•Feb 11, 2026
LiveU Spotlights Three Broadcast Priorities At NAB Show
LiveU unveiled an expanded IP‑video ecosystem at the 2026 NAB Show, highlighting the new LU900Q field unit with eSIM, 5G optimization and 4:2:2 dual‑camera support. The rollout also includes LiveU Nexus, a universal IP gateway, and LiveU Schedule, a SaaS...
By TVNewsCheck
News•Feb 11, 2026
CGI Expands Global Alliance with Google Cloud to Help Businesses with Gemini AI
CGI has broadened its multi‑year alliance with Google Cloud to accelerate enterprise adoption of the Gemini agentic AI platform. The expansion equips tens of thousands of CGI consultants with Gemini Enterprise and funds joint workshops, hackathons, and training programs. It...
By ChannelE2E
News•Feb 11, 2026
Data Pipeline Design Playbook 2026
The 2026 Data Pipeline Design Playbook positions pipeline architecture as the decisive factor separating data‑driven firms from laggards. It outlines seven modern frameworks—including the kappa shift, ELT over ETL, medallion data lakes, microservice pipelines, and lambda balancing—to achieve real‑time consistency,...
By AI Accelerator Institute
News•Feb 11, 2026
Cloudflare Rises 5% as AI Agent Wave Led by Viral Moltbot Boosts Security Demand
Cloudflare’s shares jumped 5% after the company beat Q4 expectations, driven by surging demand for its edge networking and security services from AI agents like the viral Moltbot. The firm reported adjusted earnings of 28 cents per share on $615 million...
By CNBC Earnings
News•Feb 11, 2026
Pega Targets $2bn Revenue Milestone as It Bets on 'Predictable AI' - CEO Alan Trefler Slams 'Delusional' Multi-Agent Approach
Pegasystems beat its guidance as Pega Cloud annual contract value surged 33% year‑over‑year, positioning the firm to cross the $2 billion revenue mark by 2026. CEO Alan Trefler championed a "predictable AI" Blueprint approach, arguing that design‑time AI‑driven workflows are more...
By diginomica (ERP/Finance apps)
News•Feb 11, 2026
Frontier AI Heads to the Farm with Carbon Robotics’ Large Plant Model
Carbon Robotics has launched its Large Plant Model (LPM), an on‑device AI system that can instantly recognize and classify weeds and crops across diverse fields. Built on a dataset of more than 150 million plant images, LPM eliminates the need for...
By AgFunderNews
News•Feb 11, 2026
Take2 Raises $14M Series A for AI Hiring
Take2 announced a $14 million Series A round led by Human Capital, with participation from Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, Reach Capital, SemperVirens VC and Honeystone Ventures. The startup builds autonomous AI agents that conduct phone interviews, schedule appointments and handle credential verification for...
By Just AI News
News•Feb 11, 2026
Job Board for AI Agents Immediately Overrun With Humans Desperate for Work
AI entrepreneur launched RentAHuman, a bounty board designed for autonomous AI agents to post tasks for human execution. Within days, the platform was swamped by job‑seekers posting their own services, turning the AI‑focused board into a human‑driven gig marketplace. User...
By Futurism AI
News•Feb 11, 2026
Get the Rundown on Data Engineering Trends for 2026 with Informatica, lakeFS, and Aerospike
Data engineering in 2026 is shifting from batch warehouses to real‑time, cloud‑native ecosystems that feed AI and generative models. Leaders like Informatica, lakeFS and Aerospike stress that active data, automated governance, and AI‑driven predictive scaling are essential to avoid bottlenecks....
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 11, 2026
Apptronik Closes over $935M Series A with New $520M Extension Round
Apptronik announced a $520 million Series A‑X extension, bringing its total Series A funding to over $935 million and total capital raised near $1 billion. The round includes existing backers such as Google, B Capital and Mercedes‑Benz, and new investors AT&T Ventures, John Deere and Qatar...
By Robotics 24/7
News•Feb 11, 2026
CFO Offices Are Getting to Grips with the Idea that AI Isn't that Simple for Their Role, but Interest Isn't...
BlackLine CEO Owen Ryan says CFOs remain wary of AI that functions as a black box, insisting on accuracy, transparency, auditability and security. The company is shifting from simple automation to an AI‑driven orchestration built on three pillars—data, context and...
By diginomica (ERP/Finance apps)
News•Feb 11, 2026
Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs
A growing chorus of workers, researchers, and public figures warn that artificial intelligence could permanently eliminate millions of jobs. MIT researchers estimate current AI systems can automate tasks performed by over 20 million American workers, roughly 12 % of the labor force,...
By Futurism AI
News•Feb 11, 2026
Complyance Raises $20M to Help Companies Manage Risk and Compliance
Complyance, a Boston‑based AI‑native governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform, closed a $20 million Series A round led by GV. The solution embeds AI agents into existing tech stacks to automate continuous data‑compliance checks and third‑party risk assessments, cutting audit cycles from...
By TechCrunch Venture Feed
News•Feb 11, 2026
Marketers Struggle to Predict AI’s Methods for B2B Purchase Choice
A new Norstat study of 175 UK decision‑makers shows AI tools now dominate the B2B buying journey, with 79% using AI daily or weekly and spending up to four hours each week on AI‑driven decisions. Buyers rely on AI summaries...
By Marketing Tech News
News•Feb 11, 2026
‘Ethics Precedes Regulation’: Hugging Face’s Margaret Mitchell on Why Tech Needs AI Ethicists Now
At the AI Everything conference in Cairo, Hugging Face chief ethics scientist Margaret Mitchell warned that ethical frameworks must precede formal regulation as AI advances faster than lawmakers. She highlighted the role of AI ethicists in navigating human‑rights trade‑offs, championed...
By Indian Express AI
News•Feb 11, 2026
Building Inclusive AI for Healthcare: Lessons From Odin Vision
The blog highlights how Odin Vision is building inclusive AI for healthcare by prioritising co‑design, a gender‑balanced data science team, and continuous post‑market evaluation. It outlines the broader challenges of bias, transparency and regulation in medical AI, referencing the UK’s...
By DigitalHealth.London
News•Feb 11, 2026
Dubai’s Woohoo Puts AI at the Center of the Restaurant Dining Experience
Dubai’s new Woohoo restaurant places an AI persona, Chef Aiman, at the heart of its dining experience, orchestrating lighting, large‑scale LED visuals and spatial audio. The venue uses Vivid Studio’s SP Grid platform as a low‑code control brain that links...
By Restaurant Technology News
News•Feb 11, 2026
DARPA Launches CLARA High-Assurance AI Program
DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office has launched the CLARA (Compositional Learning‑And‑Reasoning for AI Complex Systems Engineering) program, seeking proposals to create high‑assurance AI that tightly integrates machine learning with automated reasoning. Awards can reach $2 million per project and cover a 24‑month...
By Defence Blog
News•Feb 11, 2026
Sweden’s IPercept Secures Large-Scale Gulf Rollout with Quant Gulf
Sweden‑based industrial AI firm IPercept has inked a partnership with Quant Gulf to roll out its CNC machine intelligence platform across the Gulf region. The deal, valued at up to €10 million, will see the patented diagnostics and universal data layer...
By ArcticStartup