News•Feb 17, 2026
Colliers Going All-In on AI, CEO Hennick Says
Colliers announced a multiyear, record‑high AI investment, raising its IT capital expenditures to a level never seen in the company’s history. The spend is expected to deliver productivity gains and higher margins within two to three years across its commercial real estate, engineering, and investment‑management businesses. In Q4 2025 the firm posted $1.6 billion in revenue, up 5% YoY, and $5.5 billion for the full year, a 15% increase. The AI push is anchored by a unique Google Cloud data partnership and the pending acquisition of Spain‑based Ayesa Engineering.
By Facilities Dive
News•Feb 17, 2026
Medtronic Completes First Hugo Case in the US
Medtronic performed the first U.S. Hugo robotic surgery—a prostatectomy at the Cleveland Clinic—shortly after receiving FDA clearance. The system, already CE‑marked in Europe, is being installed at Duke University Hospital and Atrium Health, marking its initial U.S. footprint. CEO Geoff...
By MedTech Dive
News•Feb 17, 2026
Dell XPS 14 (2026) Review: Two Steps Forward
Dell revives the XPS 14 with a lighter chassis, restored function‑row keyboard, and two display options—a 1080p panel with over 20 hours of battery life and a high‑resolution OLED screen. Powered by Intel's 13th‑gen Core Ultra processors, the top‑end X7 358H delivers strong...
By Tom's Hardware
News•Feb 17, 2026
EUSPA Selects Thales Alenia Space to Develop EGNSS Service Demonstrator
On 12 February 2026, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) awarded Thales Alenia Space a framework contract to design, develop and deploy the European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS) Service Demonstrator. The demonstrator will serve as a...
By SatNews
News•Feb 17, 2026
More Shots on Goal: Boehringer’s Long-View Playbook From IPF to Obesity
Boehringer Ingelheim is expanding its cardio‑renal‑metabolic (CRM) platform beyond its recent idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) successes to target obesity and related metabolic disorders. President Brian Hilberdink says the company is prioritizing partnerships rather than large‑scale M&A to broaden its pipeline...
By BioCentury
News•Feb 17, 2026
How CathWorks Leaned on Its Partner Medtronic to Succeed
CathWorks, an AI‑driven startup that creates non‑invasive FFR assessments from routine angiograms, survived the pandemic by leaning on Medtronic’s early minority investment and strategic guidance. After automating its 3‑D coronary modeling to cut analysis time from 22 minutes to two,...
By Medical Design & Outsourcing
News•Feb 17, 2026
Scientists Discover Recent Tectonic Activity on the Moon
Scientists at the National Air and Space Museum have produced the first global map of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the Moon, revealing these features are geologically young and abundant across the lunar maria. The study, published in The Planetary...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Feb 17, 2026
Indicio Introduces Wallet-Based Passport Verification for AI Travel Chats
Indicio has launched Proven AI for Digital Travel, enabling travel companies to verify a passenger’s digital passport within chatbot and AI‑assistant interactions. The solution uses a wallet‑held Digital Travel Credential (DTC) that is cryptographically validated without querying a central database. By...
By Mobile ID World
News•Feb 17, 2026
FDA Clears 12-Lead, Cable-Free Home ECG Monitoring System
The FDA granted 510(k) clearance for HeartBeam’s cable‑free 12‑lead ECG synthesis software, allowing home‑based arrhythmia assessment. The system captures cardiac signals in three non‑coplanar dimensions and reconstructs a full 12‑lead trace that can be reviewed by board‑certified cardiologists on demand....
By Cardiovascular Business
Blog•Feb 17, 2026
Mapping Energy Data to Help Community Spaces Take Part in Electricity Network Flexibility
mySociety partnered with the Social Investment Business to build a mapping tool that matches community organisations with UK electricity network flexibility tender zones. The platform layers flex‑tender boundaries from six distribution network operators with data on community assets, energy poverty...
By mySociety — News/Blog —
News•Feb 17, 2026
Dynatrace Announces Accelerated Growth and Innovation with AWS
Dynatrace announced accelerated growth by surpassing $1 billion in AWS Marketplace sales and earning the AWS Financial Services Competency. The company reported sustained triple‑digit growth over three years, driven by cloud‑native procurement demand. It also secured the AWS Agentic AI Specialization,...
By Database Trends & Applications (DBTA)
News•Feb 17, 2026
Amid the Madding Crowd, Startups Find Their 'Target' Elusive
Startups at the India AI Impact Summit are grappling with soaring stall fees and a disappointing quality of visitors, prompting doubts about the return on their investment. Tightened security for VIP delegations and on‑site organizational chaos have further hampered exhibitors’...
By Mint AI
Social•Feb 17, 2026
AI Agents Boost Productivity Fivefold and Unlock New Revenue
While SaaS stocks got destroyed because of the threat of AI, we were spinning up AI agents at @ListKitio that make our team 5x more productive. Agentic workflows helping our AMs do work for our customers they can't and don't...
By Lincoln Murphy
News•Feb 17, 2026
First Ever The Surgeon Show to Take Place in London This Week
The Surgeon Show 2026, the first UK‑focused surgical summit, convenes on 20 February at London’s Minster Building. Invitation‑only, it gathers over 60 leading surgeons, clinicians, policymakers and technology innovators from more than 50 health organisations. The one‑day event, backed by...
By Health Tech Digital (UK)
Blog•Feb 17, 2026
Artificial Labs Introduces AgLabs to Advance Agentic AI in Specialty Insurance
Artificial Labs has created AgLabs, a new division focused on research and product innovation for agentic AI in specialty insurance. The unit targets the pre‑bind interaction layer, using autonomous broker and underwriter agents to share, verify, and standardize risk data....
By Reinsurance News
News•Feb 17, 2026
This Extension Automatically Says 'No' To Those Annoying Pop-Ups
Consent‑O‑Matic, a free browser extension from Aarhus University, automatically rejects unwanted cookie‑consent banners on Chrome, Firefox and Safari. It groups pop‑ups into five categories, lets users set preferences once, and then applies them silently across sites. The open‑source rule generator...
By MakeUseOf
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Quantifying Qualitative AI Conversations with Claude Console
Nearly every AI research tool promises insights. Many still can’t tell you how much they matter. And very few connect them to what your whole company should do next. so I decided to try and build a better way Day 4: been using...
By Anna Furmanov
Blog•Feb 17, 2026
The $145M Federal Subsidy Nobody in Health Tech Is Talking About Yet
The episode breaks down the Department of Labor's newly announced $145 million Pay‑for‑Performance Incentive Payments Program, aimed at alleviating the looming 3.2 million‑worker shortage in U.S. healthcare. It explains why the program’s performance‑based funding model—paying per enrolled apprentice rather than upfront grants—creates...
By Thoughts on Healthcare Markets & Tech
News•Feb 17, 2026
SS&C Blue Prism: On the Journey From RPA to Agentic Automation
SS&C Blue Prism is guiding customers from traditional robotic process automation (RPA) toward agentic AI automation. The firm highlights the limitations of rule‑based RPA for handling unstructured, context‑driven data and showcases its emerging platform that embeds large‑language‑model agents into workflows....
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Feb 17, 2026
Somalia Cleared to Adopt EAC E-Passport, Envoy Says
Somalia has been granted official authorization to adopt and print the East African Community (EAC) e‑Passport, a key step in its regional integration. The decision was handed to Somalia’s Minister of Internal Security and the Director‑General of Immigration in Dar...
By The East African
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Disciplined Rotation: Spot AI Victims, Winners, and Priced Risks
We’re in a consolidation phase with growing cross-sector AI disruption fears, weakening tech leadership, falling yields, and increasing dispersion. This is the environment where you have to be disciplined, look at your portfolio honestly, and ask: – Is this company a potential...
By Peter Sin Guili
Blog•Feb 17, 2026
An Inside Look Into DARPA’s RACER Program
DARPA’s RACER program is advancing high‑speed autonomous vehicles that operate in unstructured off‑road terrain without relying on maps or GPS. The initiative has field‑tested modified Polaris RZR and Textron M5 platforms across the Mojave Desert, Camp Roberts, and Fort Hood....
By The Road to Autonomy
News•Feb 17, 2026
MindBridge Announces Global Partnership with Genpact to Elevate Audit Analytics and Risk Consulting
MindBridge, an AI‑powered financial intelligence firm, announced a global partnership with Genpact to embed its analytics platform into Genpact’s Enterprise Risk Consulting engagements. The collaboration will allow Genpact to deliver full‑population risk scoring, anomaly detection, and continuous controls monitoring for...
By CPA Practice Advisor
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News•Feb 17, 2026
[Industry News] G2 Esports and Theta Labs Launch AI Agent Sami
G2 Esports partnered with Theta Labs to launch Sami, an AI‑powered mascot that answers fan questions across League of Legends, Counter‑Strike 2, VALORANT, Rainbow Six Siege and Call of Duty. The agent runs on Theta EdgeCloud’s hybrid edge‑cloud platform, leveraging...
By MCV/Develop
News•Feb 17, 2026
Shark Beauty Unveils First-Ever Air Straightener – and I Got to Try It Before Anyone Else
Shark Beauty introduced the SilkiPro Straight, a wet‑to‑dry air straightener that combines drying, straightening and waving in a single device. The tool uses HeatSense ceramic plates with a sensor that adjusts temperature 1,000 times per second, and comes with three...
By T3
News•Feb 17, 2026
Regulatory Innovation as a Catalyst: How New Compliance Strategies Are Speeding Up Healthcare Technology Adoption
Regulatory bodies are reshaping medical‑device oversight to prioritize usability, interoperability, and cybersecurity, accelerating adoption in both hospitals and homes. New human‑factors guidelines, AI/ML lifecycle controls, and post‑market surveillance tools ensure devices are safe, intuitive, and adaptable to real‑world conditions. Manufacturers...
By MedCity News
News•Feb 17, 2026
Announcing Our Investment in Temporal: Agents Make Mistakes. Your Workflows Can’t.
Lightspeed announced a strategic investment in Temporal’s $300 million Series D, positioning the durable‑execution platform as essential infrastructure for AI‑driven agents. Temporal’s technology lets agents recover from failures, maintain state, and run for extended periods without manual intervention. The company reports 380%...
By Lightspeed » Ideas
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Make Content Sales-Ready with the QUICK READY Check
Your business content has to make cents. That’s not a typo. Content can’t just be good to the Marketing team. It has be good to and for Sales. Marketing teams often review content like: “Is it good?” “Does it sound on-brand?” “Do we like the...
By A. Lee Judge
News•Feb 17, 2026
The “Silent” Risk in the NICU: Why Your EHR Can’t Protect Infant Feeding
Feeding in neonatal intensive care units is a high‑risk, high‑frequency workflow that many hospitals still manage with paper logs and manual checks because commercial EHRs were not built for end‑to‑end feeding control. The article highlights how gaps in verification—especially before...
By HIT Consultant
News•Feb 17, 2026
Cleveland Clinic 1st to Use New Robot for Prostate Surgery
Cleveland Clinic became the first U.S. health system to perform a robotic‑assisted prostatectomy using the newly FDA‑cleared Hugo RAS system. The robot, approved in December, features modular arms and an open‑console that surgeons control with foot pedals and hand inputs....
By Becker’s Hospital Review
News•Feb 17, 2026
AI-Powered Worksite Safety Startup Fyld Raises £32m Series B
London‑based AI startup Fyld has closed a £32 million Series B round, led by Energy Impact Partners with participation from Partech’s Growth Impact Fund. The funding will fuel the expansion of its real‑time safety and compliance platform for frontline workers into the...
By Sifted
News•Feb 17, 2026
UL Solutions Develops New Certification Program for Solar Inverter Cybersecurity
UL Solutions has introduced a new certification program that establishes the first industry‑wide cybersecurity baseline for distributed energy resources (DER) and inverter‑based devices. The program follows UL 2941, a standard covering access management, cryptography, and data handling, and complements the existing...
By Solar Power World
Blog•Feb 17, 2026
Axios Could Save Millions with AI
Axios CTO Dan Cox reports that AI‑driven “agent teams” compressed a three‑week engineering project into just 37 minutes, prompting a rapid productivity surge. The company trimmed its product and tech staff from 63 to 43, saving millions in salaries while...
By A Media Operator
Blog•Feb 17, 2026
From Citizen Ideas to Bills
The Brazilian Senate launched an artificial‑intelligence platform that automatically matches citizen proposals from the e‑Cidadania database with draft legislation. Unlike the previous system, the tool surfaces ideas even when they lack the traditional endorsement threshold, allowing consultants to embed public...
By Modern Parliament —
Blog•Feb 17, 2026
The Ray-Ban Meta Killer? Samsung Smart Galaxy Glasses Launching in 2026
Samsung announced its first‑generation Smart Galaxy Glasses, slated for a 2026 release, with two variants—SMO2000P and SMO200J—targeting both enthusiasts and casual users. The glasses run on Android XR, feature a Qualcomm AR1 chipset, a 12‑megapixel camera, and a 155 mAh battery,...
By Geeky Gadgets
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Unify Your Messaging Across Channels to Boost Conversions
Here's a quick exercise: 1. Open your homepage. 2. Open your latest paid campaign. 3. Open your sales deck. Now ask: Do they all describe the same ICP pain and the same unique solution? Or does each one position your company differently? We see this...
By devbasu
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Deep Dive Into Weaponized Malicious SVG Files
Good read and research on malicious SVG file analysis and how it's weaponized by Adam Paulina @Binary_Defense https://t.co/65gf6f2XNn #BinaryDefense
By Dave Kennedy
News•Feb 17, 2026
Mistral Seals First Acquisition Deal with Cloud Startup Koyeb
Mistral AI announced its first acquisition, buying French serverless cloud startup Koyeb. The move aims to accelerate Mistral's AI compute offering and build a sovereign AI cloud platform. Mistral, founded in 2023, has raised nearly €2.8 bn and is valued at...
By Sifted
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Humanoid Robots: Key to Lasting Military Peace
Both Phantom and I went on @MorningsMaria to discuss @foundation_robo and our collaboration with DoW and Ukraine and why I think deploying humanoids in the military is the best way to ensure lasting peace in our lifetime https://t.co/TuHl4XfYqo
By Sankaet Pathak
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Measure Five Key Metrics, Not Just CPL, for Predictable Pipeline
SaaS teams debate CPL vs volume. Wrong focus. Track 5 metrics if you want predictable pipeline: • MQL→SQL rate • Lead response time • Lead→Customer rate • Customer LTV • Cost per qualified lead Which one are you not measuring? https://t.co/sYhVKy6dXN
By devbasu
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Instant Ad Research: Hours Turned Into Seconds
Most ad research is manual and slow. This does in seconds what used to take hours. Competitor hooks, angles, and what to test next. Check it out. I'm proud to be a paid advocate for them.
By Chase Dimond
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Sungrow and Huawei Earn AAA Bankability Rating
Sungrow and Huawei achieve AAA rating in new PV InverterTech bankability report #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/MYSpWj5IGI
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 17, 2026
US Energy Secretary Meets IEA on African Clean Cooking Summit
Pleased to meet with US Energy @SecretaryWright at IEA HQ before the #IEAMinisterial We discussed a range of global energy matters including how the @IEA Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa on 9-10 July that we're co-chairing in Nairobi can deliver...
By Fatih Birol
Social•Feb 17, 2026
ACEN Adds 400MW Stubbo Solar to $750M financingACEN Adds 400MW Stubbo Solar to $750M Financing
ACEN Australia integrates 400MW Stubbo solar PV plant into AU$750 million financing pool #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/5ezLk03ml3
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Social•Feb 17, 2026
BRD4's Extra‑terminal Domain Drives Recruitment to ASXL1 Targets
Recruitment of BRD4 to the ASXL1 genomic targets depends on the extra-terminal domain of BRD4 https://t.co/sRbcAAMqPx https://t.co/IbD0EM56SS
By Ming Tang
Social•Feb 17, 2026
AI Tools for Personalized Content: Practical Tips From Dr. Leh
🧠 Interested in using AI tools to personalize content? 🎙️ Dr. Krista Leh offers examples you can try tomorrow. 🤝 This episode is in partnership with @jotform. https://t.co/udjcYxKlSK https://t.co/rjEiWbYABE
By Monica Burns
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Chinese AI Firms Double, Hitting $35B—West Should Follow
china’s two ai model company minimax and zai have grown 2x in public markets in the last month they’re now $30-35b companies surely that should prompt western labs to go public already
By Nathan Benaich
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Top Accounts to Follow for Business Growth
Accounts you should to follow to help grow your business: Retention Expert: @EricRausch Retention Strategy: @Ferastotle Growth Strategy: @KFragoulias $500M Founder: @YDaftary CRO Systems: @brianschmitt_
By Kody Nordquist
Social•Feb 17, 2026
No‑Code AI Powers Projects; 2025’s Top ML Trends
How could you use no-code AI to boost your projects? Top 10 Machine Learning Trends to Watch in 2025 https://t.co/e65AsSHtq4 #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #WMC26 #5G
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Feb 17, 2026
GLP‑1 Safety: New Data Highlights Retinal Risks
A short thread on GLP-1s based on new publications. 1. The safety story Table of potential side effects and very good description of mechanisms, especially w/r to retina https://t.co/L5GNZyArrn https://t.co/MyXVOF3SYv
By Eric Topol