News•Feb 16, 2026
Octopus Energy Pours $1bn to US Clean Tech Market
Octopus Energy is committing just under $1 billion to California’s clean‑tech sector through its Octopus Energy Generation arm. The capital will fund two carbon‑removal firms focused on grassland restoration and reforestation, and acquire a solar‑plus‑battery project slated to operate by July 2026. This investment is part of a broader $2 billion U.S. energy‑transition pledge Octopus aims to fulfill by 2030. The announcement was made alongside California Governor Gavin Newsom, highlighting transatlantic collaboration.
By UKTN (UK Tech News)
News•Feb 16, 2026
Fairing From India’s Bahubali Rocket Launched in December Found in Maldives
A fisherman off a remote Maldivian island recovered fragments that appear to be the fairing from India’s LVM3 (Bahubali) rocket, which launched AST SpaceMobile’s sixth Bluebird satellite in December. Similar debris was reported on a Sri Lankan island in late...
By Behind the Black
News•Feb 16, 2026
Vault Radar 2025 Recap: Expanding Visibility, Deepening Integration, and Simplifying Security
HashiCorp's Vault Radar, launched in 2025, expanded its secret‑sprawl detection across developer tools and cloud services, adding integrations for Jira, VS Code, Amazon S3, Slack, and AWS Secrets Manager. The platform introduced real‑time IDE scanning, direct remediation through Vault, webhook alerts,...
By HashiCorp Blog
News•Feb 16, 2026
Why Building Measurement Has Become a Specialized Discipline
Building measurement has shifted from a one‑time design task to a continuous governance function as BOMA standards ballooned in scope and detail. Modern portfolios experience frequent tenant improvements, phased occupancies, and mixed‑use changes, turning rentable area into a dynamic accounting...
By Buildings.com
News•Feb 16, 2026
From Pilot to 6,000 Users: How to Scale Enterprise AI Agents
In mid‑2025 Snowflake rolled out its GTM AI Assistant to roughly 6,000 sales and marketing users, handling over 330,000 questions by year‑end. The project grew from a single data scientist to a multi‑disciplinary team, using a phased launch that prioritized...
By Snowflake Blog
News•Feb 16, 2026
US Manufacturing Pipeline Grows, Firms Plan $1B in New Factories
A wave of new manufacturing projects across the United States is driving roughly $1 billion in capital spending, spanning heavy equipment, advanced electronics, automation and industrial components. Companies such as John Deere, Rockwell Automation, and Applied Optoelectronics are breaking ground on...
By FreightWaves
News•Feb 16, 2026
Operation DoppelBrand Weaponizes Trusted Brands For Credential Theft
Operation DoppelBrand, attributed to the financially motivated GS7 group, launched a large‑scale phishing campaign against Fortune 500 financial and technology firms between December 2025 and January 2026. The attackers registered over 150 look‑alike domains, used automated SSL certificates and rotating registrars, and cloned...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Feb 16, 2026
Why some Extracellular Vesicles Work Better: A Safer Path for Protein and Gene Delivery
Researchers compared two major extracellular vesicle (EV) biogenesis pathways and found that vesicles generated from cell‑surface protrusions via the I‑BAR protein MIM deliver functional proteins and genome‑editing enzymes far more efficiently than conventional endosome‑derived, CD63‑associated EVs. Using live‑cell imaging, they...
By Phys.org – Nanotechnology
News•Feb 16, 2026
Downloadable Guide: Is Your Hotel Website Ready for AI-Driven Travelers?
Cendyn has released a downloadable guide titled “Is Your Hotel Website Ready for AI‑driven Travelers?” that outlines how hotels must redesign their sites for both human guests and AI search engines in 2026. The guide details UX, content structuring, trust‑building...
By Hotel News Resource
News•Feb 16, 2026
Anthropic Raises $30 Billion in Series G
Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G round, led by GIC and Coatue, pushing its post‑money valuation to $380 billion. The financing includes more than 30 investors, among them Microsoft, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and major sovereign and institutional funds. Proceeds will accelerate frontier...
By VC News Daily
News•Feb 16, 2026
AM Group Challenges Tech Giants with $25 Billion Green AI Platform
AM Group, the green‑energy conglomerate behind AM Green, announced a $25 billion investment to build a 1‑gigawatt high‑performance compute hub powered entirely by renewable energy. The first two phases – 150 MW and 200 MW – will be sited in Uttar Pradesh, with 350 MW...
By Mint AI
News•Feb 16, 2026
bb.q Chicken Deploys Deliverect Platform Across All U.S. Restaurants to Streamline Digital Operations
bb.q Chicken, a fast‑growing Korean fried‑chicken franchise, has rolled out Deliverect’s digital ordering and menu‑management platform across more than 250 U.S. locations. The integration links its Toast POS with Uber Eats, DoorDash, GrubHub, and other marketplaces, consolidating menu updates, order...
By Restaurant Technology News
News•Feb 16, 2026
USAF Integrates Open-Architecture for Mission Autonomy on CCAs
The U.S. Air Force announced that its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program has incorporated an open‑architecture framework to support mission‑autonomous capabilities. The new architecture allows software modules to be added, updated, or replaced without redesigning the airframe, accelerating the deployment...
By RealClearDefense
News•Feb 16, 2026
Every Marine a Rifleman and Now, a Drone Operator
The U.S. Marine Corps has unveiled a new training initiative that equips hundreds of Marines with small‑drone operating skills. The program builds on the Corps’ long‑standing “every Marine a rifleman” doctrine, adding a second specialty as unmanned‑aircraft operators. Training combines...
By RealClearDefense
News•Feb 16, 2026
If Alien Signals Have Already Reached Earth, Why Haven't We Seen Them?
A new EPFL study uses Bayesian statistics to ask how many alien technosignatures must have crossed Earth since 1960 for today’s instruments to have a realistic chance of detection. The analysis shows that achieving a high detection probability within a...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Feb 16, 2026
Weekly Letter to Our EDRM Global Community – 17 February 2026
The latest EDRM weekly letter highlights two pivotal court rulings: client‑self‑help AI documents were deemed non‑privileged and AI hallucinations prompted Rule 11 sanctions. It also promotes the ComplexDiscovery Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey, which benchmarks AI‑driven pricing models. Upcoming webinars and podcasts...
By EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model)
News•Feb 16, 2026
Backbase and Plaid Partner to Power AI Banking
Backbase and Plaid have announced a partnership that embeds Plaid’s secure, real‑time financial data connectivity into Backbase’s AI‑powered Banking Platform. The joint solution tackles data fragmentation, streamlines onboarding, and delivers a 360‑degree view of customers’ financial health. It replaces fragile...
By Fintech Global
News•Feb 16, 2026
5 Video Generators That’ll Blow Your Mind in 2026
AI video generators have matured from glitch‑filled demos to production‑grade tools, and five platforms now dominate 2026. Seedance 2.0 lets creators act as directors by blending images, video, and audio inputs for photorealistic physics. OpenAI Sora 2 focuses on social‑media...
By eWeek
News•Feb 16, 2026
Passwords to Passkeys: Staying ISO 27001 Compliant in a Passwordless Era
Organizations are rapidly replacing passwords with passkey authentication to curb the 49% of security incidents tied to compromised credentials. Passkeys, built on FIDO2 and WebAuthn, satisfy AAL2/AAL3 standards and are already deployed in billions of accounts, including Google’s 800 million users....
By BleepingComputer
News•Feb 16, 2026
Implications of FDA Digital Health Deregulation for Clinicians
On Jan 2026 the FDA issued updated guidance that relaxes oversight for low‑risk digital health products, including many AI‑enabled clinical decision support tools and consumer wellness wearables. The guidance clarifies which software falls outside the medical device definition, allowing these tools...
By Telehealth.org News
News•Feb 16, 2026
From Pilots to Protocols: Why VR Therapy Needs Dosage Standards to Become Real Clinical Care
Virtual reality (VR) therapy shows rapid clinical effects but remains confined to pilot studies due to a lack of standardized dosage protocols. Researchers highlight wide variation in session length, frequency, and content across studies, preventing reliable comparison and scaling. The...
By MedCity News
News•Feb 16, 2026
Ottonomy Showcases Made-in-India Autonomous Delivery Ecosystem at India AI Impact Summit
Ottonomy introduced its Made‑in‑India autonomous delivery ecosystem at the India AI Impact Summit. The solution combines Level‑4 Ottobot delivery robots, Arrive AI’s smart storage “Arrive Points,” and Skyeair Mobility’s drone logistics. Powered by an AI‑driven autonomy stack, the system can...
By Mint AI
News•Feb 16, 2026
Stayntouch Partners with Regency Hotel Management
Stayntouch has signed a partnership with Regency Hotel Management to roll out its cloud‑based property management system across 27 independent Regency hotels. After a seven‑month evaluation, Regency chose Stayntouch for its mobile‑first, tablet‑driven platform, enabling properties to go live in...
By Hotel Business
News•Feb 16, 2026
Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ Status Check: 8 Months in, 19% Availability, and All of Musk’s Promises Are Missing
Tesla’s much‑hyped Robotaxi pilot in Austin has stalled, fielding only about 42 Model Y vehicles instead of the promised 500. Availability sits at roughly 19% of operating hours, and the service shuts down in rain, while crash rates are nine times...
By Electrek
News•Feb 16, 2026
What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal
A developer released Bluehood, an open‑source Bluetooth scanner that passively logs nearby devices and visualises their appearance patterns. The tool runs on a Raspberry Pi or laptop and can identify phones, wearables, vehicles and IoT gadgets without ever connecting. Its release...
By Hacker News
News•Feb 16, 2026
Jacaruso Launches Lead Shark
Jacaruso Enterprises unveiled Lead Shark, an AI‑driven SaaS platform tailored for hotel sales teams. The tool consolidates prospecting, verified contact intelligence, market data and competitor analysis to accelerate outreach. Built on two decades of hotel sales experience, it serves both...
By Hotel Business
News•Feb 16, 2026
C12 Demonstrates Tunable Metal–Insulator Transition in Ultra-Clean Carbon Nanotubes
C12 and collaborators published a Nature Communications study showing an electrically controlled metal‑insulator transition in ultra‑clean, suspended carbon nanotubes. Using a 15‑gate “keyboard” architecture, they tuned an energy gap from 200 µeV to 30 meV, demonstrating a synthetic charge‑density wave that mimics...
By Quantum Computing Report
News•Feb 16, 2026
Nigerian-UK Startup Launches AI Tool Translating Sign Language to Speech and Text
Talksign, a Nigeria‑UK AI startup, unveiled Talksign-1, a foundation model that converts American Sign Language (ASL) into speech and text in under 100 milliseconds and vice‑versa. The system recognises 250 ASL signs via a standard webcam, achieving 84.7% accuracy on...
By TechCabal
News•Feb 16, 2026
The Perfect Order Needs to Include the Right Data
Norman Katz expands the classic Perfect Order framework by adding a ninth right—"with the right data"—to address growing regulatory and digital‑supply‑chain demands. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) 204 rule now requires lot‑level traceability, manufacturing and expiration dates for...
By Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR)
News•Feb 16, 2026
Passwork 7.4 Enhances Enterprise Security with Centralized User Vault Restrictions
Passwork has launched version 7.4, adding centralized restrictive settings for User vaults. Administrators can now block adding users, sending passwords, creating links, and shortcuts across all personal vaults. The controls apply automatically to existing and new vaults, tightening data‑leak defenses and...
By Help Net Security
News•Feb 16, 2026
How Warner Bros. Could Supercharge Netflix’s Advertising Business | Analysis
Netflix’s potential acquisition of Warner Bros. and HBO Max could dramatically accelerate its fledgling advertising business. By adding Warner Bros.’ premium library, Netflix would expand ad inventory and attract higher‑value advertisers, pushing its ad‑supported revenue toward a $9 billion target by...
By The Wrap
News•Feb 16, 2026
India’s Game-Changing Digital Money Model
India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has become the world’s largest real‑time payments network, handling billions of free transactions daily. Built on a public, open‑source infrastructure managed by the National Payments Corporation of India, UPI lets banks, fintechs and merchants interoperate...
By Project Syndicate — Economics
News•Feb 16, 2026
Rank Street Marketing Launches GEO Systems to Help Local Brands Win in AI Search
Rank Street Marketing has launched a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) service suite aimed at helping local businesses secure visibility in AI‑driven answer engines such as Google Gemini and ChatGPT. The offering expands traditional local SEO by optimizing Google Business Profiles,...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 16, 2026
Microsoft Equips CISOs and AI Risk Leaders with a New Security Tool
Microsoft has launched a public‑preview Security Dashboard for AI, consolidating posture and real‑time risk signals from Microsoft Defender, Entra, and Purview into a single interface. The tool inventories AI assets—including models, agents, and third‑party applications—and surfaces AI‑related security risks in...
By Help Net Security
News•Feb 16, 2026
Blue Water Autonomy Unveils Liberty Class Autonomous Ship for U.S. Navy
Blue Water Autonomy, a Boston‑based tech and shipbuilding firm, announced the Liberty class, a 60‑metre autonomous vessel built on Damen’s Stan Patrol 6009 platform. The ship features the proven Axe Bow hull, can carry over 150 tonnes, and boasts a...
By Overt Defense
News•Feb 16, 2026
5 Reasons Why Detego Case Manager For DFIR Is Ideal For Investigative Teams
Detego Case Manager for DFIR launches as a purpose‑built platform that consolidates digital and physical evidence, audit trails, and chain‑of‑custody logs in a tamper‑proof environment. It offers a unified dashboard delivering real‑time visibility, customizable Kanban‑style workflows, and role‑based permissions for...
By Forensic Focus
News•Feb 16, 2026
The Space Nuclear Power Bottleneck — and How to Fix It
Nuclear power is poised to transform U.S. deep‑space and lunar missions, with NASA targeting a nuclear propulsion test by 2028 and a surface fission reactor on the Moon by 2030. While reactor designs and fuel supplies are mature, the real...
By SpaceNews
News•Feb 16, 2026
Manufacturer Revives De-Commissioned System to Advance Production
A de‑commissioned seal‑coating system was recertified and now produces 500,000 tablets per hour, matching the output of brand‑new equipment. The revival required a modern HMI, a upgraded Allen‑Bradley PLC, and enhanced cybersecurity hardware. Surveys show 48% of North American manufacturers...
By Automation World
News•Feb 16, 2026
TomTom Partners to Support Data-Driven Mobility and Infrastructure Planning
TomTom has entered a strategic partnership with engineering firm AECOM to embed TomTom’s high‑resolution mobility data into AECOM’s global planning workflows. The collaboration gives AECOM access to precise traffic, safety and congestion insights, enabling more accurate, data‑driven decisions for road...
By SmartCitiesWorld
News•Feb 16, 2026
Resecurity Highlights AI-Driven Cybersecurity at AI Everything MEA Egypt 2026
Resecurity, a U.S. cybersecurity firm, showcased its AI‑driven threat detection suite at AI Everything MEA Egypt 2026, an event held under President Abdel‑Fattah El‑Sisi’s patronage and organized by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. In partnership with Alkan CIT/Alkan Telecom, the company...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 16, 2026
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
Docker Sandboxes introduced a new "shell" sandbox type that provides an interactive Ubuntu microVM with preinstalled development tools. The guide demonstrates running the Claude‑powered NanoClaw WhatsApp assistant inside this sandbox, isolating its filesystem and credentials. By mounting only a workspace...
By Docker – Blog
News•Feb 16, 2026
260K+ Chrome Users Duped by Fake AI Browser Extensions
Researchers at LayerX uncovered 30 malicious Chrome extensions masquerading as AI assistants, collectively amassing over 260,000 downloads. These extensions embed attacker‑controlled iframes that capture user prompts, emails, and webpage data, then relay them to remote servers while returning plausible AI...
By Dark Reading
News•Feb 16, 2026
Lower Power Cost for Consumers Will Be Success of AI, Renewable Energy Convergence, Says Govt Official
India’s renewable capacity now exceeds 520 GW, including about 35 GW of distributed generation, and officials say artificial intelligence will be pivotal in lowering consumer power costs. Joint Secretary JVN Subramanyam highlighted AI as a game‑changer for distributed renewables at the AI...
By ET EnergyWorld (The Economic Times)
News•Feb 16, 2026
ML‑Predicted Insulin Resistance Identified as Risk Factor in 12 Cancers
Researchers at the University of Tokyo applied a machine‑learning tool, AI‑IR, to estimate insulin resistance in half a million UK Biobank participants. The analysis revealed insulin resistance as a significant risk factor for twelve distinct cancer types, providing the first...
By GEN (Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News)
News•Feb 16, 2026
A New Concept for Catching up with 3I/ATLAS
The article outlines a new mission concept to intercept 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever recorded. It highlights the scientific payoff of a close‑up study and the steep engineering hurdles such a rendezvous entails. Central to the discussion is the...
By Phys.org - Space News
News•Feb 16, 2026
Rockwell Automation Digital Twin Technology Accelerates Project Delivery and Cuts Costs for Brazil-Based Falcare Industrial Equipment
Rockwell Automation’s Emulate3D digital twin helped Brazil’s Falcare Industrial Equipment accelerate project delivery and cut costs. By simulating mechanical behavior and control logic before hardware construction, Falcare reduced project execution time by 60% and eliminated costly rework. The technology also...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 16, 2026
QuicKart Secures $1.5 Million to Expand Fresh Commerce Across the UAE
QuicKart, the UAE’s first dedicated fresh‑commerce platform for dairy and farm produce, closed a $1.5 million seed round led by Orbit Ventures. The funding will be used to optimise supply‑chain logistics, upgrade technology, expand last‑mile fulfilment and cold‑chain infrastructure, and add...
By Wamda
News•Feb 16, 2026
The True Price of Scaling AI in the UAE
The United Arab Emirates is rapidly scaling AI, with 76% of enterprises already deploying sector‑specific systems and the domestic market projected to reach $4.74 billion by 2031. Government incentives, free‑zone ecosystems, and regulatory sandboxes have created a fertile environment for AI...
By Wamda
News•Feb 16, 2026
ZIWO Raises Strategic Debt Investment From Amplify Growth Fund
UAE‑based AI contact‑centre platform ZIWO has secured a strategic growth credit investment from Ajeej Capital’s Amplify Growth Fund, with the amount undisclosed. The funding will finance ZIWO’s expansion across the GCC, deepen regional partnerships, and accelerate the rollout of advanced...
By Wamda
News•Feb 16, 2026
Indian Entrepreneur to Invest ₹214 Crore in AI-Powered Hydroponic Farming in Karnataka
Indian entrepreneur Vivek Raj is investing ₹214 crore to build an AI‑powered hydroponic farm on 16 acres in Moodbidri, Karnataka. The venture, Panama Hydro‑X, has filed four AI patents covering disease detection, smart lighting and crop monitoring after spending ₹146 crore on...
By The Hindu BusinessLine – Economy