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Europe Eyes Old IPOs Amid AI Rout

European IPO recovery hinges on traditional sectors like defense and industrials. Investors are fleeing AI-exposed stocks during the current rout.

Bloomberg Technology · 212d ago

IBM & Berkeley Diagnose Enterprise Agent Failures

IBM and UC Berkeley researchers have identified key reasons why AI agents fail in enterprise environments. They used IT-Bench for IT task benchmarks and MAST for multi-agent evaluation.

Hugging Face Blog · 212d ago

TPG CEO Launches AI Taskforce

TPG CEO Jon Winkelried announced plans for an AI taskforce in a Bloomberg interview. The firm manages over $300 billion in private equity, credit, and other strategies.

Bloomberg Technology · 212d ago

Ireland Eyes Teen Social Media Ban

Irish government is mulling age restrictions to ban social media for teens. This forms part of a broader national AI strategy.

Bloomberg Technology · 213d ago

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Prompt Engineering 101 Secret Formula

This guide reveals a secret formula for crafting AI prompts that deliver superior results. Applicable to deep research and image generation, it provides a step-by-step method for optimal outcomes.

PCMag · 213d ago

Meta's $65M AI Election Push

Meta is launching its largest election investment of $65 million to block state legislation that could hinder AI development. The spending targets Texas and Illinois, starting this week.

New York Times Technology · 213d ago

DeepMind Urges Moral Scrutiny of Chatbots

Google DeepMind advocates for rigorous evaluation of large language models' moral behavior in roles like companions, therapists, and medical advisors. This should match the scrutiny applied to their coding and math abilities.

MIT Technology Review · 213d ago

NVIDIA Co-Design Boosts Sarvam Inference

NVIDIA's extreme hardware-software co-design delivers a large inference boost for Sarvam AI’s sovereign models. It tackles challenges in running tens-of-billion-parameter LLMs in production with low latency and cost.

NVIDIA Developer Blog · 213d ago

Legal AI Needs Completeness Beyond Accuracy

LexisNexis prioritizes AI completeness in legal applications, using metrics like comprehensiveness, authority, and hallucination rates beyond mere accuracy. They've advanced from standard RAG in Lexis+ AI to graph RAG and agentic graphs in Protégé, incorporating planner and reflection agents.

VentureBeat · 213d ago

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Google Gemini Adds Music Generation

Google has added music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app. Users can generate music using text, images, or videos as references.

TechCrunch AI · 213d ago

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Gemini Adds Lyria 3 Music Creation

Gemini app now features Lyria 3, enabling users to create custom, high-quality 30-second music tracks. Generation is powered by text prompts or images.

Google AI Blog · 213d ago

February 18, 2026

Gartner: 33% Enterprise Apps Agentic AI by 2028

Gartner predicts 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI by 2028, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% autonomous work decisions. Agentic AI autonomously adapts, learns, and executes tasks unlike traditional rule-based systems.

Computerworld · 213d ago

Agent Builder Adds Chat, Files, Tool Registry

LangChain has rebuilt Agent Builder to make agent interactions feel like collaborating with a teammate. Key additions include a new always-available agent chat interface, file upload support, and a tool registry.

LangChain Blog · 213d ago

Shanghai's Nick Land: Silicon Valley Acceleration Guru

British philosopher Nick Land, father of accelerationism, lives reclusively in Shanghai while idolized by Silicon Valley elites like Andreessen and Thiel. He views AI as unleashing unstoppable capitalist entropy toward AGI by 2027 and human doom.

虎嗅 · 213d ago

Waymo denies remote drivers post-viral Senate testimony

Waymo defended its robotaxi remote assistance after executive Senate testimony went viral. In a letter to Sen.

The Verge · 213d ago

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Google Gemini Ends Android Dev Toil

Google VP Sam Bright details Gemini AI expansion in Android Studio. Aims to reduce developer toil and accelerate innovation.

ZDNet AI · 213d ago

Chunwan Panda Robot Auctions for 57K Yuan

Magic Atom's MagicPanda panda robot, which starred in the 2026 CCTV Spring Gala with a 100-unit swarm performance, sold at JD auction for 57,527 yuan. The Yibin venue showcase highlighted group intelligence and realistic panda expressions.

机器之心 · 213d ago

Big Tech AI Climate Claims Lack Proof

A new report analyzed 154 specific claims by Big Tech on how generative AI benefits the climate. Only a quarter cited academic research, while a third offered no evidence at all.

Wired AI · 213d ago

OpenAI Pays Microsoft 20% Revenue Until 2032

OpenAI must pay Microsoft 20% of its total revenue until 2032 under renegotiated partnership terms from last fall. The agreement allows deferring some payments to reduce cash flow strain.

cnBeta (Full RSS) · 213d ago

Kana Raises $15M for AI Marketing Agents

Kana, a new AI startup founded by leaders from Rapt and Krux, has emerged from stealth with $15 million in funding. The company is developing customizable, agent-based tools to empower marketers with flexible AI solutions.

TechCrunch AI · 213d ago

Zuckerberg Testifies in Social Media Safety Trial

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court in a landmark social media safety trial. The case, launched in late January, involves a young female plaintiff alleging addiction to Instagram, YouTube, and video streaming apps.

cnBeta (Full RSS) · 213d ago

80% Execs See No AI Productivity Gains

A survey of nearly 6,000 executives across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia reveals over 80% detect no impact from AI on employment or productivity. This indicates a significant gap between AI hype and tangible business outcomes.

The Register - AI/ML · 213d ago

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Google Launches $499 Pixel 10a with AI Boost

Google has debuted the entry-level Pixel 10a smartphone at $499. It features new AI software capabilities and minor hardware refinements.

Bloomberg Technology · 213d ago

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Pasqal Targets €200M Raise at Unicorn Status

French quantum startup Pasqal is negotiating a €200 million funding round. The raise would value the company at over $1 billion pre-money.

Bloomberg Technology · 213d ago

Office Bug Exposes Emails to Copilot

Microsoft disclosed a bug in Office that enabled Copilot AI to read and summarize paying customers' confidential emails. This incident bypassed the company's data protection policies.

TechCrunch AI · 213d ago

Airbnb CEO: Embrace AI or Face Disruption

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky views AI as the company's most important growth driver, urging leaders to self-disrupt or be eliminated. AI now handles one-third of North American customer service via chatbots and optimizes search efficiency.

IT之家 · 213d ago

OpenAI Targets 100K Indian Students in Education Push

OpenAI is expanding into higher education via partnerships in India. The initiative aims to reach over 100,000 students, faculty, and staff within the next year.

TechCrunch AI · 213d ago