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Unilever Inks 5-Year Google Cloud AI Deal
Unilever has partnered with Google Cloud for a five-year agreement. The deal focuses on leveraging Google Cloud's advanced AI, data analytics, and platform services.
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February 17, 2026
Business
Four Robots on Chunwan Stage as Industry Benchmark
Four robot firms showcased on Spring Festival Gala, acting as annual progress check for China's robotics sector. The event serves as a key reference for measuring advancements.
钛媒体 · 215d ago
Applications
Unitree G1 Wows Chunwan with Martial Arts
Unitree's 24 G1 robots performed high-difficulty martial arts on 2026 Chunwan, surpassing last year's dance with 4m/s run speed and cluster control. New capabilities include wall-climbing flips and autonomous repositioning.
36氪 · 215d ago
Infrastructure
SoftBank & Ampere Test CPU for Small AI Inference
SoftBank and Ampere Computing launched a joint project to boost CPU efficiency for small AI models. Focus is on low-latency, high-efficiency inference environments.
36氪 · 215d ago
Infrastructure
Chams Launches AI Subsidiary ChamsCorp
Chams Holding Company Plc launched ChamsCorp Plc as a new subsidiary. It targets opportunities in AI and data centre infrastructure in Nigeria.
TechCabal · 215d ago
Infrastructure
Potters Bar Battles AI Data Centers
Residents of Potters Bar, a small English town, are resisting the expansion of AI infrastructure into the surrounding green belt of farms, forests, and meadows. This local fight reflects the global AI arms race's voracious demand for data centers near London.
Wired AI · 215d ago
Infrastructure
Potters Bar Resists AI Data Centers
Residents of Potters Bar are defending London's green belt of farms, forests, and meadows. The area faces pressure from surging demand for AI infrastructure.
Wired AI · 215d ago
Models
Netizens Coin AI;DR to Mock AI Slop
Internet users invented 'AI;DR' (AI, didn't read) to label low-quality AI-generated text. Inspired by TL;DR, it spread rapidly on Threads.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Research
GPT o3 Passes Vet Exam at 92.9%
OpenAI's GPT models passed Japan's veterinary national exam. The o3 model achieved a 92.9% accuracy rate.
ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 215d ago
Audio
Sony Traces Original Music in AI Songs
Sony developed tech to precisely identify original music used in AI-generated songs. It helps creators and rights holders seek fair royalties from AI developers.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Business
Kimi Raises $1.2B, Valuation Hits $10B+
Moonshot AI's Kimi secured over $700M in a new round led by Alibaba, Tencent, and others, just over a month after a $500M raise. Valuation now at $10-12B, doubling previously.
36氪 · 215d ago
data-privacy
EU Parliament Bans AI on Work Devices
European Parliament disabled AI features on official devices via email to all MEPs and staff. Concerns focus on cybersecurity risks from cloud-based processing.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Applications
Chunwan Robots Excel, Nearing Market Launch
Humanoid robots dazzled at 2026 Chunwan Gala with jokes, skits, sword dancing, street dance, martial arts, and natural human interactions. Performances far surpassed last year's shaky debut.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Applications
Robots First Replace Humans in Spring Gala
2026 CCTV Spring Gala exploded with embodied AI and robots, from stage design to visuals and performances. Following 2025 industry boom, it became the most tech-heavy edition ever.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Coding
Unity AI Beta Generates Games via Text Prompts
Unity plans to launch a Unity AI beta at GDC in March, enabling natural language prompts to create full casual games without coding. The tool leverages top LLMs and Unity's platform context for seamless prototyping to production.
IT之家 · 215d ago
Coding
Unity AI Beta Generates Games via Natural Language
Unity plans to launch a Unity AI beta at GDC in March, enabling natural language prompts to create complete casual games without coding. The tool integrates top LLMs and custom models to streamline prototyping to production.
IT之家 · 215d ago
Research
SpaceX Enters Pentagon AI Drone Race
SpaceX and its xAI subsidiary are competing in a classified Pentagon program for voice-controlled autonomous drone swarms. Elon Musk's recent company merger thrusts them into AI-enabled weapons development.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Infrastructure
Micron's $200B Factory Push Breaks AI Memory Bottleneck
Micron Technology plans $200 billion investment in new factories to tackle the worst storage chip shortage in 40 years. The expansion targets AI memory constraints, powering data storage for smartphones, autos, laptops, and data centers.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Applications
Unitree Chunwan Robot Video Goes Viral Overseas
Unitree humanoid robots performed on the Spring Festival Gala stage. The official video from Unitree reached nearly 100,000 views in under 10 hours overseas.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Applications
Spring Fest Box Office Hits 10B, AI Orders Surge
2026 Spring Festival box office surpassed 10 billion yuan including pre-sales by Feb 17. Qianwen data shows AI ticket buys on Damai jumped 372x in two days.
36氪 · 215d ago
Applications
Robotaxi 19% Availability After 8 Months
Tesla's Robotaxi service launched in Austin 8 months ago now has just 19% availability. This lags far behind Elon Musk's prior commitments.
cnBeta (Full RSS) · 215d ago
Infrastructure
AI Climate Claims Branded Greenwashing
A report dismisses tech industry claims that AI can fix climate issues as greenwashing. Most references are to traditional machine learning, not energy-intensive generative AI like chatbots and image tools.
The Guardian Technology · 215d ago
Research
X-Blocks: Linguistic Blocks for AV Explanations
X-Blocks introduces a hierarchical framework analyzing natural language explanations for automated vehicles (AVs) at context, syntax, and lexicon levels. RACE, a multi-LLM ensemble with Chain-of-Thought and self-consistency, achieves 91.45% accuracy on Berkeley DeepDrive-X dataset.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Research
VeRA: Verified Reasoning Data Augmentation
VeRA converts benchmark problems into executable specifications—templates, generators, and verifiers—to create unlimited verified variants at near-zero cost. VeRA-E generates equivalent problems to detect memorization, while VeRA-H hardens tasks for fresh challenges.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Models
VeRA: Scalable Verified Reasoning Data Augmentation
VeRA is a framework that transforms static benchmark problems into executable specifications for generating unlimited verified variants. It features VeRA-E for equivalent rewrites to detect memorization and VeRA-H for hardened tasks at intelligence frontiers.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Models
VaryBalance: Top LLM Text Detector
VaryBalance detects LLM-generated text by exploiting greater variation between human texts and their LLM-rewritten versions versus LLM texts. It quantifies this via mean standard deviation for robust distinction.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Research
Trajectory-Dominant Pareto Optimization for Intelligence
AI systems stagnate in long-horizon adaptability due to trajectory-level Pareto traps, not data or capacity limits. The paper introduces Trajectory-Dominant Pareto Optimization, defining dominance over full trajectories, and Pareto traps as local optima blocking global paths.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Models
SSLogic Scales Logic via Agentic Synthesis
SSLogic is an agentic meta-synthesis framework that scales logical reasoning tasks at the family level using iterative Generate-Validate-Repair loops for Generator-Validator pairs. It features a Multi-Gate Validation Protocol with adversarial blind reviews by independent agents to ensure data reliability.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Research
SELFCEST: Learned Parallel Model Clones
SELFCEST equips base language models to spawn same-weight clones in parallel contexts via agentic reinforcement learning. It trains end-to-end with global task rewards and shared-parameter rollouts to allocate budgets across branches.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago
Research
PlotChain Benchmark for MLLM Plot Reading
PlotChain introduces a deterministic benchmark for evaluating multimodal LLMs on extracting quantitative values from engineering plots like Bode and FFT. It features 450 plots across 15 families with ground truth and checkpoint diagnostics for failure analysis.
ArXiv AI · 215d ago