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February 18, 2026
monday Service's Code-First Evals with LangSmith
monday Service partnered with LangSmith to create an eval-driven development framework for customer-facing service agents. They adopted a code-first evaluation strategy from day one. The LangChain blog shares their implementation details.
90% AI Projects Fail: 3 Success Tips
90% of AI projects fail despite forecasts of $2.52 trillion in AI spending by 2026. Gartner recommends three strategies: building internal capacity, creating partnerships, and avoiding random exploration to ensure success.
AI Cuts Insurance for White Cars in China
SunCar Technology Group uses ByteDance AI to personalize car insurance, offering lower premiums for white vehicles due to lower accident rates from massive data analysis. Chief strategy officer Breaux Walker highlighted this in an SCMP interview. Premiums also factor in car usage, commuting routes, and driving habits.
IEA: Energy Innovation Focuses on Security
IEA's latest report states energy innovation has entered a security-focused phase, with storage technologies leading global activities. Energy tech forms a multi-trillion USD market, driving innovations in batteries, transformers, and more. Battery patents will exceed 40% of energy patents amid rising energy security priorities.
2025 AI Podcasts: Hits, Misses Reviewed
Review of 2025 AI podcast and knowledge tools shows mixed results: ChatPods failed due to entertainment mismatch, ๆฅ็ฆ gains downloads but no revenue, while Befreed and Speechify succeed with targeted personalization and TTS for ADHD users. Aibrary explores book-to-podcast but low monetization. Highlights need for strong scenarios in crowded audio AI space.
CyberAgent Releases 3 Free AI Research Training Docs
CyberAgent has made three types of AI research training materials available for free. They cover points for implementing research in society and using AI tools in research. Topics include anti-patterns in social implementation.
AI Fuels Smart Hardware Expansion Frenzy
2025 sees smart hardware firms like DJI, Dreame aggressively diversify into robots, glasses, sweepers driven by AI's need for physical embodiments. Capital floods DJI alumni startups amid entrance anxiety, but bubbles emerge with price wars in rings and glasses. Patents, marketing wars, supply chain blocks intensify competition.
Sarvam Unveils India-Tuned AI
Indian startup Sarvam AI unveiled a new AI model customized for India's languages and cultures. It aims to compete with ChatGPT and Claude in the world's biggest market. This pushes for a viable domestic AI competitor.
Physical AI Demands Caution Over Hype
Experts at WEF urge enterprises to proceed cautiously with physical AI due to high risks in real-world applications. Progress is faster in controlled environments like factories than open settings. Challenges include hardware limits and lack of standardized layers.
Battery Ventures Raises $3.25B Tech Fund
Battery Ventures closed a $3.25B fund for tech investments. Focuses on software companies resilient to AI disruption. Signals confidence in traditional software amid AI shifts.
Don't Confuse US-China AI Gap with Truth
Article critiques treating US AI advances as inevitable for China, tracing 'Copy to China' failures from 90s product clones to modern concept hype. It highlights how arbitrage exploits anxiety without verification or localization. Warns AI era amplifies this by targeting ordinary users' fears.
AI Spring Gala Scales to 1000 Creators
Electronic Wine's AI Spring Festival Gala grew from a small idea to over 1000 creators, achieving 11.9M live views and collaborations with CCTV. It addresses AI creator challenges like tech limits and inspiration burnout. The event balances tech demos with cultural depth across four themed chapters.
Freee Launches ChatGPT Tax Advisor App
freee has started providing the 'freee็ขบๅฎ็ณๅ' app for ChatGPT, allowing users to query tax accountant-like answers. It targets sole proprietors' anxieties over AI response accuracy in tax declarations.
Blackwell 50x Hopper Efficiency in DeepSeek Test
NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra achieves 50x tokens per MW throughput vs Hopper in DeepSeek-R1 tests, reducing million-token costs to 1/35th. It previews Rubin platform with 10x further gains. Key enablers include 130 TB/s NVLink and NVFP4 precision.
Chunwan Spotlights Yibin's AI City Rise
The Spring Festival Gala's 7-minute Yibin segment showcases the city as an emerging AI new city. It depicts Yibin's evolution from liquor capital to power battery hub and now AI innovation center. This reflects tech-driven green transformation under new quality productive forces.
Caltech Brings Fiber Performance to Silicon Chips
Caltech researchers achieved a breakthrough by developing technology for ultra-low loss optical signal transmission on silicon wafers. Performance in the visible light band nears traditional fiber optic levels. This advances on-chip photonics significantly.
Perplexity Abandons Ads for User Trust
AI startup Perplexity is ditching its advertising business amid competitors' ad integrations. The decision prioritizes user trust over quick monetization. This bucks the trend in AI commercialization.
Google-Ormat Geothermal Deal Powers Nevada DCs
Google plans to procure geothermal energy from Ormat Technologies to power its Nevada data center cluster. The deal enables 24/7 clean electricity supply for reliable operations. This supports sustainable energy for high-demand compute workloads.
Edge 145 Enhances Passwords & PDF Read-Aloud
Microsoft released Edge 145 stable (145.0.3800.58) to all users with password management, autofill, and PDF reading improvements. Enterprise/IT features included alongside security fixes. Everyday users gain better productivity tools.
Apple Leaps to M5 in AI Cloud Upgrade
Apple completed a major hardware upgrade for its Apple Intelligence cloud infrastructure. Proprietary servers jumped from M2 Ultra directly to self-developed M5 chips, skipping M3 and M4. This delivers substantial boost to cloud AI compute power.