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February 18, 2026

AI Cuts Insurance for White Cars in China
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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.

SCMP Technology · 210d ago

IEA: Energy Innovation Focuses on Security
Infrastructure

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.

36氪 · 210d ago

2025 AI Podcasts: Hits, Misses Reviewed
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2025 AI Podcasts: Hits, Misses Reviewed

Review of 2025 AI podcast and knowledge tools shows mixed results: ChatPods failed due to entertainment mismatch, 来福 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.

虎嗅 · 210d ago

CyberAgent Releases 3 Free AI Research Training Docs
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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.

ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 210d ago

AI Fuels Smart Hardware Expansion Frenzy
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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.

虎嗅 · 210d ago

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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.

Bloomberg Technology · 210d ago

Physical AI Demands Caution Over Hype
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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.

Computerworld · 210d ago

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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.

Bloomberg Technology · 210d ago

Don't Confuse US-China AI Gap with Truth
Business

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.

虎嗅 · 210d ago

Freee Launches ChatGPT Tax Advisor App
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Freee Launches ChatGPT Tax Advisor App

freee has started providing the 'freee確定申告' app for ChatGPT, allowing users to query tax accountant-like answers. It targets sole proprietors' anxieties over AI response accuracy in tax declarations.

ITmedia AI+ (日本) · 210d ago

Blackwell 50x Hopper Efficiency in DeepSeek Test
Infrastructure

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.

IT之家 · 210d ago

Chunwan Spotlights Yibin's AI City Rise
Infrastructure

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.

钛媒体 · 210d ago

Caltech Brings Fiber Performance to Silicon Chips
Infrastructure

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.

cnBeta (Full RSS) · 210d ago

Perplexity Abandons Ads for User Trust
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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.

cnBeta (Full RSS) · 210d ago

Google-Ormat Geothermal Deal Powers Nevada DCs
Infrastructure

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.

cnBeta (Full RSS) · 210d ago

Edge 145 Enhances Passwords & PDF Read-Aloud
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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.

cnBeta (Full RSS) · 210d ago

Apple Leaps to M5 in AI Cloud Upgrade
Infrastructure

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.

cnBeta (Full RSS) · 210d ago

6000 Gamers Pick DLSS 4.5 as Top Quality
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6000 Gamers Pick DLSS 4.5 as Top Quality

ComputerBase organized a blind test with 6,000 gamers comparing NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR 4, and native rendering without labels. Players preferred DLSS 4.5 for superior image quality over native resolution and FSR 4.

cnBeta (Full RSS) · 210d ago

Qualcomm Invests Up to $150M in India AI Fund
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Qualcomm Invests Up to $150M in India AI Fund

Qualcomm plans to invest up to $150 million to support India's growing tech and AI startup ecosystem. The funds will be deployed through Qualcomm Ventures to startups at various stages.

36氪 · 210d ago

WD Raises $3.09B Selling SanDisk Shares
Infrastructure

WD Raises $3.09B Selling SanDisk Shares

Western Digital plans to raise $3.09 billion by selling shares in its flash memory subsidiary SanDisk, spun off nearly a year ago. Shares priced at $535-$555, up to 9.4% discount from $590.59 close.

cnBeta (Full RSS) · 210d ago

X-MAP Profiles Misclassifications in Spam Detection
Research

X-MAP Profiles Misclassifications in Spam Detection

X-MAP is an explainable framework combining SHAP attributions and NMF to create topic profiles for correctly classified spam/phishing vs. legitimate messages.

ArXiv AI · 210d ago

WGAN Boosts Synthetic Population Diversity
Research

WGAN Boosts Synthetic Population Diversity

New method uses joint WGAN with gradient penalty to synthesize populations from multi-source data, tackling diversity and feasibility issues. Introduces regularization term for generator loss, outperforming baselines in recall (+7%), precision (+15%), and overall similarity (88.1 vs 84.6).

ArXiv AI · 210d ago

WAC Boosts Web Agents with World Models
Research

WAC Boosts Web Agents with World Models

WAC integrates multi-agent collaboration where an action model consults a world model for strategic guidance on web tasks, grounding suggestions into executable actions. It employs a two-stage deduction chain with consequence simulation and judge model scrutiny for risk-aware action correction.

ArXiv AI · 210d ago

Trace Rewriting Blocks LLM Distillation Theft
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Trace Rewriting Blocks LLM Distillation Theft

Researchers introduce methods to rewrite teacher model reasoning traces, deterring unauthorized knowledge distillation while embedding verifiable watermarks. Techniques include LLM-powered rewriting and gradient-based approaches that preserve answer correctness.

ArXiv AI · 210d ago

Tech Billionaires Flock to Delhi AI Summit
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Tech Billionaires Flock to Delhi AI Summit

Silicon Valley leaders from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI will attend India's week-long AI Impact Summit hosted by PM Narendra Modi. The event gathers thousands of tech executives, officials, and AI safety experts alongside global south leaders like those from Kenya and Indonesia.

The Guardian Technology · 210d ago

Secure Energy-Efficient Agentic AI Wireless Networks
Infrastructure

Secure Energy-Efficient Agentic AI Wireless Networks

This arXiv paper introduces a secure wireless agentic AI network with a supervisor AI agent assigning others for cooperative reasoning while unselected agents jam eavesdroppers. It formulates an energy minimization problem optimizing agent selection, BS beamforming, and transmission power under latency and accuracy constraints.

ArXiv AI · 210d ago

Ruva: Transparent On-Device Personal AI Graph Reasoning
Research

Ruva: Transparent On-Device Personal AI Graph Reasoning

Ruva introduces a 'Glass Box' architecture for Personal AI using Personal Knowledge Graphs, allowing users to inspect and precisely redact AI knowledge. It replaces vector databases with graph reasoning to eliminate hallucinations, ensure accountability, and enable the 'Right to be Forgotten.' A demo and project are available online.

ArXiv AI · 210d ago

ResearchGym: AI Agents Research Benchmark
Research

ResearchGym: AI Agents Research Benchmark

ResearchGym introduces a benchmark with five containerized environments from ICML, ICLR, and ACL papers, totaling 39 sub-tasks, where agents propose hypotheses and run experiments to beat baselines. GPT-5-powered agents show a capability-reliability gap, succeeding in only 6.7% of evaluations and completing 26.5% of sub-tasks.

ArXiv AI · 210d ago

Reasoning LLMs Beat Conversational in Risky Choices
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Reasoning LLMs Beat Conversational in Risky Choices

A study of 20 LLMs reveals clustering into rational reasoning models (RMs), insensitive to framing and order, and less rational conversational models (CMs) with human-like biases and a description-history gap. RMs match rational agents across explicit and experience-based prospects.

ArXiv AI · 210d ago

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