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• Every so often at Crunchbase News, we take it upon ourselves to review every sizable seed round of the past few months, seeing what trends arise. • This time around, given the ex

• Two Open Source + AI policy posts in 24 hours, MicroPython now requires AI disclosure on every pull request . • The EFF just published their own policy for LLM-assisted contribut

• Samsung releases Bixby 2.0 with conversational AI in One UI 8.5 beta. • Users can issue natural language commands without memorizing exact phrases. • Bixby auto‑adjusts settings

• Future-proof tech skills for the evolving AI job market AI isn’t killing tech jobs - it’s changing them, favoring pros who pair data and cloud savvy with curiosity, empathy and b

• Meta to deploy Grace and Vera CPUs, Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, Spectrum-X networking and confidential computing for WhatsApp. • NVIDIA announced a multiyear, multigenerational str

• Trending: Apple event on March 4: What to expect Hands-on with Google’s Pixel 10a Tesla drops ‘Autopilot’ upsell in California Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. • 25 iPhone Fo

• State of IT jobs: AI sparks rapidly changing market for skills With AI increasingly ingrained in business, IT leaders and job seekers adjust to shifting skills needs and job requ

• Business Production Console PC News Godot veteran laments ‘AI slop,’ Highguard’s mystery investor, and a big doc for Big Hops - Patch Notes #41 Plus: Unity boss says devs will so

• How agentic AI will reshape engineering workflows in 2026 In 2026, agentic AI won’t just help engineers code - it’ll run first drafts of the SDLC, leaving humans to steer, review

• The AI Basic Act went into force in January, making South Korea the first country to fully implement a nationwide foundational law dedicated to AI governance. • But what kind of

• FeaturedIntroducing ‘AI Unlocked: Decoding Prompt Injection,’ a New Interactive ChallengeFeb 18, 2026Exposing Insider Threats through Data Protection, Identity, and HR ContextFeb

• As systems become more distributed and AI-driven, traditional uptime metrics are no longer enough. • The 2026 SRE Report shows how reliability is shifting toward user experience,

• Watch: Fury platform brings agentic AI to battlefield drones Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Flipboard Email Watch as a team of drones destroys their target in a demonstration o

• Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 17 Feb 2026] Title:Intent Laundering: AI Safety Datasets Are Not What They Seem View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:We

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• Introduces Speech to Speech Synthesis Network (STSSN) for voice impersonation via style transfer. • Combines state‑of‑the‑art speech recognition and synthesis models into a unifi

• Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation View PDF HTML (experimental)Abs

• Fed’s Kashkari lashes crypto and stablecoins, praises AI Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari says crypto is ‘utterly useless’ compared to AI, and that pro-stablecoin argument

• It’s becoming somewhat of a theme that machine-generated content - whether it’s code, text or graphics - keeps pushing people to their limits, mostly by how such ‘AI slop’ is gen

• AI agents not worth the cost as humans still cheaper: Tech execs Tech investor Jason Calacanis says he’s paying around $110,000 annualized to run an AI agent, more than most US s

• AI agents are fast, loose and out of control, MIT study finds Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways Agentic AI technology is marked by a lac

• GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI +404 We are super happy to announce that GGML, creators of Llama.cpp, are joining HF in order to keep futu

• Small models, big impact: The future of scaling enterprise AI agents Share In the AI industry, we’ve spent the last 3 years obsessed with scale. • We’ve chased parameter counts i

• Train AI models with Unsloth and Hugging Face Jobs for FREE This blog post covers how to use Unsloth and Hugging Face Jobs for fast LLM fine-tuning (specifically LiquidAI/LFM2.5-

• ai atlas Tech Services & Software AI AI Agents Are Getting Better. • Their Safety Disclosures Aren’t A study led by MIT researchers found that agentic AI developers seldom publis

• ai atlas Tech Services & Software AI Google Rolls Out Latest AI Model, Gemini 3.1 Pro Starting Thursday, Gemini 3.1 Pro can be accessed via the AI app, NotebookLM and more. • The

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• Entertainment AI Science The Pitt has a sharp take on AI HBO’s medical drama has been teasing out a smart story about what makes gen AI so tempting and concerning. Link Share Gi

• Share this post Keep up with us Summary Why AI becomes an operational capability only when it shows up in the P&L and business KPIsThe architectural shifts that determine whether

• PromptSpy is the first known Android malware to use generative AI at runtime February 19, 2026 05:36 PM 0 Researchers have discovered the first known Android malware to use gener

• Fulu Foundation offers $10,000 bounty for developers to move Ring doorbell footage off Amazon’s cloud. • Goal: enable local storage on PCs or servers, giving users full control o

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• New research by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Science Foundation’s National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF-NCAR) has developed a new tool providing a

• A new artificial intelligence framework developed at Cornell can accurately predict the performance of battery electrolytes while revealing the chemical principles that govern th

• Using AI to defeat AI Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. • Generative AI and agentic AI are here to stay. • Although I believe that the advantages th

• AI News Tech The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster A hacker tricked Cline’s Claude-powered workflow into installing OpenClaw on computers. • A

• PromptSpy Android Malware Abuses Gemini AI to Automate Recent-Apps Persistence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the first Android malware that abuses Ge

• YouTube introduces Gemini-powered ‘Ask’ button to smart TVs, consoles, and streaming devices. • Feature uses Gemini chatbot trained on each video’s content for contextual answers

• More money has been invested in AI than it took to land on the moon. • Spending on the technology this year is projected to reach up to $700 billion, almost double last year’s sp

• When developers hear ‘cloud’ and ‘AI,’ their first thought is often about cost. • ‘How much will this cost me to learn? • Can I build something meaningful without racking up a su

• Share: You know that feeling when a sensory trigger instantly pulls you back to a moment in your life? • For me, it’s Icy Hot. • One whiff and I’m back to 5 a.m. • formation time

• Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process A single collision could cause a cascading effect in orbit. • At the start of the month, Elon Musk an

• Simplify your AI workflow with autonomous embedding generation in BigQuery Software Engineer Software Engineer Our most intelligent model available yet for complex tasks on Gemin

• Sovereignty and European competitiveness: A partnership-led approach to AI growth Head Government Affairs & Public Policy Google Cloud EMEA VP Engineering, Regional CTO Google Cl

• Using Google Cloud AI to measure the physics of U.S. • freestyle snowboarding and skiing Nearly every snowboard trick carries a number. • A 1080 means three full rotations. • The

• Bitcoin miners chase 30 GW AI capacity to offset hashprice pressure Public Bitcoin miners are developing 30 gigawatts of AI-focused power capacity, nearly triple current levels,

• AI Helped Uncover A ‘50-80x Improvement’ For Linux’s IO_uring Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently was debugging some slowdowns in the AHCI/SCSI

• Empower has launched three embedded silicon capacitors (ECAPs) for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) processors. • The portfolio includes the EC2005P (9.34 μF in a 2×2-mm p

• Image created usingNVIDIA FLUX.1-dev NIM This is part one of six in a multi-blog series providing a practitioner’s guide to VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA. • As more cu

• AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. • There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot, like when White House officials recentlyshareda manipulated image of

• Business Business PC Console News Todd Howard says Bethesda isn’t ‘fully ignoring’ AI The game director is considering using AI for ‘big data tasks,’ but says Bethesda isn’t usin

• Edge just got a useful AI tool that Chrome doesn’t have - here’s how to try it Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways Microsoft Edge can now

• Acme Space’s three AI agents work together to generate new designs, analyze them, and make sure they’re manufacturable. • AI has shaken up one industry after the next. • Engineer

• Cisco Blogs/Industries/When Retail AI Meets the Store Floor When Retail AI Meets the Store Floor 5 min read Eugene Kim A shopper walks into a store with a specific need. • Maybe

• The media is full of breathless reports that AI can now code and human programmers are going to be put out to pasture. • In fact, we think the ‘AI revolution’ is just a natural e

• Podcasts AI Business Money no longer matters to AI’s top talent The AI industry is rife with defections, FOMO, and radical mission statements. • It’s about to get supercharged. •

• How to choose the right chatbot for you - and when to upgrade Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways - Free chatbot tiers are strong, so te

• From Scarcity to Scale: How Synthetic Personas Can Bootstrap Japanese AI Development AI could write the next chapter of Japan’s economic story, with forecasts suggesting the tech

• By Jason Peng and Hemasumanth Rasineni Production-grade LLM inference demands more than just access to GPUs; it requires deep optimization across the entire serving stack, from q