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Sources: top VC firms in India like Khosla and Accel are set to commit investments from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit — Top venture capital firms in India are set to invest $300-500 million each into the country's AI ecosystem, covering infrastructure … | Urvi Dugar / Reuters: |
Indian conglomerate Adani Group announces plans to invest $100B to build renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centers across India by 2035 — Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) said on Tuesday that the group will invest $100 billion to build renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centres by 2035 … | Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Ireland's DPC launches a “large-scale inquiry” into X over Grok's creation and publication of “potentially harmful” sexualized images, the latest European probe — ‘Large-scale’ inquiry is latest sign of how regulators are scrutinising the group's Grok chatbot| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, and a Smart List for Reminders — iOS 26.4 beta 1 is now available in beta for developers. The update includes a ton of new features and changes for iPhone users.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple says it will bring “advanced video capabilities” to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows — Apple Podcasts is finally giving video a full embrace. — The tech giant, which pioneered the podcast audio format …
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A senior official says Pentagon is “close” to designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, requiring all US military contractors to sever ties with the company — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a …
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission — Elon Musk's SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled …
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Micron, which has undertaken a $200B US expansion, says it can currently meet about 50% to 66% of demand for some key customers, as AI drives memory chip demand — For decades, memory chips were low-margin commodity products. Now the industry can't make enough to satisfy data centers' hunger.
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Manus launches Manus Agents, allowing users to access Manus directly inside messaging apps, starting with Telegram and coming soon to other platforms — Today, we're introducing Manus Agents — a new way to access and use Manus directly inside your messaging apps. Telegram is the first supported channel.
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| Nicolas Bustamante / @nicbstme: |
How LLMs are dismantling the moats that made vertical SaaS defensible, and why the market selloff is structurally justified but temporally exaggerated — In the past few weeks, nearly $1 trillion was wiped from software and services stocks. FactSet dropped from a $20B peak to under $8B.
More: Chris Roth, Financial Times, and Bloomberg
| Aaron Klotz / Tom's Hardware: |
Micron launches the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI and data center deployments — Micron's new drive is so fast that it fully benefits from liquid cooling, but air cooling is still supported
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| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest “reasoning” models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress — OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic seek to use advanced maths to show how capable AI models really are| Politico: |
Internal email: the European Parliament has blocked AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns — BRUSSELS — The European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity …
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| Alexandra Heal / Financial Times: |
UK software firm Pinewood's stock fell ~31% on February 16 after Apax withdrew its £575M takeover offer, citing “prevailing challenging market conditions” — Apax Partners abandons offer for FTSE 250 company over ‘challenging market conditions’
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