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Q&A with Google Chief AI Scientist Jeff Dean about the evolution of Google Search, TPUs, coding agents, balancing model efficiency and performance, and more (Latent.Space) - 2026-02-16T14:15:01-05:00

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 (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-16T13:45:01-05:00

Apple says it will bring "advanced video capabilities" to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows (Todd Spangler/Variety) - 2026-02-16T13:35:01-05:00

Internal email: the European Parliament has blocked AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns (Politico) - 2026-02-16T11:50:05-05:00

Crypto lender Nexo says it is relaunching in the US in partnership with Bakkt, three years after leaving the US and paying a $45M fine to settle SEC charges (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters) - 2026-02-16T11:30:02-05:00

As India prepares to host its AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, the country is set to promote a frugal AI strategy focused on solving local issues (Tripti Lahiri/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-16T10:20:02-05:00

A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading to US court sanctions, as lenders accuse founder Byju Raveendran of siphoning $533M of a $1.2B loan (Financial Times) - 2026-02-16T10:00:39-05:00

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 (Axios) - 2026-02-16T09:45:03-05:00

Apple sends invites for a "special Apple Experience" event on March 4 in New York City; rumors suggest an M5 MacBook Pro, entry-level iPad Air, and iPhone 17e (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors) - 2026-02-16T09:30:05-05:00

Data analytics company Fractal, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, raised $313M in its Mumbai IPO; its shares fell 5% amid a weak Indian IPO market (Rajesh Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-16T08:05:01-05:00

Samsung releases an ad for the Galaxy S26 series that briefly shows a "Zero-peeking privacy" toggle to black out on-screen content for onlookers at an angle (Dominic Preston/The Verge) - 2026-02-16T07:50:00-05:00

Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages (Anthropic) - 2026-02-16T07:40:00-05:00

Sources: Sony is considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, as the AI boom fuels huge memory chip demand (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-16T07:25:02-05:00

London lawsuit: Getir co-founders Nazim Salur and Serkan Borançılı sue Abu Dhabi's Mubadala for $700M, alleging a "significant loss" in breaking up Getir assets (Suzi Ring/Financial Times) - 2026-02-16T06:55:00-05:00

Alibaba debuts Qwen 3.5, a 397B-parameter open-weight multimodal AI model that it says is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads than Qwen3 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters) - 2026-02-16T06:35:01-05:00