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Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real-world issues (New York Times) - 2026-02-19T04:55:05-05:00

Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to $110B in building AI-related infrastructure over the next seven years, and JioHotstar plans a ChatGPT bot (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-19T04:40:21-05:00

How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors, and proprietary communication system to seamlessly integrate with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired) - 2026-02-19T02:35:00-05:00

Apple Podcasts' fresh leap into video podcasts accelerates the podcast industry's shift from an audio-centric medium to a decidedly video-focused one (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-19T02:25:27-05:00

A study of 12K+ EU companies finds AI adoption increases labor productivity by 4% on average in the EU, with no evidence of reduced employment in the short run (CEPR) - 2026-02-19T02:20:02-05:00

Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M+ accounts are in English (Hazel Gandhi/Rest of World) - 2026-02-19T02:00:00-05:00

Apple's 40-day correlation to the Nasdaq 100 fell to 0.21 last week, the lowest since 2006, making it an appealing alternative to the AI-fueled volatility (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-19T01:50:00-05:00

US OPM Director Scott Kupor says tech billionaires like Elon Musk will give talks to the US Tech Force, which aims to recruit roughly 1,000 software engineers (Joe Miller/Financial Times) - 2026-02-19T01:45:01-05:00

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-19T01:35:02-05:00

Sources: Accenture told executives that promotions would require "regular" AI adoption and it is tracking individual weekly AI tool logins for some senior staff (Financial Times) - 2026-02-19T01:10:27-05:00

India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-19T01:00:02-05:00

Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve information for at least 10,000 years (Gayoung Lee/Gizmodo) - 2026-02-19T00:35:01-05:00

Samsung shares surged 5.4% to a record high after a report said the company plans to price HBM4 chips at ~$700 per unit, 30% higher than the previous generation (Kurt Schussler/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T23:10:21-05:00

Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (Karoline Leonard/Austin American ...) - 2026-02-18T23:00:14-05:00

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the For You feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo) - 2026-02-18T22:35:02-05:00