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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans To Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from a16z, Nvidia, AMD, and others to advance its world models focused on robotics and scientific discovery (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Robot Nvidia AMD

Snap says its direct revenue business has reached a $1B ARR, driven primarily by Snapchat+ surpassing 25M subscribers since its 2022 launch (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 Snapchat

The Animal Kingdom's 10 Greatest Dance Moves (listverse.com)
2026-2-19

Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model that can make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages (blog.google)
2026-2-19 Google

WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site (slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 WordPress AI

Cogent Security, which aims to use AI agents to decide which software bugs to remediate, raised a $42M Series A led by Bain, taking its total raised to $53M (fortune.com)
2026-2-19 AI

Matthew Ball's State of Video Gaming 2026 report: global video game content sales grew 5.3% YoY to $195.6B in 2025; job losses fell 40% YoY to 9,200 people (www.gamesindustry.biz)
2026-2-19

Google expands Quick Share support with AirDrop to the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and 9 Pro Fold, after launching it for Pixel 10 in November 2025 (9to5google.com)
2026-2-19 Google

Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It) (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19

Kana, which builds AI marketing agents to perform data analysis, audience targeting, campaign management, and more, emerges from stealth and raised $15M (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 AI Data Analysis

OpenAI partners with six Indian education institutions, including IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad, and AIIMS New Delhi, to provide ChatGPT Edu access to 100K+ students (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 India Education

Google unveils the $499 Pixel 10A, offering the same Tensor G4 chip as the 9A, 8GB of RAM, and an 11% brighter display, in 128GB and 256GB, shipping March 4 (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-19 Google

Digital savings startup Vestwell raised a $385M Series E co-led by Blue Owl and Sixth Street, after a $125M Series D in 2023, taking its total funding to $660M (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-2-19 Startup

FDA Reverses Decision and Agrees To Review Moderna's Flu Vaccine (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19

Canva COO Cliff Obrecht says the company hit $4B in ARR at the end of 2025, had 265M+ MAUs and 31M+ paid users, and expects to IPO in the next “couple of years” (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 IPO

Data breach at fintech firm Figure affects nearly 1 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-19 Fintech

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $200M from Autodesk, part of a larger round; the companies are exploring integrating World Labs' AI models in Autodesk products (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 AI

India Tells University To Leave AI Summit After Presenting Chinese Robot as Its Own (slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 China India AI Robot

Thousands of CEOs Just Admitted AI Had No Impact On Employment Or Productivity (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 AI

Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 IPO Retail

DG Matrix, which builds solid-state transformers to handle up to 2.4 MW and boost data center power efficiency, raised a $60M Series A led by Engine Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19

Sources: Amazon shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system launched in October 2025 for same-day delivery warehouses, to focus on small modular warehouses (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-19 Amazon Robot

Saudi-backed AI company Humain invests $3B in xAI, becoming a “significant minority shareholder” in a deal that happened just prior to SpaceX's xAI acquisition (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 AI SpaceX

Sources: while Meta offered OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger more money than OpenAI, he ultimately aligned more closely with OpenAI's overall vibe and vision (sources.news)
2026-2-18

How US citizens, clergy, and elected officials in conservative communities like Missouri are leading a grassroots rebellion against the Trump-backed AI boom (www.ft.com)
2026-2-18 Trump AI

Uber plans to spend $100M+ to build fast-charging, autonomous vehicle charging stations in the US, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area, LA, and Dallas (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 Uber Autonomous Car San Francisco

Glendale man gets 5 years in prison for role in darknet drug ring (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Darknet

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Microsoft

If you need a spare laptop, this refurbished Chromebook is just $80 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18

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