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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is on an apology tour to quell an outcry over privacy concerns after a Super Bowl “Search Party” ad, calling it a “perfect storm” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19

Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-19

Atlassian's founders lost ~$7.2B in wealth in 2026, behind AppLovin's three founders, amid an SaaS rout; TEAM dropped ~48% YTD, the Nasdaq 100's worst performer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 SaaS Atlassian

Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19 Uber Child Abuse

Book extract: ex-Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton recounts his role in sparking North Korea's 2014 hack, one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-19 Korea Sony

India's AI Summit: Modi orchestrated a photo op with tech and business leaders holding hands in a line, but Sam Altman and Dario Amodei awkwardly refused (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 India AI

The Gates Foundation says Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote at India's AI Summit after “careful consideration” amid controversy over his Epstein ties (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-19 India AI Bill Gates

Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real-world issues (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19 India AI Entrepreneur

Russian forces in Ukraine face communications issues as SpaceX restricts Starlink access and Telegram faces a crackdown, per pro-Russian military channels (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Russia Ukraine SpaceX

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 India AI

Claims That AI Can Help Fix Climate Dismissed As Greenwashing (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 AI Climate

A $10 Plastic Speaker is the Most Durable Revenue Line in Indian Digital Payments (slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 India

How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors, and proprietary communication system to seamlessly integrate with existing sets (www.wired.com)
2026-2-19

Trump Has Prepared Speech On Extraterrestrial Life (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 Trump

Apple Podcasts' fresh leap into video podcasts accelerates the podcast industry's shift from an audio-centric medium to a decidedly video-focused one (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Apple

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 (restofworld.org)
2026-2-19 Facebook

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.org)
2026-2-19 AI

OPM Director Scott Kupor says tech billionaires such as Elon Musk will give talks to the US Tech Force, which aims to recruit roughly 1,000 software engineers (www.ft.com)
2026-2-19 Elon Musk

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 AI Apple

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 India AI

Sources: Accenture told execs promotions would require “regular adoption” of AI and is tracking individual weekly logins to its AI tools for some senior staff (www.ft.com)
2026-2-19 AI

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 (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 India

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 (gizmodo.com)
2026-2-19 Microsoft

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19 Samsung

Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (www.statesman.com)
2026-2-19 AI Manufacturing

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the “For you” feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (gizmodo.com)
2026-2-19 Algorithm

EPA Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 Climate

Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its $100B round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-19

Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-19

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19

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