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Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a “spatial dataflow” architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A (siliconangle.com)
2026-2-19 Energy AI

Andrew Yang Warns AI Will Displace Millions of White-Collar Workers Within 18 Months (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 AI

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TP-Link, alleging it deceptively markets its products as secure while allowing the CCP to hack into consumers' devices (therecord.media)
2026-2-19 Texas

Linus Torvalds on How Linux Went From One-Man Show To Group Effort (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19 Linux

OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood (www.vanityfair.com)
2026-2-19 Instagram

Vermont EV Buses Prove Unreliable For Transportation This Winter (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-19

Meta plans to spend $65M in 2025 to boost state politicians friendly to AI; filings: Meta started two super PACs, one backing the GOP and another for Democrats (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19 AI Democrat Republican

Sports-focused prediction market Novig raises a $75M Series B led by Pantera Capital at a $500M valuation; Novig is commission-free for retail traders (fortune.com)
2026-2-19 Retail

Meta plans to spend $65M this year backing state politicians friendly to AI; filings: it is starting two super PACs, one backing GOP and another for Democrats (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-19 AI Democrat Republican

Microsoft: Anti-phishing rules mistakenly blocked emails, Teams messages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-19 Microsoft

Telegram channels expose rapid weaponization of SmarterMail flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-19

Audible launches an “immersion reading” feature that lets readers switch between ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19

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

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