Tech

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

At India's AI Summit, Sundar Pichai announces the America-India Connect Initiative to build new fiber optic lines between India, the US, and other countries (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 U.S. India AI

A Las Vegas federal appeals court rejects Kalshi's emergency bid for an administrative stay against Nevada's efforts to block the platform, a major setback (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-18 Vegas

Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its Amazon stake by 75%+ to ~2.3M shares in Q4 2025; Berkshire bought 5.1M NYT shares, worth ~$352M in December (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 Amazon Warren Buffett 4Q Berkshire

SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla, down from a 7.5% stake in August 2025; ether is down 60% from its August 2025 peak (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18

Q&A with Synthesia founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hitting a $4B valuation, AI regulation, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-2-18 AI London

Single Dose of DMT Rapidly Reduces Symptoms of Major Depression (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

WBD joins Disney and Paramount in claiming infringement on ByteDance's AI video tool Seedance and demands ByteDance cease training AI on Warner Bros. characters (variety.com)
2026-2-18 AI

A US federal judge orders OpenAI to stop using the word “Cameo” for its Sora products and features, in a trademark lawsuit filed by celebrity video app Cameo (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18

A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-2-18 China Startup Shanghai

Microsoft says it is on pace to invest $50B by 2030 to help expand AI across the “Global South”; it unveiled $17.5B worth of AI investments in India in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-18 India Microsoft AI

Battery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech firms amid AI disruption concerns (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 AI Battery

Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI announces two models at the AI Impact Summit that it says are tailored to Indian languages and cultures (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 India Startup AI

As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws attention, a look at India's AI opportunities and the political economy gridlock that threatens its ambitions (srajagopalan.substack.com)
2026-2-18 India AI

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non-technical users build agentic AI apps (blog.singleton.io)
2026-2-18 AI

Q&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expense management company to over $1B revenue, the “SaaS apocalypse”, using AI agents to review expenses, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
2026-2-18 SaaS AI

Air Pollution Emerges As a Direct Risk Factor For Alzheimer's Disease (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 Alzheimer

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