Tech

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

Bengaluru-based Stable Money, whose app lets users invest in fixed deposits and corporate bonds, raised $25M at a $175M valuation, taking total funding to $65M (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-2-18

A look at MGX, Abu Dhabi's AI investment vehicle with stakes in Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI; the firm plans to spend up to $10B annually over the next few years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 AI

Sources: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by Google DeepMind's former principal scientist David Silver, is raising a $1B seed led by Sequoia at a $4B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-2-18 Google Silver Intelligence

Yotta says it is investing $2B to deploy Nvidia's Blackwell B300 GPUs at its Noida data center campus in India to create one of Asia's largest AI superclusters (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-2-18 India Asia AI Nvidia

Nvidia says it is working with Peak XV and other VC firms in India to fund AI startups; over 4,000 Indian AI startups have joined its global startup program (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-18 India Startup AI Nvidia

Bayer Agrees To $7.25 Billion Proposed Settlement Over Thousands of Roundup Cancer Lawsuits (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue advertising, which it introduced in 2024, phasing out ads late last year over fears it would erode user trust (www.ft.com)
2026-2-18

Tesla agrees to stop using the term “autopilot” to market its electric vehicles in California to avoid a 30-day suspension by the state's DMV (www.sfchronicle.com)
2026-2-18 Tesla California

YouTube appears to be suffering a widespread outage starting at ~7:45pm ET, with feeds, Shorts, and homepage inaccessible, based on 300K+ Downdetector reports (9to5google.com)
2026-2-18 YouTube

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Model Brings 'Much-Improved Coding Skills', Upgraded Free Tier (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google, and Microsoft $80B+ total to run its models on their servers through 2029, plus an additional $100B for training costs (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-18 Google Amazon Microsoft

Apple Is Reportedly Planning To Launch AI-Powered Glasses, a Pendant, and AirPods (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 AI Apple

Discord Rival Maxes Out Hosting Capacity As Players Flee Age-Verification Crackdown (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18

Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, says it is generating annual run-rate revenue of $100M+, just eight months after launch (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 AI

Amazon shares close up 1.2%, snapping a nine-day slide that wiped out $450B+ in market valuation over concerns about Amazon's plan to spend $200B in 2026 capex (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-18 Amazon

Filing: Nvidia unloaded 1.1M Arm shares, worth about $140M based on Arm's closing price on Tuesday, sometime in Q4, bringing Nvidia's stake to zero (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 4Q Nvidia

NPR's Radio Host David Greene Says Google's NotebookLM Tool Stole His Voice (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 Google

Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-2-18 Linux

Spain orders NordVPN, ProtonVPN to block LaLiga piracy sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Spain

Google signs a power purchase agreement with Ormat to supply up to 150 MW of geothermal energy to its Nevada data centers through NV Energy starting in 2028 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-18 Google Energy

Spain orders NordVPN and ProtonVPN to block LaLiga stream piracy (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-18 Spain

Quantum computing company Infleqtion closed at $15.59 in its trading debut, up ~9% from its opening price of $14.25, after merging with a Michael Klein-led SPAC (www.barrons.com)
2026-2-18 Quantum

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