It’s Wednesday, February 18, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds spotlight intensifying investor focus on spatial AI, fusion energy, AI chip co-design, and fintech infrastructure for workplace savings. As capital continues to […]

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The battle over who controls frontier AI just moved inside the Pentagon. Anthropic’s $200 million defense contract is under review after talks with the Department of Defense stalled over how its models can be used. A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to […]

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Enterprise networks don’t fail quietly. When outages hit telecom carriers, cloud providers, or healthcare systems, costs can run into the millions per hour. That pressure is fueling a new wave of AI infrastructure startups promising to detect issues before they […]

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Most major breaches still trace back to a simple failure: someone had access they shouldn’t have had. A stolen credential. An over-permissioned admin account. A machine identity was left open long after a project ended. Security teams have spent decades trying […]

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Saudi Arabia just wrote one of the biggest AI checks of the year. Humain, the kingdom’s state-backed artificial intelligence company, said Wednesday it invested $3 billion in xAI as part of the company’s Series E round — just before SpaceX moved […]

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It’s Wednesday, February 18, 2026, and the global tech landscape is moving fast — from multibillion-dollar AI chip deals and new frontier model launches to space missions, quantum IPOs, and tightening AI regulation. Today’s stories reflect a clear shift: AI […]

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The chip giant expands its IndiaAI push through venture partnerships, sovereign AI support, and infrastructure collaborations as billions pour into the country’s AI ecosystem. India’s AI ambitions just gained a powerful ally. NVIDIA is deepening its footprint in India, teaming up […]

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The entry-level job market is tight. Hiring has slowed. Headlines warn of fewer openings and cautious employers. For students graduating in 2026, the question feels urgent: Which degrees actually lead to jobs? New data from the National Association of Colleges […]

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Online casinos are booming in popularity as many more people discover the excitement of classic games such as blackjack, poker, roulette, slots, and more. Smartphones and faster broadband speeds have put a casino in everybody’s pocket, allowing gamers access to […]

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It’s Tuesday, February 17, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s rounds underscore investor urgency in scaling foundational AI infrastructure, commercial space platforms, and industrial decarbonization systems. As the tech stack reorganizes around AI-native […]

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Anthropic is moving fast. Just 12 days after introducing Claude Opus 4.6, its most powerful model, the company is back with another release — and this one may matter more for everyday users. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now live in […]

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The AI coding surge is minting new winners in cloud infrastructure — and Render just joined the unicorn club. The San Francisco AI cloud startup said Tuesday it has raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, doubling down on […]

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On January 17, NameBio reported that Prism.app had sold for $120,000. Ten days later, the domain began redirecting to prism.openai.com. Now, OpenAI has officially launched Prism, a free AI workspace built for scientific writing and collaboration, powered by GPT-5.2. The timing […]

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From Submarines to HOA Software Ben Currin didn’t plan to build software for homeowners’ associations. He trained as a nuclear engineer. He served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. His early career revolved around reactor systems and national […]

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AI agents can write code, draft legal briefs, triage support tickets, and coordinate workflows. Ask them what happened three sessions ago, and things fall apart. Memory is emerging as one of the weakest links in autonomous systems. Agents lose context, […]

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Healthcare eats nearly one out of every five dollars in the U.S. economy. A staggering share of that money never touches a doctor, nurse, or patient. It gets absorbed by paperwork, repricing vendors, audit layers, and a maze of middlemen […]

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Compliance rarely makes headlines. It sits in shared drives, buried in supplier emails and spreadsheets, surfacing only when something goes wrong. Certivo believes that the model no longer works. The New York–based startup has raised $4 million in seed funding […]

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It’s Tuesday, February 17, 2026, and here are the top tech stories making waves today — from AI and startups to regulation and Big Tech. Artificial intelligence is redrawing the map of global power — not just in software, but in […]

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AI agents can write code, book flights, and draft legal memos. But ask them to execute long-running tasks across distributed systems without breaking, and the cracks start to show. That gap is where Temporal sees its opportunity. The San Francisco […]

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Starting a hardware business feels alive. You build tangible solutions to everyday problems, and seeing your concept come to life brings joy unlike anything else. Still, beyond the rush of sketching prototypes or first builds, one key truth tends to […]

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If you still think Silicon Valley owns the future of robotics, China just made its counterargument in prime time. On February 16, 2026, during the annual Spring Festival Gala broadcast by China Media Group, humanoid robots stepped onto the country’s most-watched […]

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A founder spends six months building a product. The interface is clean. The onboarding feels intuitive. The feature set is carefully considered. Every edge case has been anticipated. Every pixel is aligned. When launch day finally arrives, there is a […]

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NVIDIA just made every voice AI API a commodity with the launch of the new conversational AI model, PersonaPlex-7B. The open-source full-duplex model collapses ASR, LLM, and TTS into a single 7B system—shifting voice AI margins from APIs to GPUs.  […]

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California’s clean energy economy just pulled in another major foreign backer. Octopus Energy Generation is committing nearly $1 billion to California-based climate and energy projects, deepening its presence in the United States at a time when global capital is flowing into […]

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It’s Monday, February 16, 2026, and here are the top tech stories dominating the news. Today’s digest captures a global snapshot of where leverage is shifting—from silicon and memory to regulation, security, energy systems, and the Moon. AI is no […]

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Alibaba is turning up the heat in China’s AI race. On Monday, the e-commerce giant introduced Qwen 3.5, its latest large language model built for what it calls the “agentic AI era.” The company says the new model can complete complex […]

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