Major expansion into India with local infrastructure buildout, enterprise partnerships, and education programs targeting 100,000+ students, faculty, and staff over the next year. Timed with the India AI Impact Summit — OpenAI is planting deep roots in what could become the world's largest AI market.
Read moreBharatGen, Gnani.ai, and Sarvam launched made-in-India AI models spanning language, voice, and vision — running on domestic infrastructure. A major sovereignty play as nations race to reduce dependence on US Big Tech. PM Modi addressing the summit today (Feb 19).
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Fei-Fei Li's spatial AI startup secured massive funding to bring world models into 3D workflows. Partnership will integrate World Labs' immersive environment generation with Autodesk's CAD tools. Starting with entertainment, but the goal is "physical AI that augments human creativity" — designing actual physical spaces through AI.
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Gemini app now creates 30-second music tracks from text or image prompts. Powered by DeepMind's Lyria 3 — their most advanced music generation model. The "vibe coding" era extends to music production for everyone.
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Major security lapse: a bug allowed Copilot to read and summarize customers' confidential emails for weeks, bypassing data loss prevention policies. Draft and sent emails with "confidential" labels were incorrectly processed since January. Fix rolling out now, but trust erosion is real.
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Update: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly considering designating Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" — a serious escalation. The dispute over Claude usage for surveillance and autonomous weapons could ban Anthropic tech from DoD projects entirely, even as rivals (OpenAI, Google, xAI) continue their $200M contracts.
Read moreThe warehouse robotics initiative is dead less than six months after launch. Employees moved to other projects — another sign that robotics remains stubbornly difficult even for the world's logistics leader. AI + physical world = harder than expected.
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Indian AI lab Sarvam is going ultra-edge — models that take only megabytes, run on existing phone processors, work offline. Betting that the next billion AI users won't have flagship smartphones. Edge-first philosophy for developing markets.
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Founded by ex-Rapt/Krux execs (sold to Salesforce/Microsoft), Kana builds customizable AI agents for marketers. The martech stack is getting an agentic layer — expect every marketing workflow to get automated over the next 18 months.
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Yotta building 20,000+ GPU Shakti Cloud with Blackwell Ultra; BharatGen developing sovereign models with Nemotron; Netweb manufacturing GB200 systems in India under "Make in India." NVIDIA isn't selling GPUs to India — they're building India's AI ecosystem.
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A HN post that's become a phenomenon — developers sharing "direct messages" to future LLMs training on web data. 1000+ points, 360+ comments. Part performance art, part earnest attempt at prompt injection at scale, part commentary on the weirdness of training on human discourse.
Read moreWashington Post headline claimed AI is enabling four-day workweeks. The Guardian fired back: "The bogus four-day workweek that AI supposedly 'frees up'." Reality check on AI productivity claims — are we working less, or just producing more in the same time?
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World leaders and tech billionaires flocking to Delhi — Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei all present. The optics are clear: India is the diplomatic and economic battleground for AI influence in 2026.
New data from Adweek: layoffs attributed to AI remain limited, but expectations for faster, higher-volume output have risen dramatically. The "productivity paradox" — AI creates more work, faster, rather than eliminating roles.
Read moreThe stealth-launched AI agent platform for marketers represents a new category: customizable agents that handle campaign workflows, not just content generation. "Martech 3.0" is agent-native.
Read more Final word: AI-enhanced production performed well (visual effects, personalization), but pure AI-generated creative concepts fell flat. Human storytelling + AI tooling = winning formula.
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