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17 Feb 2026

Valve halts Steam Deck sales as AI-fueled memory shortage grips gaming hardware market

Valve confirmed Steam Deck is out of stock indefinitely due to memory shortages driven by AI data center demands. The 256GB LCD model is discontinued, while OLED versions face intermittent availability. Sony may delay PS6 until 2029, and Nintendo could raise Switch 2 prices as component costs spiral across the consumer electronics market.

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Infosys partners with Anthropic to build AI agents as automation reshapes IT services industry

Indian IT giant Infosys has partnered with Anthropic to develop enterprise-grade AI agents, integrating Claude models into its Topaz AI platform. The collaboration aims to automate complex workflows across banking, telecoms, and manufacturing sectors. The deal comes as AI-driven automation raises concerns about the future of India's $280 billion IT services industry.

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Big Tech's AI Climate Claims Called Greenwashing as Evidence Falls Short

Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft claim AI will help solve climate change, promising to cut global emissions by 5-10% by 2030. But a new report analyzing 154 statements finds that 36% of AI climate claims lack any evidence, while companies conflate traditional AI with energy-intensive generative AI—a tactic researchers call greenwashing.

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Meta AI chatbots failed to protect minors in 66.8% of internal safety tests, court documents reveal

Internal red teaming tests revealed Meta AI chatbots violated the company's own content policies almost two-thirds of the time when tested on scenarios involving minors. The documents surfaced during a lawsuit by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, showing high failure rates across child sexual exploitation, violent crimes, and self-harm categories. Meta claims it never launched the product after discovering these concerns.

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Ireland Opens Grok Investigation as EU Privacy Watchdog Targets X Grok AI Over Sexualized Images

Ireland's Data Protection Commission has launched a large-scale EU privacy investigation into X Grok AI over non-consensual deepfake images. The probe examines whether Elon Musk's social media platform violated GDPR compliance rules when its Grok chatbot generated sexualized images of real people, including children, sparking global regulatory scrutiny.

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Micron launches first PCIe 6.0 SSDs with 28GB/s speeds, but they're built for AI data centers only

Micron has begun mass production of the world's first PCIe 6.0 SSDs, the 9650 series, delivering sequential read speeds up to 28GB/s—double that of PCIe 5.0. These enterprise-grade SSDs target AI data centers and hyperscalers running AI inference workloads, with capacities ranging from 7.68TB to 30.72TB. Samsung is also preparing PCIe 6.0 drives for later in 2026, signaling a storage performance shift driven entirely by AI demands.

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German Start-Up Sitegeist Raises €4M to Deploy AI Robots for Concrete Renovation

Munich-based Sitegeist has secured €4m in pre-seed funding to deploy AI-enabled robots that automate concrete renovation. The German start-up's modular robots can remove deteriorated concrete up to ten times faster than manual labor, addressing Europe's infrastructure backlog and labor shortages across bridges, tunnels and public buildings.

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16 Feb 2026

Infostealer malware targets OpenClaw AI agents, stealing API keys and authentication tokens

Hudson Rock documented the first in-the-wild case of infostealer malware exfiltrating OpenClaw configuration files containing API keys and authentication tokens. The incident, believed to involve a Vidar infostealer variant, marks a significant shift in cybercrime targets from browser credentials to compromising personal AI agents as the popular agentic framework becomes integrated into professional workflows.

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SpaceX enters $100 million Pentagon contest to develop voice-controlled drone swarms

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are competing in a secretive Pentagon contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming technology. The $100 million competition marks a controversial shift for Musk, who previously advocated against autonomous weapons. The six-month challenge aims to create software that translates voice commands into coordinated drone actions for offensive military operations.

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Intel commits to annual GPU releases with Xe graphics architecture, but AI takes priority

Intel has confirmed a shift to annual releases for its GPU lineup, with Xe3P arriving later this year and Xe-Next following in 2026. The focus centers heavily on AI inference-targeted solutions and data center accelerators, while the future of Arc consumer gaming cards remains unclear despite ongoing architectural development.

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Sony considers PS6 delay to 2029 as AI chip shortage forces gaming industry to rethink strategy

Sony is weighing a significant PlayStation 6 delay to 2028 or even 2029 as surging demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure creates an unprecedented global memory chip shortage. The AI-driven chip crisis has left major memory manufacturers prioritizing high-margin AI chips over consumer electronics, forcing gaming companies to navigate longer console cycles and rising production costs.

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Rana Daggubati says AI in cinema lets filmmakers watch movies before shooting even begins

Actor Rana Daggubati spoke at the AI Impact Summit about how AI is rewriting the grammar of cinema, compressing VFX production time from days to hours. He predicted AI will replace humans quickly but emphasized that storytelling and cultural understanding remain irreplaceable human skills. The summit, inaugurated by PM Modi, runs until February 20 in New Delhi.

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KPMG partner fined AU$10,000 for using AI to cheat on internal AI training exam

A KPMG partner in Australia was fined AU$10,000 for using artificial intelligence to cheat during an internal training course on AI. The unnamed partner uploaded training materials to an AI platform to help generate responses. More than two dozen staff at KPMG Australia have been caught cheating on internal exams since July, raising concerns about AI misuse in professional settings across major consultancy and accounting firms.

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India Pushes for Global Consensus on AI Copyright to Protect Creators' Intellectual Property

India is leading efforts to establish a global consensus on AI copyright protections at the AI Impact Summit. Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw advocates for techno-legal solutions to balance innovation with creators' rights as AI models trained on copyrighted content spark legal battles. The country is also investing in AVGC Content Creator Labs across 15,000 schools to build its creator economy.

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Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 AI model with visual agentic capabilities, claims edge over GPT-5.2

Alibaba released Qwen3.5, its latest AI model featuring visual agentic capabilities that enable autonomous task execution across applications. The company claims the model outperforms leading models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind on multiple benchmarks while operating 60% cheaper than its predecessor. The launch intensifies competition in China's AI market as companies race to develop advanced AI agents.

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