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18 Feb 2026

Tempus AI stock rises 3.5% after unveiling HRD-RNA algorithm for cancer detection

Tempus AI shares climbed Wednesday following the launch of its new HRD-RNA algorithm, an AI-driven tool designed to detect homologous recombination deficiency in tumors. The algorithm analyzes gene expression to identify patients who may benefit from platinum-based chemotherapy or PARP inhibitors, offering a more dynamic assessment than traditional genomic methods.

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Solid Data raises $20M to solve enterprise AI's context crisis with Semantics Engineering

Israeli startup Solid Data secured $20 million in seed funding to tackle the enterprise AI context crisis through a new discipline called Semantics Engineering. The company's AI-ready semantic models aim to boost AI agent reliability from 20-30% to over 85% by teaching systems to understand business data correctly, addressing the critical problem of data inconsistency that prevents organizations from trusting AI-generated insights.

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Microsoft Copilot bug exposed confidential emails by bypassing data loss prevention policies

Microsoft confirmed a bug in its Copilot AI allowed the tool to read and summarize customers' confidential emails for weeks, bypassing data loss prevention policies designed to protect sensitive information. The flaw, tracked as CW1226324, affected draft and sent emails with confidentiality labels since January 21. Microsoft began rolling out a fix in early February.

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OpenAI partners with top Indian universities to bring AI education to 100,000 students

OpenAI announced partnerships with six leading Indian higher education institutions including IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad, and AIIMS New Delhi to integrate AI into academic workflows. The initiative will provide ChatGPT Edu access, faculty training, and responsible AI use frameworks to over 100,000 students and staff, marking a shift from consumer tools to institutional AI adoption in one of the world's largest education systems.

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Google unveils $15 billion AI expansion in India with new subsea cables and DeepMind partnerships

Google announced a sweeping expansion of its artificial intelligence infrastructure in India, unveiling the America-India Connect initiative with new fiber-optic routes and subsea cables connecting the country to the US and Southern Hemisphere. CEO Sundar Pichai revealed the plans at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, building on the company's $15 billion investment to establish an AI infrastructure hub in Vizag over five years.

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Musk Makes Rare Direct Appeal to South Korea's Chip Talent as Tesla Expands AI Silicon Push

Elon Musk personally recruited South Korean semiconductor professionals on X, urging them to join Tesla's in-house AI chip design efforts. The unusual direct appeal comes as Tesla ramps up custom silicon development for autonomous driving and robotics, including plans for a massive Terafab facility and 2nm chip production.

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NPCI partners with Nvidia to build sovereign AI infrastructure for India's digital payments

NPCI has partnered with Nvidia to develop a payments-native AI foundation model aligned with India's regulatory and data sovereignty requirements. The collaboration will use Nvidia Nemotron to create a foundational AI layer for the payments ecosystem, building on the UPI Help Assistant pilot that supports grievance resolution at scale.

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Indian Army mandates human control over AI-enabled systems as military operations evolve

India's military leadership is establishing strict protocols for AI deployment in defense operations. Lt Gen Vipul Singhal emphasized that AI-enabled systems must undergo rigorous testing and maintain institutionalized human oversight. The Indian Army is actively deploying AI across surveillance, logistics, and decision support while ensuring commanders retain ultimate responsibility for lethal decisions.

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AI-Generated Passwords Are Fundamentally Weak and Vulnerable to Cracking Within Hours

AI cybersecurity firm Irregular reveals that ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini produce passwords with predictable patterns despite appearing strong. Research shows these AI-generated passwords have entropy as low as 20-27 bits compared to 98-120 bits for truly random passwords, making them crackable within hours even on decades-old computers. Experts urge immediate password changes for anyone using LLM password generation.

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Starboard Value Pushes Riot Platforms to Accelerate Bitcoin-to-AI Data Center Transition

Activist investor Starboard Value is urging Riot Platforms to rapidly transition from Bitcoin mining to AI data centers, citing potential annual EBITDA exceeding $1.6 billion. The push comes as crypto miners face declining profitability while demand for AI infrastructure surges, with Riot's Texas sites offering 1.7 gigawatts of power capacity ideal for high-performance computing.

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Physical AI and robots could create trillion-dollar market by 2035, Barclays predicts

Barclays analysts project that AI-powered robots and autonomous machines could balloon into a trillion-dollar market by 2035, marking a shift from digital AI to physical AI. The report titled 'The Decade of the Robot' identifies autonomous vehicles, drones, and humanoid robots as key drivers, with companies like Tesla, Amazon, and Nvidia positioned to shape this emerging value chain.

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Sarvam AI launches India-first models to challenge OpenAI, Gemini with multilingual capabilities

Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI unveiled two large language models at the India AI Impact Summit, marking a shift toward locally-controlled AI infrastructure. The Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B models support 22 Indian languages and were trained from scratch on trillions of tokens. With over $50 million in funding, the startup aims to reduce India's reliance on foreign AI platforms while offering cost-efficient alternatives for enterprise deployments.

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Galgotias University removed from AI Summit after claiming Chinese robot dog as own creation

Galgotias University was expelled from India's flagship AI Summit after a professor claimed a commercially available Chinese-made robotic dog was developed by the university. The incident, which drew swift online backlash, cast an uncomfortable shadow over an event designed to position India as a global AI powerhouse and showcase Made in India innovation.

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OpenAI partners with MakeMyTrip and Ixigo to transform India's travel sector with AI integration

MakeMyTrip and Ixigo have both announced partnerships with OpenAI to deploy advanced AI capabilities across their travel platforms. MakeMyTrip's Myra assistant now handles over 50,000 conversations daily across multiple languages, with 45% of queries from Tier-2 cities. The collaborations mark a significant shift toward AI-led discovery in India's travel sector.

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Google AI updates NotebookLM with prompt-based slide editing and PowerPoint export

Google has addressed a major limitation in NotebookLM by introducing prompt-based customization for slide decks. Users can now refine individual slides without regenerating entire presentations. The AI-powered NotebookLM also gains PPTX export capabilities, enabling seamless integration with PowerPoint workflows, while Google Slides support arrives soon.

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