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25 Feb 2026

Goldman Sachs says AI delivered 'basically zero' GDP growth despite massive tech spending

Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius reveals that AI contributed essentially nothing to US economic growth in 2025, despite hundreds of billions in investment. The problem: most spending flows to overseas manufacturing in Taiwan and Asia, not American GDP. While tech companies plan $700 billion in AI infrastructure spending for 2026, analysts calculate only 0.2% of the country's 2.2% growth came from AI investment.

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AI chatbots interpret 'likely' as 80% probability while humans assume 65%, new study reveals

A new study published in NPJ Complexity reveals that AI chatbots and humans interpret probability words differently, with language models assigning 'likely' to 80% while humans assume 65%. This probability misalignment poses risks in high-stakes fields like healthcare and government policy, where miscommunication about uncertainty could lead to flawed decisions.

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MatX AI chip startup raises $500 million to challenge Nvidia's dominance in LLM processing

MatX, an AI chip startup founded by former Google engineers, has secured $500 million in Series B funding led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness. The company aims to deliver processors 10 times better at training and running large language models than Nvidia's GPUs, with plans to begin shipping in 2027.

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Axelera AI Secures $250 Million to Scale Energy-Efficient Chips for Edge Computing

Dutch chipmaker Axelera AI raised more than $250 million in a funding round led by Innovation Industries with participation from BlackRock and Samsung Catalyst. The company designs power-efficient semiconductors for AI inference at the edge, aiming to reduce reliance on energy-intensive data centers. With over $450 million raised since 2021, Axelera AI plans to launch its next-generation Europa chip before June 2026.

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New Relic unveils Agentic Platform to build and deploy AI agents for observability at scale

New Relic launched its Agentic Platform, a no-code solution enabling enterprises to build and deploy AI agents for data observability. The platform addresses manual toil that costs engineers 33% of their time, while new OpenTelemetry tools aim to simplify enterprise adoption of the open-source framework.

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Red Hat launches AI Enterprise platform to accelerate hybrid cloud AI deployments at scale

Red Hat introduced Red Hat AI Enterprise, a unified AI platform designed to deploy and manage AI models, agents and applications across hybrid cloud environments. Alongside Red Hat AI 3.3 and the co-engineered Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, the new metal-to-agent stack addresses enterprise challenges in scaling AI projects beyond the pilot phase through integrated lifecycle management.

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CrowdStrike reports 89% surge in AI-driven cyberattacks as breakout times collapse to 29 minutes

CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report documents an 89% year-over-year increase in AI-enabled adversary operations, with average breakout time plummeting to just 29 minutes. Nation-state actors from Russia, China, and North Korea are deploying LLM-enabled malware and targeting enterprise AI systems directly, marking a fundamental shift in the cyber threat landscape.

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24 Feb 2026

Thomson Reuters Stock Soars 12% as CoCounsel AI Tool Reaches One Million Users Across 107 Countries

Thomson Reuters shares surged 12% after announcing its AI-powered legal assistant CoCounsel has reached one million users across 107 countries. The milestone marks a shift from experimentation to production and eases investor fears about AI disruption. CEO Steve Hasker emphasized the company's fiduciary-grade AI strategy, built on 175 years of authoritative content and validated by domain experts.

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ChatGPT Health fails to recognize half of medical emergencies in first independent safety test

OpenAI's ChatGPT Health missed over half of medical emergencies in a Nature Medicine study, directing patients to routine appointments instead of emergency rooms. With 40 million daily users seeking health guidance, the AI tool also showed alarming inconsistencies in suicide-crisis safeguards, triggering alerts for low-risk cases while failing to respond when users described specific self-harm plans.

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Anthropic's AI Tool Launches Trigger $68.6 Billion Rout in Indian IT Stocks

Indian IT stocks suffered their worst month in 23 years, with the Nifty IT index plunging 21% in February as Anthropic unveiled multiple AI capabilities. The selloff erased $68.6 billion in market value, led by TCS and Infosys, as investor concerns about AI disruption intensified across the $300 billion IT services industry.

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Anthropic launches enterprise AI agents with plugins for finance, HR, and investment banking

Anthropic unveiled its enterprise agents program on Tuesday, introducing 10 new plugins designed to automate tasks across finance, HR, investment banking, and design. The launch marks a strategic shift toward collaboration with software providers, following a market selloff triggered by earlier AI tool releases. Companies including FactSet, Thomson Reuters, and LSEG are partnering with Anthropic to integrate Claude Cowork into enterprise workflows.

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Steam Next Fest drowns in AI-generated games as players and indie developers demand better filters

Steam Next Fest is facing a crisis as the February 2026 event features 3,455 demos, many containing AI-generated art and flipped assets that aren't properly disclosed. Players are resorting to popularity sorting to avoid the flood of GenAI junk, which undermines the event's purpose of promoting indie games. Even Palworld's publishing lead has publicly stated he won't check out demos with AI art capsules.

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AI Accounting Startup Basis Hits $1.15 Billion Valuation as Firms Deploy Autonomous Agents

Basis, an AI accounting startup founded in 2023, has achieved unicorn status with a $100 million Series B funding round led by Accel and GV. The company's autonomous AI agents automate complex accounting workflows including tax returns and audit procedures, addressing a critical talent shortage as major accounting firms rapidly adopt agent-based workflows.

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Elon Musk's Grok AI secures Pentagon deal for classified systems as Anthropic dispute deepens

The Pentagon has reached an agreement with Elon Musk's xAI to deploy Grok AI in classified defense systems, replacing Anthropic's Claude. The shift follows a dispute over ethical guardrails, with Anthropic refusing to enable mass surveillance and autonomous weapons capabilities. Government insiders express concerns about Grok's susceptibility to data poisoning and manipulation.

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ADT acquires Origin Wireless for $170 million to bring Wi-Fi motion sensing to home security

ADT has acquired Origin Wireless for $170 million to integrate AI sensing technology into its home security systems. The technology uses Wi-Fi signals to detect human presence and activity without cameras, promising to reduce false alarms while raising new privacy questions about corporate surveillance in connected homes.

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