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Thursday, February 19, 2026

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White House resumes talks with banks and crypto groups on stablecoin reward framework (9)

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U.S. developing 'freedom.gov' portal to let users access blocked content abroad (6)

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Apple TV inks EverPass deal to show live F1, MLS and MLB in bars and restaurants (10) hot

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Nvidia in talks to invest up to $30B in OpenAI, replacing prior $100B framework (14) hot

Nvidia pivots: $30B equity replaces $100B infrastructure plan
OpenAI mega-round nears $100B, valuation targets near $850B
Chip startup funding: model-specific AI chips raise $169M

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AI rivals’ public snub at summit sparks viral ridicule and debate (7)

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Meta pivots Horizon Worlds from VR to mobile-first to chase scale (6)

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NASA labels Starliner mission a “Type A” mishap, blames culture and leadership lapses (9)

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Ring faces backlash over ‘Search Party’ and evasive responses to privacy concerns (11) hot

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Meta to retire Messenger’s standalone website in April (4)

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Chrome introduces split-view PDF annotations and direct Drive saving (5)

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PlayStation shutters Bluepoint Games, studio behind acclaimed remakes (8)

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New York abandons robotaxi expansion plan, a blow to Waymo and others (5)

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Researchers find AI‑generated passwords crackable despite seeming complexity (4)

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Figma posts strong quarter as execs downplay AI takeover of design (4)

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Etsy sells Depop to eBay as it leans into AI and mobile growth (4)

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OpenClaw controversy: firms restrict use while others speed performance on Nvidia GPUs (23) hot

Companies lock down OpenClaw amid security, privacy, and insider fears
NVIDIA enables faster local OpenClaw runs on RTX and DGX
Startups clone OpenClaw, selling agentic automation to businesses
Researchers and NIST push standards as agentic AI runs wild

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Windows 11 adds a taskbar speed test that links to Ookla via Bing (5)

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Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro with a major reasoning upgrade (25) hot

On site: Gemini 3.1 Pro doubles reasoning, tops benchmarks
Reporter: Gemini spreads across apps, TV, API, enterprise
Live: Gemini pressures rivals, boosts Google stock, rattles Apple
Other: previews, hands-on reports, and odd hardware tie-ins

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Klarna posts first $1B revenue quarter as stock tumbles on guidance worries (4)

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Accenture ties promotions to AI tool usage, pressuring employees to adopt broken tools (4)

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Zuckerberg testifies in youth‑harm trial, defends Instagram design choices (8)

In Detail Full day, Thursday, February 19, 2026, Timezone: America/Chicago

Inside the meeting: White House favors some stablecoin rewards, tells banks it's time to move

Jesse Hamilton / coindesk - Sources familiar with the talks on stablecoin yields say the White House urged bankers to get on board with a deal that lets the market structure bill advance.

#fintech #crypto #techpolicy #banking #government #finance #treasury #payments #regulation #crypto

Banks, Crypto Firms Resume CLARITY Act Talks as White House Backs Select Stablecoin Yields - Eudaimonia and Co

14 days / eand

Custodia CEO Says Trump Family Crypto Ties Are Part of Clarity Act Problem - Yahoo Finance

15 days / yahoo

Risk-Off Capital Shifts Toward Tokenized Assets as DeFi Pulls Back - Decrypt

15 days / decrypt

Risk-Off Capital Shifts Toward Tokenized Assets as DeFi Pulls Back

15 days / decrypt / Akash Girimath

Stablecoin Yield Talks Resume at Third White House Meeting - CoinMarketCap

15 days / coinmarketcap

Anchorage Digital Links Global Banks to Stablecoin Rails

15 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

White House, Banks and Crypto Groups Resume Talks on Stablecoin Rewards

15 days / decrypt / Sebastian Sinclair

Inside the meeting: White House favors some stablecoin rewards, tells banks it's time to move

15 days / coindesk / Jesse Hamilton

‘More to come,’ crypto leaders say after third White House stablecoin meeting

15 days / theblock / Sarah Wynn

US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere

BeauHD / slashdot - The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restricted under local laws, "including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda," reports Reuters. Washington vie…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #government #internet #us #globalism #dos #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

14 days / theregister / Carly Page

US website 'freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech and other blocked content

14 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Metadata, cloud sovereignty’s weak spot

14 days / techzine / Erik van Klinken

US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content | Internet

15 days / reddit / /u/YesNo_Maybe_

A new US government site could help users worldwide access blocked content

15 days / techspot

Apple TV Brings Live F1, MLS, and MLB to Sports Bars Nationwide in EverPass Deal

iclarified - Apple is expanding the reach of its live sports broadcasts through a new distribution agreement with EverPass Media. The deal brings Apple TV's live sports portfolio to commercial venues across the United States, giving bars, restaurants, hotels, and gyms…

#apple #sports #business #distributions #food #soccer #media #mlb #tv #broadcasting

Streaming stories you missed this week; DIRECTV strikes F1 deal with Apple, DAZN signs new boxing agreement, more - The Streamable

14 days / thestreamable

Apple TV secures F1 rights and partners with IMAX for select races

14 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Apple TV partners with EverPass Media to bring sports lineup to bars, hotels - The Economic Times

15 days / indiatimes

Apple TV Brings Live F1, MLS, and MLB to Sports Bars Nationwide in EverPass Deal

15 days / iclarified

DirecTV adds Apple TV’s Formula 1

15 days / advanced-television / Editor

Apple TV partners with EverPass Media to bring sports lineup to bars, hotels - The Star

15 days / com

Apple Inks Deal to Bring Apple TV Sports Content to Bars and Restaurants - MacTrast

15 days / mactrast

Apple TV F1, MLS, MLB streaming reach expands to bars & restaurants

15 days / appleinsider

Apple TV Sports Content Including F1, MLS, and Friday Night Baseball Coming to Bars and Restaurants

15 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

IMAX, Apple TV to broadcast F1 live on U.S. big screens under new deal - Sports Business Journal

15 days / sportsbusinessjournal

Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $30 billion in OpenAI, source says

cnbc - The investment is separate from the $100 billion infrastructure agreement that OpenAI and Nvidia announced in September.

#ai #vc #cloud #semiconductors #chips #nvidia #openai #genai #business #datacenter

Chip startup funding: model-specific AI chips raise $169M (1)
Nvidia pivots: $30B equity replaces $100B infrastructure plan (11)
OpenAI mega-round nears $100B, valuation targets near $850B (2)

Chip startup funding: model-specific AI chips raise $169M

Taalas raises $169M in funding to develop model-specific AI chips

15 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Nvidia pivots: $30B equity replaces $100B infrastructure plan

Nvidia (NVDA) Stock Rises as Nvidia Eyes $30 Billion OpenAI Investment

14 days / parameter / Trader Edge

NVIDIA’s Revised Investment in OpenAI Expected to Be More Than ‘Three Times Lower’ Than What the Industry Originally Believed

14 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Nvidia nears $30 billion investment in OpenAI’s funding round, the FT reports

14 days / sherwood / Luke Kawa

OpenAI’s €860B round nears: Nvidia leads with $30B as chip recycling loop tightens

14 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Nvidia reportedly set to invest $30 billion in OpenAI

14 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment

14 days / ycombinator

Nvidia and OpenAI Rewrite a $100B Idea Into a $30B Bet

14 days / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Nvidia nears deal for scaled-down investment in OpenAI: Report

14 days / techxplore

Nvidia nears $30 billion investment in OpenAI

14 days / techzine / Mels Dees

Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $30 billion in OpenAI, source says

15 days / cnbc

Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100bn deal in favour of $30bn investment

15 days / ft

OpenAI mega-round nears $100B, valuation targets near $850B

OpenAI Nears $100 Billion Funding Round as Value Nears $850 Billion: Report

15 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

OpenAI Funding Round Nears Record $100B Raise as Valuation Targets $850B

15 days / reddit / /u/andix3

AI rivals’ awkward snub steals summit spotlight

news.com.au - Rival AI bosses have sparked viral ridicule after appearing to snub each other during a major moment for the technology.

#ai #anthropic #genai #business #chatgpt #culture #altman #media #technology

“I didn’t know what was happening”: Sam Altman reacts to awkward moment at India AI summit

14 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

The handshake refusal heard around the AI world

14 days / therundown / Zach Mink

Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology

15 days / reddit / /u/Conscious-Quarter423

AI rivals’ awkward snub steals summit spotlight

15 days / news.com.au

AI rivals’ awkward snub steals summit spotlight

15 days / news.com.au

Talked to Politico about Sam Altman and Dario Amodei being the same guy https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2026/02/19/what-altman-and-amodeis-awkward-moment-says-about-ai-00789435

15 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

What Altman and Amodei’s awkward moment says about AI

15 days / politico / By Aaron Mak

Meta's metaverse is going mobile-first

Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - Meta is formally sectioning off Horizon Worlds, the closest thing it has to a metaverse, from its Quest VR platform, according to a new blog post from Samantha Ryan, Meta's VP of Content, Reality Labs. While the decision runs counter to Meta's original pl…

#hardware #mobiletech #vr #mobile #meta #apps #spatialcomputing

Meta formally separates Horizon Worlds from Quest VR platform

14 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Meta, after laying off ~10 percent of Reality Labs, closing three VR studios, and stopping new content for VR fitness app Supernatural, is changing Horizon Worlds, which debuted in VR, to be "almost exclusively mobile." But it is still making VR

15 days / bsky / @jaypeters.net / jaypeters.net

Metaverse just went mobile first, leaving VR behind

15 days / digitaltrends

Meta's metaverse is going mobile-first

15 days / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Meta says VR is still the future, but Worlds is going mobile

15 days / betanews / Wayne Williams

Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR

15 days / theverge / Jay Peters

NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as "Type A" mishap, says agency made mistakes

Eric Berger / arstechnica - "The most troubling failure revealed by this investigation is not hardware."

#techpolicy #nasa #astronauts #government #aviation #aerospace #culture #engineering #safety #regulation

NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

NASA’s report into troubled Starliner flight makes for uncomfortable reading

15 days / digitaltrends

Nasa boss says Boeing Starliner failure one of worst in its history

15 days / bbc

NASA chief blasts Boeing, space agency for failed Starliner astronaut mission

15 days / npr / Brendan Byrne

Image post - please click to view at origin

15 days / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

New NASA Chief Blames Prior Leadership for Botched Starliner Mission

15 days / gizmodo / Ellyn Lapointe

NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as "Type A" mishap, says agency made mistakes

15 days / reddit / /u/xpda

NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as "Type A" mishap, says agency made mistakes

15 days / arstechnica / Eric Berger

NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle

15 days / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / theverge - Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has been on an "explanation tour," as The New York Times puts it, following the fallout from its Super Bowl ad and the introduction of its Search Party feature. In an interview with The Times this week, Siminoff explained that …

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #amazon #camera #security #privacy #media #superbowl #ring #advertising

Your Ring doorbell’s next job might not be finding lost pets

14 days / digitaltrends

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware. www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Want to make a quick $10K? Just hack a Ring camera www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @boone.bsky.social / boone.bsky.social

“There’s now a group offering to dole out a $10,000 bounty to wrest back control of the user data Ring controls.” Great piece from @boone.bsky.social for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @thiccreese.bsky.social / thiccreese.bsky.social

"A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon" www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @socialmedialab.ca / socialmedialab.ca

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon

15 days / wired / Boone Ashworth

Talk about bringing back hackathons! Watch someone quit working at Amazon, solve it using insider info and then take a job at Microsoft, lol

15 days / bsky / @jacky.wtf / jacky.wtf

A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud

15 days / theverge / Emma Roth

After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions

15 days / theverge / Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Ring could be planning to expand Search Party feature beyond dogs

15 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

A leaked internal email shows Ring's plan targets more than pets

15 days / appleinsider

Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Meta is shutting down the standalone Messenger website, according to a company help page. The website will disappear in April, though web users will still be able to send and receive messages within Facebook."After messenger.com goes away, you will be aut…

#meta #business #internet #apps #ux #technology #facebook #instantmessaging

Messenger web users will be redirected to Facebook.com for chats

14 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists

15 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Meta is killing off the Messenger web site

15 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Meta is shutting down Messenger’s standalone website

15 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Chrome just fixed some of its biggest daily annoyances

digitaltrends - Chrome adds split view, PDF annotations, and Google Drive saving to help you work faster directly in the browser. The post Chrome just fixed some of its biggest daily annoyances appeared first on Digital Trends.

#cloud #software #google #browsers #apps #ux #technology #productivity #updates #office

Google integrates PDF signing and annotations directly into Chrome

14 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Google Chrome Gets Built-In Split View and PDF Annotations

15 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

Chrome just fixed some of its biggest daily annoyances

15 days / digitaltrends

As browser wars heat up, Chrome adds new productivity features

15 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Google Chrome Adds Split View Mode and New PDF Annotation Capabilities

15 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Sony Kills Bluepoint Games: Why the Demon’s Souls Studio is Closing

Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Sony has officially closed Bluepoint Games, the Austin-based studio renowned as the industry’s premier specialist for high-end remakes. The move marks a sudden end for the developer, which Sony only officially acquired in 2021 after years of successful pa…

#gaming #entertainment #playstation #business #jobs #layoffs #media #sony #videogames #intellectualproperty

Sony Closes Bluepoint Games Following Cancelled Multiplayer God of War Game

15 days / techpowerup

all of these suck, but like, what are we doing here? this studio should have been an easy bridge to bring older games to current hardware, and they were squandered. www.theverge.com/games/881578...

15 days / bsky / @aegies.bsky.social / aegies.bsky.social

Wow, great studio management, Sony. I hope everyone from Bluepoint Games are able to quickly land on their feet.

15 days / bsky / @silverhuskey.bsky.social / silverhuskey.bsky.social

Sony Kills Bluepoint Games: Why the Demon’s Souls Studio is Closing

15 days / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Sony is shutting down the studio behind the Demon's Souls remake

15 days / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

PlayStation shuts down Bluepoint Games, the studio behind Demon's Souls remake

15 days / tbreak / Mufaddal Fakhruddin

PlayStation Is Shutting Down Demon’s Souls Remake Developers, Bluepoint Games

15 days / wccftech / David Carcasole

Sony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes

15 days / theverge / Jay Peters

New York drops plan to legalize robotaxis in setback for Waymo

Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) dropped her proposal to allow robotaxi companies to launch commercially in cities other than New York City, citing a lack of support among state legislators, Bloomberg reports today. The move is a blow to Waymo and other…

#robotics #automation #techpolicy #selfdriving #robotaxis #politics #government #alphabet #unions #automotive

New York Drops Plan To Legalize Robotaxis Outside NYC

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

New York reverses on plans to allow robottaxis in major blow to Waymo

15 days / siliconangle / James Farrell

New York Gov. Hochul drops robotaxi service proposal for outside NYC in blow to Waymo

15 days / cnbc

New York drops plan to legalize robotaxis in setback for Waymo

15 days / theverge / Andrew J. Hawkins

New York hits the brakes on robotaxi expansion plan

15 days / techcrunch / Kirsten Korosec

LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find

msmash / slashdot - AI security firm Irregular has found that passwords generated by major large language models -- Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini -- appear complex but follow predictable patterns that make them crackable in hours, even on decades-old hardware. When researchers …

#ai #cybersecurity #ml #dataprivacy #infosec #genai #chatgpt #cybercrime #hack #encryption

AI vibe-generates the same ‘random’ passwords over and over

15 days / pivot-to-ai / David Gerard

LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find

15 days / slashdot / msmash

AI-generated passwords are surprisingly easy to crack, researchers find

15 days / techspot

AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack

15 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Figma shares climb on earnings beat, but analysts note that AI risk remains

cnbc - Figma's revenue grew 40% year over year to $303.8 million during the period.

#ai #saas #aiethics #genai #stockmarket #earnings #business #ux #assistant #figma

Creative Freedom OR Creative Homogenization? #Pomelli

15 days / reddit / /u/mixmax-972

Figma stock is on the rise again. The software firm just gave a refreshingly human response to a question about AI

15 days / fastcompany / Sarah Fielding

Figma shares climb on earnings beat, but analysts note that AI risk remains

15 days / cnbc

Figma (FIG) Stock Surges After Q4 Beat and Strong 2026 Outlook

15 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Etsy Stock Jumps 9% as Depop Sale to eBay Overshadows Mixed Q4 Results

Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Etsy beat Q4 EPS estimates with $0.92 vs. $0.84 expected, but revenue of $882M and GMS of $3.59B both missed Etsy agreed to sell Depop to eBay for $1.2 billion in cash Stock jumped over 9% on the news, reaching around $48.23 Active sellers rose 7.7% …

#ai #ecommerce #digitaltransformation #mobile #genai #stockmarket #business #apps #acquisitions

eBay to Acquire Depop from Etsy

14 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

Etsy Sells Depop, Pushes AI and Mobile to Restart Growth

15 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Etsy Stock Jumps 9% as Depop Sale to eBay Overshadows Mixed Q4 Results

15 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Etsy stock pops on Depop deal despite disappointing revenue, merchandise sales

15 days / cnbc

OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

Paresh Dave, wired.com / arstechnica - The viral agentic AI tool is known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredictable.

#ai #startups #cybersecurity #techpolicy #nvidia #aiethics #genai #business #performance #safety #openclaw

Companies lock down OpenClaw amid security, privacy, and insider fears (7)
NVIDIA enables faster local OpenClaw runs on RTX and DGX (1)
Researchers and NIST push standards as agentic AI runs wild (7)
Startups clone OpenClaw, selling agentic automation to businesses (7)
All Other Stories

Companies lock down OpenClaw amid security, privacy, and insider fears

OpenClaw and the privacy problem of agentic AI

14 days / ft

Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot

15 days / ft

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

15 days / ycombinator

Theft of Trade Secrets Is on the Rise—and AI Is Making It Worse

15 days / wsj / Amrith Ramkumar

OpenClaw Security Fears Lead Meta, Other AI Firms To Restrict Its Use

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster

15 days / theverge / Robert Hart

OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

15 days / arstechnica / Paresh Dave, wired.com

Microsoft's new Windows 11 speed test is just a link to Ookla's Speedtest via Bing — button housed in the taskbar in latest Insider Preview build

tomshardware - Amidst endless complaints over the instability and bloating nature of Windows 11, Microsoft's latest insider builds add new emojis and a taskbar feature for its beta testers. Now, you can check your internet speed by right-clicking the network icon or ope…

#windows #microsoft #browsers #broadband #internet #apps #ux #updates #operatingsystems #advertising

Microsoft tests new Windows AI in the taskbar and File Explorer

15 days / techspot

Microsoft is splitting the Windows 11 Canary channel in two

15 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Microsoft's new Windows 11 speed test is just a link to Ookla's Speedtest via Bing — button housed in the taskbar in latest Insider Preview build

15 days / tomshardware

Windows 11 keeps adding small conveniences, including speed tests

15 days / techspot

Windows 11 is adding a speed test, you can run it from the taskbar

15 days / digitaltrends

Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock: Google Unveils Gemini 3.1 Pro With Double the Reasoning Power

Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Google launched Gemini 3.1 Pro, an upgrade to its flagship AI model focused on complex reasoning tasks. The model scored 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, more than double the score of Gemini 3 Pro. Gemini 3.1 Pro is available across Google AI Studio…

#ai #ml #google #genai #alphabet #apps #technology #api #developertools #gemini

Live: Gemini pressures rivals, boosts Google stock, rattles Apple (5)
On site: Gemini 3.1 Pro doubles reasoning, tops benchmarks (11)
Other: previews, hands-on reports, and odd hardware tie-ins (3)
Reporter: Gemini spreads across apps, TV, API, enterprise (5)
All Other Stories

Live: Gemini pressures rivals, boosts Google stock, rattles Apple

Alphabet (GOOG) Stock: Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Pro as Most Powerful AI Model Yet

15 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Google germinates Gemini 3.1 Pro in ongoing AI model race

15 days / theregister / Thomas Claburn

4 highlights from Google CEO Sundar Pichais talk at the AI Impact Summit 2026 in India

15 days / mashable

Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock: Google Unveils Gemini 3.1 Pro With Double the Reasoning Power

15 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Pro With Major Reasoning Upgrade Ahead of Apple's Siri Overhaul

15 days / iclarified

On site: Gemini 3.1 Pro doubles reasoning, tops benchmarks

Google’s new Gemini Pro model has record benchmark scores—again

15 days / techcrunch / Lucas Ropek

Google Announces Gemini 3.1 Pro For 'Complex Problem-Solving'

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Google introduces Gemini 3.1 Pro model for advanced reasoning tasks

15 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Gemini 3.1 Pro just got a major AI intelligence boost

15 days / digitaltrends

Google Unveils Gemini 3.1 Pro, Touting a Leap in ‘Complex Problem-Solving’

15 days / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Google Doubled Gemini's Reasoning in Three Months. The Score Isn't the Story.

15 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro: Benchmark performance, how to try it

15 days / mashable

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving

15 days / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with improved reasoning capabilities

15 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Pro

15 days / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with SOTA performance

15 days / testingcatalog / Erin

Other: previews, hands-on reports, and odd hardware tie-ins

AI Headphones Now Have Eyes

15 days / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Gemini 3.1 Pro

15 days / ycombinator

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

15 days / ycombinator

Reporter: Gemini spreads across apps, TV, API, enterprise

Google Rolls Out Latest AI Model, Gemini 3.1 Pro

15 days / cnet / Blake Stimac

Google Rolls Out Gemini 3.1 Pro Across Apps, Vertex, and CLI

15 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Gemini 3.1 Pro

15 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

Google Debuts Gemini 3.1 Pro for iPhone, Web

15 days / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

YouTube is bringing the Gemini-powered 'Ask' button to TVs

15 days / engadget / Will Shanklin

All Other Stories

Gemini 3.1 Pro promises a Google LLM capable of handling more complex forms of work.

15 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Klarna Hits First $1 Billion Revenue Quarter as Banking Users Double

PYMNTS / pymnts - Klarna said in a fourth-quarter earnings report that it doubled its number of banking customers over the past year. During the fourth quarter, Klarna’s number of banking customers grew 101% year over year to reach 15.8 million, the company said in a Thurs…

#fintech #ecommerce #banking #stockmarket #earnings #business #bnpl #economy

Klarna Converts Checkout Traffic Into $13 Billion in Deposits

15 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Klarna Hits First $1 Billion Revenue Quarter as Banking Users Double

15 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Klarna (KLAR) Stock Falls 22% Despite First Billion-Dollar Revenue Quarter

15 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Klarna sinks after Q1 guidance for revenue and gross merchandise value comes in short of estimates

15 days / sherwood / Luke Kawa

Accenture Links Staff Promotions To Use of AI Tools

msmash / slashdot - Accenture has reportedly started tracking staff use of its AI tools and will take this into consideration when deciding on top promotions, as the consulting company tries to increase uptake of the technology by its workforce. From a report: The company to…

#ai #automation #enterprise #aiethics #genai #business #jobs #performance #technology #productivity

Accenture Is Tracking Whether Employees Use AI—And Promotions Are on the Line

15 days / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

Accenture Links Staff Promotions To Use of AI Tools

15 days / slashdot / msmash

Accenture tells senior staff to use AI tools or risk losing out on leadership promotions

15 days / cnbc

Accenture ties promotions to AI tool usage while some employees call the tools "broken slop generators"

15 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Mark Zuckerberg defends Instagram’s beauty filters and age checks in court

Shannon Carroll / qz - In a bellwether youth-harm trial, the Meta CEO defended Instagram’s design choices as trade-offs, not tactics built to keep teens hooked

#techpolicy #meta #judiciary #zuckerberg #mentalhealth #law #contentmoderation #instagram #litigation #safety

The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it

15 days / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled On Usage Goals and Underage Users At California Trial

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Zuckerberg's Trial Testimony Pushes Back on Social Media Addiction Claims

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