WordPress’s new AI assistant will let users edit their sites with prompts
Stevie Bonifield / theverge - Starting on Tuesday, WordPress users can edit their websites using the new AI assistant built into the platform's site editor and media library, TechCrunch reports. The AI has a sidebar in the WordPress site editor where users can ask it to edit and trans…
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Render Raises $100 Million to Build Cloud Tech for AI Agents
PYMNTS / pymnts - Cloud technology company Render has raised $100 million in new funding. The firm’s Series C extension, announced Tuesday (Feb. 17), values Render at $1.5 billion and will help it build cloud runtime for artificial intelligence (AI) agents and applications…
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Anthropic and Infosys team up to build AI agents for regulated industries
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Anthropic and Indian IT giant Infosys are jointly developing AI agents for regulated industries.The article Anthropic and Infosys team up to build AI agents for regulated industries appeared first on The Decoder.
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Mistral AI secures its first acquisition with Koyeb
Erik van Klinken / techzine - French AI company Mistral AI announced its first acquisition today. The company will purchase serverless cloud provider Koyeb, also from France, aiming to enhance its compute infrastructure and support its growing portfolio of AI services. Mistral AI has …
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Alibaba launches Qwen 3.5 AI model amid intensifying China chatbot race
Anwesha Pattanaik / techmonitor - Alibaba introduced its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Qwen 3.5, to boost its presence in China's chatbot market.
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London-based SurrealDB raises additional €19 million to scale multi-model database for AI applications
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - SurrealDB, a UK company developing a multi-model, AI-native database, has secured an additional €19 million ($23 million) in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total investment to-date (including Seed) to €37 million ($44 million). Chalfen Ventures …
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Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026
msmash / slashdot - Western Digital's entire hard drive manufacturing capacity for calendar year 2026 is now fully spoken for, CEO Irving Tan disclosed during the company's second-quarter earnings call, a stark sign of how aggressively hyperscalers are locking down storage s…
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AWS is down: February 16 outage explained
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing a sudden spike in technical issues, causing widespread disruptions across various digital platforms on February 16, 2026. According to Downdetector data, reports began to climb sharply at 4.46 PM, with nearly 100 …
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Alibaba unveils Qwen-3.5, sharpening global race to spread AI models
scmp - Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its next-generation open artificial intelligence model, Qwen-3.5, in a move set to have major implications for the global AI race between China and the US.The much-anticipated release, timed on the eve of the Lunar New Year, cap…
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AI Cloud Infra Startup Neysa To Raise $1.2 Bn In Blackstone-Led Round
Anjali Jain / inc42 - AI cloud infrastructure startup Neysa has entered into a definitive agreement with US-based Blackstone for a $600 Mn (about ₹5,443…
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Semiconductor Startup C2i Raises $15 Mn From Peak XV, Others
Anne Florentyna / inc42 - Semiconductor startup C2i Semiconductors has raised $15 Mn (around ₹136 Cr) in its Series A funding round led by Peak…
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Cisco builds its own VMware hypervisor alternative, release imminent
Erik van Klinken / techzine - Cisco is introducing a hypervisor for running its own applications. NFVIS-for-UC is intended to offer an alternative for organizations that are virtualizing their telephone systems but do not want to purchase the expensive VMware Cloud Foundation. For yea…
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First PCIe 6.0 SSD enters mass production with 28GB/s speeds, 5.5 million IOPS, and liquid cooling — Micron 9650 Series SSDs support air and liquid cooling
tomshardware - Micron is the first SSD maker to introduce the world's first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 datacenter SSD. The Micron 9650 series is capable of speeds of up to 28 GB/s.
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simmetry.ai expands AI training platform following €330K funding
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - simmetry.ai, asynthetic data company working across agriculture, food and industrial sectors,has secured €330,000 from NBank, the investment and development bank of theGerman state of Lower Saxony. Th...
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MiniMax Unveils M2.5: $1/HR “Full‑Stack AI Employee” Rivals Claude Opus 4.6
pandaily - MiniMax open‑sourced M2.5, a 10B‑activated‑parameter coding model scoring 80.2% on SWE‑Bench Verified, with 100 TPS inference at $1/hr — driving 10K+ Agents built in 24 hours .
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OpenAI has yet another new coding model and this time it's really fast
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is a smaller coding model that runs on Cerebras chips and pushes over 1,000 tokens per second. It's the company's first model built specifically for real-time programming.The article OpenAI has yet another new coding model…
- Hardware partnership — Cerebras deployment and Nvidia sidestep (6)
- OTHER — legal and regulatory concerns (1)
- Performance benchmarks — extreme throughput demos (1)
- Product launch — Codex‑Spark for real‑time coding (4)
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Hardware partnership — Cerebras deployment and Nvidia sidestep
OTHER — legal and regulatory concerns
Performance benchmarks — extreme throughput demos
Product launch — Codex‑Spark for real‑time coding
All Other Stories
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Anthropic raises $30 billion, now valued at $380 billion
Jon Keegan / sherwood - The company announced that it has a $14 billion annual revenue run-rate, and business subscriptions to Claude Code have quadrupled since the start of the year.
- Heat: rivals, safety exits and skepticism flare after fundraising (5)
- Inside: Claude Code sales surge, $14B annualized revenue run-rate (5)
- Local impact: Anthropic vows to cover datacenter electricity costs (2)
- On the ground: massive $30B Series G reshapes AI valuations (7)
Heat: rivals, safety exits and skepticism flare after fundraising
Inside: Claude Code sales surge, $14B annualized revenue run-rate
Local impact: Anthropic vows to cover datacenter electricity costs
On the ground: massive $30B Series G reshapes AI valuations
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Amazon's Fire TV Sticks just gained a powerful new streaming app
Craig Donaldson / pocket-lint - Nvidia GeForce Now has launched on the Fire TV Stick 4K Plus and 4K Max.
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Manufact raises $6.3M to help developers connect AI agents with Model Context Protocol
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Manufact Inc., formerly mcp-use, an infrastructure platform developing the next generation of artificial intelligence agents built on Model Context Protocol, today announced it raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by Peak XV. Liquid 2 Ventures, Ritual …
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(LEAD) Samsung Electronics starts world's first commercial shipment of HBM4
Kang Yoon-seung / co - SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it has begun th...
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