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Top Story ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI video generator has triggered a major legal confrontation with Hollywood, as studios and trade groups accuse the Chinese company of "blatant" copyright infringement just days after its launch. The Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin demanded ByteDance "immediately
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Top Story The India AI Impact Summit 2026 opens today at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, running through February 20 and representing a shift from safety-focused summits to discussions on tangible AI impact, implementation, and governance. The five-day event draws delegations from over 100 countries, including 15-20 heads of government,
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Top Story Chinese Tech Giants Challenge Western AI Dominance with New Model Releases China's biggest tech companies have launched advanced AI models this week that underscore how Chinese firms are keeping pace with U.S. rivals. Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveiled RynnBrain, an AI model designed to
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Top Story Anthropic closed a massive $30 billion Series G funding round on February 12, valuing the AI company at $380 billion post-money. The round was led by GIC and Coatue, with participation from D.E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX. The company is building momentum from
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Top Story ** Perplexity launched Model Council, a multi-model research feature that brings several AI models together for one answer. Instead of verifying queries across multiple models manually, Model Council allows users to run the same query across several models at once. When users select Model Council in the main Perplexity
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Top Story Microsoft Pioneers Superconducting Data Center Infrastructure Microsoft wants to explore high-temperature superconductors to reduce the massive energy demands of its AI data centers. Superconductors could help tame AI's massive appetite for power, offering a leaner way to run data centers. Microsoft is exploring using superconducting power
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Top Story Skild AI, a fast-rising robotics software startup, has secured $1.4 billion in Series C funding to develop its "Skild Brain" platform - a general-purpose AI that helps robots learn and execute tasks across industries. The SoftBank-led investment reflects a major bet on "physical AI&
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Top Story SpaceX Acquires xAI in Historic $1.25 Trillion Merger Elon Musk combined SpaceX and xAI in a deal that values the enlarged entity at $1.25 trillion, creating the largest merger in history. The record-setting transaction values SpaceX at $1 trillion and xAI at $250 billion, according to
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Top Story OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform that helps enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents that can do real work, marking its most aggressive move into the corporate world yet. "What we're fundamentally doing is basically transitioning agents into true AI co-workers," said Barret
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Top Story OpenAI announced its new enterprise platform called Frontier on Thursday, designed to help companies build, deploy and manage AI agents across their organizations. The platform acts as an intelligence layer that connects disparate systems and data within enterprises, supporting both OpenAI-built agents and third-party tools. CFO Sarah Friar
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Top Story OpenAI launched Frontier, a new enterprise platform designed to help companies build, deploy, and manage AI agents, marking the company's most aggressive push into corporate markets. The platform connects enterprise systems - data warehouses, CRM tools, and internal apps - so AI agents can work with
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Top Story Google Parent Doubles Down on AI with Record $180 Billion Infrastructure Bet Alphabet announced its 2026 capital expenditures would land in a range of $175 billion-$185 billion, roughly double the $91.4 billion the company invested in 2025. Analysts tracked by Bloomberg expected Alphabet, Google's