Funding AI Firms Captured 61% of Global Venture Capital in 2025—More Than Double Since 2022 February 18, 2026 Michelle Artificial intelligence firms accounted for $258.7 billion of the $427.1 billion in global venture capital investment last year, according to new OECD analysis.
Research New J-PAL research and policy initiative to test and scale AI innovati February 18, 2026 Michelle Project AI Evidence will connect governments, tech companies, and nonprofits with world-class economists at MIT and across J-PAL's global network to evaluate and improve AI solutio...
Daily Brief Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app February 18, 2026 Michelle Users will be able to use text, images, and videos as a reference to generate music....
Daily Brief World Labs lands $1B, with $200M from Autodesk, to bring world models February 18, 2026 Michelle The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases....
Funding Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and February 18, 2026 Michelle Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives...
Funding What’s next for Chinese open-source AI February 18, 2026 Michelle MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. The pa...
Research AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse. February 18, 2026 Michelle Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that. It was a file uploaded to VirusTotal, a site cybersecurity...
Daily Brief Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT February 18, 2026 Michelle Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration....
Daily Brief The February AI Model Wars: OpenAI, Anthropic, and China’s Surprise Op February 18, 2026 Michelle February 7, 2026 marked a pivotal moment in AI. OpenAI and Anthropic released major updates within hours of each other, while Chinese startup Zhipu seized the open-source crown. Here's what…