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InScope nabs $14.5M to solve the pain of financial reporting

Marina Temkin / techcrunch - The startup, founded by accountants who worked at Flexport, Miro, Hopin and Thrive Global, automates the difficulties of prepping financial statements.

#ai #startups #vc #automation #fintech #saas #enterprise #genai #business #finance

AI Financial Reporting Platform Inscope Raises $14.5 Million

14 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Inscope Raises $14.5M Series A To Transform Accounting Workflows

14 days / ventureburn / Clinton

InScope nabs $14.5M to solve the pain of financial reporting

14 days / techcrunch / Marina Temkin

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 7:20 pm / permalink 19491 / 3 stories in 14 days


Major Shake-Up at Xbox: Phil Spencer Reitres, Sarah Bond Resigns, and Asha Sharma to Become the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming

David Carcasole / wccftech - A new report from IGN reveals that Microsoft's gaming division and Xbox are going through a major leadership shake-up. Phil Spencer will retire this coming Monday, February 23, 2026, after first joining Microsoft all the way back in 1988 as an intern. He'…


Content shake-up, Matt Booty promoted; consoles prioritized

Xbox head Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

14 days / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Microsoft makes dramatic shake-up to its gaming division as gaming CEO Phil Spencer and Xbox President Sarah Bond depart

14 days / sherwood / Max Knoblauch

Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer retires, replaced by ex-Instacart exec Asha Sharma

14 days / cnbc

Sarah Bond is leaving Xbox

14 days / theverge / Jay Peters


Longtime Xbox leaders step down; successor announced

End of an Era: Phil Spencer Leaves Microsoft as Xbox Gets New CEO

13 days / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Microsoft replaces Xbox heads Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond with AI exec

13 days / techspot

Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft as Xbox chief as new head draws future strategy

13 days / digitaltrends

Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer steps down after 38 years with company

14 days / arstechnica / Kyle Orland

Microsoft’s Head of Gaming to Retire After 38 Years at Company

14 days / wsj / Sebastian Herrera

Phil Spencer Retiring After 38 Years At Microsoft

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Xbox Boss Phil Spencer is Leaving Microsoft After Nearly 40 Years

14 days / techpowerup

Major Shake-Up at Xbox: Phil Spencer Reitres, Sarah Bond Resigns, and Asha Sharma to Become the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming

14 days / wccftech / David Carcasole

Huge shakeup at Xbox as CEO and president both leave

14 days / mashable

Xbox shakeup: Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are leaving Microsoft

14 days / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond Are Leaving Xbox

14 days / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Read Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo about leaving Microsoft

14 days / theverge / Tom Warren

Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

14 days / theverge / Tom Warren


New CEO Asha Sharma’s AI stance and vision for Xbox

Microsoft’s new gaming chief makes bold promises about AI in gaming

13 days / digitaltrends

Microsoft’s new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with ‘endless AI slop’

13 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Microsoft Gaming's New CEO Wants To Embrace AI Without "Soulless AI Slop"

14 days / techpowerup

Phil Spencer steps down from Xbox after 12 years, AI exec Asha Sharma takes over

14 days / tbreak / Mufaddal Fakhruddin

Asha Sharma named EVP and CEO, Microsoft Gaming

14 days / reddit / /u/AgnosticScholar

Xbox's New Boss Promises Not To Flood It With 'Soulless AI Slop'

14 days / reddit / /u/tylerthe-theatre

Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft / Xbox president Sarah Bond is also leaving Microsoft.

14 days / reddit / /u/fatso486

Read Microsoft gaming CEO Asha Sharma’s first memo on the future of Xbox

14 days / theverge / Sean Hollister

Phil Spencer Retiring, Sarah Bond Out, Matt Booty Promoted as Microsoft AI Exec Asha Sharma Named New Xbox Boss – EXCLUSIVE

14 days / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136


OTHER: layoffs, memos, and community reaction

Microsoft says today’s Xbox shakeup doesn’t mean game studio layoffs

14 days / theverge / Sean Hollister


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14 days / bsky / @techpowerup.com / techpowerup.com

Microsoft Gaming isn’t growing, even after the $69 billion Activision deal Huge leadership shakeup in the House of Xbox to turn things around www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/m...

14 days / bsky / @stevekovach.bsky.social / stevekovach.bsky.social

Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond stepping away from #Xbox marks a very meaningful inflection point in the history of #Microsoft and the gaming industry overall. Seismic leadership transitions like this signal paradigm shifts in strategic direction. www.theve

14 days / bsky / @fredwhite.bsky.social / fredwhite.bsky.social

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 4:20 pm / permalink 19479 / 30 stories in 14 days


AMC and Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre are pulling this AI-generated film from theaters after social media outcry over ‘hot garbage’

Jude Cramer / fastcompany - When word started circling that AMC Theaters was screening an AI-generated short film, the internet’s cinephiles took it personally.On Wednesday, some social media users reported that the short was playing in the pre-show before trailers at select AMC loc…

#ai #movies #entertainment #aiethics #genai #culture #media #films #contentmoderation #advertising

AI: The Best Supporting Actor You’ll Never See

13 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

AMC and Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre are pulling this AI-generated film from theaters after social media outcry over ‘hot garbage’

14 days / fastcompany / Jude Cramer

AMC Theatres Will Refuse To Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar

14 days / slashdot / msmash

AMC Theatres Blocks AI Short Film From Screening in Pre-Show Advertising

14 days / decrypt / Vismaya V

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 2:20 pm / permalink 19477 / 4 stories in 14 days


AI Safety Meets the War Machine

Steven Levy / wired - Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.


DC: Congress, PACs battle over AI rules and influence

Anthropic-funded group backs candidate attacked by rival AI super PAC

14 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

Congress—Not the Pentagon or Anthropic—Should Set Military AI Rules - Lawfare

14 days / lawfaremedia


On the ground: Anthropic resists military use, Pentagon pushback

AI Safety Meets the War Machine

14 days / wired / Steven Levy

Pentagon vs. Anthropic: The AI Ethics Showdown Shaping Future Military Tech - OpenTools

14 days / opentools

Anthropic is fighting with a big client, and it’s actually good for its brand

14 days / fastcompany / Rob Walker

The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express

14 days / nytimes / Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Vjeran Pavic, Katie McMurran, Dan Powell, Mar

Pentagon AI Integration and Anthropic: Ethics, Strategy, and the Future of Defence Technology Partnerships - Bloomsbury Intelligence and Security Institute (BISI)

14 days / bisi

Maduro raid questions trigger Pentagon review of top AI firm as potential 'supply chain risk' - MSN

14 days / msn

Pentagon CTO urges Anthropic to ‘cross the Rubicon’ on military AI use cases amid ethics dispute - DefenseScoop

15 days / defensescoop


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Premium Newsletter: The Hater's Guide To Anthropic, an inefficient, bloated AI ab that loses billions of dollars, deceives developers, burns as much as $8-$13 for every dollar of Claude Code revenue, and needs $283 billion to survive the next 4 years. htt

14 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Joined The Tech Report to talk about Anthropic allowing Claude Code users to burn 8-13.5x their subscription cost in tokens, the crumbling of the data center financing industry, and AI's lack of impact on overall productivity. https://youtu.be/N_3X6qF2tT

14 days / bsky / @edzitron.com


Wall Street reels as Anthropic's Claude Code disrupts cybersecurity stocks

JFrog Lost 25% in One Day. AI-Native Startups Have More to Lose.

14 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

Cyber Stocks Slide As Anthropic Unveils 'Claude Code Security'

14 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Cybersecurity stocks drop after Anthropic debuts Claude Code Security

14 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Wall Street Reacts as Claude Disrupts Cybersecurity Market

14 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs

14 days / theregister / Thomas Claburn

What Builders Are Making With Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI

14 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler


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Dueling pro-AI PACs have centered around backing or targeting one New York congressional bid: Alex Bores, whose RAISE Act requires AI developers to disclose safety protocols and report serious system misuse.

14 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 19474 / 18 stories in 14 days


Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot

msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools [non-paywalled source], leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant's push to roll out these coding assi…


Amazon response and blame - Company says 'user error', misconfigured access controls

Amazon Reportedly Pins the Blame for AI-Caused Outage on Humans

14 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

AWS Denies Report That Service Outage Was Caused by AI Coding Tool

14 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Multiple AWS outages caused by AI coding bot blunder, report claims — Amazon says both incidents were 'user error'

14 days / tomshardware


Internal skepticism and rollout concerns - Engineers worry about autonomous AI assistants' risks

Two Amazon cloud outages in December triggered by AI tools, report says

14 days / mashable

Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot

14 days / slashdot / msmash

Report: Amazon’s AI bots have been behind multiple AWS outages

14 days / sherwood / Max Knoblauch

Amazon Web Services vibe-codes itself an outage or two

14 days / pivot-to-ai / David Gerard

AI tools AWS cause hours of disruption to cloud systems

14 days / techzine / Berry Zwets


Kiro delete-and-recreate incident - Bot deleted and recreated environment, causing 13-hour outage

Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS

14 days / theregister / Dan Robinson

13-hour AWS outage reportedly caused by Amazon's own AI tools

14 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake

14 days / theverge / Robert Hart

An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services

14 days / arstechnica / Rafe Rosner-Uddin, Financial Times

Amazon says AWS AI tools were involved in two outages, but calls it "coincidence"

14 days / techspot

AWS AI coding tool decided to "delete and recreate" a customer-facing system, causing 13-hour outage, report says

14 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19463 / 14 stories in 14 days


Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025

Steve Dent / engadget - Google has announced that with the help of AI, it blocked 1.75 million apps that violated its policies in 2025, significantly down from 2.36 million in 2024. The lower numbers this year, it said, are because its "AI-powered, multi-layer protections" are d…

#ai #cybersecurity #automation #mobile #google #android #apps #contentmoderation #safety

Google Blocked 1.75M Harmful Apps From Play Store in 2025 - TechRepublic

14 days / techrepublic

AI-powered defenses help Google shield Android users from malicious apps - TechSpot

14 days / techspot

AI-powered defenses help Google shield Android users from malicious apps

14 days / techspot

AI-driven defences reshape Google Play’s security landscape - Tech Edition

14 days / techedt

Google Blocks 1.75 Million Malicious Apps From Entering the Play Store - Cyber Press

14 days / cyberpress

Google Blocks 1.75 Million Malicious Apps From Entering the Play Store

14 days / cyberpress / AnuPriya

Google boosts Android security with AI against malware in 2025 - Пепелац Ньюс

14 days / pepelac

Google Play used AI to help block 1.75 million bad apps in 2025

14 days / engadget / Steve Dent

Google prevented 1.75 million malicious apps from Play Store in 2025

14 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Google (GOOGL) Stock: Gains Amid AI-Driven Play Store Security Boost

14 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 5:20 am / permalink 19455 / 10 stories in 14 days


OpenAI Announce Partnerships With TCS, JioHotstar, MakeMyTrip at the India AI Impact Summit 2026

Azdhan / medianama - OpenAI revealed its plans to expand beyond Delhi at the AI IMpact Summit by setting up new offices in Bengaluru & Mumbai, and partnering with companies like TCS, Pine Labs, JioHotStar, MakeMyTripThe post OpenAI Announce Partnerships With TCS, JioHotstar, …


Governments and panels debate AI control, safety and policy

India Signs Pax Silica Pact To Secure Global AI Supply Chain

14 days / inc42 / Shrishti Bisht

Urgent research needed to tackle AI threats, says Google AI boss

14 days / bbc

UN touts panel for 'human control' of AI as leaders weigh message

14 days / techxplore

Science minister co-chairs global AI partnership meeting in India

15 days / co / Kang Yoon-seung


India's homegrown AI: startups chase global breakthrough

Indian AI Startup Tracker: 170+ Startups Putting India On The Global AI Map

14 days / inc42 / Team Inc42

PM Modi Meets Deeptech, AI Startup CEOs; Calls For AI Push In Agriculture

14 days / inc42 / Anjali Jain

India chases 'DeepSeek moment' with homegrown AI models

14 days / techxplore


OpenAI and Big Tech announce major India deals and remarks

Big Tech announces multibillion-dollar deals at India’s AI summit

14 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

OpenAI's Sam Altman warns that firms are using 'AI washing' to mask layoffs across the globe — AI boss calls out corporate excuses while warning of 'palpable' job disruption ahead

14 days / tomshardware

OpenAI says 18 to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India

14 days / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Sam Altman: AI will be “quite bad” for some software companies

14 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

OpenAI Announce Partnerships With TCS, JioHotstar, MakeMyTrip at the India AI Impact Summit 2026

14 days / medianama / Azdhan


Other: color, infrastructure, payments and law enforcement

NVIDIA fuels IndiaAI with 20K GPUs, sovereign clouds, and startup boost

14 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

“We Are Moving From AI Systems That Recommend to That Act”: Mastercard on Agentic AI

14 days / medianama / Aakriti Bansal

Meta partners with UK law enforcement to target major scam operation

14 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

UAE’s G42 teams up with Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of compute in India

14 days / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Oddest moments from India’s AI summit: Missing stars, traffic chaos and robo-dog controversy

14 days / politico / Milena Wälde, Pieter Haeck


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Abu Dhabi-based tech company G42 has partnered with U.S.-based chipmaker Cerebras to deploy eight exaflops of compute through a new system in India

14 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 4:21 am / permalink 19453 / 18 stories in 14 days


Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro, an LLM for complex reasoning

Erik van Klinken / techzine - This month, Anthropic already unveiled the Opus and Sonnet versions of Claude 4.6. It beat Google’s Gemini 3 Pro on several fronts. A response was not long in coming, with the new, more powerful Gemini 3.1 Pro. Google is rolling out 3.1 Pro starting today…

#ai #ml #google #anthropic #genai #alphabet #deeptech #performance #technology #gemini

Apple CarPlay to Add ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in iOS 26.4

14 days / eweek / Joseph Chisom Ofonagoro

Google Tests New Two-Row Design for Gemini Attachment Sheet

14 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Gemini Doubles. The Price Doesn't.

14 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Gemini 3.1 Pro released by google

14 days / reddit / /u/Infamous_Box1422

Gemini 3.1 Pro debuts with 1M context window and agentic reliability

14 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Samsung upgrades Bixby beta to challenge ChatGPT and Gemini, starting in One UI 8.5

14 days / digitaltrends

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro, an LLM for complex reasoning - Techzine Global

14 days / techzine

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro, an LLM for complex reasoning

14 days / techzine / Erik van Klinken

Google (GOOGL) Stock: Gains on Launch of Powerful Gemini 3.1 Pro AI

14 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

[AINews] Gemini 3.1 Pro: 2x 3.0 on ARC-AGI 2

14 days / latent / Latent.Space

Google Launches Gemini Pro 3.1 with Advanced AI Capabilities - mezha.net

15 days / mezha

Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 3:20 am / permalink 19452 / 11 stories in 14 days


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