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 (4)
- India's homegrown AI: startups chase global breakthrough (3)
- OpenAI and Big Tech announce major India deals and remarks (5)
- Other: color, infrastructure, payments and law enforcement (5)
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Governments and panels debate AI control, safety and policy
India's homegrown AI: startups chase global breakthrough
OpenAI and Big Tech announce major India deals and remarks
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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.
- 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)
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Companies lock down OpenClaw amid security, privacy, and insider fears
NVIDIA enables faster local OpenClaw runs on RTX and DGX
Researchers and NIST push standards as agentic AI runs wild
Startups clone OpenClaw, selling agentic automation to businesses
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Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 19425 / 23 stories in 15 days
Stacks Raises $23M in Series A Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Stacks, a London, UK-based provider of an agentic platform for enterprise finance, raised $23M in Series A funding. The round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from EQT Ventures, General Catalyst, and S16VC. The raise followed its the $12M seed fi…
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OpenAI aims to secure $100 Billion in latest funding round, reportedly aiming for an $800 billion valuation — Parties offering up cash include Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank, and more
tomshardware - OpenAI may be about to secure as much as $100 billion in funding, which will go some way to offsetting the $1.4 trillion is has pledged to expend over the next eight years. This round of investment is said to come from other major tech firms in the space,…
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Plato Raises $14.5M To Expand AI Platform for Wholesale Distributors
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Plato, an AI-driven operating system for wholesale distributors, has secured $14.5 million in a seed funding round led by Atomico, with participation from existing investors such as Cherry Ventures. The distribution sector faces mounting pressures from la…
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Vilnius’ Copla bags €6M to swap Excel chaos for automatic DORA compliance
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Vilnius-based Copla has secured €6 million in Series A funding as European financial institutions brace for a sweeping…
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Flexible agentic marketing startup Kana Intelligence scores $15M in seed funding
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Marketing professionals have a mountain of artificial intelligence tools to choose from, but the founders of a new startup called Kana Intelligence Inc. believe there’s still an urgent need for a platform that can adapt to user’s needs. The company today …
- Agentic sales AI emerges: startups turn calls into revenue signals (4)
- Industry adoption: private equity embeds AI to streamline operations (1)
- Kana seed raise: founders launch agentic marketing platform with $15M (3)
- Vertical AI agents for revenue: hotels and SMB marketing adoption (5)
Agentic sales AI emerges: startups turn calls into revenue signals
Industry adoption: private equity embeds AI to streamline operations
Kana seed raise: founders launch agentic marketing platform with $15M
Vertical AI agents for revenue: hotels and SMB marketing adoption
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 8:21 pm / permalink 19393 / 13 stories in 16 days
Peter Thiel Exits ETHZilla Investment After Ethereum Treasury Stock Craters
Logan Hitchcock / decrypt - Billionaire investor Peter Thiel and Founders Fund held a 7.5% stake in Ethereum treasury company ETHZilla last year—but not anymore.
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World Labs Raises $200M to Power 3D AI
Ekemini / ventureburn - World Labs, the artificial intelligence company co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, focused on developing spatial intelligence, announced a new milestone. A strategic investment of $200 million from Autodesk for World Labs’The post World Labs Raises $200M to Power …
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Saudi Arabia’s AI venture Humain invests $3bn in Elon Musk’s xAI
ft - Investment that deepens ties with billionaire is part of country’s goal to diversify economy
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 19363 / 4 stories in 16 days
Munich’s HeyCharge Receives €2.5M EIC Grant to Boost EV Charging Technology
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - HeyCharge, a Munich-based EV charging technology company backed by BMW i Ventures, Statkraft Ventures, and Y Combinator, has received a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. The funding will support HeyCharge’s SecureC…
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French VC Quantonation raises €220 million for flagship quantum and deep-physics fund
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Quantonation Ventures, a Paris-based venture firm for quantum and physics-based technologies, has closed its second flagship fund above target at €220 million. With this close, Quantonation reportedly becomes the largest dedicated quantum investment firm …
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Palo Alto Networks acquires file security startup Koi for reported $400M
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Palo Alto Networks Inc. is acquiring Koi Security Ltd., a startup that helps enterprises prevent their employees from downloading risky files. The companies announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. According to Calcalist, the trans…
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Stripe-owned stablecoin platform Bridge wins conditional OCC approval for national bank charter
Sarah Wynn / theblock - Stablecoin platform Bridge, acquired by Stripe last year, received conditional approval from the OCC, the firm said on Tuesday.
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Crypto venture capital firm Dragonfly raises $650 million despite 'gloom of a bear market'
Olivier Acuna / coindesk - The firm’s fourth fund positions it alongside a16z and Paradigm even as blockchain VC fundraising contracts and investors pivot toward stablecoins and tokenized finance.
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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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Nothing is ready for March 5 event with the new 4a series phones
digitaltrends - Carl Pei playfully counters Apple with a March 5 launch event for Nothing's Phone 4a series, promising upgraded performance, fresh colors, and flagship-inspired features.The post Nothing is ready for March 5 event with the new 4a series phones appeared fi…
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AI startup automating medical device compliance work secures pre-seed round
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - AI-powered medtech startup Klaris has raised a $1m (£730,000) funding round in support of its automated regulatory compliance platform for medical device companies. The London-based startup was founded to address the challenges of securing regulatory appr…
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Bootstrapped And Profitable AI InsurTech Company mea Platform Secures €42.2M Funding
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - mea Platform (mea), a UK-based AI-first InsurTech company, has secured a €42.2 million ($50 million) minority growth equity investment from London-based SEP (Scottish Equity Partners) to accelerate product development and enhance customer engagement. Boot…
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Italian AviationTech startup Intuos raises €720k to scale fleet operations platform internationally
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Rome-based startup Intuos, the developer of an integrated platform for aircraft fleet operators that combines operational software and IoT devices with ML-based analytics, has closed a €720k investment round following its expansion in Europe and South Afr…
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