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Sources: Accenture told execs promotions would require "regular adoption" of AI and is tracking individual weekly logins to its AI tools for some senior staff (Financial Times)

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19 February 2026

Sources: Accenture told execs promotions would require "regular adoption" of AI and is tracking individual weekly logins to its AI tools for some senior staff (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: Accenture told execs promotions would require “regular adoption” of AI and is tracking individual weekly logins to its AI tools for some senior staff  —  Consulting firms use ‘carrot and stick’ with some senior staff less willing to use technology than junior colleagues

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India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS  —  OpenAI has partnered with India's Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI-ready data center capacity in the country, with plans to scale to 1 gigawatt.

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Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve information for at least 10,000 years (Gayoung Lee/Gizmodo)

Gayoung Lee / Gizmodo:
Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve information for at least 10,000 years  —  “This will change the way we think about keeping data and archival preservation.”  —  Our knowledge of the past comes from stone tablets and old parchment.

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Samsung shares surged 5.4% to a record high after a report said the company plans to price HBM4 chips at ~$700 per unit, 30% higher than the previous generation (Kurt Schussler/Bloomberg)

Kurt Schussler / Bloomberg:
Samsung shares surged 5.4% to a record high after a report said the company plans to price HBM4 chips at ~$700 per unit, 30% higher than the previous generation  —  Samsung Electronics Co. shares jumped to a fresh record high Thursday, after local media reported that the firm is negotiating …

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An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)

Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo:
An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the “For you” feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions  —  The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

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Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors (Karoline Leonard/Austin American ...)

Karoline Leonard / Austin American-Statesman:
Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors  —  Austin-based Circuit raises $30 million to tackle a growing manufacturing labor shortage  —  An Austin startup co-founded by former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle …

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Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising (The Information)

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Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising  —  SemiAnalysis, the top chip and infrastructure research firm founded by Dylan Patel, is considering raising money to invest in startups …

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Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its $100B round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B (Bloomberg)

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Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its $100B round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B  —  OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of a new funding round that is likely to bring in more than $100 billion …

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Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app  —  Here's something that you've never seen on Big Tech social platforms: The decentralized open social network Bluesky has integrated …

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A US judge rules ex-Palantir employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding Percepta, but declines to stop their work (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

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A US judge rules ex-Palantir employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding Percepta, but declines to stop their work  —  A judge agreed with Palantir Technologies Inc. that a trio of former employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements …

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