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India data‑center plays jump after Modi meets Altman, Amodei
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India data‑center plays jump after Modi meets Altman, Amodei

Shares of companies tied to Indian data‑center construction and supply chains rose after a high‑profile New Delhi summit that brought senior AI executives together with Indian officials. A tracked basket of ten listed names gained roughly $4 billion in market value amid investor bets that government signalling and private anchors will accelerate compute and colocation projects.

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Google engineers indicted over alleged SoC and cryptography files sent to Iran

Google engineers indicted over alleged SoC and cryptography files sent to Iran

Three San Jose-based engineers have been charged in a federal indictment accusing them of taking confidential processor and security-related materials from U.S. tech firms and transmitting them to Iran; arrests and court appearances occurred the same day. If convicted, defendants face significant prison terms, monetary penalties, and heightened scrutiny of access controls at chip and cloud companies.

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DHS moves to unify face, fingerprint and iris searches across agencies
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DHS moves to unify face, fingerprint and iris searches across agencies

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G42 and Cerebras to deliver 8 exaflops of AI compute infrastructure in India
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G42 and Cerebras to deliver 8 exaflops of AI compute infrastructure in India

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Ethereum’s ERC-8004 and Coinbase x402 Form Rails for Agent-Driven Commerce

A new Ethereum registry standard (ERC-8004) and web-native payments primitives centered on x402 are converging with emerging product integrations (Mantle’s rollouts, Coinbase’s Agentic Wallets and guarded previews from Stripe) to make discoverable identities, portable reputation and programmatic micropayments practical for autonomous software. Early signals — including more than 24,000 agent identities recorded within weeks, x402 traffic at scale, and live pricing experiments such as CoinGecko’s 0.01 USDC per request — indicate the stack is moving from research into operational pilots.

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General Catalyst Pledges $5B to India Startups Over Five Years
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General Catalyst Pledges $5B to India Startups Over Five Years

General Catalyst will commit $5 billion to Indian startups across AI, healthcare, defense tech, fintech and consumer sectors over five years, shifting from selective bets to a programmatic deployment strategy. The move aligns with India’s broader AI and infrastructure push — including a $200 billion government investment target, large private data‑center plans and startup policy reforms — which together could speed pilots into production but also surface execution constraints around compute, power and supply chains.

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Vitalik Buterin pushes cypherpunk refactor as FOCIL added to Ethereum roadmap

Vitalik Buterin is framing 2026 as a coordinated campaign to restore user control, privacy and simplification to Ethereum while core developers have added a controversial inclusion-enforcement mechanism (EIP-7805, aka FOCIL) and an account-abstraction upgrade (EIP-8141) to the protocol roadmap. The schedule pairs a nearer-term Glamsterdam upgrade (H1 2026) with a FOCIL-centered Hegota hard fork targeted for later in 2026, and the Foundation is also advancing post-quantum work, lightweight-client efforts and higher block compute targets to support the plan.

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Motif Technologies joins South Korea’s flagship AI tournament

Motif Technologies joins South Korea’s flagship AI tournament

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT picked a Motif Technologies–led team to enter the next phase of a national AI competition, placing the startup alongside LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage. The government will back Motif with large-scale compute — including 768 Nvidia B200 units — plus funding for data acquisition and processing to accelerate model development.

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BNP Paribas Asset Management pilots Ethereum-based tokenized money-market shares

BNP Paribas Asset Management ran a controlled experiment issuing a digital share class for a French cash fund using its AssetFoundry platform on Ethereum, with transfers limited to authorized participants. The test evaluated end-to-end processes—issuance, transfer agency and blockchain connectivity—under a permissioned access design to align with regulatory obligations.

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Tesla Loses Appeal — $243M Verdict Over 2019 Autopilot Crash Stands

Tesla Loses Appeal — $243M Verdict Over 2019 Autopilot Crash Stands

A federal judge in Miami refused Tesla's request to overturn a jury award tied to a 2019 fatal crash involving the company's partially automated driving system. The decision preserves a combined $243 million judgment and marks a legal setback as Tesla pushes its autonomous vehicle ambitions.

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Generative AI Frictions: Godot veteran, Highguard financing, and RAM squeeze

Open-source Godot maintainers say a flood of low-quality, AI-generated pull requests is overwhelming volunteer triage, while commercial moves—Unity’s GDC demo that stitches external LLMs and image models into runtime-aware generation, and Project Genie’s tightly capped world-model previews—underscore both promise and brittle limits of generative tooling. Separately, Valve warns of intermittent Steam Deck OLED availability amid memory pressure tied to datacenter demand, and financing shifts (an undisclosed Tencent stake in Highguard; ByteDance exploring a >$6B Moonton sale) show large capital flows reshaping studio ownership.

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OpenAI teams with Tata to build large-scale AI data centres in India
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OpenAI teams with Tata to build large-scale AI data centres in India

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Ethereum Foundation outlines 2026 protocol priorities: speed, smart wallets, quantum readiness

The Ethereum Foundation set a 2026 engineering agenda that pairs aggressive block-capacity increases and a Glamsterdam upgrade with native account-abstraction and a formal post-quantum (PQ) program. The PQ effort now runs multi-client devnets and recurring core-dev calls while Vitalik Buterin’s framing pushes complementary work on privacy, lightweight clients and wallet recovery to restore user sovereignty.

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Spencer Cox urges states to set AI safety rules, pushes energy protections
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Spencer Cox urges states to set AI safety rules, pushes energy protections

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Deutsche Börse doubles down on tokenization, integrates tokenized equities via 360T

Deutsche Börse’s 360T platform onboarded a Kraken‑backed tokenized equity product on Feb. 9, 2026, signaling a concrete step to fold ledgered shares into regulated trading rails. Broader market and regulatory signals — on‑chain tokenized equities nearing $1bn, sharp year‑over‑year growth and evolving EU/US guidance — are accelerating hybrid, custody‑integrated approaches even as technical and custody questions persist.

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Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro surges ahead with large reasoning improvements and research-focused tooling

Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro surges ahead with large reasoning improvements and research-focused tooling

Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro, a refined flagship tuned for deeper multi-step reasoning and research workflows, posting major benchmark gains while keeping API pricing unchanged. The update emphasizes interoperability with scientific toolchains and positions the model as an augmenting collaborator — useful for hypothesis generation and experiment planning but still requiring expert oversight for validation.

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OpenAI and Reliance team up to add conversational search to JioHotstar
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OpenAI and Reliance team up to add conversational search to JioHotstar

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Scopely buys majority stake in Turkey’s Loom Games
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Scopely buys majority stake in Turkey’s Loom Games

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Mirai builds a Rust inference engine to accelerate on-device AI

Mirai, a London startup, raised $10 million to deliver a Rust-based inference runtime that accelerates model generation on Apple Silicon by as much as 37% and exposes a simple SDK for developers. The team is positioning the stack for text and voice use cases today, with planned vision support, on-device benchmarks, and a hybrid orchestration layer that routes heavier work to the cloud.

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Genesys lines up support for AWS European Sovereign Cloud to address EU data controls
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Genesys lines up support for AWS European Sovereign Cloud to address EU data controls

Genesys will make its customer engagement platform available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud so organisations can keep data and operational control inside EU boundaries. The move targets regulated buyers concerned about cross-border legal access and signals wider momentum for sovereign-region cloud offerings in Europe.

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