Tech

10 Box Office Bombs That We Should Have Predicted in 2025 (listverse.com)
2026-2-17

How LLMs are dismantling the moats that made vertical SaaS defensible, and why the market selloff is structurally justified but temporally exaggerated (x.com)
2026-2-17 SaaS

Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest “reasoning” models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-2-17 AI Mathematics

Secondhand Laptop Market Goes 'Mainstream' Amid Memory Crunch (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17

Indian IT giant Infosys partners with Anthropic to develop AI services for telecoms, with plans to expand to finance, manufacturing, and software development (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-17 India AI Manufacturing

UK software firm Pinewood's stock fell ~31% on Feb. 16 after Apax Partners withdrew its £575M takeover offer, citing “prevailing challenging market conditions” (www.ft.com)
2026-2-17

Sources: US healthcare manufacturer Danaher is nearing a deal to buy medtech company Masimo for ~$10B; Masimo is in an IP dispute with Apple over Apple Watch (www.ft.com)
2026-2-17 Apple

Micron, which has undertaken a $200B US expansion, says it can currently meet about 50%-66% of demand for some key customers, as AI drives memory chip demand (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-17 AI

Sources: Moonshot, the Chinese startup behind Kimi chatbot, is targeting a $10B valuation in a funding round expansion after securing $500M at a $4.3B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 China Startup chatbot

Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to commit investments ranging from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-2-17 India AI

Valve says the Steam Deck OLED may be “intermittently” out of stock due to memory and storage shortages; it has been out of stock in the US for a few days (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-17

Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-2-17 AI Sony

The Music Industry Enters Its Less-Is-More Era (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17

Micron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments (www.tomshardware.com)
2026-2-17 AI

Letter and sources: Starboard plans to nominate a majority slate to Tripadvisor's board; Starboard holds a 9% stake, and TRIP has dropped ~46% in the past year (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-17

Nifty IT Index, which tracks Indian IT stocks, has slumped about 15% so far in February on worries about AI and is on track for its worst month since March 2020 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 India AI

Samsung Ad Confirms Rumors of a Useful S26 'Privacy Display' (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17 Samsung

Ireland's DPC says it has opened a “large-scale” inquiry into X over the creation and publication of “potentially harmful” sexualized images by Grok (www.ft.com)
2026-2-17 Ireland

Manus launches Manus Agents, allowing users to access Manus directly inside messaging apps, starting with Telegram and coming soon to other platforms (manus.im)
2026-2-17

Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, a Smart List for Reminders, more (9to5mac.com)
2026-2-17 IOS Apple

Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17 Western Digital

Washington Hotel in Japan discloses ransomware infection incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-17 Japan

Anthropic's CEO Says AI and Software Engineers Are in 'Centaur Phase' - But It Won't Last Long (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17 AI

India's Toxic Air Crisis Is Reaching a Breaking Point (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17 India

Man arrested for demanding reward after accidental police data leak (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-17

Eurail says stolen traveler data now up for sale on dark web (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-17 Darknet

Q&A with Google Chief AI Scientist Jeff Dean about the evolution of Google Search, TPUs, coding agents, balancing model efficiency and performance, and more (www.latent.space)
2026-2-17 Google AI

Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-17 Drone SpaceX

Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-17 Instagram

Apple says it will bring “advanced video capabilities” to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows (variety.com)
2026-2-17 Apple

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