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Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk as part of a larger $1 billion round from backers including AMD, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, and Nvidia. World Labs, which emerged from stealth with $230 million at a $1 billion valuation in 2024, declined to say whether the latest round boosted its valuation. However, reports a month ago suggested it was aiming to raise money at a valuation of $5 billion. The partnership between World Labs and Autodesk will see the two companies work together to study how World Labs’ models – AI systems that…

meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed back against the idea that social media companies have made it a company goal to increase time spent on Instagram.In a 2015 email thread, Zuckerberg appeared to emphasize that improving engagement metrics was an imperative for the company.Mr. Zuckerberg said that while the emails may have included the words “company goals,” the comments may have been aspirational, arguing that Meta has no such goals. Lawyers then presented evidence from Instagram boss Adam Mosseri, which included a goal to aggressively increase users’ daily engagement on the platform to 40 minutes in 2023 and 46 minutes in…

Shivan Dube shined as India defeated the Netherlands in the final group match of the T20 World Cup and geared up for South Africa.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished February 18, 2026February 18, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareIndia defeated the Netherlands by 17 runs in Ahmedabad and cleared Group A in the T20 World Cup with a clean sweep.Sri Lanka, co-hosts of the tournament, had already secured a spot in the Super Eights stage by winning each of their opening three matches, but Wednesday’s win confirmed their form against a Dutch team that almost shocked Pakistan…

Jeanie Buss, owner of the six-time NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers, said new majority owner Mark Walter’s access to capital would allow the team to best compete with the NBA’s top franchises, and said her late father, Jerry Buss, would have supported the sale. “What was important to him was that the Lakers remain at the top of the NBA, and to stay at the top of the NBA you need the resources,” Bass said. “Everyone needs to come together. And he’s going to want the Lakers[for]him, because the Lakers are his legacy.”The NBA has a salary cap that limits…

OpenAI is expanding its footprint in India and entering the country’s higher education system through partnerships with leading academic institutions. The move comes as the South Asian country seeks to expand AI skills and build domestic capacity in one of the world’s largest talent markets. OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it is partnering with six public and private higher education institutions in India, including top institutions focused on engineering, management, healthcare, and design, with the goal of serving more than 100,000 students, faculty, and staff over the next 12 months. The initiative focuses on integrating AI into core academic functions,…

Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, attends the 9th VivaTech trade show at Exposition Porte de Versailles on June 11, 2025 in Paris. Chesnot | Getty Imagespalo alto networks CEO Nikesh Arora, citing the recent downward trend in software stocks, told analysts that artificial intelligence will not replace cybersecurity “any time soon.””I’m still confused as to why the market treats AI at least as a threat to cybersecurity,” he said on Tuesday. “I can’t speak for all software, but what we’re definitely seeing is that customers are realizing that they need to be more consistent in their security stack…

Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton reunite 24 years after the first Harry Potter moviedaniel radcliffe I’m activating my Wish Wand. The 36-year-old has an important request to make. harry potter as a fan dominique loughlin, Arabella Stanton and alastair stout Get ready to step into his shoes emma watson and Rupert GrintA magical robe for the upcoming animated television adaptation of JK Rowling’s books. “When these kids were cast, there was a huge buzz on the Internet all over the world saying, ‘We have to watch out for these kids,'” Daniel said. screen abuse He said this in an interview…

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.Y.) (C), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D.Y.) (L), and House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) hold a press conference regarding funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2026.Kevin Dietch | Getty ImagesSenate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer announced Monday night that Congressional Democrats have sent a counter-proposal to the White House and Republicans in negotiations to reopen the Department of Homeland Security. Schumer, New York and other Democratic lawmakers continue to negotiate with President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress over…

Microsoft has admitted that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails without their permission over several weeks. The bug, first reported by Bleeping Computer, allowed Copilot Chat to read and outline the contents of emails starting in January, even if customers had data loss prevention policies that prevented them from bringing sensitive information into Microsoft’s large-scale language model. Copilot Chat enables paying Microsoft 365 customers to use AI-powered chat features in Office software products such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft said the bug, which administrators can track as CW1226324, means “drafts and sent email messages…

Digital transformation and reskilling are challenges in the best of times, but Ukraine’s work in introducing technology to its population during wartime is a unique success story.Despite a full-scale Russian invasion that occurred nearly four years ago and continues today, the Ukrainian government continues to work towards President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s goal of building a “state in a smartphone,” which is now evolving into a “proxy state” with advances in artificial intelligence. The government is doing this through Diia, an integrated digital platform and super app that provides access to streamlined public services, business resources, and digital literacy education.“Our main goal…