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EuroHPC and European Commission Launch Frontier AI Grand Challenge to Train Large-Scale AI Model Feb. 17, 2026 — The European Commission has launched a new call, the Frontier AI Grand Challenge, in collaboration with EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. The Frontier AI Grand Challenge will fund one project to train a frontier AI model. The initiative aims to close the strategic gap in high-end AI by supporting the creation of “frontier” general-purpose AI systems capable of adapting across domains with minimal modification, and by leveraging Europe’s world-class supercomputing infrastructure. The challenge invites leading European actors to develop frontier AI models with…

Meta could be taking another step towards turning WhatsApp into a social media app. Source link

The Proofpoint Partner Network offers a simplified structure and enhanced investments aligned to how customers buy and how partners build sustainable, recurring business. Proofpoint, Inc.,  a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, announced the debut of the Proofpoint Partner Network, an enhanced global partner program designed to help partners grow faster, strengthen their margins, and deliver greater value to customers as cyber threats increasingly target people, data, and AI-driven workflows. The Proofpoint Partner Network offers a simplified structure and enhanced investments aligned to how customers buy and how partners build sustainable, recurring business. The new program reflects Proofpoint’s long-term commitment to…

Last month, the Infinix Smart 20 was spotted in the Google Play Console, and that revealed some of its specs. Now, the phone has been listed as up for sale by Lazada in the Philippines, complete with pricing. It’s unclear if this represents the phone’s actual launch or if it’s a premature listing – the latter seems a tiny bit more probable since there are some typos as well as some missing info. Anyway, the phone is priced at PHP 4,499 (approximately $77) with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, and PHP 5,830 (about $100) if you want 128GB…

As demand for brain imaging rises and radiologists face growing backlogs, scientists are testing whether large-scale AI models can help close the gap. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a foundation model for neuroimaging called Prima that can interpret brain MRI studies in seconds and flag cases that require urgent care. Prima was trained on more than 220,000 MRI studies drawn from digitized radiology records from University of Michigan Health and evaluated in a year-long prospective study involving 29,431 MRI exams. The results were published earlier this month in Nature Biomedical Engineering. Magnetic resonance imaging is widely used…

YouTube is down coast-to-coast. Source link

This shift reflects the country’s broader national focus on applied AI and automation as key drivers of productivity, competitiveness, and sustainable economic growth, supported by initiatives like the UAE Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly integrated into enterprise operations in the UAE, as organizations move beyond experimentation to practical deployment in core business functions such as sales, forecasting, and customer engagement. This shift reflects the country’s broader national focus on applied AI and automation as key drivers of productivity, competitiveness, and sustainable economic growth, supported by initiatives like the UAE Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031. The UAE…

Google is rumored to be developing better face unlocking tech for both the Pixel 11 family and upcoming Chromebooks. This endeavor is internally codenamed Project Toscana. According to someone who allegedly tested it, it will work without any additional visible sensors on the Pixel phones. It’s unclear if it’s using infrared like iPhones do, but if it is, then the IR bits are hidden under the display (and Apple is rumored to be going the same route for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max). So basically everything looks the same as on a Pixel 10, but, importantly, the face…

Berkeley Lab Demonstrates AI-Guided Digital Twin for Chemical Science Experiments Feb. 17, 2026 — Understanding what complex chemical measurements reveal about materials and reactions can take weeks or months of analysis. But now, an AI-powered platform developed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could reduce this interpretation cycle to minutes, enabling much faster insight into chemical processes relevant to energy storage, catalysis, and manufacturing. A closeup view of the Digital Twin for Chemical Science platform at the Advanced Light Source. Credit: Marilyn Sargent, Berkeley Lab. The new platform, called “Digital Twin for…

Thanks to OpenAI's Sora and Gemini's Nano Banana, it has become harder to know when a video or picture is real or AI. Source link