• Defense Tech’s Billion-Dollar Moment
    Feb 15 2026
    Shield AI, which builds autonomous AI pilots for military aircraft, is another standout. Their Hivemind software can fly fighter jets and drones without GPS or communications critical for contested environments. The company raised five hundred million at a five billion dollar valuation.
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    2 Min.
  • Biotech and health technology breakthroughs
    Feb 15 2026
    Personalized CRISPR saves a baby's life, Roche sequences a full genome in four hours. AI cutting drug development from twelve years to five, and Colossal Biosciences bringing back dire wolves. Biotech's biggest breakthroughs are here right now.
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    3 Min.
  • The Deepseek Aftermath
    Feb 15 2026
    This month, DeepSeek is preparing to release V4, a coding-optimized model expected to intensify competition further. Meanwhile, other Chinese labs aren't standing still. Moonshot AI just released Kimi K2.5, claiming video generation and agentic capabilities that outperform all three leading US AI models.
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    2 Min.
  • Real AI Battles
    Feb 15 2026
    The regulatory landscape in 2026 looks like a patchwork quilt of conflicting approaches. Europe went first and most aggressively with the EU AI Act, which came into force last year. It classifies AI systems by risk level from minimal risk applications like spam filters to high-risk systems used in healthcare, education, and law enforcement.
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    2 Min.
  • Autonomous Vehicles Beyond Tesla
    Feb 15 2026
    Uber partnered with Waabi, investing two hundred fifty million dollars to deploy twenty-five thousand autonomous vehicles on their platform this year. The interesting thing about Waabi is their approach, they train one AI model that works across both trucks and passenger cars, which is fundamentally more scalable than building separate systems.
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    2 Min.
  • Climate Tech's Billion Dollar Comeback
    Feb 15 2026
    Companies like Fervo Energy are using horizontal drilling technology borrowed from the oil industry to access geothermal energy at previously unreachable locations. Big Tech's nuclear deals are getting attention, but geothermal is quietly becoming the near-term clean power winner.
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    2 Min.
  • The Deepfake Crisis
    Feb 15 2026
    The technology is now accessible to anyone. Tools that once required expensive hardware and technical expertise can now create convincing deepfakes on a smartphone. The barrier to creating a fake video of anyone saying anything has essentially collapsed.
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    2 Min.
  • AR Glasses Are Finally Going Mainstream
    Feb 15 2026
    Meta is considering scaling Ray-Ban smart glasses production to twenty million units by year-end. That kind of volume drives prices down and pushes global availability up. Snap went further by spinning out an independent subsidiary called Specs Inc. in January specifically to attract outside investment and fast-track consumer AR glasses to market this year.
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    2 Min.