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24 February 2026

ASML Boosts EUV Chip Output

ASML's new EUV light source boosts power to 1,000W, enabling 50% more chips by 2030 and reducing per-chip costs. This advance will increase manufacturing capacity and impact semiconductor supply chains, solidifying ASML's market dominance.

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24 February 2026

OpenAI Forms Frontier Alliances

OpenAI's Frontier Alliances with major consulting firms shift enterprise AI focus to practical agent implementation. This creates a complex vendor landscape for procurement teams, given existing consultant partnerships with rival AI providers. Interoperability and potential lock-in become key considerations.

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24 February 2026

Goldman Sachs: AI Zero GDP

Goldman Sachs reports AI investment contributed "basically zero" to US GDP growth in 2025. This challenges narratives of immediate domestic economic uplift, stemming from imported equipment and a lack of reliable productivity measurement.

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24 February 2026

Equity Boycotts BBC AI Survey

Union opposition to AI use in public consultations establishes a new constraint on government and public sector AI adoption. Procurement teams deploying AI for public engagement now face increased scrutiny from organised labour regarding data aggregation and workforce representation, potentially delaying AI tool deployment.

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23 February 2026

SabPaisa Engineers Cut Build Times

Engineering teams can now deliver solutions significantly faster, as SabPaisa engineers report AI coding tools cut development timelines from a year to one week. This shift enables smaller teams to achieve disproportionate output, creating a competitive constraint for those not adopting AI.

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23 February 2026

Philippine Camp Boosts AI Skills

Workforce readiness for AI-driven roles becomes a critical differentiator. Philippine Coding Camp trained over 1,000 students and educators in Generative AI, addressing the growing demand for certified AI proficiency and evolving job market needs.

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23 February 2026

CEOs Delegate Decisions to AI

CEOs are increasingly delegating data-heavy decisions to AI in 2026, impacting forecasting, pricing, and operations. This shift demands clear boundaries between AI-influenced tasks and human judgment, maintaining oversight for strategic and ethical decisions.

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23 February 2026

Buterin Advocates AI DAO Governance

Vitalik Buterin proposes AI assistants for DAO governance, boosting engagement and efficiency. This shifts governance to AI-augmented participation for architects and founders. Implementing such systems demands secure data privacy and security solutions to prevent new attack vectors.

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23 February 2026

India Lacks AI Regulatory Framework

India's lack of comprehensive AI regulation creates a legislative vacuum, leaving private establishments without a clear roadmap and increasing risk for procurement teams and founders deploying AI solutions, contrasting with global moves towards binding frameworks.

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23 February 2026

Bengaluru AI Cuts Crime Rates

Bengaluru police deployed AI, cutting emergency dispatch times by 2-2.5 minutes. This, with increased night patrolling, reduced robbery by 47% and chain snatching by 53% in 2025. The system demonstrates AI's impact on public safety outcomes through efficiency and enhanced policing.

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23 February 2026

Granite Asia Funds AI IPOs

Wealth managers gain a new mechanism to offer clients direct exposure to Asian AI IPOs, expanding investment avenues in high-growth technology. Granite Asia closed a $110 million AI IPO fund for DBS Group's wealth clients, providing a curated entry point into AI company listings.

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23 February 2026

AI Transforms India's Election Campaigns

AI-generated content is reshaping India's elections, enabling political parties to reach voters cheaply but also fueling widespread misinformation. Electoral integrity is at risk, demanding new detection tools and challenging public trust in political narratives.

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23 February 2026

Google Trains 6M US Educators

Google's initiative to train 6 million US educators on AI tools like Gemini and NotebookLM reduces a significant barrier to technology adoption. This free, comprehensive programme offers standardised training, directly impacting personalised learning for 74 million students and cutting costs for school administrators.

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23 February 2026

India Prioritises AI for Agriculture

India's strategic shift to AI in agriculture, backed by the ₹10,372-crore India AI Mission, aims to unlock ₹70,000 crore in annual value. This national push, including domain-specific LLMs and an open AI stack, signals a clear commitment to standardising agri-tech infrastructure.

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23 February 2026

Modi Showcases India AI Models

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the India AI Impact Summit, which showcased "Made in India" AI models and applications in agriculture and cultural preservation. This event presented India's domestic AI capabilities to a global audience.

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23 February 2026

India Boosts AI Infrastructure Investment

India's substantial investment and infrastructure commitments signal its intent to become a global AI compute and development hub, shifting the landscape for global cloud providers and hardware manufacturers. Procurement teams will face new options for sovereign AI infrastructure and model deployment.

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23 February 2026

Google Exposes AI Cyberattack Methods

AI's acceleration of attacker capabilities, including rapid target profiling and novel malware creation, escalates the threat landscape for cybersecurity teams. This necessitates prioritising advanced detection and prevention tools to counter AI-generated threats, shifting the burden onto defence.

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23 February 2026

Decentralized AI Challenges Centralized Dominance

Decentralised AI, valued at $12 billion, challenges the $12 trillion centralised market. This shift, driven by agentic AI and open architectures, forces enterprises and security architects to demand cryptographic proof of control over data and models.

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23 February 2026

Gemini 3.0 Generates Fictional Narratives

Gemini 3.0 generated a column with compelling but fabricated details, highlighting significant data integrity risks for content strategists. This necessitates stringent human verification, increasing operational overhead and challenging trust in automated content pipelines.

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23 February 2026

Taalas Hard-Wires LLMs

Taalas's HC1 chip hard-wires LLMs into silicon, drastically cutting AI inference costs and latency for high-volume, single-model workloads. Data centre operators gain two orders of magnitude faster processing and 90% lower power consumption per rack, despite limited model flexibility.

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