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German court halts direct PC sales by Asus and Acer over Nokia patent dispute

18 Feb 2026

A Munich court has ordered Asus and Acer to stop selling PCs directly in Germany after finding they infringed Nokia video codec patents and failed to act as willing licensees under FRAND rules.

legal, patents, pc hardware

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AMD and TCS bring Helios rack scale artificial intelligence architecture to India

18 Feb 2026

AMD and Tata Consultancy Services are co-developing a Helios based rack scale artificial intelligence infrastructure to back India's national artificial intelligence initiatives and large scale data center build outs.

amd, artificial intelligence infrastructure, data-centers

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Unity unveils artificial intelligence driven authoring for no code casual games

18 Feb 2026

Unity is preparing an artificial intelligence driven authoring system that lets developers generate full casual games from natural language prompts, debuting in beta at the Game Developer Conference in March. The move reflects a broader industry push toward generative artificial intelligence tools despite growing concerns among game workers.

artificial intelligence, game development, industry trends, unity

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Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GB300 NVL72 targets massive gains in agentic artificial intelligence inference

17 Feb 2026

Nvidia’s GB300 NVL72 system, built on the Blackwell Ultra GPU and a codesigned software stack, sharply improves performance and cost for agentic artificial intelligence workloads, from low-latency assistants to long-context coding tools. New data highlights throughput-per-megawatt and token-cost advantages over both Hopper and prior Blackwell platforms.

artificial intelligence hardware, cloud-computing, machine learning, nvidia

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Artificial intelligence drives new search for antibiotic peptides across nature and prehistory

17 Feb 2026

Bioengineer César de la Fuente is using artificial intelligence to mine genomes, venoms, and even extinct species for antimicrobial peptides that could counter rising drug resistance. His work aims to transform early stage discoveries into candidate drugs using generative models and a new multimodal system called ApexOracle.

artificial intelligence, biotechnology, drug discovery, health

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Cyberstalking campaign against researcher and artificial intelligence voice cloning for a singer with ALS

17 Feb 2026

A cybersecurity investigator targeted with online death threats set out to expose her harassers, while a musician with ALS used artificial intelligence voice cloning tools to return to the stage.

artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, health tech

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Artificial Intelligence reshapes audio for hybrid collaboration

17 Feb 2026

Shure and Zoom are using Artificial Intelligence and advanced audio engineering to turn remote and hybrid communication into a seamless, context-aware experience where technology recedes into the background.

artificial intelligence, audio technology, collaboration, remote work

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Seedance 2.0 artificial intelligence video of Jujutsu Kaisen fight ignites creative debate

17 Feb 2026

A hyper realistic Seedance 2.0 artificial intelligence recreation of the Sukuna vs Gojo battle from Jujutsu Kaisen has split anime fans, spotlighting both the creative potential and ethical concerns around artificial intelligence video tools.

anime, artificial intelligence, copyright, video generation

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Higgsfield brings cinematography-grade control to artificial intelligence video with Cinema Studio 2.0

17 Feb 2026

Higgsfield’s Cinema Studio 2.0 aims to turn artificial intelligence video generation from a black box into a director-grade toolset, giving creators granular control over cameras, motion, and storytelling. Early adoption by major studios and brand work suggests the platform is moving from experimentation to practical production use.

artificial intelligence, cinematography, creative tools, video generation

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Text to speech and artificial intelligence video tools reshape automated content creation

17 Feb 2026

Text to speech tools and artificial intelligence video generators are streamlining how creators turn scripts into narrated, visually rich content. The combined workflow is cutting production time while making professional multimedia more accessible to non-experts.

artificial intelligence, content creation, text to speech, video production

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Bytedance moves to curb Seedance artificial intelligence app after Disney legal threat

17 Feb 2026

Bytedance is tightening controls on its Seedance video generator after Disney and other major studios accused the app of mass copyright infringement involving popular film and franchise characters.

artificial intelligence, china, copyright, entertainment

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Cadence debuts agentic artificial intelligence tool for chip design and verification

17 Feb 2026

Cadence has introduced the ChipStack Artificial Intelligence Super Agent, an agentic artificial intelligence design tool positioned to streamline chip design and verification workflows and already in use at Nvidia and Qualcomm.

artificial intelligence, it hardware & semiconductors, semiconductors