February 25, 2026

About 12% of U.S. teens turn to AI for emotional support or advice: General purpose tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are not designed for this use, making mental health professionals wary. Read More

India's AI boom pushes firms to trade near-term revenue for users: ChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India's massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down. Read More

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Tech firms are setting the pace in global trade preparedness, with 91% confident about international growth in the next two years. 79% have made or considered changes to where assembly or processing takes place to mitigate tariffs. Liquidity is a top priority, as 71% have seen an increase in short-term financing to address working capital needs.

Harbinger acquires autonomous driving company Phantom AI: It's the Los Angeles trucking startup's first acquisition — the latest in a series of moves to spin up new revenue streams. Read More

Jira's latest update allows AI agents and humans to work side by side: Atlassian is unveiling "agents in Jira" which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given to AI agents the same as humans. Read More

Spanish 'soonicorn' Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model: Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral's model. Read More

Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+ gets new personality options: Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill or Sweet, Amazon says. Read More

Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M: The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023. Read More

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Americans now listen to podcasts more often than talk radio, study shows: Recent findings also show that video podcasting -- while popular -- is not necessarily replacing audio shows. Read More

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