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What Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and other tech CEOs said at India AI Impact Summit 2026 Narendra Modi

What Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and other tech CEOs said at India AI Impact Summit 2026

The India AI Impact Summit 2026 brought together leaders of the technology industry, including CEOs such as Google CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen, Meta Chief AI scientist Alexandr Wang, K Krithivasan, Tata Consultancy Services, Salil Parekh and others, at…
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February 19, 2026
UK selects HSBC’s blockchain platform for digital bond pilot Blockchain

UK selects HSBC’s blockchain platform for digital bond pilot

Homepage > News > Business > UK selects HSBC’s blockchain platform for digital bond pilot The United Kingdom Treasury has selected HSBC Holdings’ (NASDAQ: HSBC) blockchain platform as the provider for its Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) pilot issuance, which will take place under the country’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). The…
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February 19, 2026
Middle East weekly: Baidu’s Apollo Go operates driverless fleet at WGS, QIA commits USD 2 billion to startups, Qatar signs agreement with TikTok, and more Censored Internet

Middle East weekly: Baidu’s Apollo Go operates driverless fleet at WGS, QIA commits USD 2 billion to startups, Qatar signs agreement with TikTok, and more

China companies expand in the Middle East Apollo Go operates driverless fleet at World Governments Summit During the 2026 World Governments Summit, held in Dubai from February 3–5, Baidu’s Apollo Go operated as the event’s only designated fully autonomous ride-hailing fleet, transporting officials and guests. The deployment marked a milestone…
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February 19, 2026
Mixed-density housing keeps expanding as affordability reaches a breaking point Censored Internet

Mixed-density housing keeps expanding as affordability reaches a breaking point

Housing affordability – and its impact on Americans’ quality of life – is becoming a market- and generation-defining issue. Higher interest rates, constrained inventory, rising land costs, and slower wage growth have combined to push homeownership further out of reach for many, especially first-time buyers, middle-income households, and those seeking…
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February 19, 2026
They’re ‘devastated’: Fresh plea for Australian children in Syrian detention camps Syria

They’re ‘devastated’: Fresh plea for Australian children in Syrian detention camps

Key Points CEO of Save the Children Australia said: "We cannot hold children responsible for the decisions of their parents." The government's provision of passports to Australians in al-Roj has sparked political debate. Australian women and children detained in a Syrian camp are "devastated" after the federal government announced it…
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February 19, 2026
NOAA Rebuffs Activists’ Pleas To List Horseshoe Crab As Endangered NOAA

NOAA Rebuffs Activists’ Pleas To List Horseshoe Crab As Endangered

The US government has rebuffed environmental activists’ requests to list the horseshoe crab under the Endangered Species Act. In a notice published this week , the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service found that separate petitions from the Friends of Animals and the Center for Biological…
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February 19, 2026