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Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/ai-pioneer-fei-fei-li-s-startup-world-labs-raises-1-billion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063451 Points: 44 # Comments: 13

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Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features

Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.

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Data breach at fintech giant Figure affects close to a million customers

The Figure data breach allowed hackers to steal customer names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

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World Labs lands $1B, with $200M from Autodesk, to bring world models into 3D workflows

The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases.

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Google debuts $499 Pixel 10a

The smartphone is available for preorder now with shipments starting March 5.  It comes in Lavender, Berry, Fog, and Obsidian.

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Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app

Users will be able to use text, images, and videos as a reference to generate music.

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Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open source AI

The new lineup includes 30-billion- and 105-billion-parameter models; a text-to-speech model; a speech-to-text model; and a vision model to parse documents.

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US court bars OpenAI from using ‘Cameo’

OpenAI has renamed its feature in Sora from "Cameo" to "Characters."

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FDA reverses surprise rejection of Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine

Trump admin's vaccine chief overruled FDA scientists to initially reject the shot.

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Record scratch—Google's Lyria 3 AI music model is coming to Gemini today

With a simple prompt, you can generate 30 seconds of something like music.

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Activeloop (YC S18) Is Hiring Back End Engineer (Go)

Article URL: https://app.dover.com/apply/Activeloop/72d0b3a7-7e86-46a8-9aff-b430ffe0b97f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064105 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock

Article URL: https://finbold.com/warren-buffett-dumps-1-7-billion-of-amazon-stock/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063950 Points: 6 # Comments: 3

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Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/arizona-bill-would-require-id-checks-to-use-a-weather-app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063724 Points: 28 # Comments: 6

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Weave (YC W25) Is Hiring ML, Design, and Product Engineers

Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workweave Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063338 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-18/us-economy-expansion-forecast-even-with-weak-jobs-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063263 Points: 33 # Comments: 36