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South African Court Rejects Gabrielle Goliath’s Bid to Reinstate Venice Biennale Pavilion
A South African high court has dismissed artist Gabrielle Goliath’s last-ditch bid to overturn the cancellation of her Venice Biennale pavilion, rejecting the application just hours before the exhibition’s submission deadline. Goliath’s proposed pavilion, titled Elegy, was selected last month by the nonprofit Art Periodic to represent South Africa at the upcoming Venice Biennale, with read more
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See the Best of Nearly Half a Million Entries to the Sony World Photography Awards
For its 19th edition, the Sony World Photography Awards welcomed over 430,000 submissions for its Open competition from photographers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe. Ten categories, ranging from portraiture to landscapes to travel, encompass the staggering breadth and beauty of nature and society captured throughout 2025. The contest has announced read more
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Heron Power raises $140M to ramp production of grid-altering tech | TechCrunch
Heron Power, founded by former Tesla executive Drew Baglino, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $140 million to build gigawatts’ worth of solid-state transformers for data centers and the grid. It’s a fast turnaround for the startup, which raised a $38 million Series A in May. Baglino said Heron Power didn’t need the money, read more
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Stocks rise as Nvidia gains ahead of Fed minutes
A trader, with ash cross mark on his forehead for Ash Wednesday, works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., February 18, 2026. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Stocks moved higher on Wednesday, supported by gains in key technology stocks, as traders awaited the release of read more
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iOS 26.4 Brings CarPlay Support for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
Wednesday February 18, 2026 10:35 am PST by Juli Clover With iOS 26.4, CarPlay users will be able to use third-party chatbots with CarPlay. AI services like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT will be accessible through the CarPlay system for the first time. Apple’s CarPlay Developer Guide [PDF] lists voice-based conversational apps as a supported app read more
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What Would Happen to Auction Houses If Luxury Sales Outstrip Art Sales?
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. This story is also part of a new series on the convergence of art andluxury. See all ofour reporting on the topic here. Since I started reporting on the convergence of the art and luxury read more
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Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises | TechCrunch
Creative company Canva ended 2025 on a high note with a 20% increase in monthly active users, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools. Canva had more than 265 million monthly active users and over 31 million paid users in 2025, according to the company. That user base helped push its read more
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Indian AI lab Sarvam's new models are a major bet on the viability of open source AI | TechCrunch
Indian AI lab Sarvam on Tuesday unveiled a new generation of large language models, as it bets that smaller, efficient open source AI models will be able to grab some market share away from more expensive systems offered by its much larger U.S. and Chinese rivals. The launch, announced at the India AI Impact Summit read more
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OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills | TechCrunch
OpenAI is expanding its footprint in India and moving into the country’s higher-education system through partnerships with leading academic institutions. The move comes as the South Asian nation seeks to scale AI skills and build domestic capacity in one of the world’s largest talent markets. On Wednesday, OpenAI said it was partnering with six public read more
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This former Microsoft PM thinks she can unseat CyberArk in 18 months | TechCrunch
The internet today has a permissions problem. As non-humans — chatbots, AI agents, and automated systems — have proliferated on the web, so has the need to provide them with credentials, permissions, and identities. That’s one major reason identity and access management startups that help manage this new kind of digital workforce are raking in read more
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US court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo' | TechCrunch
A federal district court in Northern California ruled in favor of Cameo, a platform that allows users to get personalized video messages from celebrities and ordered OpenAI to stop using “Cameo” in its products and features. OpenAI was using the “Cameo” name for its AI-powered video-generation app Sora 2. Users could use that feature to read more
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Six National Nonprofits Sue Trump Administration Over Erasing History and Science at National Parks
Six national nonprofit organizations devoted to the national parks, history, and science have sued the Trump administration over its censoring of signage it disapproves of in national parks across the U.S. The plaintiffs in the sixty-page suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court of Masachusetts, include the National Parks Conservation Association; the American Association for read more
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Saudi Arabia Commissions Giant Mural the Size of 9 Football Fields
Saudi Arabia commissioned Domingo Zapata to paint what’s being called the largest mural ever created—at a size, as the New York Post’s “Page Six” put it, of 540,000 square feet, or about nine football fields. The New York–based Zapata—who the Post notes “has painted stars including Kim Kardashian and Sofia Vergara, and painted with the read more
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Labubus, Vintage YouTube, Pimple Patches, and More On View in the V&A’s Reopened ‘1900-Now’ Galleries
On Wednesday, the V&A in London reopened several galleries dedicated to design from the past 126 years. The newly installed Design 1900-Now spaces, which had been closed since November, showcase 250 objects from the 20th and 21st centuries, from a first edition of Kim Kardashian’s coffee table book Selfish, published in 2015, to a bottle read more
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iOS 26.4s Major New CarPlay Feature Revealed
Back at WWDC 2025, Apple revealed that it was planning to allow CarPlay users to watch video via AirPlay in their vehicles while they are not driving, and the first beta of iOS 26.4 suggests the feature may be nearing availability. There are several new references to CarPlay video streaming functionality within the iOS 26.4 read more
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A Vast Trove of Exposed Social Security Numbers May Put Millions at Risk of Identity Theft
After years spent finding and investigating data breaches, Greg Pollock admits that when he comes across yet another exposed database full of passwords and Social Security numbers, “I come to it with some fatigue.” But Pollock, director of research at the cybersecurity company UpGuard, says he and his colleagues found an exposed, publicly accessible database read more
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iPhone 17 Pro Max Curiously Becomes Most Traded-In Smartphone
New trade-in data indicates that Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max has rapidly become the single most traded-in smartphone. According to a new report from SellCell, Apple’s latest flagship iPhone has quickly risen to the top of the independent trade-in market, accounting for 11.5% of all devices appearing in the top-20 trade-in rankings just months after read more
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French Police Search Institut du Monde Arabe As Part of Epstein Probe
French police raided the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris on Monday as part of an investigation into its former president, ex–culture minister Jack Lang, who resigned earlier this month amid scrutiny over his past ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The cultural institution was one of several premises searched, France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s read more
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Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers | TechCrunch
Marketing is one of the few operations no industry can afford to ignore, which is why we have a veritable host of AI-powered marketing tools being shoved into marketers’ faces today. All the social platforms, from Facebook and Instagram to TikTok, and major incumbents like Microsoft and Google, to content-generation startups like Jasper and Copy.ai, read more
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Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app | TechCrunch
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s adding a music-generation feature to the Gemini app. The company is using DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music-generation model to power the feature, which is still in beta. To use the feature, you’ll describe the song you want to create, and the app will generate a track along with lyrics. For read more
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