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Cambridge University Press expands AI and digital literacy for kids

Cambridge revises its Primary and Lower Secondary Digital Literacy curricula to embed media literacy, authorship and artificial intelligence ethics for learners aged 5–14.

Canva acquires MangoAI and Cavalry as the design platform expands AI and enterprise-grade capabilities

Canva expands its artificial intelligence capabilities and professional creative suite with two acquisitions, the company said in a statement.

Cloudflare bolsters security credentials with "post-quantum" encryption

Cloudflare says Cloudflare One now integrates post-quantum encryption across its SASE platform at no added cost.

OpenX is selling political campaigns a faster route to premium ad inventory ahead of the 2026 midterms

With publishers tightening automated political buying and CTV supply tightening during election surges, the company is pitching guaranteed access to pre-vetted placements and a targeting approach built around voter values rather than party registration

Aalyria raises $100m and a $1.3bn valuation to wire together next-generation satellite networks

The company was built from over a decade of research at Google and Lawrence Livermore. Its technology is already running inside flagship commercial satellite programmes and government missions

Snowflake's AI coding agent breaks out of its own ecosystem to support dbt and Airflow

More than 4,400 developers adopted the tool in its first three months. Now Snowflake wants users who have never touched its core platform

OpenAI signs four of the world's biggest consultancies to sell its AI coworker platform into enterprises

BCG, McKinsey, Accenture and Capgemini will spend years redesigning workflows and aligning leadership around a product OpenAI says enterprises are struggling to deploy on their own.

Netflix donates £1m to National Film and Television School

The streaming giant is funding a new creativity hub at the National Film and Television School’s Beaconsfield campus as part of its UK skills initiative.

NVIDIA recruits five cybersecurity firms to protect critical infrastructure using AI run on its own chips

The push targets operational technology, where a successful attack can shut down a pipeline or a power grid rather than just compromise data. Xage already secures roughly 60% of US midstream pipeline infrastructure using the approac

Spotify's new AI playlist tool builds your queue from a sentence and explains every song it picks

The feature draws on your full listening history and what's trending globally right now. It launches on a platform that already hosts nearly 9 billion playlists

Experian acquires email identity firm AtData to expand fraud detection capabilities

The FTSE 100 data company adds over 10 billion email profiles worldwide through its purchase of the private equity-backed intelligence platform

Xbox highlights games from Black developers across four countries in Black History Month showcase

The ID@Xbox Developer Acceleration Program profiles studios from South Africa, Brazil, France and the US, spanning titles already available on Game Pass to games due later in 2026

Deepgram sets accuracy and latency benchmarks for enterprise voice AI platforms based on 4m call analysis

The speech recognition company says contact centres processing 50,000 or more calls monthly face base costs of up to $37,500 before integration and compliance expenses

Google for Education to offer free AI training to all 6 million US teachers and university faculty

The programme, launching in coming months, covers Gemini and NotebookLM and targets educators who collectively teach more than 74 million students

Deepgram identifies five pronunciation error types costing voice AI deployments millions annually

The speech technology company says mispronounced account numbers and transaction amounts drive costly human escalations at scale

OpenAI: the state of enterprise AI

OpenAI publishes a report documenting rapid enterprise AI adoption and measured impacts.

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are coming to Nintendo Switch for the franchise's 30th birthday

The 2004 Game Boy Advance remakes arrive digitally on 27 February, letting a new generation catch all 151 original Pokémon without hunting down vintage hardware

Upstart secures $200m forward-flow deal with Wafra for auto lending platform

Twelve-month agreement marks the first partnership between the two firms and supports Upstart's push to build a consistent auto finance funding base

BitGo and Figure complete first blockchain-native equity trades on regulated US venue

Settlement and trade records published on-chain in real time as the companies establish a model for broker-dealers seeking tokenised equity exposure

Microsoft names Asha Sharma EVP and CEO of Microsoft Gaming

Tech giant promotes Asha Sharma to lead Microsoft Gaming amid a planned leadership transition.