Artificial Intelligence Industry News

AI Business Weekly – February 17, 2026: AI Disruption Fears Trigger Market Panic as China's Tech Capabilities and Production-Ready Solutions Challenge US Dominance

Five stories revealing how China's AI advancement sparks analyst warnings, Hollywood legal battles intensify over copyright, logistics sector crashes on automation fears, Canada pursues sovereign tech alliances, and banking AI moves beyond demos to production

AI for Sales: Complete Guide 2026

How sales teams use AI to close more deals, automate prospecting, and focus on relationships that actually drive revenue

Banking AI Platform Uptiq Raises $25M Series B Led by Credit Union Collective Curql as Financial Institutions Demand Production-Ready Systems Over Demos

Canadian AI Minister Evan Solomon Tours Germany, Saudi Arabia, and India Seeking Tech Investment as Carney's "Middle Powers" Speech Gains Global Traction

Sovereign Technology Alliance signed at Munich Security Conference positions Canada as AI governance leader while minister pursues framework for Saudi investment and attends AI Impact Summit in India

Former Karaoke Company Algorhythm Holdings Triggers $23B Logistics Sector Crash With SemiCab AI Platform as "Category 5 Paranoia" Grips Trucking Giants

Penny stock's claim of 300-400% freight scaling without headcount increases sends CH Robinson down 24% intraday and Russell 3000 Trucking Index down 6.6% in AI disruption panic

Hollywood Studios Send Cease-and-Desist Letters to ByteDance Over Seedance 2.0 Copyright Infringement as SAG-AFTRA Condemns Unauthorized AI Likeness Use

Disney, Paramount issue legal demands after AI video model generates copyrighted characters and actor likenesses without consent, triggering industry's "DeepSeek moment" for entertainment

TS Lombard Economist Warns China Tech Shock "Just Getting Started" as US AI Monopoly Collapses

Chief China economist predicts most of world running on Chinese tech stack within 5-10 years as emerging economy reaches cutting edge of science for first time in history

AI Business Weekly – February 16, 2026: China's AI Independence Push Reshapes Global Technology Competition

Five stories revealing how Chinese tech giants deploy sovereign AI infrastructure from robotics to video generation while Western democracies scramble to reduce strategic dependencies

Zhipu AI Releases GLM-5 Open-Source Model Trained Entirely on Huawei Chips, Shares Surge 34% as Benchmarks Rival Claude Opus 4.5

Chinese AI company launches 744 billion parameter model under MIT license achieving record-low hallucination rate and 77.8% on SWE-bench while undercutting Claude pricing by 6x

MTN Ghana and Huawei Deploy World's First Large-Scale AI-Powered Alpha Antenna Improving Network Efficiency 30x

Self-adjusting antenna technology with real-time parameter retrieval and dynamic beam optimization increases traffic 6.8% while reducing maintenance costs 97% as China deepens Africa infrastructure foothold