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Traditional product moats may need reconsideration in light of agentic AI tools. We can already speculate what new moats are and whether they’ll remain defensible enough

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He wants it to be able to play League of Legends as well.

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Georgia Tech Students Merge Analytics and Public Policy to Build Legislative AI ToolSuperadminSun, 02/22/2026 - 20:53 Keeping pace with the rapid movement of state and federal legislation is a high-stakes challenge for organizations and policymakers. To address this, a pair of Georgia Tech data analytics students developed Politheon, an AI agent-driven legislative tracking platform shaped by rigorous data analytics, a boost from Georgia Tech’s CREATE-X, and critical insights from data scientists in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.Co-founded by Daniel Forcade and Hanna Bodnar, recent graduates of Georgia Tech’s Master of Science in Analytics program, Politheon is designed to overcome the limitations of standard artificial intelligence in providing businesses and other organizations with accurate and actionable information about legislative activity.Bodnar credits the team's collaboration with Associate Professor Omar Asensio’s Data Science and Policy Lab in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy for helping shape the platform."Collaborating with Professor Asensio’s lab was pivotal," Bodnar said. "As engineers, we had to expand our perspective beyond the technical implementation and deeply understand how public policy researchers and practitioners interpret legislative data. That interdisciplinary feedback helped us design a system that is both technically rigorous and policy-aware."Forcade agreed, saying it took the combined resources of CREATE-X and the collaboration with Asensio’s lab to make Politheon what it is.“CREATE-X gave us the business foundation to build and scale, while our collaboration with Professor Asensio’s lab helped us strengthen the scientific rigor behind the system. In policy, it's incredibly important to have testing, validation, and empirical grounding behind what you build.”When it comes to understanding the potential impact of sometimes obliquely written legislation, precision and insight are vital. Publicly available large language models often struggle in these environments, sounding authoritative but often hallucinating in place of facts and failing to reason out the hidden impacts of legislation. Politheon, however, offers a potential solution, Asensio said."This is a very exciting use case for agentic AI in the context of evidence-informed policy," he said.The project originally started as the final project for Bodnar and Forcade’s analytics program. Forcade said their instructors encouraged them to apply to CREATE-X to take the project further.Forcade said CREATE-X liked the idea but asked them to talk to more experts. Forcade and Bodnar then reached out to Asensio.Asensio was enthusiastic and invited them to present at his lab, where his team spent two and a half hours offering Forcade and Bodnar intensive constructive feedback. The duo has been collaborating with the lab ever since.Asensio noted that this kind of cross-pollination is an embedded feature of his lab."We often start with data or policy solutions to guide technical development, and not the other way around," Asensio said. "This means our technologists learn to do causal inference and policy impact evaluation, and our policy scholars learn to code and train models and algorithms as part of their work."That focus on critical evaluation aligns seamlessly with the founders' technical training."My background in mathematics and Georgia Tech’s Analytics program gave me a strong foundation in statistical modeling and machine learning systems," Bodnar said. "The program emphasizes not just building models but evaluating them rigorously. That mindset shaped how we designed Politheon, especially how we validate outputs and measure accuracy in a space where precision really matters."The platform is already demonstrating its capabilities. Recent agent outputs include a large-scale scan of more than 25,000 Oregon bills, drawn from a broader searchable database of over 1.6 million state and federal bills, identifying emerging trends in artificial intelligence regulation. The system has also delivered validated, cross-jurisdictional analysis of “buy-now-pay-later” legislation in New York and Congress, with findings reviewed by senior government affairs professionals, tracing how the issue emerged and how it evolved over time.The startup recently secured $100,000 in funding which helped build complete, and near real-time, data coverage across the federal government and all U.S. states.“The raise enabled us to bring in the live data stream,” Forcade said. “With real-time coverage in place, we’re now advancing pricing discussions and pilot rollouts with multiple organizations.”Ultimately, the platform is designed to provide clarity amid the noise of modern governance."Policy moves quickly, and missing a compliance date or legislative shift can be costly," Bodnar said. "Our goal is to surface what’s relevant, explain why it matters, and provide clear citations to the original bills so teams can make informed decisions with confidence.” Subtitle Summary sentence Two Georgia Tech alums have built an AI-agent-driven tool to track legislation with extensive help from the Data Science and Policy Lab in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy. Summary Two Georgia Tech alums have built an AI-agent-driven tool to track legislation with extensive help from the Data Science and Policy Lab in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy. Dateline Wed, 02/18/2026 - 12:00 Email michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu Contact Michael PearsonIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts Associated importer 1 News room topics Campus and Community Mercury ID 688364 Source updated Sun, 02/22/2026 - 20:39

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The telco group, which delivered a 58 per cent drop in interim net profit after a writedown, is competing aggressively for business customers.

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Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent building data centres all over the planet, as all of us flock to AI. But at what cost?

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At a defining moment in human history, the world gathered at the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi. For us in India, it...

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Fighting fires could be done remotely without the need to place firefighting crews directly in potentially dangerous situations by using collaborative teams of artificial intelligence-powered robots with extinguishing equipment on board, with an initial soft trial of the technology proving successful.

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The Indian technological space has been blowing up in February 2026, even as the India AI Impact Summit 2026 was underway in New Delhi. The reason? The unveiling of new indigenous and sovereign AI models from Sarvam, Gnani.ai, and BharatGen. Spanning real-world, voice, and language interfaces, these models are a huge step towards building homegrown [...]The post All About India’s Indigenous AI LLM Models – Can They Help Tackle Bias? appeared first on Sify.

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The summit focused on seven pillars: human capital development, access for social empowerment, trustworthy AI, energy efficiency, AI in science, democratizing AI resources, and AI for economic growth

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Amaravati: The political climate in many parts of Andhra Pradesh was marred on Friday by tense moments after workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youth wing protested Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s...

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Philippine Canadian Inquirer February 22, 2026 MANILA, Philippines — AKTOR – League of Filipino Actors condemned the inappropriate use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the storytelling industry, following the [...]

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Local firms that have released new models or upgraded existing ones are investor favourites.

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India’s AI ambitions hit limits at global summit Financial TimesWhat are the key takeaways from AI summit? | Explained The Hindu"AI Summit Turning Point For How World Will Use AI": PM Modi In Mann Ki Baat NDTVAI Impact Summit 2026 Concludes with Adoption of New Delhi Declaration PIBPM’s address in the 131st Episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ PM India

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The declaration argues that “robust digital infrastructure and meaningful and affordable connectivity".

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(MENAFN - AsiaNet News) BJP Leaders Condemn Protest Days after the Indian Youth Congress protest at the AI Impact Summit, Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar said that the Congress may demonstrate its ...

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AI Summit 2026 LIVE: The AI Impact Summit 2026 that is being hosted at the Bharat Mandapam has entered its fifth and penultimate day today, 20 February. This is also the last day where speakers from different companies, countries and organisations will deliver addresses and engage in fireside chats. Dozens of world leaders and ministers [...]

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Tension: Advertising’s AI adoption has outpaced governance, leaving marketers caught between competitive pressure and regulatory exposure. Noise: The...The post The ad industry’s AI problem isn’t adoption—it’s accountability appeared first on DMNews.

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(MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hailed the recently concluded AI Impact Summit held in New Delhi's Bharat Mandapam and said that through this, the ...

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A technology writer's full switch to locally hosted AI tools reveals that capable document processing, writing assistance, and code generation no longer require cloud services—challenging Big Tech's subscription models while offering absolute privacy guarantees on existing consumer hardware.

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It is untenable for most people to get their media stories from AI and expect the Australian media to produce these stories without the revenue to cover the cost.

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New Xbox head Sarah Bond publicly pledged that Microsoft's gaming platform will not be overrun with AI-generated content, calling it 'soulless AI slop' and positioning human creativity as Xbox's core value amid an industry-wide debate over artificial intelligence in game development.

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OpenAI ​is targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute ​spend through 2030, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday, as the ChatGPT maker lays groundwork for an ‌IPO that ⁠could ⁠value it at up to $1 trillion.

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Kharge said Karnataka has extended full cooperation to every initiative of the Centre, rising above party lines in the national interest, but alleged that the IT ministers of Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu were not invited to the AI Summit.

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