Tootfinder

JetStream Security, which offers an "AI Blueprints" tool that provides real-time mapping of AI agent activity, raised a $34M seed led by Redpoint (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/03/ai-governance-c…

Exclusive: CrowdStrike and SentinelOne veterans raise $34M to tackle enterprise AI’s governance gap
As companies deploy AI at scale, JetStream wants to give enterprises a way to see, control, and stop it.

“ Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the U.S”
#ai #adoption

Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the U.S.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-electric-vehicles-real-world-reductions.html

Quote from “Kaine & Rubio Applaud Adoption of Their Amendment to the NDAA to Prevent Any U.S. President from Leaving NATO” 19 July 2023:
https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/k…

"As flexibility increases, so does the adoption of RTP. However, this relationship weakens if consumers’ electricity bills are dominated by non-energy components such as grid fees, taxes, and retail markups. When these costs are substantial, RTP becomes less attractive and adoption remains limited."
https://

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116165631106678137
I am never regretful about my 30 year commitment to never clicking on any online advertisement.
Nor my more recent adoption of DNS-based ad blocking of a couple thousand ad-related hostna…

Electric ​cars ​go ​mainstream as ​adoption ​surges ​across ​rich and ​developing ​nations
#ElectricVehicles
#EnergyTransition https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/29/electric-cars-go-mainstream-as-adoption-surges-across-rich-and-developing-nations?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Wer nutzt eigentlich #matrix oder #elements hier ?
Theoretisch geil … aber Adoption? #diday

Challenger: US tech sector job cuts rose to 18,720 in March, up 24% YoY, taking the Q1 total to 52,000 ; AI accounted for 25% of layoffs across all industries (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@gruber I purposefully have automatic downloads and updates turned off because OS 26 seems half-baked and I wanted to wait. Last weekend, after pestering me for a week even though I kept pressing “cancel update” my iPhone and iPad ignored all that and installed OS 26 overnight. I know I’m in the minority, but how do we evaluate the adoption rate with this in mind?

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

from my link log —
Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS cloud with Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD).
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9167399
saved 2020-09-18

The "Board of Peace" was created as a result of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adoption of Resolution 2803 on November 17, 2025,
which authorized the organization as a “transitional administration with international legal personality”
intended to “set the framework and coordinate funding for the redevelopment of Gaza.”
However, the organizational charter revealed in Davos is light on details and makes no mention of Gaza.
This has caused many to…

“Board of Peace” Trademark Filings Reveal Its Murky Legal Status
The “Board of Peace” trademarks are not owned by the organization itself, but by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, marking an unprecedented use of executive branch power to protect rights of an ambiguously defined supranational entity.

💩 Understanding ammonia energy's tradeoffs around the world
#energy

Understanding ammonia energy's tradeoffs around the world
Many people are optimistic about ammonia's potential as an energy source and carrier of hydrogen, and though large-scale adoption would require major changes to the way it is currently manufactured, ammonia does have a number of advantages. For one thing, ammonia is energy-dense and carbon-free. It is also already produced at scale and shipped around the world, primarily for use in fertilizer.

Wikimedia data puts iOS 26 adoption at ~50% in January vs. iOS 18's 72% in 2025 as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter showed 15% after missing Safari changes (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/ios_26_adoption_rate_is_not_bizar…

The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.

Ludicrous Feed | EV Adoption In Australia
Highlights the current state of electric vehicle adoption in Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ludicrous-feed/

Remember: They're only going after the worst of the worst.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723914/ice-iran-deporatation-adoption-adoptee-veteran

Krebs besiegt, aber Versicherung und Adoption verwehrt: Nella Rausch spricht im Digital-Health-Podcast darüber, wie wichtig das Recht auf Vergessenwerden ist.
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Digital-Health-Podcast-W…

#OpenTelemetry Project Publishes “Demystifying OpenTelemetry” Guide to Broaden Observability Adoption
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/02/opentelemetry-observability/

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns (Melissa Heikkilä/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p69#a260120p69

It's kind of funny: at work I was called a "cloud native champion" for our work in cloud adoption. - And at home im getting rid of all big tech.

#payment #wero tracker
https://werotracker.eu/

@… hi, <https://itsfoss.com/news/freebsd-laptop-adoption/>
"The FreeBSD Foundation is responsible for the FreeBSD project, including…

"Survey finds 85.8% of Canadians support agrivoltaics"
#Canada #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables…

Survey finds 85.8% of Canadians support agrivoltaics
Canadian researchers conducted the first nationwide survey on public attitudes toward agrivoltaics, finding strong support across provinces with 85.8% of respondents in favor, although preferences varied by configuration. Opposition mainly stemmed from resistance to change, aesthetic concerns, and lack of awareness, highlighting the need for public education and updated policy frameworks to enable wider adoption.

Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B round led by PSG Equity (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hk4kpt2owl

Al final, te van a obligar a usar la IA para que triunfe la IA.
“Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth”
https://www.

The UK government has announced plans to provide free AI training to all adults, aiming to upskill 10 million people by 2030 and boost confidence and adoption of AI across the workforce.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/government/govt-plan-ai-trai…

Government announces free AI training for 10 million workers by 2030
The UK government has announced plans to provide free AI training to all adults, aiming to upskill 10 million people by 2030 and boost confidence ...

From abandonment to adoption: advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles/10.3389/fdgth.2025.1719746/full

Frontiers | From abandonment to adoption: advancing assistive technologies for blindness and low vision in the AI era
Assistive technologies can enhance safety, independence, and quality of life for people with blindness and low vision. Despite their benefits, abandonment of...

Americans' Junk-Filled Garages Are Hurting EV Adoption, Study Says - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/22/0020202/americans-junk-filled-garages-are-hurting-ev-adoption-study-says

I think that if you care about long term human maintainability of software, you should be optimistic (at least cautiously) for AI tools for translating, eg, COBOL to other languages.
The decline in the adoption of languages is as real a threat to long-term maintainability as the AI slop-pocalyse people are worrying about.
We've spent decades creating layers upon layers of abstraction to the point where no-one knows how computers work. Telling developers to "Git Gud"…

"Author Name Disambiguation in Scholarly Research: A Bibliometric Perspective"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0035
"The rapid expansion of scholarly publishing has amplified the long-standing challenge of author name ambiguity in academic databases. This issue, manifesting a…

NIST is seeking input on a demonstration of how identity and authorization standards and best practices can be applied to AI agents.
ACCELERATING THE
ADOPTION OF
SOFTWARE AND AI
AGENT IDENTITY AND
AUTHORIZATION
https://www.

Anthropic confirms it leaked parts of Claude Code's source code, saying the leak was "a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/anthropic-leak-claude-code-internal…

Anthropic leaks part of Claude Code's internal source code
Claude Code has seen massive adoption over the last year, and its run-rate revenue had swelled to more than $2.5 billion as of February.

Of course @… is mentioned in iOS dev weekly 😍😍

“Apple is only continuing to patch iOS 18 on devices that can’t run iOS 26.”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/are-people-avoiding-ios-26-because-of-liquid-glass-its-complicated/
Wow. So not only has Apple los…

Are people avoiding iOS 26 because of Liquid Glass? It’s complicated.
Liquid Glass is controversial, but adoption rates aren't as low as they seem.

Sensor Tower: video streaming app downloads grew 39% YoY in 2025, with revenue up 18%; microdrama downloads grew 100% and traditional streaming apps fell 4% (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Video Streaming App Downloads Boomed in 2025, Fueled by Microdramas
Despite their global success in adoption and monetization, however, apps that specialize in vertical video were less successful when it came to engagement.

France plans to stop using US-based video conferencing platforms across its government departments by 2027.
Under the plan, a domestically developed video meeting service known as Visio will become the standard tool for public servants, with full adoption expected next year.
https://www.

France to replace US video conferencing with domestic alternatives
France plans to stop using US-based video conferencing platforms across its government departments by 2027.

Peut-être que je ne suis pas assez la vie politique française, mais il n'avait pas promis de ne pas utiliser le 49.3, ce premier ministre??
"Le Monde – EN DIRECT, budget 2026 : Sébastien Lecornu confirme son recours au 49.3 pour l’adoption du PLF, avec « regrets et un peu d’amertume »"

EN DIRECT, budget 2026 : Sébastien Lecornu confirme son recours au 49.3 pour l’adoption du PLF, avec « regrets et un peu d’amertume »
A la sortie du conseil des ministres, Sébastien Lecornu a dénoncé des tentatives « très claires de sabotage » de la part de LFI et du RN. Il a par ailleurs réaffirmé à plusieurs reprises son objectif de ramener le déficit à 5 % du produit intérieur brut. LFI et le RN vont déposer des motions de censure.

“To keep the power in the hands of developers and honor its deep roots in open source, Netlify is committed to being good stewards of the Gatsby open-source project”
February 2023
https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-acqu

Simple Sabotage Field Manual 2026:
Encourage reckless LLM adoption. Exaggerate successes. Cultivate FOMO about it.

Sensor Tower: consumers spent $85B on apps globally in 2025, up 21% YoY, and, in a first, more money went on non-game mobile apps than on games, driven by GenAI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/cons…

Consumers spent more on mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption | TechCrunch
Consumers spent more money in mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption.

Microsoft's AI datacenters are now completely closed loop, liquid-cooled w/ zero evaporation loss.
At construction, they are filled with as much water as a golf course during the summertime ONCE, then never again.
✅ Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - Microsoft
https://

Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - The Official Microsoft Blog
This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud services. Today in Wisconsin we introduced Fairwater, our newest US AI datacenter, the largest and most sophisticated AI factory we’ve built yet. In addition to...

nobody wants that liquid ass stuff
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/ios-26-adoption-struggles-with-iphone-users

I know that following a hashtag is part of the Mastodon protocol itself, but since I'm in @… the majority of the time - it feels like it would be cool to:
- Offer a "follow for a week" / month option
- "We'll ask you when time's up"
mechanism (maybe the ask part is configurable? maybe the client could also just handle it when next it runs?)
I hit this time and time again for moment in time events where during the thick of it, I'm invested and interested - conferences, world news, etc - but after which there's no more signal in the hashtag and it's just detritus putting load on a server somewhere.
Ideally this is something that should be in the protocol itself, but it feels like similar to quote replies that @… could bring a better user experience in advance of adoption of something like that

The schizophrenia of these people is mind-blowing:
"Europe faces growing tensions with the US – its chief supplier of liquefied natural gas – over Donald Trump’s desire to take over Greenland. At a summit in Davos on Tuesday, the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, criticised Europe’s adoption of solar and wind, arguing that its lack of domestic battery factories risked making it “subservient” to China.
“If you are going to be dependent on someone, it had better be your be…

Alle Bundespolitiker_innen so:
"Wir werfen KI auf alles und streichen dafür gaaaanz viele Stellen."
IBM so:
"We are tripling our entry-level hiring, and yes, that is for software developers and all these jobs we’re being told AI can do.”
https://

IBM is tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
Gen Z jobs aren’t dead yet: $240 billion tech giant IBM says it’s rewriting entry-level jobs—and tripling down on its hiring of young talent.

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran,
who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian,
is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and now on the brink of war with the United States.
She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a fracture at the intersection of adoption and immigration law.
 
The woman, who The Associated Pres…

Woman adopted by American war veteran faces deportation to Iran
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States. She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a legal loophole. The woman, who The Associated Press is not naming because of her legal situation, received a letter this month order…

Nesta poll on public attitudes to AI in the public sector: 'Top concerns centre on AI inaccuracy, over-reliance and privacy risks'
https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/five-essential-insights-for-public-sector-managers-on-a…

Five essential insights for public sector managers on AI and public trust
Our findings highlight five critical areas of concern and support that should inform how public sector organisations approach AI adoption

"Electric cars can make power grids more reliable (and earn owners money)—so why aren't we doing that?"
#EV #ElectricVehicles #cars

Electric cars can make power grids more reliable (and earn owners money)—so why aren't we doing that?
Electric vehicles (EVs) can effectively serve as mobile batteries that provide energy to the power grid when not being driven, improving the reliability of the grid, serving as a source of backup power and potentially reducing energy and EV ownership costs. So why have so few places adopted the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) model? A new study details the barriers to V2G adoption and outlines possible paths forward for this technology.

🔧 Deploy via SGLang, vLLM, MLX, llamacpp with OpenAI-compatible API endpoints
💻 QwenCode CLI agent for terminal-based development workflows & large codebase automation
🔓 Apache-2.0 open-weight release for flexible developer adoption
🌐 https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3.5
🌎

Very sensible call for far more caution and a much needed reality-check on 'AI' adoption: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019026272/oxford-professor-s-ai-disaster-warning

A study of 12K EU companies finds AI adoption increases labor productivity by 4% on average in the EU, with no evidence of reduced employment in the short run (CEPR)
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-ai-affecting-productivity-and-jobs-europe

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-fin.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.GN/new
[1/1]:
- Design-Robust Event-Study Estimation under Staggered Adoption Diagnostics, Sensitivity, and Ortho...
Craig S Wright

"Scaling ORCID Adoption: Technical and Organizational Approaches Within a Research Organization"
#ORCID iD use…

“ Collectively, these optimizations target common real-world bottlenecks, improving consistency across a wide variety of configurations. HTTP Archive data supports this pattern, showing that WordPress performance variance is driven more by configuration than by core limitations.”
💐 Flowers for the #WordPress performance team, gifted by

CMS | 2025 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive
CMS chapter of the 2025 Web Almanac covering CMS adoption, user experience of websites running on CMS platforms, and CMS resource weights.

SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent #Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks
#LLM …

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters
#AI #AISlop #Microsoft

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters | - The Times of India
Tech News News: Microsoft has appointed Charlie Bell, its former security chief, as the company's new engineering quality head — less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said AI writes 30% of its code. The move comes amid rising Windows 11 bugs, underwhelming Copilot adoption, and growing evidence that AI-generated code introduces more errors than it eliminates.

How did the Council approve the #Mercosur agreement, exactly?
«EU capitals now have until 5 p.m. on Friday to lodge any objections and formalize the vote. This so-called written procedure»
https://www.

A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-

Global AI Adoption in 2025 – AI Economy Institute | Microsoft
Global adoption of AI continued to rise in the second half of 2025 as the digital divide between the Global South and Global North widens.

from my link log —
Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS cloud with Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD).
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9167399
saved 2020-09-18

Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running iOS 18 as of Jan. 21, 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/13/apple-shares-ios-26-adoption-stats/

Apple Reveals How Many iPhones Are Running iOS 26
Apple has shared updated iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adoption figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads are running those software versions. These...

Zenlayer (#AS4229 and others):
"[...] new pricing policy for public IPv4 addresses will take effect on March 31, 2026, reflecting rising IPv4 costs [...]"
"All compute products will no longer include complimentary public IPv4 addresses by default."
"Customers are strongly encouraged to accelerate IPv6 adoption to support a sustainable long-term network architecture."

Je cherche un.e dev web pour un coup de main rémunéré, siouplé.
Je m'étais porté volontaire pour ce coup de main "rémunéré entre potes". Mes contingences personnelles (l'adoption de ma fille (elle a 11 mois), l'envie de profiter du temps "libre" que m'offre une procédure de licenciement percutée par un diagnostic de TDA pour parenter plutôt que coder/configurer) font que j'ai plus du tout la tête Š ça.
Le repouet stimule l'introspection…

A new global study shows that AI adoption varies by seniority,
with 87% of executives using it on the job
(who likely will not be held accountable for wrong decisions)
compared with 57% of managers
and 27% of employees (who will).
https://www.busine…

Executives are adopting AI at higher rates than employees, study says
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.

Report: AI-generated music uploads account for <1% of total streams; AI-adoption is strongest in functional and low-stakes settings such as background music (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2026/02/12/report…

Report: How the music Industry is battling AI music flood
The music industry has long been defined by an extreme winner-takes-all dynamic. A small number of tracks, artists, and platforms account for the majority of li

And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

🗾 Japan is betting big on AI. Few workers have used it.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/02/japan/society/ai-awareness-japan-jobs/
🆓

Japan is betting big on AI. Few workers have used it.
Surveys show strong public confidence, despite shallow workplace adoption and unresolved cultural concerns.

Animal adoption cures. Just watch.
▶️ Lonely ram had no friends for 10 years. This woman gave him a family.
#huxley

PayPal survey in October 2025: 40% of merchants already accept crypto, led by large enterprises, 85% expect crypto payments to be commonplace by 2030, and more (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/387280/crypto-…

How many blind people will trust Elon Musk with their brain well enough to get a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision, especially since Musk's real ambitions lie in mass adoption of BCIs for interfacing with AI. Is Blindsight merely a temporary stepping stone?

“By moving the usual ‘deterrence’ part to the top and focusing on offense, which is usually only lightly referred to in past unclassified strategies, the administration has greatly emphasized that pillar, which will clearly get it the most attention in the short term,” Ari Schwartz, managing director of cybersecurity services and policy at Venable LLP, told CSO.
My latest CSO piece.

Trump’s cyber strategy emphasizes offensive operations, deregulation, AI
The White House unveiled a cybersecurity strategy built around six pillars, prioritizing offensive operations, AI adoption, and deregulation, while leaving critics to question whether cutting red tape and hardening infrastructure can coexist.

It's a shame that the press release for quantum computer investment has to be wrapped in "AI". Where the "race" has been reframed as the consumption, rather than production, of technologies.
In many ways quantum tech matches the UK's traditional strengths - big expensive important research with (let's face it) extremely vague plans for commercialisation.

UK will win AI race as Chancellor sets out economic ‘big choices’
UK will win the AI adoption race as Chancellor sets out her economic growth ‘big choices’

In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the "doomer narrative" may be winning (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

"A dancing bear, a colleague, or a sharpened toolbox? The cautious adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies in digital humanities research"
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.70066

“By moving the usual ‘deterrence’ part to the top and focusing on offense, which is usually only lightly referred to in past unclassified strategies, the administration has greatly emphasized that pillar, which will clearly get it the most attention”
https://www.

Trump’s cyber strategy emphasizes offensive operations, deregulation, AI
The White House unveiled a cybersecurity strategy built around six pillars, prioritizing offensive operations, AI adoption, and deregulation, while leaving critics to question whether cutting red tape and hardening infrastructure can coexist.

Two kinds of #AI #users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.
https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-k

Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac)
https://www.cultofmac.com/news/ios-26-adoption-struggles-with-iphone-users

iOS 26 still struggles to gain traction with iPhone users
iOS 26 is turning out to be a dud — adoption among iPhone users trails way behind what's typical months after an Apple OS release. Here's why.

The automotive industry’s big bet on a rapid adoption of electric vehicles — in the United States —continues to unwind.
Today, Stellantis, which owns brands like Jeep and Dodge, as well as Fiat, Peugeot, and others,
announced that it has “reset” its business to adapt to lower EV sales, which comes with a rather painful $26.2 billion (€22.2 billion) write-down.
It wasn’t that long ago that everyone was more bullish on electrification.
Even the US had relatively ambitiou…

Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy
The automaker follows Ford and GM in writing down huge sums after betting wrong.

Sources: Accenture told execs promotions would require "regular adoption" of AI and is tracking individual weekly logins to its AI tools for some senior staff (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ac672f97-a603-4c56-afa3-4a5273d45674

Accenture combats AI refuseniks by linking promotions to log-ins
Consulting firms use ‘carrot and stick’ with some senior staff less willing to use technology than junior colleagues

By the end of the year the U.S. had fallen behind the rest of the planet in adoption of #EVs. Sure there was some growth but only because there were rebates available before they were killed by the stable genius. But sales surged outside of the USA.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ex2l58en4o

Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military (David Jeans/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/pentago…

Canva COO Cliff Obrecht says the company hit $4B in ARR at the end of 2025, had 265M MAUs and 31M paid users, and expects to IPO in the next "couple of years" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/canva-gets-to-4b-i…

Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises | TechCrunch
The creative company's monthly active users increased 20%, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools.

Airbnb expands its Reserve Now, Pay Later feature globally, after a US pilot for domestic travel saw a 70% adoption rate for eligible bookings (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/airbnb-expands-its-reserve-now-pay-later-globally/

Airbnb expands its "Reserve Now, Pay Later" globally | TechCrunch
The feature allows users to cancel eligible bookings if there is a change of plans -- without losing money upfront.

stakeholders are invited to reply to the following questions:
1. What are strengths & weaknesses of the #EU #OpenSource sector? What are the main barriers that hamper
(i) adoption and maintenance of high-quality and secure open source; and (ii) sustainable contributions to
open-source communities?
2. What is the added value of open source for the public and private sectors? Please provide concrete examples,
including the factors (such as cost, risk, #LockIn, #security, innovation, among
1/2

In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by "every big VC" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/peter-steinberger-chose-o…

Peter Steinberger Chose OpenAI. The Code Was Never the Point.
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI over Meta. The 196,000-star project's code wasn't the prize. Its adoption graph was.

Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7a5b184-1fef-4f02-b957-4c2b07adf91f

Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments for threats, raised a $30M Series B led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $85M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hk42i2ddbg

Reco raises $30 million Series B to secure AI SaaS adoption across enterprises
The funding aims to expand platform reach amid rising Shadow AI usage and regulatory scrutiny. 

How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/09/trump-administration-ai-p…

Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. See what happened.
The Trump administration is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.

"Colorado group looks to boost heat pumps with $200M federal grant"
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Colorado group looks to boost heat pumps with $200M federal grant
It’s a rare example of a Biden-era climate grant moving forward under Trump — and could grow heat pump adoption across the Denver area.

Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Big US hospital systems have become a proving ground for AI adoption; a survey finds that 27% of health systems are paying for commercial AI licenses (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hospitals-are-

A look at the OpenClaw craze in China: AI labs launch tools to help users set up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts policies to support AI agents, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-09/china-s…