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Lufthansa Technik macht den Tisch im Flugzeug zum Touchscreen
Lufthansa Technik integriert einen Touchscreen in den Klapptisch im Flugzeug. Einen Prototyp stellt das Unternehmen auf der Luftfahrtmesse in Dubai vor.

Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/snapchat-launches-creator-subscription-in-the-u-s/…

Snapchat launches creator subscription in the U.S. | TechCrunch
Snapchat will let creators set their monthly subscription price.

Automattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands. (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/wordpress-co…

WordPress.com adds an AI Assistant that can edit, adjust styles, create images, and more | TechCrunch
The WordPress AI assistant doesn't need precisely tailored prompts, either.

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.

Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/anthropic-taps-for…

Anthropic taps former Microsoft India MD to lead Bengaluru expansion | TechCrunch
Irina Ghose joins Anthropic as India managing director after 24 years at Microsoft.

Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B parameter open-weight models supporting 70 languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/cohere-launches-a-family-of-open-mu…

Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models | TechCrunch
Cohere's Tiny Aya models support over 70 langauges

Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/mistral-ai-buys-k…

Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions | TechCrunch
Mistral AI has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it.

Ford plans to repurpose its US battery manufacturing capacity to launch a battery energy storage business for data centers, amid a shift away from large EVs (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/ford-is-starting-a-bat…

Ford is starting a battery storage business to power data centers and the grid  | TechCrunch
Ford will invest about $2 billion into the new business over the next two years.

Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/adob

Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models | TechCrunch
Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.

Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/uber

Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm's doctors | TechCrunch
Leona Health built an AI co-pilot to manage the flood of patient messages Latin American doctors receive on WhatsApp.