Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $200M from Autodesk, part of a larger round; the companies are exploring integrating World Labs' AI models in Autodesk products (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/worl
💍 Origami-inspired ring lets users 'feel' virtual worlds
#vr
The UK government pledges £11M per year for the next three years for the BBC World Service, up 8% YoY; the Foreign Office provides ~30% of World Service funding (Sarah Young/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pumps-extra…
French Man Battling Cancer Named Sailor of the Year After Winning Treacherous Around-the-World Race https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/french-man-battling-cancer-named-sailor-of-the-year-after-winning-around-the-world-race/
Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/17/revealed-world-worst-methane-leaks-global-heating
The trump administration’s National Security Strategy made it official:
The American-dominated liberal world order is over.
This is not because the United States proved materially incapable of sustaining it.
Rather, the American order is over because the United States has decided that it no longer wishes to play its historically unprecedented role of providing global security.
The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used ins…
Meta changes course on Horizon Worlds VR shut-down (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass)
https://www.lowpass.cc/p/meta-changes-course-on-horizon-worlds-vr-shut-down