AI in software testing is widely adopted but struggles with integration; budgets and ROI are rising as automation use cases expand.
AI is central to modern software testing but operational maturity trails adoption: integration is the primary barrier, budget increases for AI testing are widely planned, and reported ROI-especially among longer tenured users-is strong. Teams prioritize test case generation, test data creation, and automated maintenance to reduce manual effort and accelerate releases; the report correlates ROI with maturity and outlines industry and regional breakdowns and near term predictions for AI testing evolution.

Sonata Software achieves AWS Premier Tier status, validating its AWS cloud migration, modernization, and AI deployment capabilities.
Sonata Software attained AWS Premier Tier Services Partner status, recognizing its expertise in designing, architecting, building, migrating, and managing AWS workloads and validating a strong pool of AWS-trained and certified consultants with capabilities across professional services, program delivery, complex cloud transformations, and deployment of customer solutions on AWS.

IIHM Young Chef Olympiad integrates AI heritage preservation with global student exchanges and institutional MOUs for culinary education.
The Young Chef Olympiad 2026 was a student first global competition that integrated AI enabled heritage preservation with formalised international collaboration, producing country specific Culinary Heritage GPTs, an AI literacy programme (AI LEAP), and Global MOUs and a Global Culinary Knowledge Declaration to support student and faculty exchanges, shared research, and structured documentation of culinary traditions.

BML Munjal University hosts Propel Pitchfest26 to showcase startups and connect founders with investors, mentors, and accelerators.
BML Munjal University will host Propel Pitchfest26 and EIS 4.0 on 11-12 February 2026 as a launchpad for early-stage and growth-ready ventures, providing access to investor funding, acceleration programmes, mentorship and ecosystem partnerships; selected startups may enter ACIC-BMU accelerator programmes to support long-term scale-up, with emphasis on AI and deep-tech, sustainability, healthcare and med-tech, manufacturing innovation, women-led startups and social entrepreneurship.

CGI outlines a 50th anniversary strategy prioritising AI, cloud, global delivery and employee ownership to drive long term client value.
CGI announces a 50th anniversary strategy focused on a client proximate global delivery model delivering AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data and digital transformation services; expansion of Global Capability Centers for digital engineering, cloud and AI; reinforcement of an employee ownership governance model (CGI Partners) to ensure accountability and talent development; and commitments to community engagement, education and digital access while highlighting planned 2026 initiatives to demonstrate continued evolution and long term value creation.

Quora users in India rely on peer and expert content, with 38% influenced by platform answers in financial decisions.
Survey of Quora users in India shows extended pre-decision research (56% >1 week; 26% >1 month), strong preference for real-person perspectives (82%), and platform influence (38% influenced by Quora answers; 35% find Quora more valuable than other sources). Users trust experience-driven and expert content (73% trust similar-life respondents; 71% trust independent experts), combining technical facts with social proof, creating actionable opportunities for early-stage marketer engagement.

Art de Vivre a la franc aise showcases French design excellence and fosters Indo French collaboration and innovation.
The second edition of Art de Vivre a la franc aise at India Design ID 2026 presents a 350m2 exhibition of 16 French houses across design and lifestyle categories, paired with an Indian guest designer and the Indo French Design Dialogues to promote creative collaboration, material innovation, and bilateral commercial and cultural partnerships within the India France Year of Innovation.

Teachers are using AI to redesign lesson planning and assessments, recovering time for mentoring and real-time classroom feedback.
TeachBetter.ai's research shows teachers are embedding AI into core instructional workflows-notably lesson planning (55%) and assessment design (48%)-and that platform use recovers an average of 4.7 hours weekly which is reinvested into mentoring and differentiated instruction. Version 4.0's Live Quiz & Poll Generator enables instant creation, sharing, response capture, auto-grading, and immediate feedback, positioning the platform as integrated teaching infrastructure that reduces technical overhead and supports a transition from automation to pedagogical transformation.

India-China ties: focus on an updated air services agreement, visa facilitation, export control concerns, and border tranquillity.
The dialogue recognised the need for early conclusion of an updated air services agreement, continued practical steps for visa facilitation and people-to-people contacts, and efforts to address concerns on export control measures affecting critical minerals, all framed within a strategic, long-term approach to deepen trust, expand cooperation and maintain peace and tranquillity in border areas.

DeepSnitch AI presale raises $1.53M offering AI analytics tokens, amid MicroStrategy Bitcoin purchase and investor risk warnings.
DeepSnitch AI raised approximately $1.53 million at a presale price of $0.03906, promoted for its five agent AI analytics suite that provides contract analysis, risk scoring, scam flags, breakout spotting and sentiment/FUD alerts, with tiered presale bonus incentives (30% on $2K+; 300% on $30K+). The article also reports Strategy's reported purchase of ~1,140 BTC for $90 million at an average ~$78,800 per coin and includes an explicit investor risk disclaimer advising independent financial advice and disavowing liability.

India-US interim trade pact protects sensitive agricultural and dairy sectors while reducing reciprocal tariffs to 18%.
India has preserved full non concessional treatment for specified sensitive agricultural and dairy goods - maize, wheat, rice, soya, poultry, milk, cheese, ethanol, tobacco, certain vegetables and meat - by not granting duty concessions under the interim trade pact with the US, and where limited access exists it is constrained by tariff rate quota mechanisms; reciprocal tariffs for labour intensive exports are reduced to 18% to enhance competitiveness.

Equity markets open higher then turn choppy as Sensex gains about 213 points and investors book profits.
Equity benchmarks opened higher but turned volatile as investors booked profits after early gains; the Sensex rose about 213 points to 84,487.34 and the Nifty reached 26,009.40. Early sector movers included Mahindra & Mahindra, Titan, Tata Steel and others as gainers, with HCL Technologies, Trent, Bharat Electronics, ITC and major industrial names lagging. Brent crude rose to USD 69.32 and institutional flows showed FIIs net buyers of about Rs 69.45 crore while DIIs bought around Rs 1,174.21 crore.

Asian markets rose as weak US retail data weighed on yields and raised prospects of future monetary easing.
Asian equities rose after disappointing US retail sales reduced Treasury yields and raised prospects of US monetary easing; forthcoming US labour and inflation reports were flagged as key for rate decisions. Company earnings and a revised takeover offer in the media sector caused stock-specific moves, while oil, precious metals and currency fluctuations accompanied the market response.

DMK announces seat-sharing committee to start talks with allies from Feb 22 and election preparations continue.
DMK will form a seat-sharing committee, to be constituted by party president M. K. Stalin, and begin talks with allies from February 22 after the Assembly session ends. The move responds to Congress concerns about delay; DMK cited ongoing election operations-voter list revision, cadre mobilization, polling agent training, manifesto committee tours and the interim budget on February 17-as reasons for the timing.

Rupee weakens as India-US trade fact sheet on tariff cuts and large US purchases fuels importer dollar demand and commodity risk.
The rupee fell to 90.62 driven by importer dollar demand and geopolitical tensions after an India-US trade fact sheet outlined tariff reductions on US industrial and agricultural goods and large purchase commitments; analysts identify 90.00-90.20 as key support with 91.00-91.20 as potential upside, while rising Brent crude threatens to widen India's import bill and exert pressure on the currency.

RBI draft exempts certain NBFCs with under Rs1000 crore assets from registration, subject to conditions, and invites comments.
The Reserve Bank proposes that NBFCs not availing public funds and without customer interface with asset size below Rs.1000 crore be exempted from registration, subject to conditions specified by the RBI; the draft also prescribes procedures for deregistration or conversion of existing registered entities, including Type I NBFCs, and is accompanied by FAQs and a public consultation process.

Urban Cooperative Banks: draft rules raise unsecured-advance limits, increase aggregate ceiling, deregulate certain housing loan terms, comments invited.
The draft Amendment Directions rationalise the definition of unsecured advances, increase individual loan limits and raise the aggregate ceiling for such advances to 20% of total advances, enhance the consumer durable lending limit to nominal members to Rs.2.5 lakh, deregulate housing loan tenor and moratorium for Tier 3 and Tier 4 UCBs, and impose additional disclosure requirements, with public comments invited by March 4, 2026 via Connect 2 Regulate or email.

Dubai International Airport hit 95.2M passengers and will shift operations to Al Maktoum after a $35B upgrade by 2032.
Dubai International Airport, run by state owned and state linked entities, reached 95.2 million passengers in 2025 and faces urban and cost pressures from rapid aviation driven growth. Authorities plan to transfer operations to Al Maktoum International Airport after an estimated $35 billion upgrade, targeting a 2032 operational move to leverage larger expansion capacity and reconfigure long term aviation infrastructure.

India US interim trade agreement cuts tariffs to 18% but is criticised as asymmetrical and harmful to textile competitiveness.
The interim Indo US trade agreement reduces reciprocal tariffs on Indian goods from 25% to 18% and eliminates a prior punitive 25% tariff on Indian crude; opposition commentary characterises the pact as asymmetrical, a "coerced opening" that concedes more than India gains and undermines textile export competitiveness relative to Bangladesh.

White House revises trade fact sheet: removes 'pulses' and softens India purchase commitments language.
The White House revised its interim US-India trade fact sheet to remove "pulses" from the list of US agricultural products on which India will eliminate or reduce tariffs and to change wording from India "committed" to buy over $500 billion of US goods to India "intends" to buy more American products and purchase over $500 billion of specified US goods.