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This digest compiles the latest from Tech Crunch.
Today’s Tech Crunch Roundup
Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’
16 Feb 2026, 2:00 pm by Russell Brandom
“We’re exploring a different set of tradeoffs.”
After all the hype, some AI experts don’t think OpenClaw is all that exciting
16 Feb 2026, 1:15 pm by Amanda Silberling
“From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel,” one expert told TechCrunch.
Fractal Analytics’ muted IPO debut signals persistent AI fears in India
16 Feb 2026, 11:51 am by Jagmeet Singh
As India’s first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn’t have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors in the wake of a sell-off in Indian software stocks.
All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit
16 Feb 2026, 11:20 am by Ivan Mehta
India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state.
African defensetech Terra Industries, founded by two Gen Zers, raises additional $22M in a month
16 Feb 2026, 8:01 am by Dominic-Madori Davis
Terra Industries, the African defense company, announced Monday that it had secured an additional $22 million in funding to further expand the business.Â
As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck
16 Feb 2026, 1:00 am by Jagmeet Singh
C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.
Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure
16 Feb 2026, 12:30 am by Jagmeet Singh
Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates.
End of today’s Tech Crunch roundup.
