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February 2026
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Wednesday, February 25th
Sammy Azdoufal hacks 7,000 DJI robot vacuums, accesses live feeds...
Google adds workflow agent to Opal...
Toby Walsh warns of psychosis signs in Australian users of AI chatbots...
Meta partners with AMD on gigawatt‑scale AI chip deal...
Anthropic Cowork introduces agents for finance, engineering, and design...
AI doomsday report rattles US markets, hits Uber, Mastercard, Amex...
Canada summons OpenAI staff over Tumbler Ridge shooting...
Tuesday, February 24th
Notion tests custom agents with computer use and Claude Code...
Trump launches Tech Corps to export U.S. AI abroad...
Dow falls 800 points amid AI fears and tariffs...
X develops ‘Made with AI’ labels to disclose synthetic content...
Spotify launches AI Prompted Playlists in UK, Ireland, Australia, Sweden...
At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now back Anthropic, loyalty fades...
Cybersecurity stock selling deepens amid AI threat concerns...
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, MiniMax, Moonshot of using Claude to train models...
Wednesday, February 18th
India has 100m weekly active ChatGPT users, says Sam Altman...
xAI adds Parallel Agents and Arena Mode to Grok Build...
Tuesday, February 17th
Anthropic and the Pentagon clash over Claude usage...
David Greene sues Google over NotebookLM voice...
Monday, February 16th
Zillow boosts AI to revamp home search amid slow market...
Anthropic gains 11% users after OpenAI‑bashing Super Bowl ad...
Top talent leaves OpenAI and xAI...
US military used Anthropic’s Claude in Venezuela raid...
India approves $1.1bn state-backed venture capital fund...
Safety dead at xAI as Musk pushes unhinged Grok...
OpenAI nixes sycophantic GPT-4o model...
Friday, February 13th
AI video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt has top writer warning: “It’s likely over for us”...
Mistral invests €1.2bn in Swedish AI infrastructure...
OpenAI researcher quits after ChatGPT ads launch, cites Facebook risk...
Suleyman says AI will replace most white‑collar jobs in 12–18 months...
Attackers prompt Gemini 100k times to clone it, Google reports...
Bots from Lanzhou flood websites worldwide...
Anthropic researcher quits, warns world is in peril, heads to UK...
Anthropic invests $20m in super PAC to oppose OpenAI...
Meta adds facial recognition to smart glasses...
Thursday, February 12th
Crediting AI, Spotify's best developers haven't written a line of code since December...
Andrew McCalip buids cost comparison calculator for orbital vs terrestrial AI data centers...
xAI shares 45‑min all‑hands video detailing interplanetary ambitions...
Wednesday, February 11th
Databricks CEO says SaaS lives, AI will soon erase it...
OpenAI's profitability remains a trillion-dollar question...
Alphabet issues rare 100-year bonds to fund AI investment...
Runway raises $315m at $5.3bn valuation, targets world models...
India tightens deepfake rules, cuts takedown window to 2 hours...
Amazon considers marketplace for media publishers to license content to AI firms...
Half of xAI’s founding team has left...
Tuesday, February 10th
Oxford study finds AI chatbots give inaccurate medical advice...
EU orders Meta to allow rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp...
OpenAI adds ads to ChatGPT free tier...
X pledges zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation after Grok image surge...
OpenAI hardware delayed until 2027...
Friday, February 6th
Anthropic launches Opus 4.6 to target broader knowledge work...
Anthropic and OpenAI encourage users to adopt AI agent teams...
Big tech to spend $650bn on AI this year - can they afford to?
Altman is pissed about Claude's Super Bowl ads...
Reddit targets AI search as next big opportunity...
Amazon shares drop 11% after announcing $200bn AI spend...
Thursday, February 5th
Grindr tests premium AI tier Edge with prices up to $499/month...
Senior staff leaving OpenAI amid focus shift to ChatGPT...
Mamdani‑Epstein images are AI fakes, BBC Verify explains...
Bitcoin plunges to $67k amid intensifying doubts about crypto's function...
Claude's new ad takes a swipe at OpenAI...
Wednesday, February 4th
Bitcoin-led crypto rout erases $500bn in a week...
ChatGPT's market share falls to 45% as Gemini, Grok rise...
Legal software stocks routed after Anthropic releases new AI tool...
Positron raises $230m series B to compete with Nvidia's AI chips...
Side note: Trump urges Republicans to nationalize elections...
Homeland Security demands tech firms hand over data on Trump critics...
Altman: "We basically have built AGI, or very close to it"...
OpenClaw's Moltbook platform hijacked by human‑generated posts...
X offices raided in France; UK opens new Grok probe...
Women in tech and finance face higher risk of AI job losses...
ICE expands AI surveillance tools to track... everyone...
Nvidia tweaks Jensen Huang's T5T email strategy...
Publishers ramp up defenses against rising AI bot traffic...
Tuesday, February 3rd
Side note: You can now cryopreserve your cat, starting at $19k USD...
Monday, February 2nd
Mamdani to shut NYC chatbot that urged illegal business practices...
AI slop floods social media, users react with backlash...
Sunday, February 1st
Perplexity signs $750m cloud deal with Microsoft...
AI screening improves early breast cancer detection in Sweden...
Musk’s SpaceX Considers Tesla or xAI Merger...
AI agents form social network, Moltbook...
Apple loses AI researchers to Meta, Google...
YouTube combats AI spam with channel removals...
Former Google engineer guilty of AI theft...
AI super pac raises $125m in 2025...