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• Hollywood Pushback Prompts ByteDance to Strengthen AI Video Safeguards

  • February 16, 2026

  • Society and Policy

  ByteDance said it will strengthen safeguards on its new AI video generator, Seedance 2.0, after facing backlash from major Hollywood studios that accused the tool of enabling copyright infringement.

• Sam Altman Brings OpenClaw Founder to OpenAI in Push Toward Personal AI Agents

  • February 16, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  On Sunday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that Peter Steinberger, the Austrian developer behind the fast-rising AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI — and that OpenClaw itself will “live in a...

• Glean Bets on Becoming the Intelligence Layer Beneath Enterprise AI

  • February 16, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  As Microsoft weaves Copilot into Office and Google pushes Gemini across Workspace, the enterprise AI race is increasingly focused on who owns the user interface. Glean is taking a different approach.

• Airbnb Says AI Now Handles One-Third of North American Customer Support

  • February 14, 2026

  • Retail and Commerce

  On its fourth-quarter earnings call this week, Airbnb said its custom-built AI agent is now handling about one-third of customer support inquiries in North America, with plans to expand the system...

• OpenAI Pulls GPT-4o, GPT-4.1 and More in Major ChatGPT Model Shift

  • February 13, 2026

  • Tech Deep Dive

  On Friday, OpenAI will remove GPT-5, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and o4-mini from ChatGPT, formally retiring a lineup of older models the company said it planned to sunset earlier this month. In...

• Google Upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think to Compete in AI Reasoning Race

  • February 13, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Google has rolled out a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, its specialized reasoning mode built for complex scientific, engineering, and research tasks — and this time the company is backing the...

• Didero Raises $30M to Bring Agentic AI to Manufacturing Procurement

  • February 13, 2026

  • Finance

  Didero has raised a $30 million Series A round co-led by Chemistry and Headline to bring agentic AI into one of manufacturing’s most manual and time-consuming functions: procurement. The funding...

• OpenAI Launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, Powered by Cerebras’ WSE-3 Chip

  • February 12, 2026

  • Tech Deep Dive

  On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a lighter-weight version of its recently released Codex model designed for faster inference, and confirmed it will run on a dedicated Cerebras chip...

• xAI Publishes Full 45-Minute Internal All-Hands on X

  • February 12, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  xAI on Wednesday posted a full 45-minute internal all-hands meeting publicly on X, giving outsiders a rare look at how the company is organizing its products and priorities. For a high-profile AI...

• Uber Eats Launches AI ‘Cart Assistant’

  • February 12, 2026

  • Retail and Commerce

  Uber Eats on Wednesday introduced “Cart Assistant,” a new AI-powered feature designed to help customers build grocery orders more quickly. The tool is currently available in beta within the Uber Eats...

• Meta Launches ‘Dear Algo’ on Threads to Let Users Personalize Their Feeds

  • February 11, 2026

  • Entertainment

  Meta on Wednesday introduced “Dear Algo,” a new AI-powered feature on Threads that lets users temporarily personalize what appears in their feed. The tool is now available in the U.S., U.K.,...

• Anthropic Expands Claude Cowork to Windows Users

  • February 11, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Anthropic expanded its AI agent tool Cowork to Windows, bringing full feature parity with the macOS version that launched on January 12. The release removes the platform restriction that had limited...