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World Labs, the startup from AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1 billion to scale its spatial intelligence technology. Autodesk leads with $200M, alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD.

OpenAI is finalizing a $100B+ funding round backed by Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft. The deal would value the AI company at over $850 billion—a record for any private tech company.

Meta and AMD announced a multi-year partnership to deploy up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs, valued at over $60 billion, in Meta's boldest move yet to diversify AI compute beyond Nvidia.

Mozilla Firefox 148 debuts an 'AI Kill Switch' that lets users permanently disable all AI features in the browser, with the setting persisting across future updates. The release also includes new web security APIs and accessibility improvements.

Developer Vladimir Varankin used Claude Code to port the Linux brcmfmac Wi-Fi driver to FreeBSD for a 2016 MacBook Pro, demonstrating AI's capability to tackle low-level kernel driver development.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has set a new date for AGI, claiming that by the end of 2028, most of humanity's intellectual capacity could reside inside data centers rather than human minds.

Researchers warn that AI-generated faces have surpassed a critical threshold: people not only fail to identify them as fake, but actually rate AI faces as more trustworthy than real human photographs.

IBM shares fell 10% after Anthropic announced an AI tool capable of handling COBOL code, directly threatening IBM's lucrative legacy system modernization business that powers 95% of global ATM transactions.

Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI (Kimi), and MiniMax — of creating over 24,000 fraudulent Claude accounts to extract training data from 16 million conversations, marking a major escalation in AI intellectual property disputes.

xAI released Grok 4.20 beta on February 17, 2026, featuring medical document analysis via photo upload and a 4-agent parallel collaboration system for improved reasoning on complex tasks.

At the India AI Impact Summit held in New Delhi February 19–21, tech commitments surpassed $400B. OpenAI partnered with TCS for data center capacity, and Anthropic teamed with Infosys to deploy Claude across Indian enterprises.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon over Claude's military deployment. Anthropic refused to allow Claude for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, risking its $200M DoD contract.