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AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 12:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. 61 Global Privacy Authorities Joint Statement on AI Deepfakes
https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2026/ai-generated-imagery-and-protection-privacy-edpb-supports-joint-global-privacy_en
2. AI-Powered Hacker Breaches 600+ FortiGate Firewalls in 55 Countries
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/ai-assisted-threat-actor-compromises.html
3. Software Companies Face Higher Borrowing Costs as AI Threatens Businesses
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/software-companies-face-higher-borrowing-costs-tougher-scrutiny-ai-threatens-2026-02-23/
4. AI Economic Growth Narrative May Be a Mirage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/23/ai-economic-growth-gdp-mirage/
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 11:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Launch
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/19/google-announces-gemini-3-1-pro-for-complex-problem-solving/
2. NVIDIA $30B OpenAI Equity Investment
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/nvidia-is-in-talks-to-invest-up-to-30-billion-in-openai-source-says.html
3. AI Discovers Rare-Earth-Free Magnetic Materials
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031611.htm
4. Meta $27B Off-Balance-Sheet AI Debt
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/meta-rakes-it-in-yet-still-borrows-billions-for-ai-d4de506d
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 10:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. ECB Steps Up Scrutiny of European Banks' AI Industry Exposure
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/ecb-steps-up-scrutiny-of-european-banks-ai-industry-exposure
2. CoreWeave/Blue Owl $4B Data Center Financing Collapse
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stock-market-today-feb-20-221705867.html
3. Harrison.ai FDA Petition to Exempt AI Medical Devices
https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/23/harrisonai-fda-petition-exempt-ai-devices-premarket-review/
4. Fundamental AI $255M Series A, Large Tabular Model
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/fundamental-raises-255-million-series-a-with-a-new-take-on-big-data-analysis/
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 09:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Alibaba Qwen 3.5 Release
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/china-alibaba-qwen-ai-agent-latest-model.html
2. Zhipu AI GLM-5
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3343239/chinas-zhipu-ai-launches-new-major-model-glm-5-challenge-its-rivals
3. Bitdeer Bitcoin Treasury Liquidation for AI Pivot
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitdeer-liquidates-entire-bitcoin-treasury-074933655.html
4. Goodfire AI $1.25B Unicorn
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ai-lab-goodfire-raises-150m-at-1-25b-valuation-to-design-models-with-interpretability-302680120.html
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 08:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Western Digital 2026 HDD Production 100% Sold Out for AI
https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/02/18/western-digital-sold-out-all-2026-hard-drive-production-as-ai-centers-scramble/
2. Tempus AI Pan-Cancer HRD-RNA Algorithm
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260218676812/en/Tempus-Announces-Novel-Pan-Cancer-HRD-RNA-Algorithm
3. Sam Altman Proposes IAEA-Like AI Regulatory Body
https://www.outlookindia.com/national/ai-impact-summit-2026-altman-calls-for-global-ai-regulator-says-superintelligence-could-arrive-within-years
4. Former Unit 8200 Commander Joins Decart AI Unicorn
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryygyytdbx
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 07:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Hyperscaler AI Debt Binge $770B Capex
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/big-techs-ai-bond-binge-shatters-unspoken-contract-with-investors.html
2. India AI Summit - Reliance $110B + Adani $100B
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/india-ai-impact-summit-2026-openai-nvidia-microsoft-tcs-adani-ambani
3. Enterprise AI Agent Security Crisis
https://www.gravitee.io/blog/state-of-ai-agent-security-2026-report-when-adoption-outpaces-control
4. Cogent Security $42M Series A
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/18/cogent-security-raises-42m-scale-ai-agents-enterprise-vulnerability-remediation/
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 06:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Workday Founder CEO Return - SaaSpocalypse
https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/workday-founder-aneel-bhusri-billionaire-pay-package/
2. World Labs Fei-Fei Li $1B Funding
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/ai-pioneer-fei-fei-li-s-startup-world-labs-raises-1-billion
3. Sharon AI & Cisco - Australia's First Secure AI Factory
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/sharon-ai-cisco-launch-australia-051500494.html
4. ElevenLabs $500M Series D at $11B Valuation
https://elevenlabs.io/blog/series-d
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 05:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. SK Hynix Pledges to Boost AI Memory Chip Output
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/sk-hynix-boss-pledges-to-boost-output-of-ai-memory-chips
2. Sony Develops Technology to Trace AI-Generated Music Origins
https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/71035
3. European Parliament Strengthens Copyright Protection Against Generative AI
https://www.globalpolicywatch.com/2026/02/european-parliament-proposes-changes-to-copyright-protection-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
4. Thai Exports Jump Most in Four Years on AI Electronics Boom
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/thai-exports-jump-most-in-four-years-on-ai-led-electronics-boom
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 04:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Thermodynamic Computer Mimics AI Neural Networks
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59011-x
2. VectifyAI Launches Mafin 2.5 and PageIndex
https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/02/22/vectifyai-launches-mafin-2-5-and-pageindex-achieving-98-7-financial-rag-accuracy-with-a-new-open-source-vectorless-tree-indexing/
3. DBS and Granite Asia Launch $110M AI IPO Fund
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/dbs-partners-with-granite-asia-closes-110-million-ai-ipo-fund-wealth-clients-2026-02-23/
4. Grindr Tests $500 Per Month AI Subscription
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/23/grindr-edge-ai-subscription
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 03:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Trump Launches Tech Corps for AI Diplomacy
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/us-launch-peace-corps-tech-corps-india-export-ai-stack-sovereignty-counter-china.html
2. WSJ Exposes AI Startup Valuation Tactics
https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/the-fundraising-tactic-ai-startups-are-using-to-juice-valuations-91f9ac1f
3. ByteDance Expands US AI Hiring with 100 Roles
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/bytedance-building-out-artificial-intelligence-team-in-us
4. DeepSeek Expands Context Window Tenfold
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3343225/deepseek-boosts-ai-model-10-fold-token-addition-zhipu-ai-gears-glm-5-launch
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 02:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Sam Altman Debunks AI Resource Myths, Dismisses Musk's Orbital Data Centers
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/22/sam-altman-defends-ais-resource-consumption-ridicules-musks-plan-put-data-centers-space/
2. LinkedIn B2B Traffic Down 60% from AI Search
https://searchengineland.com/linkedin-ai-powered-search-cut-traffic-468187
3. Isomorphic Labs AI-Designed Cancer Drug Enters Phase 1 Trials
https://creati.ai/ai-news/2026-02-14/deepmind-ai-cancer-drug-clinical-trials-2026-demis-hassabis/
4. Salesforce Report: Enterprise AI Agent Adoption Surging 67%, but 50% Stuck in Silos
https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/connectivity-report-announcement-2026/?bc=OTH
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 01:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Anthropic $30B Series G Funding
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/anthropic-closes-30-billion-funding-round-at-380-billion-valuation.html
2. NVIDIA Sells Entire Arm Stake
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/arm-nvidia-nokia-ai-stake-shares.html
3. Meta-NVIDIA Multi-Billion Chip Deal
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/meta-nvidia-deal-ai-data-center-chips.html
4. AI Industry PAC Political War in NY-12
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/anthropic-funded-group-backs-candidate-attacked-by-rival-ai-super-pac/
AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 00:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Block 10% Layoffs + Mandatory AI Tools
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/jack-dorsey-block-falling-apart-ai
2. Unitree 20,000 Humanoid Robots Production Target
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/china-humanoid-robots-spring-festival-gala-unitree-tesla-ai-race.html
3. OpenAI Retires GPT-4o, GPT-5.2 Becomes Default
https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/
4. CrewAI Survey: 100% of Enterprises Expanding Agentic AI
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260211693427/en/Agentic-AI-Reaches-Tipping-Point-100-of-Enterprises-Plan-to-Expand-Adoption-in-2026-New-CrewAI-Survey-Finds
AI News Flash for February 22, 2026 at 23:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Spotify AI Development Revolution "Honk"
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai/
2. Mistral AI First Acquisition Koyeb
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/mistral-ai-buys-koyeb-in-first-acquisition-to-back-its-cloud-ambitions/
3. Google AI Mode Shopping 75M DAU
https://ppc.land/google-unveils-shopping-ads-in-ai-mode-doubling-down-on-conversational-commerce/
4. Microsoft Brad Smith China AI Subsidies Warning
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/microsoft-president-brad-smith-chinese-ai-subsidies.html
AI News Flash for February 22, 2026 at 22:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. NIST AI Agent Standards Initiative
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/02/announcing-ai-agent-standards-initiative-interoperable-and-secure
2. Microsoft Gaming CEO: AI Executive Asha Sharma Replaces Phil Spencer
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/microsoft-gaming-chief-phil-spencer-retires-asha-sharma-replacing.html
3. AI-Generated Faces Now Indistinguishable from Real - UNSW Study
https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-face-recognition-overconfidence-30171/
4. US Democrats Eye 2028, Push Back on AI Data Centers
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/democrats-2028-retreat-ai-data-centers
AI News Flash for February 22, 2026 at 21:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Trump 15% Global Tariff After Supreme Court IEEPA Ruling
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/21/trump-tariffs.html
2. Clear Street IPO Withdrawal - AI Scare Trade
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/broker-clear-street-withdraws-ipo-filing-after-postponing-deal
3. Wolters Kluwer Banking AI Survey Q1 2026
https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/wolters-kluwer-q1-2026-banking-compliance-ai-trend-report
4. ByteDance AI Reasoning Molecular Bonds Research
https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/02/22/forget-keyword-imitation-bytedance-ai-maps-molecular-bonds-in-ai-reasoning-to-stabilize-long-chain-of-thought-performance-and-reinforcement-learning-rl-training/
AI News Flash for February 22, 2026 at 20:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Release
https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/pro/
2. MIT Science - LLM Hidden Concepts Detection
https://news.mit.edu/2026/exposing-biases-moods-personalities-hidden-large-language-models-0219
3. AI Magnetic Materials Database - Rare Earth Alternatives
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031611.htm
4. Infosys x Anthropic Enterprise AI Agents
https://www.infosys.com/newsroom/press-releases/2026/advanced-enterprise-ai-solutions-industries.html
AI News Flash for February 22, 2026 at 19:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Google Threat Intelligence AI Cyberattack Report
https://www.bgr.com/2105171/google-ai-report-cyberattacks-threat-tracker/
2. Google Cloud VP warns LLM Wrappers and AI Aggregators face extinction
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/google-vp-warns-that-two-types-of-ai-startups-may-not-survive/
3. Anthropic Claude Code Auto-Review, PR Monitoring, Auto-Merge
https://claude.com/blog/preview-review-and-merge-with-claude-code
4. AI Grocery Supply Chain Vulnerability
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-supply-chain-groceries
AI News Flash for February 22, 2026 at 18:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Nature Communications LRM Autonomous Jailbreak Study
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69010-1
2. ICLR 2026 HMNS Nullspace Steering Research
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-jailbreaking-matrix-bypassing-ai-guardrails.html
3. Quantonation €220M Quantum Fund
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/22/quantonations-double-sized-second-fund-shows-quantum-still-has-believers/
4. ElevenLabs First AI Agent Insurance
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elevenlabs-secures-first-of-its-kind-ai-agent-insurance-302684587.html
AI News Flash for February 22, 2026 at 17:00 UTC.
Topics:
1. Weaviate Agent Skills for AI Coding Agents
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/02/21/3242244/0/en/Weaviate-Launches-Agent-Skills-to-Empower-AI-Coding-Agents.html
2. Nature - AI Threatening Science Jobs While Boosting Individual Output
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00444-9
3. Cerebras Targets Q2 2026 IPO at $23B Valuation
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4533742-ai-chipmaker-cerebras-targets-q2-2026-for-ipo-launch-report
4. Tripo AI Enterprise 3D Spatial Computing Expansion
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tripo-ai-announces-enterprise-grade-163000850.html



