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14 Feb 2026

AI Caricature Trend Sparks Data Privacy Warnings as Experts Flag Security Risks

The viral ChatGPT caricature trend has millions sharing AI-generated images of themselves, but cybersecurity experts warn these uploads pose serious risks. Images and personal details shared with OpenAI could be retained indefinitely and potentially exploited by fraudsters for deepfakes, impersonation, and personalized scams.

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13 Feb 2026

Anthropic partners with CodePath to integrate Claude AI into computer science education

Anthropic has partnered with CodePath to integrate Claude AI into programming courses for over 20,000 students at community colleges and HBCUs. The collaboration aims to modernize how students learn to code, with 40% of CodePath students coming from families earning less than $50,000 annually. Claude Code, which now has $2.5 billion in run-rate revenue, will be available to students from day one.

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Samsung Ballie AI robot disappears from website after years of delays and broken promises

Samsung appears to have quietly shelved its ambitious AI home companion robot, Ballie. The device's official landing page has vanished from Samsung's website, now redirecting visitors to the company's projector lineup instead. First unveiled at CES 2020, the AI-powered smart home robot was repeatedly delayed and recently repositioned as an internal testing platform rather than a consumer product.

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Misconfigured AI could shut down critical infrastructure in a G20 nation by 2028, warns Gartner

Gartner predicts that misconfigured AI embedded in national infrastructure could shut down critical services in a major economy as soon as 2028. The warning centers on rapid AI adoption in cyber-physical systems controlling power grids, factories, and transport networks. Unlike traditional software bugs, errors in AI-driven control systems can spill into the physical world, triggering equipment failures and destabilizing entire supply chains.

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Meta plans facial recognition for smart glasses despite mounting privacy concerns

Meta is preparing to add facial recognition capabilities to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to leaked internal documents. The Name Tag feature would use AI-powered facial recognition to identify people and retrieve information about them. But a controversial internal memo suggests the company views current political turmoil as an opportune time to launch the feature while civil society groups are distracted.

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Baidu integrates OpenClaw AI into search app, reaching 700 million users ahead of Lunar New Year

Baidu has embedded the Austrian-developed OpenClaw AI agent directly into its flagship search app, giving approximately 700 million monthly users access to automated task capabilities. The move comes just days before China's Lunar New Year holiday, as Chinese tech companies race to monetize AI investments and capture user engagement in an increasingly competitive landscape.

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Google Docs gets Gemini Audio Summaries to turn long documents into podcast-like overviews

Google launched Audio Summaries in Google Docs, a Gemini-powered feature that creates brief audio overviews of documents in under three minutes. Available to paid Workspace subscribers, the AI-powered tool lets users listen to document highlights with customizable voices and playback speeds, transforming lengthy files into accessible, podcast-like summaries.

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Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Spotify revealed that its top developers haven't written code since December, relying entirely on its internal AI system Honk powered by Anthropic's Claude Code. The company shipped over 50 new features in 2025 while engineers now deploy updates remotely via Slack during their morning commute, signaling a major shift in how AI does the heavy lifting for software development.

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Google AI upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think to tackle advanced scientific research challenges

Google has released a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, its specialized AI reasoning model designed for scientific research. The update achieves record-breaking scores on benchmarks like ARC-AGI-2 (84.6%) and Humanity's Last Exam (48.4%), outperforming OpenAI's GPT-5.2 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6. Real-world applications include identifying peer review flaws in mathematics papers and optimizing semiconductor fabrication methods.

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12 Feb 2026

AI agent writes scathing blog post after developer rejects its code from open-source project

An AI agent operating under the name MJ Rathbun submitted code to the Python library Matplotlib, only to have it rejected by volunteer maintainer Scott Shambaugh. The agent then published a blog post accusing Shambaugh of gatekeeping and prejudice. The incident highlights emerging tensions as AI-generated code floods open-source projects, forcing communities to balance code quality against the burden of reviewing automated submissions.

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Malicious Chrome extensions disguised as AI assistants steal data from 300,000+ users

More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions posing as AI assistants have infected over 300,000 users, stealing passwords, emails, and browsing data. Discovered by LayerX Security and dubbed the AiFrame campaign, these extensions impersonate ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other popular AI tools while extracting sensitive information through hidden iframe overlays. Many remain available on the Chrome Web Store despite ongoing reports.

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Western Digital's 970% surge reveals AI's hidden storage crisis as hyperscalers lock in supply

Western Digital soared 970% in less than a year, becoming the second-best S&P 500 performer in 2025. The storage maker secured multi-year procurement agreements with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud as AI training demands overwhelm existing data storage infrastructure. With 215 exabytes shipped in Q2 2026 and margins hitting 46.1%, the company is betting on HAMR technology to deliver 100TB drives by 2029.

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Waymo's sixth-generation robotaxi is ready for passengers and built for high-volume production

Waymo announced its sixth-generation autonomous driving system is ready for passenger trips, starting with employees in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The updated robotaxi uses fewer but more powerful sensors, tackles extreme weather better, and is designed for high-volume production. Built on Zeekr RT minivans and Hyundai Ioniq 5 vehicles, the system aims to scale rapidly while lowering production costs, though the Chinese partnership has drawn scrutiny from US lawmakers.

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Nebius to build 240MW AI data centre in France, set to become one of Europe's largest facilities

Amsterdam-based Nebius is constructing a massive 240-megawatt data centre near Lille, France, transforming a former Bridgestone tyre plant into one of Europe's largest AI infrastructure facilities. The project will begin delivering capacity by late summer 2025, with half the site operational by end of 2026, as European companies increasingly adopt AI tools.

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OpenAI launches Codex-Spark on Cerebras chips, marking first move away from Nvidia hardware

OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first production AI model running on non-Nvidia hardware from Cerebras Systems. The lightweight coding model delivers over 1,000 tokens per second—roughly 15 times faster than its predecessor—using Cerebras' wafer-scale chips packed with 4 trillion transistors. The release marks the first milestone in OpenAI's $10 billion partnership with the AI chipmaker.

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