Daily AI Recap: Feb 09, 2026
Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.
🗞️ Top Stories
- Databricks CEO says SaaS isn’t dead, but AI will soon make it irrelevant: AI isn't going to replace major SaaS apps with vibe-coded versions, Databricks Ali Ghodsi believes. But it could give rise to competitors....
- Anthropic’s India expansion collides with a local company that already had the name: India's Anthropic Software has taken the U.S. AI giant to court over a name dispute....
- The Machine Learning Lessons I’ve Learned Last Month: Delayed January: deadlines, downtimes, and flow times The post The Machine Learning Lessons I’ve Learned Last Month appeared first on Towards Data Science....
- ChatGPT rolls out ads: ChatGPT ads will display for users on the the free and low-cost "Go" plans....
- How to Learn AI for FREE in 2026?: Learning AI in 2026 is definitely not the same as it was just a couple of years ago. Back then, the advice was simple (and intimidating): learn advanced math, master machine learning theory, and maybe...
- Workday CEO Eschenbach departs, with co-founder Aneel Bhusri returning as CEO: Bhusri said in a statement that the company's next chapter would be focused on AI....
- Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon: This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Lots of influential people in tech last week were describing M...
- Case study: Stability AI: Somewhere between “this model will replace your entire workflow” and “this chatbot will become your best friend,” many teams are left wondering what’s real, what’s useful, and what’s just… very confid...
- 7 Python EDA Tricks to Find and Fix Data Issues: 7 Python tricks applicable to your early exploratory data analyses (EDA) to identify and deal with various data quality issues....
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- TransformativeMed Wins 2026 Best in KLAS for Clinician Digital Workflow: TransformativeMed today announced that it has been recognized as the 2026 Best in KLAS Award Winner for Clinician Digital Workflow, a distinction that celebrates top-performing healthcare technology s...
- DataBee Launches DataBee RiskFlow™: New Conversational AI Capability Gives Organizations Fast, Traceable Answers to Security and Compliance Questions – Accelerating Investigations, Audits, and Risk Reduction The Launch Caps a Year of Ac...
- Custom AI Tool Development in Regulated Industries: Why Off-The-Shelf LLM Solutions Fall Short: When I started working in the medical device industry almost 20 years ago, static analysis tools had captured the spotlight and attention of the medical device industry. This was apparent in a 2007 pr...
- Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s new AI newsletter, is here: For years, our newsroom has explored AI’s limitations and potential dangers, as well as its growing energy needs. And our reporters have looked closely at how generative tools are being used for tasks...
- The 7 Biggest Misconceptions About AI Agents (and Why They Matter): AI agents are everywhere....
- Testing ads in ChatGPT: OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control....
- Bringing ChatGPT to GenAI.mil: OpenAI for Government announces the deployment of a custom ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, bringing secure, safety-forward AI to U.S. defense teams....
- Searchlight Cyber Appoints Michael Gianarakis as CEO: Proven cybersecurity leader and expert in Preemptive Threat Exposure Management (PTEM) promoted to CEO as company enters its next phase of growth Searchlight Cyber today announced the appointment of M...
- ACL Digital Achieves ISTQB® Platinum Partner Status: Milestone recognition reinforces ACL Digital’s AI-led QA capabilities, certified talent depth, and leadership in enterprise-grade software testing ACL Digital, an ALTEN Group company and a global lead...
- BullFrog AI to Unveil New Precision AI Capability: BullFrog AI Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BFRG; BFRGW) (“BullFrog AI” or the “Company”), a technology company using artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning to turn complex biomedical data into a...
- MRO Is 2026 Best in KLAS for Release of Information: For the twelfth time, MRO outperforms competition for release of information services and software in the 2026 Best in KLAS report. MRO Corp (MRO), the leader in enterprise clinical data management an...
- Lumen Technologies Appoints Jeff Sharritts as Chief Revenue Officer: Veteran leader to deepen customer relationships, sharpen execution, and scale company’s commercial engine in Lumen’s next phase of transformation Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today announced that J...
- Acalvio named as current Company to Beat in the 2025 Gartner® AI Vendor Race: Acalvio Named the Company to Beat in the Gartner AI-powered Advanced Cyber Deception report Acalvio Technologies, the leader in cyber deception technology, today announced that it has been named the C...
- Resilience Wins Cyber Insurance Awards Europe for MGA of the Year: Recognized by Intelligent Insurer for Excellence in Underwriting Facilitation and Distribution Innovation Resilience, the leading cyber risk solutions company, has been named MGA of the Year by Intell...
- Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable: Removing just a tiny fraction of the crowdsourced data that informs online ranking platforms can significantly change the results....
- Transformers.js v4 Preview: Now Available on NPM!: ...
🛠️ Featured Tools
- NanoNet: Parameter-Efficient Learning with Label-Scarce Supervision for Lightweight Text Mining Model: arXiv:2602.06093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The lightweight semi-supervised learning (LSL) strategy provides an effective approach of conserving ...
- Agentic Workflow Using RBA$_\theta$ for Event Prediction: arXiv:2602.06097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wind power ramp events are difficult to forecast due to strong variability, multi-scale dynamics, and...
- Toward Faithful and Complete Answer Construction from a Single Document: arXiv:2602.06103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language models (LLMs) are powerful generators driven by statistical next-token predicti...
- Pragmatic Curiosity: A Hybrid Learning-Optimization Paradigm via Active Inference: arXiv:2602.06104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many engineering and scientific workflows depend on expensive black-box evaluations, requiring decisi...
- Private and interpretable clinical prediction with quantum-inspired tensor train models: arXiv:2602.06110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning in clinical settings must balance predictive accuracy, interpretability, and privacy...
- Jackpot: Optimal Budgeted Rejection Sampling for Extreme Actor-Policy Mismatch Reinforcement Learning: arXiv:2602.06107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) remains expensive, particularly because ...
- Large Language Model Reasoning Failures: arXiv:2602.06176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable reasoning capabilities, achieving impressive r...
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