Daily AI Recap: Feb 11, 2026

Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.

• AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say: General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources....
• OpenAI disbands mission alignment team, which focused on ‘safe’ and ‘trustworthy’ AI development: The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's Chief Futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the company....
• Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again: Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024....
• Why the economics of orbital AI are so brutal: A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent....
• How to Build an Atomic-Agents RAG Pipeline with Typed Schemas, Dynamic Context Injection, and Agent Chaining: In this tutorial, we build an advanced, end-to-end learning pipeline around Atomic-Agents by wiring together typed agent interfaces, structured prompting, and a compact retrieval layer that grounds ou...
• Transforming the enterprise: Moving past chat to core workflow redesign: OnDemand session from OpenAI...
• AI-powered procurement: Turning messy data into strategic advantage: By cleaning unstructured spend data, automating contract analysis, and enabling real-time decision-making, AI helps organizations reduce costs, manage risk, and unlock smarter sourcing strategies....
• Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid controversy: At least nine engineers, including two cofounders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid moun...
• Why Most People Misuse SMOTE, And How to Do It Right: Keys for oversampling your data for addressing class imbalance issues, the right way....
• Former Founders Fund VC Sam Blond launches AI sales startup to upend Salesforce: The startup, Monaco, has come out of stealth as an AI-native all-in-one CRM plus more system backed by names like the Collison brothers and Garry Tan....
• Why do AI hallucinations persist in production systems?: (Hint: The problem isn’t 'bad' answers, it’s believable ones...)...
• Euna Solutions Releases “State of AI in the Public Sector” Report: New research from Euna Solutions shows that while most public sector agencies are exploring AI, measurable value today is concentrated in operational workflows such as procurement, budgeting, grants, ...
• Not All RecSys Problems Are Created Equal: How baseline strength, churn, and subjectivity determine complexity The post Not All RecSys Problems Are Created Equal appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• Five Tips to Operationalize AI-ready data with DataOps Automation: Operationalize AI-ready data with DataOps Automation. Follow these five tips to ensure data is contextual, unified, governed, and accurate for AI success. By the time most organizations realize their ...
• Versioning and Testing Data Solutions: Applying CI and Unit Tests on Interview-style Queries: Learn how to apply unit testing, version control, and continuous integration to data analysis scripts using Python and GitHub Actions....
• Generative AI Summit Washington, D.C. 2026: Catch up on every session from Generative AI Summit Washington, D.C., with sessions from the likes of OpenAI, US Bank, Meibel and more....
• Dataminr Solutions Now Available in AWS Marketplace Through Carahsoft: Carahsoft’s CarahCloud Marketplace® Program Streamlines Procurement and Accelerates Deployment of Dataminr for Government Agencies Dataminr, the leader in AI-powered real-time event, threat & risk int...
• The Machine Learning Practitioner’s Guide to Speculative Decoding: Large language models generate text one token at a time....
• Cloudera Reports Strong Fiscal Year, Reinforces AI Leadership: ELEVATE27, Cloudera’s Sales Kick Off, commences today with a focus on building, operationalizing, scaling, and fully governing AI across hybrid data environments Cloudera, the only company bringing AI...
• Azul Report: 62% of Enterprises Use Java for AI Workloads: Survey of over 2,000 Java professionals also reveals: 92% are concerned about Oracle Java pricing and 81% are migrating all or some of their Oracle Java to OpenJDK as cost concerns mount Azul, the onl...
• BrowserStack Report: 94% Use AI in Testing, 12% Reach Autonomy: BrowserStack today released its State of AI in Software Testing 2026 report, showing how AI has become central to modern testing, while highlighting the practical gaps that slow adoption. Based on ins...
• Identy.io Announces Strategic Expansion in Africa: Expansion Plans to Bridge the Digital Gap with a Biometric Authentication Technology Tailored to Africa’s Unique Economic Developmental Needs Identy.io (www.Identy.io), a global biometric authenticati...
• OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s “adult mode” reportedly fired on discrimination claim: The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination....

• Google AI Introduces Natively Adaptive Interfaces (NAI): An Agentic Multimodal Accessibility Framework Built on Gemini for Adaptive UI Design: Google Research is proposing a new way to build accessible software with Natively Adaptive Interfaces (NAI), an agentic framework where a multimodal A...
• NVIDIA Researchers Introduce KVTC Transform Coding Pipeline to Compress Key-Value Caches by 20x for Efficient LLM Serving: Serving Large Language Models (LLMs) at scale is a massive engineering challenge because of Key-Value (KV) cache management. As models grow in size an...
• Enhanced Graph Transformer with Serialized Graph Tokens: arXiv:2602.09065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers have demonstrated success in graph learning, particularly for node-level tasks. However,...
• Spectral Disentanglement and Enhancement: A Dual-domain Contrastive Framework for Representation Learning: arXiv:2602.09066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale multimodal contrastive learning has recently achieved impressive success in learning rich...
• Learning to Remember, Learn, and Forget in Attention-Based Models: arXiv:2602.09075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-Context Learning (ICL) in transformers acts as an online associative memory and is believed to und...
• Patient foundation model for risk stratification in low-risk overweight patients: arXiv:2602.09079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate risk stratification in patients with overweight or obesity is critical for guiding preventiv...
• Looping Back to Move Forward: Recursive Transformers for Efficient and Flexible Large Multimodal Models: arXiv:2602.09080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable success in vision-language tasks, yet their v...

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