Daily AI Recap: Feb 12, 2026

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New J-PAL research and policy initiative to test and scale AI innovations to fight poverty: Project AI Evidence will connect governments, tech companies, and nonprofits with world-class economists at MIT and across J-PAL's global network to evaluate and improve AI solutions....
Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT: Pinterest's stock tumbles after an earnings miss, with higher-than-expected usage its only bright spot....
OpenAI Releases a Research Preview of GPT‑5.3-Codex-Spark: A 15x Faster AI Coding Model Delivering Over 1000 Tokens Per Second on Cerebras Hardware: OpenAI just launched a new research preview called GPT-5.3 Codex-Spark. This model is built for 1 thing: extreme speed. While the standard GPT-5.3 Codex focuses on deep reasoning, Spark is designed fo...
IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI: IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026 but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years....
Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.: "I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space."...
Code, Compute and Connection: Inside the Inaugural NVIDIA AI Day São Paulo: The worldwide tour of NVIDIA AI Days — bringing together AI enthusiasts, developers, researchers and startups — made its latest stop in São Paulo, Brazil....
Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI: Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development....
Guide to Build a Data Analysis & Visualization Agent Using Swarm Architecture: Swarm architecture brings together specialized AI agents that collaborate to solve complex data problems. Inspired by natural swarms, it pairs a Data Analyst agent for processing with a Visualization ...
My Honest And Candid Review of Abacus AI Deep Agent: A glimpse into what might be the early days of artificial general intelligence...
New Alteryx Research Highlights Trust and Data as Keys to Scaling AI Pilots: Survey of 1,400 Leaders Reveals How Organizations Are Unlocking AI Pilot Success Amid Growing Investments Alteryx, Inc., a leading AI-ready data and analytics company, today released new research reve...
Apacer Delivers Comprehensive SSD Power Solutions: As SSDs are increasingly deployed in edge, industrial, and mission-critical systems, unstable power inputs and rising energy demands have become major risk factors affecting storage stability and life...
Gemini 3 Deep Think: Advancing science, research and engineering: Gemini 3 Deep Think logo...
NVIDIA DGX Spark Powers Big Projects in Higher Education: At leading institutions across the globe, the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop supercomputer is bringing data‑center‑class AI to lab benches, faculty offices and students’ systems. There’s even a DGX Spark ha...
How to Leverage Explainable AI for Better Business Decisions: Moving beyond the black box to turn complex model outputs into actionable organizational strategies. The post How to Leverage Explainable AI for Better Business Decisions appeared first on Towards Dat...
AI in Multiple GPUs: Understanding the Host and Device Paradigm: Learn how CPU and GPUs interact in the host-device paradigm The post AI in Multiple GPUs: Understanding the Host and Device Paradigm appeared first on Towards Data Science....
How to Implement Responsible AI Frameworks for Ethical and Transparent AI: Implement Responsible AI frameworks to ensure ethical, transparent AI while meeting global regulations and building enterprise trust. The uptake of AI has been rampant in all industries, such as the f...
Chris Gengo Joins HiLabs as SVP and Chief Innovation Officer: HiLabs, a leading provider of AI-powered solutions that clean and standardize complex healthcare data, today announced that Chris Gengo has joined the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Innova...
Choosing Between PCA and t-SNE for Visualization: For data scientists, working with high-dimensional data is part of daily life....
AI is already making online swindles easier. It could get much worse.: Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that. It was a file uploaded to VirusTotal, a site cybersecurity researchers like him...
Flatiron Health Names New Chief Business, Technology, and Product Leaders: Michael Bierl, Allison Candido, and Kate Estep assume expanded roles to drive innovation and scale. Flatiron Health is pleased to announce three significant appointments to its Executive Team, reflect...
Gradient Announced the Launch of Echo-2: New distributed reinforcement learning system cuts post-training costs by up to 80%, expanding access to advanced AI beyond hyperscale data centers Gradient, an AI infrastrucUp to 80% lower training c...
Oxide Closes $200M Series C to Scale On-Premises Cloud Computing: Thomas Tull’s USIT fund and existing investors deepen commitment as Oxide secures long-term independence and focuses on customer expansion. Oxide Computer Company, the on-prem cloud computing company,...
DXC Launches London Customer Experience Center to Help Unlock AI Value: DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced the opening of its new Customer Experience Center (CEC) in London. The center is designed to create ...
Wearable Devices Launches ai6 Labs: ai6 Labs: a synergistic neural AI ecosystem driving the future through integrated research, product monetization, and accelerated AI breakthroughs Wearable Devices Ltd. (Nasdaq: WLDS, WLDSW) (“Wearabl...
Blue Ridge Networks Introduces CyberCloak™ Cloud on AWS: As distributed workforces and cloud-native operations expand attack surfaces, organizations managing critical OT/IT infrastructure face mounting challenges in securing connections between users, devic...
Armis Announced the Launch of Armis Centrix™: Solution helps security teams reduce cyber risk exposure, operate more efficiently and streamline their security stack Armis, the cyber exposure management & security company, today announced Armis Ce...
Blaize Appoints Stephen Patak as CRO to Accelerate Go-to-Market Execution: Veteran infrastructure leader to scale global revenue as AI moves from pilot to production Blaize Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BZAI, NASDAQ: BZAIW) (“Blaize”), a leading AI infrastructure provider powering...
Nudge Security Study: AI Adoption Reshapes Security Governance: New report finds that AI agents, integrations and AI-native development platforms are taking hold, raising new and critical security governance challenges Nudge Security, the leading innovator in SaaS...
Imprivata debuts new passwordless authentication for healthcare: Tailored for all users and workflows, Imprivata Enterprise Access Management now offers context-aware passwordless authentication, advanced biometrics, and AI-powered behavioral analytics to further s...
Accelerating science with AI and simulations: Associate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has spent his career applying AI to improve scientific discovery. Now he believes we are at an inflection point....
Adaptive Optimization via Momentum on Variance-Normalized Gradients: arXiv:2602.10204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce MVN-Grad (Momentum on Variance-Normalized Gradients), an Adam-style optimizer that improves stability and performance by combining two com...
Versor: A Geometric Sequence Architecture: arXiv:2602.10195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A novel sequence architecture design is introduced, Versor, which uses Conformal Geometric Algebra (CGA) in place of the traditional fundamental non-li...
How to Build a Matryoshka-Optimized Sentence Embedding Model for Ultra-Fast Retrieval with 64-Dimension Truncation: In this tutorial, we fine-tune a Sentence-Transformers embedding model using Matryoshka Representation Learning so that the earliest dimensions of the vector carry the most useful semantic signal. We ...

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The Shadow Giants: Navigating the Hidden Supply Chains of the AI and Robotics Revolution: Let’s explore the comprehensive supply chain of the new technological age. This article analyzes the thriving downstream markets in AI compute, data s...
#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger: Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Thank you for li...
Large Language Models Predict Functional Outcomes after Acute Ischemic Stroke: arXiv:2602.10119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of functional outcomes after acute ischemic stroke can inform clinical decision-m...
Towards Autonomous Mathematics Research: arXiv:2602.10177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in foundational models have yielded reasoning systems capable of achieving a gold-med...
Signature-Kernel Based Evaluation Metrics for Robust Probabilistic and Tail-Event Forecasting: arXiv:2602.10182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic forecasting is increasingly critical across high-stakes domains, from finance and epide...
Discovering Differences in Strategic Behavior Between Humans and LLMs: arXiv:2602.10324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in social and strategic scenarios, it becom...

Daily AI Recap: February 12, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Feb 12, 2026

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