Daily AI Recap: Feb 13, 2026

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Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI: AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own sha...
[In-Depth Guide] The Complete CTGAN + SDV Pipeline for High-Fidelity Synthetic Data: In this tutorial, we build a complete, production-grade synthetic data pipeline using CTGAN and the SDV ecosystem. We start from raw mixed-type tabular data and progressively move toward constrained g...
AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem: AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own sha...
Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking AI with ads helped push Claude’s app into the top 10: After Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Claude's app reached the top 10 on the U.S. App Store....
Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull: At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mou...
AI Quantum Intelligence - Pic of the week (2026-02-13): This week's AI pic of the week - we celebrate the concept of Valentine's Day and reflect on loving relationships around the world....
Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO: Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI demand as the Canadian startup positions itself for a potential IPO amid intensifying competition f...
Building Vertex AI Search Applications: A Comprehensive Guide: This guide explores the essential components, implementation strategies, and best practices for building production-ready search applications using Vertex AI Search and AI Applications....
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims: The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them via Meta's AI assistant....
Wind River Showcasing Edge AI for Intelligent Networks at MWC Barcelona: Wind River, an Aptiv company and global leader in software for the intelligent edge, will showcase its latest technologies at MWC Barcelona from March 2-5, highlighting solutions that enable edge AI f...
12 Python Libraries You Need to Try in 2026: These are 12 Python libraries that made waves in 2025, and that every developer should try in 2026....
Zilliz Cloud Expands European Presence with New AWS Region in Ireland: Zilliz, the company behind the most popular open-source vector database Milvus, recently announced the availability of a new Zilliz Cloud region in AWS eu-west-1 (Ireland), further expanding its globa...
AI in Multiple GPUs: Point-to-Point and Collective Operations: Learn PyTorch distributed operations for multi GPU AI workloads The post AI in Multiple GPUs: Point-to-Point and Collective Operations appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Recorded Future 2026 Report: Cyber Ops Now Core to Global Power: Co-Founder Christopher Ahlberg Shares New Findings from Key Annual Report Recorded Future, the world’s largest threat intelligence company, today released its 2026 State of Security Report, showing th...
ZeroFox Names Andrew McKenna Chief Operating Officer and CFO: ZeroFox, the global leader protecting the people, brands, and technology driving modern enterprise, today announced that Chief Financial Officer Andrew McKenna has been elevated to the expanded role o...
Bizzdesign and mpmX Partner to Advance Operational Excellence: Strategic technology partnership combines enterprise architecture, business process management, and process mining expertise to deliver capabilities for process intelligence and digital twin of an org...
OPSWAT Appoints Jan Miller as CTO: New CTO role accelerates OPSWAT’s strategy for adaptive sandboxing and threat intelligence at scale OPSWAT, a global leader in critical infrastructure protection (CIP) cybersecurity solutions, today a...
What is Prompt Chaining?: You type in a lengthy prompt, well over 500 words, or even 1000 words. It structures everything perfectly. Explains in detail what is to be done, right down to the finer details of each step. And you ...
Half of Kubernetes Teams Still Manage Costs Manually: Research of U.S. software developers exposes the gap between cost visibility and resource efficiency Kubex, a pioneer in automated resource optimization for Kubernetes, AI and Cloud, announces new res...
Pathlock Brings SAP Threat Detection to Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP: Security Operations Centers (SOCs) can now accelerate SAP detection and response, while managing unified cybersecurity workflows within their SIEM Pathlock, a leader in Identity and Access Governance,...
SPS Commerce Appoints New Independent Directors to the Board: Enters into Cooperation Agreement with Anson Funds SPS Commerce, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPSC), the leading intelligent supply chain network, announced today that its Board of Directors appointed Michael McConn...
Sophos Announces Leadership Updates For AI-Driven Future of Cybersecurity: Raja Patel named President among a set of leadership updates aligning AI across product, security, and go-to-market execution for measurable outcomes Sophos, a global leader of innovative security sol...
Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT: Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration....
BlackFog Finds Ransomware Attacks Up 49% Year Over Year: BlackFog, the leader in ransomware prevention and anti data exfiltration (ADX), today unveiled its 2025 State of Ransomware Report, a detailed analysis of ransomware activity from publicly disclosed a...
CrowdStrike to Power Threat Intelligence for NordVPN Users: CrowdStrike Threat Intelligence powers NordVPN’s Threat Protection Pro™, bringing enterprise-grade adversary intelligence to consumer security NordVPN has selected CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) to power ...
Vitalacy, Inc. Appoints Haley Dukelow as Chief Executive Officer: Vitalacy, Inc., a health technology company dedicated to advancing patient safety through intelligent, AI-powered solutions, today announced the appointment of Haley Dukelow as Chief Executive Officer...
Cavallo Honoured by Sprinterra for Strong Integration with Acumatica ERP: Acumatica development and service provider Sprinterra has recognized Cavallo, the leader in AI-powered Profit Maximization, for its strong integration with Acumatica – reinforcing Cavallo’s role as a ...
On Decision-Valued Maps and Representational Dependence: arXiv:2602.11295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A computational engine applied to different representations of the same data can produce different discrete outcomes, with some representations preserv...
Explaining AI Without Code: A User Study on Explainable AI: arXiv:2602.11159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing use of Machine Learning (ML) in sensitive domains such as healthcare, finance, and public policy has raised concerns about the transpare...
KBVQ-MoE: KLT-guided SVD with Bias-Corrected Vector Quantization for MoE Large Language Models: arXiv:2602.11184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture of Experts (MoE) models have achieved great success by significantly improving performance while maintaining computational efficiency through s...
How to Align Large Language Models with Human Preferences Using Direct Preference Optimization, QLoRA, and Ultra-Feedback: In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end Direct Preference Optimization workflow to align a large language model with human preferences without using a reward model. We combine TRL’s DPOTrainer wi...
Faster Rates For Federated Variational Inequalities: In this paper, we study federated optimization for solving stochastic variational inequalities (VIs), a problem that has attracted growing attention in recent years. Despite substantial progress, a si...
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On Agent Frameworks and Agent Observability: Every time LLMs get better, the same question comes back: "Do you still need an agent framework?" It's a fair question. We've now built three generati...
Automated Optimization Modeling via a Localizable Error-Driven Perspective: arXiv:2602.11164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated optimization modeling via Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising approach ...
Spectra: Rethinking Optimizers for LLMs Under Spectral Anisotropy: arXiv:2602.11185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient signals in LLM training are highly anisotropic: recurrent linguistic structure concentrates ...
GAC-KAN: An Ultra-Lightweight GNSS Interference Classifier for GenAI-Powered Consumer Edge Devices: arXiv:2602.11186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Generative AI (GenAI) into Consumer Electronics (CE)--from AI-powered assistants i...
TDPNavigator-Placer: Thermal- and Wirelength-Aware Chiplet Placement in 2.5D Systems Through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: arXiv:2602.11187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of electronics has accelerated the adoption of 2.5D integrated circuits, where effec...
Latent Generative Solvers for Generalizable Long-Term Physics Simulation: arXiv:2602.11229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study long-horizon surrogate simulation across heterogeneous PDE systems. We introduce Latent Gene...
Voxtral Realtime: arXiv:2602.11298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Voxtral Realtime, a natively streaming automatic speech recognition model that matches o...

Daily AI Recap: February 13, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Feb 13, 2026

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