Daily AI Recap: Feb 16, 2026

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How to Build Human-in-the-Loop Plan-and-Execute AI Agents with Explicit User Approval Using LangGraph and Streamlit: In this tutorial, we build a human-in-the-loop travel booking agent that treats the user as a teammate rather than a passive observer. We design the system so the agent first reasons openly by draftin...
StorMagic Appoints Scott Mann as Global SVP Sales: StorMagic®, simplifying on-site virtualization, announced today the addition of Scott Mann as Global SVP of Sales. Scott’s appointment reflects StorMagic’s priority on accelerating global revenue grow...
The AI Mirage: Myths, Hype, and Real Progress: This video supplements our blog article at https://aiquantumintelligence.com/the-ai-mirage-how-our-illusions-create-flashy-products-and-stifle-real-progress and debunks common AI misconceptions (like ...
Have money, will travel: a16z’s hunt for the next European unicorn: According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might....
Learn Python, SQL and PowerBI to Become a Certified Data Analyst for FREE This Week: From February 16–22, DataCamp’s entire curriculum is 100% free....
How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months: The reason why this nascent startup had VCs lining up is the founders.They are so famed in the AI world, everyone tried to hire them....
Edge AI for start-ups: Why on-device intelligence is the future of MVPs: Startups no longer need massive cloud budgets to build intelligent products. By shifting AI from centralized servers to on-device processing, edge AI enables leaner, faster, and more privacy-conscious...
NashBio Announces Key Leadership Roles: NashBio appoints Technology Engineer Expert Wacey Richards to CTO and Real World Data Specialist Elizabeth Ann Stringer to COO. Nashville Biosciences LLC (NashBio), a leading real-world, multi-omics d...
United Imaging Showcases Collaboration at WHX: Hosting the largest booth at World Health Expo (WHX) 2026 in the North Hall, United Imaging, a global innovator in AI-powered advanced medical imaging technologies and intelligent healthcare solutions...
Global technology leaders launch Trusted Tech Alliance: In a time when the world is divided, 15 leading global companies from 10 countries are coming together to serve customers around the world Today, at the Munich Security Conference, 15 companies from A...
Resecurity Highlights AI-Driven Cybersecurity at AI Everything MEA Egypt 2026: Resecurity, a U.S.-based cybersecurity and intelligence company protecting Fortune 100 companies and government agencies worldwide, proudly exhibited at AI Everything MEA Egypt 2026, one of the region...
Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’: "We're exploring a different set of tradeoffs."...
NexusTek Named to CRN’s 2026 MSP 500 List: Honored as a top managed service provider for the tenth consecutive year NexusTek, a top national cloud, managed IT services, and cybersecurity solutions provider, today announced that CRN®, a brand o...
Adastra Enters AWS Partner Greenfield Program: Multi-year collaboration with AWS will help organizations not yet on AWS migrate and modernize, establish secure cloud foundations, and scale responsible Generative AI with funding and enablement Adas...
After all the hype, some AI experts don’t think OpenClaw is all that exciting: "From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel," one expert told TechCrunch....
How CVS Health continues to shape innovation in Boston: When people think about healthcare innovation in the US, Silicon Valley often gets the spotlight. But for decades, another ecosystem has been quietly getting on with the job of shaping the future of m...
Fractal Analytics’ muted IPO debut signals persistent AI fears in India: As India's first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn't have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors in the wake of a sell-off ...
DPO vs PPO for LLMs: Key Differences & Use Cases: An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies....
All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit: India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as ...
Best Private Cloud Hosting Platforms in 2026: An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies....
QuSecure Appoints Brian Cunningham as EVP Strategy & Growth: Former Special Operations Commander, Navy SEAL, and Enterprise Technology Executive Joins QuSecure as Demand Accelerates for Crypto-agile, Quantum-resilient Cybersecurity QuSecure™, Inc., the market l...
Cybersecurity Leader Pete Angstadt Joins DTEX’s Advisory Board: Seasoned Executive Brings Decades of Go-to-Market Leadership to Accelerate DTEX’s Strategic Growth and Risk-Adaptive Security Innovation DTEX, a leader in risk-adaptive security and behavioral intelli...
Choice Cyber Unveils New Leadership to Fuel Growth: Choice Cyber Solutions, a compliance and cybersecurity services firm serving MSPs and regulated organizations globally, today announced a formalized leadership structure designed to support continued ...
Perspecta Reports Strong 2025 Performance & Accelerating SaaS Momentum: Perspecta, a leading provider of healthcare navigation and provider data management solutions, today reported strong financial and operational performance in 2025, driven by continued expansion of its...
Omantel announced the launch of “Otech”: A unified company for future technologies, advancing digital sovereignty and opening promising tech pathways As part of national efforts to accelerate digital transformation and strengthen the foundat...
Emagine IT Wins $40M CMS Contract for Health Services Security: Contract supports CMS mission to protect sensitive data, improve system resilience, and ensure uninterrupted services for millions of Americans Emagine IT, a mission-focused federal technology and cyb...
Red River Named to CRN’s MSP 500 List For 2026 in the Elite 150 Category: Red River, a technology transformation company specializing in AI-driven cybersecurity and IT infrastructure solutions for government and enterprise customers, announced today that it has been named b...
Justin Carter Joins Sync(d) AI as Founder and Partner: Justin Will Help Drive Organizations to Embrace AI, Automation and Business Agility Sync(d) AI, a Frontier AI firm transforming how organizations run on Microsoft Business Applications, is excited to ...
Wireless TokenCom: RL-Based Tokenizer Agreement for Multi-User Wireless Token Communications: arXiv:2602.12338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Token Communications (TokenCom) has recently emerged as an effective new paradigm, where tokens are the unified units of multimodal communications and ...
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As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck: C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers....
Blackstone backs Neysa in up to $1.2B financing as India pushes to build domestic AI infrastructure: Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates....
OptiML: An End-to-End Framework for Program Synthesis and CUDA Kernel Optimization: arXiv:2602.12305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating high-performance CUDA kernels remains challenging due to the need to navigate a combinator...
Abstractive Red-Teaming of Language Model Character: arXiv:2602.12318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We want language model assistants to conform to a character specification, which asserts how the mode...
The Appeal and Reality of Recycling LoRAs with Adaptive Merging: arXiv:2602.12323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread availability of fine-tuned LoRA modules for open pre-trained models has led to an inte...
Intrinsic Credit Assignment for Long Horizon Interaction: arXiv:2602.12342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can we train agents to navigate uncertainty over long horizons? In this work, we propose {\Delta}...
GT-HarmBench: Benchmarking AI Safety Risks Through the Lens of Game Theory: arXiv:2602.12316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier AI systems are increasingly capable and deployed in high-stakes multi-agent environments. Ho...

Daily AI Recap: February 16, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Feb 16, 2026

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