Daily AI Recap: Feb 17, 2026

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NVIDIA Nemotron 2 Nano 9B Japanese: 日本のソブリンAIを支える最先端小規模言語モデル: ...
Our 2026 Responsible AI Progress Report: an illustration of blue and white cubes...
Apple is reportedly cooking up a trio of AI wearables: As the AI hardware space heats up, the iPhone maker has multiple smart products in development....
How to Build an Advanced, Interactive Exploratory Data Analysis Workflow Using PyGWalker and Feature-Engineered Data: In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to move beyond static, code-heavy charts and build a genuinely interactive exploratory data analysis workflow directly using PyGWalker. We start by preparing the T...
Beyond the Data Lake: Why ‘Better Data’ is Only Half the Battle for AI-Driven Cyber Defense: Beyond the data lake: Why better data is only half the battle for AI-driven cyber defense. Explore agentic observability, adversarial AI, and the semantic gap....
Top 10 No-Code Development Platforms to Launch Apps and Automate Work: No-code platforms are quietly changing who gets to build software. You no longer need to be an engineer to create apps, automate workflows, or launch products. The barrier isn’t technical skill anymor...
Top 10 Generative AI Books You Must Read in 2026: Two years ago, AI could autocomplete your sentence. Today, it writes production code, drafts legal contracts, generates photorealistic images, builds entire apps, and debates philosophy. Generative AI...
Drastically Reducing Out-of-Memory Errors in Apache Spark at Pinterest: Felix Loesing | Software EngineerIn 2025, we set out to drastically reduce out-of-memory errors (OOMs) and cut resource usage in our Spark applications by automatically identifying tasks with higher m...
SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center links: Mesh aims to mass-produce optical transceivers for AI data centers....
How to Automate Data Validation and Find the Best Tools for Monitoring Research Integrity: As artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) accelerate the pace of discovery, research teams are grappling with an unprecedented surge in data volume, velocity and complexity. What on...
Amazon Fire TV’s new interface is now rolling out in the U.S.: Fire TV's new interface simplifies its layout and navigation and adds Alexa+....
Human AI Co-Innovation Summit Launches in Paris: Advancing AI from Pilots to Production at Enterprise Scale The Ethical AI Governance Group (EAIGG) announced today the 2026 Human AI (HAI) Co-Innovation Summit, an invite-only event gathering enterpri...
ExtraHop® Establishes Presence in Saudi Arabia with AstroLabs: Brings modern network detection and response (NDR) to the Middle East’s global trade hub to support resilient business operations across the region ExtraHop®, a leader in modern network detection and ...
Here are the 17 US-based AI companies that have raised $100m or more in 2026: Three U.S.-based AI companies raised rounds larger than $1 billion so far in 2026 with 14 others raising rounds of $100 million or more....
Dragos Finds Rising OT Attacks on Infrastructure: Three new OT threat groups identified including SYLVANITE linked to VOLTZITE/Volt Typhoon operations; ransomware groups with reach into OT environments surged 49 percent Dragos Inc., the global leader...
From Signal magazine: How the Vatican is thinking about AI in a changing world: The post From Signal magazine: How the Vatican is thinking about AI in a changing world appeared first on Source....
From beards to bytes: How AI is empowering small business owners in Kenya: The post From beards to bytes: How AI is empowering small business owners in Kenya appeared first on Source....
India bids to attract over $200B in AI infrastructure investment by 2028: India is ramping up shared AI compute, adding 20,000 GPUs as part of a broader push to attract global AI investment....
Cloudera Expands Unified Data, AI Inferencing Capabilities: Enabling faster, more accurate enterprise AI and analytics across multi-cloud, edge, and data center environments Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, today announced the expansion...
AITech Interview with Derek Slager, CTO and Co-Founder, Amperity: Derek, you’ve built your career at the intersection of data and innovation. What originally inspired you to co-found Amperity, and how has that vision evolved with the rise of AI? The idea behind Ampe...
LLM Embeddings vs TF-IDF vs Bag-of-Words: Which Works Better in Scikit-learn?: Machine learning models built with frameworks like scikit-learn can accommodate unstructured data like text, as long as this raw text is converted into a numerical representation that is understandabl...
Cycurion Targets Profitability with $2.2M Savings: Cycurion, Inc. (Nasdaq: CYCU) (“Cycurion” or the “Company”), a trusted leader in IT cybersecurity solutions, today announced a strategic business reorganization that will streamline operations, enhanc...
ArisGlobal announced five significant new product offerings: ArisGlobal, an AI-first technology company at the forefront of Life Sciences and creator of LifeSphere®, has announced five significant new product offerings to drive cross-functional operationalizati...
Revolutionizing healthcare: The transformative impact of artificial intelligence: Artificial Intelligence is emerging as a transformative force in healthcare....
Top 20 influential Chief AI Officers in the Silicon Valley area 2026: Silicon Valley continues to define the global AI agenda. In 2026, the region’s technology ecosystem is accelerating once again, home to multi-billion-dollar companies and many of the world’s most infl...
Netrio Named to CRN’s MSP 500 List For 2026: Netrio also recognized in the Elite 150 category for driving innovation and elevating the customer experience for mid-market enterprises Netrio, a global managed service provider (MSP) delivering AI-p...
AI Sovereignty’s Definitional Dilemma: Governments worldwide are racing to control their AI futures, but unclear definitions hinder real policy progress....

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Directional Concentration Uncertainty: A representational approach to uncertainty quantification for generative models: arXiv:2602.13264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the critical task of making generative models trustworthy and robust, methods for Uncertainty Quan...
BLUEPRINT Rebuilding a Legacy: Multimodal Retrieval for Complex Engineering Drawings and Documents: arXiv:2602.13345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decades of engineering drawings and technical records remain locked in legacy archives with inconsist...
Exploring the Performance of ML/DL Architectures on the MNIST-1D Dataset: arXiv:2602.13348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small datasets like MNIST have historically been instrumental in advancing machine learning research ...
The Speed-up Factor: A Quantitative Multi-Iteration Active Learning Performance Metric: arXiv:2602.13359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning models excel with abundant annotated data, but annotation is often costly and time-i...
Accelerated Discovery of Cryoprotectant Cocktails via Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization: arXiv:2602.13398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing cryoprotectant agent (CPA) cocktails for vitrification is challenging because formulations ...
Agentic AI for Commercial Insurance Underwriting with Adversarial Self-Critique: arXiv:2602.13213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Commercial insurance underwriting is a labor-intensive process that requires manual review of extensi...
BotzoneBench: Scalable LLM Evaluation via Graded AI Anchors: arXiv:2602.13214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in interactive environments requiring strategi...

Daily AI Recap: February 17, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Feb 17, 2026

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