Daily AI Recap: Feb 18, 2026

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The Reasonable Effectiveness of Virtue Ethics in AI Alignment: Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we...
Why Every Analytics Engineer Needs to Understand Data Architecture: Get the data architecture right, and everything else becomes easier. I know it sounds simple, but in reality, little nuances in designing your data architecture may have costly implications. This arti...
CBTS on CRN’s MSP 500 List in Elite 150 Category for Third Consecutive Year: Award recognizes CBTS as a top provider of managed services serving mid-market and enterprise organizations CBTS, a leading provider of managed IT and networking solutions, has been named to CRN’s Man...
TEKsystems: AI Complexity Reshapes 2026 Priorities: TEKsystems’ seventh annual State of Digital Transformation report reveals employee productivity now leads transformation priorities as organizations bet bigger on AI and manage rising complexity TEKsy...
Deploying MCP Across SaaS, VPC & On-Prem | 2026 Guide: An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies....
Contrast Security Earns Runtime Innovator Recognition: Recognition validates Contrast’s leadership in real-time application attack detection and blocking Contrast Security, the leader in Application Detection and Response (ADR), today announced it has bee...
Multi-GPU vs Single-GPU Scaling economics: An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies....
IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST: ...
Project Silica’s advances in glass storage technology: Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These advances lower media cost and simplify writing and reading systems while sup...
Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app: Users will be able to use text, images, and videos as a reference to generate music....
A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music: Image showing sample tracks created with Lyria 3...
From Messy to Clean: 8 Python Tricks for Effortless Data Preprocessing: 8 Python tricks to turn raw, messy data into clean, neatly preprocessed data with minimal effort....
OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills: OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year....
Top 5 AI Code Review Tools for Developers: Code reviews shouldn’t be a bottleneck. The best AI code review tools now catch bugs, anti-patterns, security flaws, and more in seconds before they ever hit production....
The Six Keys to Data Readiness to Prepare Your Business for AI: Stop failing at AI. Implement the six keys to data readiness to prepare your business for AI and transform your data into a strategic asset. Across every boardroom I walk into, businesses are being as...
AI Impact Summit 2026: A look at the partnerships and investments Google announced at the AI Impact Summit 2026....
AI Impact Summit 2026: How we’re partnering to make AI work for everyone: a picture of a conference with interactive displays and screens...
CrowdStrike Recognized for Cloud Security Leadership: Leadership across Cloud Workload Security and SaaS Security Posture Management establishes CrowdStrike as the standard for cloud runtime security CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been...
SAIC Announces CEO Appointment: Interim CEO, Former Board Member, and Seasoned Government Services Executive James Reagan Named CEO Science Applications International Corporation (Nasdaq: SAIC), a premier Fortune 500® company drivin...
KnowBe4 Report Reveals U.S. Public Sector Faces Unrelenting Cyber Threats: Advanced threat activity, chronic staffing shortages and a rapidly expanding regulatory environment challenge the sector’s cybersecurity capabilities KnowBe4, the world-renowned platform that comprehe...
Intellinetics, Inc. Appoints Alison Forsythe as President and CEO: Proven Technology Executive to Lead Intellinetics Into Its Next Phase of Growth Intellinetics, Inc. (NYSE American: INLX), a digital transformation solutions provider, today announced the appointment ...
Learning Representations from Incomplete EHR Data with Dual-Masked Autoencoding: arXiv:2602.15159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from electronic health records (EHRs) time series is challenging due to irregular sam- pling, heterogeneous missingness, and the resulting spa...
Advance Planning for AI Project Evaluation: The work to do before the work begins The post Advance Planning for AI Project Evaluation appeared first on Towards Data Science....
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Weaviate Authentication & Authorization: A Complete Security Guide: Learn how to secure your Weaviate vector database with API keys, OIDC, and role-based access control (RBAC). Includes practical examples and setup steps....

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Use OpenClaw to Make a Personal AI Assistant: Learn how to set up OpenClaw as a personalized AI agent The post Use OpenClaw to Make a Personal AI Assistant appeared first on Towards Data Science....
India Fuels Its AI Mission With NVIDIA: From AI infrastructure leaders to frontier model developers, India is teaming with NVIDIA to drive AI transformation across the nation....
India’s Global Systems Integrators Build Next Wave of Enterprise Agents With NVIDIA AI, Transforming Back Office and Customer Support: Agentic AI is reshaping India’s tech industry, delivering leaps in services worldwide. Tapping into NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and NVIDIA Nemotron ...
NVIDIA and Global Industrial Software Leaders Partner With India’s Largest Manufacturers to Drive AI Boom: India is entering a new age of industrialization, as AI transforms how the world designs, builds and runs physical products and systems. The country i...
AI Stack Pyramid (2025 Edition) — Data, Infrastructure, Models, and Applications: A structured visual framework illustrating the 2025 AI technology stack as a four‑layer pyramid. The base layer highlights real‑world, synthetic, and ...
Near-Optimal Sample Complexity for Online Constrained MDPs: arXiv:2602.15076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety is a fundamental challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), particularly in real-world applicat...
Hybrid Feature Learning with Time Series Embeddings for Equipment Anomaly Prediction: arXiv:2602.15089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In predictive maintenance of equipment, deep learning-based time series anomaly detection has garnere...

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