Daily AI Recap: Feb 19, 2026

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Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins....
Why these startup CEOs don’t think AI will replace human roles: The CEOs of Read AI and Lucidya told TechCrunch at Web Summit Qatar that they see AI tools replacing tasks, rather than workers....
YouTube’s latest experiment brings its conversational AI tool to TVs: YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they're watching on the big screen....
Beyond Automation: How AI Becomes Your Small Business’s First “Digital Employee”: Explore how AI is becoming the first “digital employee” for small businesses—handling operations, finance, sales, marketing, and support with adaptive intelligence that scales effortlessly....
Understanding the Chi-Square Test Beyond the Formula: How categorical data becomes statistical evidence. The post Understanding the Chi-Square Test Beyond the Formula appeared first on Towards Data Science....
How to Use Memory in Agent Builder: By Jacob TalbotAgent Builder gets better the more you use it because it remembers your feedback. Every correction you make, preference you share, and approach that works well is something that your ag...
77% Americans Embrace AI With Calls for Safeguards: New national survey highlights rising adoption, cautious trust, and strong demand for oversight as AI enters behavioral healthcare A new national survey released today by Qualifacts, the leading behav...
Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping: A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links....
Study: Automotive Ransomware Attacks More Than Double in 2025: Upstream’s report finds that the rapid adoption of Physical AI, with autonomous vehicles among the first production-ready systems in real-world operation, is expanding attack surfaces and accelerating...
Survey: 69% of IT Leaders Fear Data Breaches: Rocket Software’s New Report Highlights Rising Pressure on Enterprise IT Organizations Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization, today released new research on the growing challeng...
A new study explores how AI shapes what you can trust online: The post A new study explores how AI shapes what you can trust online appeared first on Source....
Media Authenticity Methods in Practice: Capabilities, Limitations, and Directions: As synthetic media grows, verifying what’s real, and the origin of content, matters more than ever. Our latest report explores media integrity and authentication methods, their limits, and practical p...
「データ不足」の壁を越える：合成ペルソナが日本のAI開発を加速: ...
From Scarcity to Scale: How Synthetic Personas Can Bootstrap Japanese AI Development: ...
OpenAI, Reliance partner to add AI search to JioHotstar: The rollout includes two-way integration that surfaces streaming links directly inside ChatGPT....
All About the Games: Play Over 4,500 Titles With GeForce NOW: The GeForce NOW anniversary celebration keeps on rolling, and this week is all about the games that make it possible. With more than 4,500 titles supported in the cloud — plus 12 new games this week —...
Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India’s big AI summit: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of unity, all executives on stage obliged, except OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amod...
AI News Weekly - Issue #466: Everything Elon & AI special edition - Feb 19th 2026: In the News
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  The "Muskonomy" 2026: From Earthly Chaos to Orbital Overlords
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Intro: Buckle Up, Earthlings Welcome to February 2026, where the "Final Frontier" is starting to look ...

Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing: “I think we're the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site."...
Explainable AI (XAI) vs. Traditional AI: What You Need to Know: Explainable AI (XAI) vs. Traditional AI: Which is right for you? Learn how to balance performance and compliance in the 2026 enterprise AI landscape. In 2026, the artificial intelligence environment h...
AI in Multiple GPUs: How GPUs Communicate: A deep dive into the hardware infrastructure that enables multi-GPU communication for AI workloads The post AI in Multiple GPUs: How GPUs Communicate appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Top 10 Made-in-India AI Products Shown at AI Impact Expo 2026: When it comes to new-age technology, India has historically been at the forefront of several eras seen by human civilisation. Following suit, the nation is now stepping up in the age of Artificial Int...
Advancing independent research on AI alignment: OpenAI commits $7.5M to The Alignment Project to fund independent AI alignment research, strengthening global efforts to address AGI safety and security risks....
Gurobi Appoints Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck to Lead AI Innovation Lab: Renowned optimization and AI technologies leader to advance hybrid approaches for demanding decision challenges. Gurobi Optimization, LLC, the leader in decision intelligence technology, is pleased to...
OncoHost Publishes Landmark JPBA Proteomics Study: OncoHost, a technology company transforming precision oncology through proteomics and AI, today announced the publication of a new study in the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis (JPBA)...

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ADX, Saal.ai collaborate to design innovative platform for market data dissemination: The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and Saal.ai announced a strategic collaboration under which Saal.ai has been engaged to support the design and...
Saal Exhibited at IDC CIO Excellence Awards: Saal was pleased to exhibit at the IDC Excellence Awards Symposium, which brought together 170 industry leaders.The event spotlighted key themes shapi...
A Koopman-Bayesian Framework for High-Fidelity, Perceptually Optimized Haptic Surgical Simulation: arXiv:2602.15834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a unified framework that combines nonlinear dynamics, perceptual psychophysics and high ...
Memes-as-Replies: Can Models Select Humorous Manga Panel Responses?: arXiv:2602.15842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memes are a popular element of modern web communication, used not only as static artifacts but also a...
Kalman-Inspired Runtime Stability and Recovery in Hybrid Reasoning Systems: arXiv:2602.15855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid reasoning systems that combine learned components with model-based inference are increasingly ...
Genetic Generalized Additive Models: arXiv:2602.15877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) balance predictive accuracy and interpretability, but manually con...
IT-OSE: Exploring Optimal Sample Size for Industrial Data Augmentation: arXiv:2602.15878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In industrial scenarios, data augmentation is an effective approach to improve model performance. How...

Daily AI Recap: February 19, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Feb 19, 2026

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