Daily AI Recap: Feb 20, 2026

Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.

• Why creators are ditching ad revenue for chocolate bars and fintech acquisitions: The creator economy is evolving fast, and ad revenue alone isn’t cutting it anymore. YouTubers are launching product lines, acquiring startups, and building actual business empires. In fact, MrBeast’s...
• How to Design a Swiss Army Knife Research Agent with Tool-Using AI, Web Search, PDF Analysis, Vision, and Automated Reporting: In this tutorial, we build a “Swiss Army Knife” research agent that goes far beyond simple chat interactions and actively solves multi-step research problems end-to-end. We combine a tool-using agent ...
• InScope nabs $14.5M to solve the pain of financial reporting: The startup, founded by accountants who worked at Flexport, Miro, Hopin and Thrive Global, automates the difficulties of prepping financial statements....
• Element Biosciences Introduces VITARI™: VITARI will begin shipping in the second half of 2026, with pre-orders now open and early customer commitments already secured Element Biosciences Inc. today announced VITARI, the first ever high-thro...
• Great news for xAI: Grok is now pretty good at answering questions about Baldur’s Gate: A new report from Business Insider reveals that high-level engineers at xAI were pulled off other projects to make sure Grok could answer detailed questions about the video game "Baldur's Gate."...
• Donkeys, Not Unicorns: The New Rules of Entrepreneurship in the Era of Commoditized Magic The post Donkeys, Not Unicorns appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• Avandra Appoints Two Healthtech Leaders to Accelerate Commercial Growth: Avandra Imaging, a leader in medical imaging-centric real-world data, today announced the appointment of Justin North as Head of Life Sciences and Network Growth, and Chip Kay as Head of Sales for Ima...
• CHIME Survey Flags Rising System Fragmentation: National research conducted with RLDatix reveals nearly 90% of healthcare organizations see an urgent need to modernize governance and connected systems Healthcare technology leaders say disconnected ...
• CyberFOX Welcomes Joe Panettieri as Strategic Advisor: Renowned MSP market analyst and digital media entrepreneur brings two decades of channel partner expertise to accelerate partner success CyberFOX, a global cybersecurity software provider, today annou...
• Toy Story 5 takes aim at creepy AI toys: ‘I’m always listening’: Addictive, AI-enabled tablets are taking over, and also, Woody is balding in the new Toy Story movie, out June 19....
• AlgoSec Up 37% YoY New Business Growth Amid Security Demand: Over 90% gross dollar retention and 37% year-over-year new business growth reflect demand for visibility across complex hybrid environments AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity leader, today reported its b...
• AI’s promise to indie filmmakers: faster, cheaper, lonelier: AI expands access to filmmaking for resource-constrained creators. But as efficiency becomes the industry’s north star, creativity risks being overwhelmed by a deluge of low-effort, AI-generated conte...
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Super Early Bird rates end in 1 week: The lowest ticket rates of the year for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends next Friday, February 27. Save up to $680 on your pass. Register now before prices increase....
• OpenAI says 18 to 24-year-olds account for nearly 50% of ChatGPT usage in India: The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age account for nearly 50% of all messages sent by Indians to ChatGPT, and users under 30 accounted for 80% of usage in the country....
• An End-to-End Guide to Beautifying Your Open-Source Repo with Agentic AI: The guide to automated improvement of scientific and industrial repositories using open-source AI agents The post An End-to-End Guide to Beautifying Your Open-Source Repo with Agentic AI appeared firs...
• How AI is reinventing incident response in hybrid IT: As alert volumes explode and systems grow more complex, AI-driven AIOps is shifting teams from reactive firefighting to intelligent, correlated, and faster resolutions. Are you ready?...
• How to Write a Good Spec for AI Agents: This post first appeared on Addy Osmani’s Elevate Substack newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission. TL;DR: Aim for a clear spec covering just enough nuance (this may incl...
• From Monolith to Contract-Driven Data Mesh: A pragmatic journey using website analytics as a real-world example The post From Monolith to Contract-Driven Data Mesh appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• UAE’s G42 teams up with Cerebras to deploy 8 exaflops of compute in India: Abu Dhabi-based tech company G42 has partnered with U.S.-based chipmaker Cerebras to deploy eight exaflops of compute through a new system in India...
• RingCentral Drives New Era of Enterprise Voice AI Performance with OpenAI: RingCentral’s trusted communications enhanced by OpenAI deliver high-fidelity, powerful AI experiences that drive business outcomes RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), a global leader in AI-powered busines...
• ExaGrid Achieves Customer Milestone: 5,000+ organizations worldwide are actively using ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage ExaGrid®, the leader in Tiered Backup Storage, today announced that over 5,000 customers are actively using its backup s...
• General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years: The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst's earlier $500 million–$1 billion India earmark....
• How to Build Transparent AI Agents: Traceable Decision-Making with Audit Trails and Human Gates: In this tutorial, we build a glass-box agentic workflow that makes every decision traceable, auditable, and explicitly governed by human approval. We design the system to log each thought, action, and...
• Real-time Secondary Crash Likelihood Prediction Excluding Post Primary Crash Features: arXiv:2602.16739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Secondary crash likelihood prediction is a critical component of an active traffic management system to mitigate congestion and adverse impacts caused ...
• When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation: arXiv:2602.16763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) benchmarks play a central role in measuring progress in model development and guiding deployment decisions. However, many ...
• AIdentifyAGE Ontology for Decision Support in Forensic Dental Age Assessment: arXiv:2602.16714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Age assessment is crucial in forensic and judicial decision-making, particularly in cases involving undocumented individuals and unaccompanied minors, ...
• MMCAformer: Macro-Micro Cross-Attention Transformer for Traffic Speed Prediction with Microscopic Connected Vehicle Driving Behavior: arXiv:2602.16730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate speed prediction is crucial for proactive traffic management to enhance traffic efficiency and safety. Existing studies have primarily relied ...
• GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI: ...

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• Nvidia deepens early-stage push into India’s AI startup ecosystem: Nvidia is working with investors, nonprofits, and venture firms to build earlier ties with India's fast-growing AI founder ecosystem....
• Google’s new Gemini Pro model has record benchmark scores—again: Gemini 3.1 Pro promises a Google LLM capable of handling more complex forms of work....
• A Few-Shot LLM Framework for Extreme Day Classification in Electricity Markets: arXiv:2602.16735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a few-shot classification framework based on Large Language Models (LLMs) to pred...
• Quantifying LLM Attention-Head Stability: Implications for Circuit Universality: arXiv:2602.16740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In mechanistic interpretability, recent work scrutinizes transformer "circuits" - sparse, mono or mul...
• DeepVision-103K: A Visually Diverse, Broad-Coverage, and Verifiable Mathematical Dataset for Multimodal Reasoning: arXiv:2602.16742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has been shown effective in enhancing the visua...
• Retrieval Augmented (Knowledge Graph), and Large Language Model-Driven Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Generation of Cyber-Physical Systems: arXiv:2602.16715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We explore the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and G...

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