Daily AI Recap: Feb 21, 2026

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

• How to Design an Agentic Workflow for Tool-Driven Route Optimization with Deterministic Computation and Structured Outputs: In this tutorial, we build a production-style Route Optimizer Agent for a logistics dispatch center using the latest LangChain agent APIs. We design a tool-driven workflow in which the agent reliably ...
• Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too: "It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."...
• Microsoft’s new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with ‘endless AI slop’: Is Microsoft's gaming division doubling down on AI?...
• Mastering the Supervisor Agent: A Guide to Orchestrating Multi-Agent AI Systems: A junior loan officer handling data intake, risk screening, and final decisions alone is prone to mistakes because the role demands too much at once. The same weakness appears in monolithic AI agents ...
• 7 days until ticket prices rise for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Lowest ticket prices to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end February 27. Up to $680 off individual passes and up to 30% off group passes. Register before they go up to join 10,000 founders, tech operators, an...
• 15 Probability and Statistics Interview Questions Every Data Scientist Must Master: You probably solved Bayes’ Theorem in college and decided you’re “good at statistics.” But interviews reveal something else: most candidates don’t fail because they can’t code. They fail because they ...
• India’s Sarvam launches Indus AI chat app as competition heats up: Sarvam's Indus chat app is currently available in beta....
• A Coding Guide to High-Quality Image Generation, Control, and Editing Using HuggingFace Diffusers: In this tutorial, we design a practical image-generation workflow using the Diffusers library. We start by stabilizing the environment, then generate high-quality images from text prompts using Stable...

• Architecting GPUaaS for Enterprise AI On-Prem: Multi-tenancy, scheduling, and cost modeling on Kubernetes The post Architecting GPUaaS for Enterprise AI On-Prem appeared first on Towards Data Scien...
• OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chats: Jesse Van Rootselaar's descriptions of gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor ChatGPT for misuse....
• Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not survive: As generative AI evolves, a Google VP warns that LLM wrappers and AI aggregators face mounting pressure, with shrinking margins and limited differenti...
• Is There a Community Edition of Palantir? Meet OpenPlanter: An Open Source Recursive AI Agent for Your Micro Surveillance Use Cases: The balance of power in the digital age is shifting. While governments and large corporations have long used data to track individuals, a new open-sou...

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