Daily AI Recap: Feb 23, 2026

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How to Build a Production-Grade Customer Support Automation Pipeline with Griptape Using Deterministic Tools and Agentic Reasoning: In this tutorial, we build an advanced Griptape-based customer support automation system that combines deterministic tooling with agentic reasoning to process real-world support tickets end-to-end. We...
Is the AI and Data Job Market Dead?: What you should be doing in the current job market The post Is the AI and Data Job Market Dead? appeared first on Towards Data Science....
With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic: While some dual investors are understandable, others were more shocking, and signal the disregard of a longstanding ethical conflict-of-interest rule....
AI in Multiple GPUs: Gradient Accumulation & Data Parallelism: Learn and implement gradient accum and data parallelism from scratch in PyTorch The post AI in Multiple GPUs: Gradient Accumulation & Data Parallelism appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports: Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude’s AI capabilities, as U.S. officials debate export controls aimed at slowing China’s AI progress....
TripleKey Appoints Jon Brown as Chief Information Officer: TripleKey today announced that Jon Brown, a former healthcare Chief Information Officer and longtime healthcare technology executive, has joined the company as the CIO. As health systems become increa...
Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM: The company open-sourced an 8 billion parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable....
Introducing “The Intelligence Shift”: A Monthly Exploration of What It Means to Be Human in the Age of AI: A monthly long-form series exploring the philosophical, societal, and human implications of AI. The Intelligence Shift examines identity, agency, meaning, and the future of intelligence in a world sha...
Introducing “AI Reality Check”: A Weekly Series Cutting Through the Hype: A weekly series that cuts through AI hype with sharp, evidence based analysis. AI Reality Check exposes misconceptions, challenges industry narratives, and delivers grounded insights for leaders and i...
Interoperability Isn’t AI-Ready Yet, Despite Heavy Investment, Rhapsody Finds: New survey of 200+ healthcare leaders, finds interoperability maturity continues to lag AI ambition Rhapsody, a global leader in digital health enablement and interoperability, today released its Sta...
NVIDIA Brings AI-Powered Cybersecurity to World’s Critical Infrastructure: As technologies and systems become more digitalized and connected across the world, operational technology (OT) environments and industrial control systems (ICS) — from energy and manufacturing to tra...
Visera LLC Announced the Launch of MyVital ID: New Consumer-Focused Biometric Wellness App Using Transdermal Optical Imaging (TOI) and AI-Driven Wellness Data is Now Available Visera, LLC today announced the official launch of MyVital ID, a consum...
The MCP Revolution and the Search for Stable AI Use Cases: A conversation with AI researcher Sebastian Wallkötter reveals insights on standardization, security challenges, and the fundamental question facing enterprise artificial intelligence adoption....
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Varonis Recognized on CRN’s 2026 Security 100 List: Data security leader is honored for helping customers prevent breaches, comply with regulations, and adopt AI safely Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNS), the leader in data security, today announced ...
ImageTrend Announced the Launch Of Carelytics: ImageTrend has announced the launch of Carelytics, a scalable solutions suite that simplifies hospital–EMS interoperability, patient encounter matching, workflow analytics, and market share into a sin...
Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a tense discussion over the military's use of Claude. Hegseth has threatened to designate Anthropic a "supply...
Concord Technologies Celebrates 30 Years of Innovation and Leadership: Company empowers healthcare organizations by creating a smarter, faster, and more connected information ecosystem, achieving true interoperability and enhancing care delivery Concord Technologies, a l...
Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified: SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro....
ESET’s Ryan Grant Named a 2026 CRN Channel Chief: ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, today announced that CRN®—a brand of The Channel Company—has selected Ryan Grant, Country Manager, U.S. and Canada, for inclusion on the prestigious 2026 CRN® C...
SecurityScorecard Adds Larry Hogan to Advisory Board: Public sector cybersecurity leader joins SecurityScorecard to strengthen third-party risk defenses as nearly one in four government organizations report insufficient cyber resilience SecurityScorecard...
Ontology-Guided Neuro-Symbolic Inference: Grounding Language Models with Mathematical Domain Knowledge: arXiv:2602.17826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models exhibit fundamental limitations -- hallucination, brittleness, and lack of formal grounding -- that are particularly problematic in hig...
A Coding Guide to Instrumenting, Tracing, and Evaluating LLM Applications Using TruLens and OpenAI Models: In this tutorial, we focus on building a transparent and measurable evaluation pipeline for large language model applications using TruLens. Rather than treating LLMs as black boxes, we instrument eac...
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Apple Workshop on Reasoning and Planning 2025: Reasoning and planning are the bedrock of intelligent AI systems, enabling them to plan, interact, adapt, and ultimately, operate independently. At Apple, understanding and advancing reasoning capabli...

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VectifyAI Launches Mafin 2.5 and PageIndex: Achieving 98.7% Financial RAG Accuracy with a New Open-Source Vectorless Tree Indexing.: Building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline is easy; building one that doesn’t hallucinate during a 10-K audit is nearly impossible. For ...
Reducing Text Bias in Synthetically Generated MCQAs for VLMs in Autonomous Driving: arXiv:2602.17677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA) benchmarks are an established standard for measuring Vision...
Joint Parameter and State-Space Bayesian Optimization: Using Process Expertise to Accelerate Manufacturing Optimization: arXiv:2602.17679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful method for optimizing black-box manufacturing processes, but...
BioBridge: Bridging Proteins and Language for Enhanced Biological Reasoning with LLMs: arXiv:2602.17680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing Protein Language Models (PLMs) often suffer from limited adaptability to multiple tasks and ...
LATMiX: Learnable Affine Transformations for Microscaling Quantization of LLMs: arXiv:2602.17681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is a widely used approach for reducing the memory and compute costs ...
Duality Models: An Embarrassingly Simple One-step Generation Paradigm: arXiv:2602.17682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Consistency-based generative models like Shortcut and MeanFlow achieve impressive results via a targe...
Epistemic Traps: Rational Misalignment Driven by Model Misspecification: arXiv:2602.17676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid deployment of Large Language Models and AI agents across critical societal and technical do...

Daily AI Recap: February 23, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Feb 23, 2026

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