AI News Flash for February 24, 2026 at 02:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. OpenAI $100B Funding Round

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/openai-reportedly-finalizing-100b-deal-at-more-than-850b-valuation/

2. Guide Labs Steerling-8B

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/guide-labs-debuts-a-new-kind-of-interpretable-llm/

3. Shield AI X-BAT

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/watch-inside-the-x-bat-the-worlds-first-ai-piloted-vtol-fighter-jet/

4. Tesla Sues California DMV

https://electrek.co/2026/02/23/tesla-sues-california-dmv-reverse-fsd-false-advertising-ruling/

AI News Flash for February 24, 2026 at 01:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. DeepSeek Trained on NVIDIA Blackwell Chips Despite US Ban

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-deepseek-trained-ai-model-on-nvidias-best-chip-despite-us-ban-official-says-2026-02-24/

2. JPMorgan Raises Tech Budget to Nearly $20 Billion for 2026

https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-tech-budget-ai-20-billion-jamie-dimon-2026-2

3. Meta Patents AI That Posts for Deceased Social Media Users

https://mashable.com/article/meta-patent-ai-dead-bot-llm

4. Eastworld Labs Launches Humanoid Robot and AI Agent Accelerator

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2026/02/23/human-free-businesses-ai--agents--robots--eastworld-labs/

AI News Flash for February 24, 2026 at 00:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. OpenAI Slashes Compute Target from $1.4T to $600B

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/openai-resets-spend-expectations-targets-around-600-billion-by-2030.html

2. Four Billionaire Investors Sold NVIDIA Ahead of Earnings

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-reasons-nvidia-crush-earnings-221223395.html

3. US AI Regulation Surge: 78 Bills in 27 States

https://www.transparencycoalition.ai/news/ai-legislative-update-feb20-2026

4. AI Hyperscalers Race to Secure Uranium for Nuclear Data Centers

https://startupnews.fyi/2026/02/19/ai-hyperscalers-move-to-secure-long-term-uranium-supply-from-mining-companies-fuel-required-for-nuclear-plants-to-power-future-data-centers/

AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 23:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. AI Data Center Demand Triggers DRAM Shortage Hitting Automakers

https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2026/02/21/microchip-shortage-auto-dram-ai-data-centers-prices-increase/88740139007/

2. PromptSpy - First Android Malware Weaponizing Generative AI at Runtime

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/promptspy-is-the-first-known-android-malware-to-use-generative-ai-at-runtime/

3. Samsung Galaxy S26 Gets Perplexity AI Integration - Galaxy Unpacked Tomorrow

https://www.engadget.com/ai/samsung-is-adding-perplexity-to-galaxy-ai-for-its-upcoming-s26-series-203729539.html

4. Microsoft Semantic Kernel Critical RCE Vulnerability CVSS 9.9

https://advisories.gitlab.com/pkg/pypi/semantic-kernel/CVE-2026-26030/

AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 22:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. VC Loyalty Dead - OpenAI VCs Also Back Anthropic

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/with-ai-investor-loyalty-is-almost-dead-at-least-a-dozen-openai-vcs-now-also-back-anthropic/

2. India Sovereign AI - Sarvam Indus and BharatGen Param 2

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/indias-sarvam-launches-indus-ai-chat-app-as-competition-heats-up/

3. Apple Visual Intelligence - 3 AI Wearables

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/23/visual-intelligence-central-apple-wearables/

4. NEAR Protocol AI Super App at NEARCON 2026

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/23/near-launches-near-com-super-app-touting-ai-capabilities-and-confidential-transactions

AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 21:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. OpenClaw AI Agent Security Crisis / Meta Ban

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-alignment-director-openclaw-email-deletion-2026-2

2. Intel SambaNova $1.6B Acquisition Collapse

https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/intel-signs-term-sheet-to-acquire-ai-chip-startup-sambanova

3. Advantest Ransomware Attack - Semiconductor Supply Chain

https://www.securityweek.com/chip-testing-giant-advantest-hit-by-ransomware/

4. Google Cloud AI Three Frontiers of Model Capability

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/googles-cloud-ai-lead-on-the-three-frontiers-of-model-capability/

AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. IBM Stock Drops 11% on Anthropic COBOL Threat

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/ibm-is-the-latest-ai-casualty-shares-are-tanking-on-anthropic-cobol-threat.html

2. Anthropic Detects Chinese AI Lab Distillation Attacks

https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks

3. Amazon Invests $12 Billion in Louisiana AI Data Centers

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/amazon-louisiana-ai-data-centers.html

4. Hollywood vs ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Copyright Dispute Escalates

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-02-23/motion-pictures-association-raises-stakes-over-bytedances-illegal-ai

AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 19:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. US Stock Market Plunges on AI and Tariff Double Blow

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tariffs-stock-market-dow-jones-nasdaq-february-23/

2. 88 Nations Sign Delhi AI Declaration Without Binding Safety Rules

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5751114-us-signs-ai-declaration/

3. Morgan Stanley Declares AI Reindustrialization Renaissance

https://fortune.com/2026/02/23/morgan-stanley-genai-capex-rare-reindustrialization-renaissance-better-machines-than-humans/

4. Healthcare AI Bubble Signs Emerge

https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/02/23/ai-bubble-signs-health-care-life-sciences

AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 18:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. Citrini Research "2028 Global Intelligence Crisis" Report

https://fortune.com/2026/02/23/will-ai-take-my-job-cause-recession-crash-james-val-geelen-citrini/

2. Cybersecurity Stocks Crash Day Two

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/cybersecurity-stocks-anthropic-ai-crowdstrike.html

3. DeepSeek V4 Model Release Imminent

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/deepseek-to-release-new-ai-model-a-rough-period-for-nasdaq-stocks-could-follow.html

4. Software and SaaS Stocks Hammered

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/software-payments-shares-tumble-after-citrini-post-on-ai-risks

AI News Flash for February 23, 2026 at 17:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. Big Tech 4 Companies $650B AI Investment - Bridgewater Analysis

https://www.reuters.com/business/big-tech-invest-about-650-billion-ai-2026-bridgewater-says-2026-02-23/

2. UK Ofgem - 140 Data Centre Projects 50GW Risk Doubling Electricity

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/23/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-ofgem-peak-demand

3. NVIDIA AI Cybersecurity for OT Critical Infrastructure

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-operational-technology-industrial-control-systems/

4. Accenture 550K Staff AI Training - Promotions Now Require AI Usage

https://fortune.com/2026/02/23/last-year-accenture-trained-550000-staff-use-ai-now-promotions-hinge-on-putting-that-into-practice/