AI News Flash for February 16, 2026 at 00:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. Tom Lee warns AI is existential threat to $450B software industry

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tom-lee-says-ai-killed-230155251.html

2. China's Lunar New Year AI blitz - ByteDance, Alibaba unleash new models

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/14/new-china-ai-models-alibaba-bytedance-seedance-kuaishou-kling.html

3. Zhipu AI releases GLM-5, 744B open-source model trained on Huawei chips

https://venturebeat.com/technology/z-ais-open-source-glm-5-achieves-record-low-hallucination-rate-and-leverages

4. Solaris Energy signs 500MW AI data center power deal

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/solaris-energy-infrastructure-taps-ai-230918731.html

AI News Flash for February 15, 2026 at 23:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/openclaw-creator-peter-steinberger-joins-openai/

2. UK government cracks down on AI chatbots for child safety

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/15/ai-chatbots-children-risk-fines-uk-ban

3. AI memory chip crisis deepens

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-15/rampant-ai-demand-for-memory-is-fueling-a-growing-chip-crisis

4. Cohere hits $240M ARR, IPO preparation accelerates

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/ai-startup-cohere-revenue-ipo.html

AI News Flash for February 15, 2026 at 22:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. Nature AGI Paper - Current LLMs Already Meet AGI Criteria

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00285-6

2. OpenAI Frontier Enterprise AI Agent Platform

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/openai-launches-a-way-for-enterprises-to-build-and-manage-ai-agents/

3. Runway $315M Series E for World Models

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/ai-video-startup-runway-raises-315m-at-5-3b-valuation-eyes-more-capable-world-models/

4. India AI Impact Expo 2026 Opens Today

https://startupnews.fyi/2026/02/16/pm-modi-to-inaugurate-india-ai-impact-expo-on-feb-16/

AI News Flash for February 15, 2026 at 21:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. AI Productivity J-Curve Liftoff

https://fortune.com/2026/02/15/ai-productivity-liftoff-doubling-2025-jobs-report-transition-harvest-phase-j-curve/

2. FTC Escalates Microsoft AI Cloud Antitrust Probe

https://www.pymnts.com/antitrust/2026/ftc-grills-microsoft-rivals-to-bolster-antitrust-probe

3. Missouri AI Non-Sentience Act

https://www.missourinet.com/2026/02/15/missouri-bill-says-ai-cant-be-a-spouse-a-ceo-or-a-tool-for-misleading-political-ads/

4. Moonshot AI Kimi Claw

https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/02/15/moonshot-ai-launches-kimi-claw-native-openclaw-on-kimi-com-with-5000-community-skills-and-40gb-cloud-storage-now/

AI News Flash for February 15, 2026 at 20:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. Western Digital HDD Capacity Sold Out for 2026

https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out

2. Alphabet's Record $32 Billion Bond Sale

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alphabet-record-bond-sale-reshapes-190934266.html

3. Multilingual Prompt Injection Attacks

https://hackernoon.com/multilingual-prompt-injection-exposes-gaps-in-llm-safety-nets

4. Clean Energy Stocks Surge on AI Demand

https://thebusinessdownload.com/clean-energy-stocks-extend-rally-on-ai-demand-as-oil-falters/

AI News Flash for February 15, 2026 at 19:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. Glean positions as enterprise AI intelligence layer

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/the-enterprise-ai-land-grab-is-on-glean-is-building-the-layer-beneath-the-interface/

2. Obama responds to Trump's AI-generated deepfake video

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/15/nx-s1-5715117/obama-racist-ai-video-response-trump

3. Nvidia-Groq deal reshapes AI inference market

https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/nvidia-groq-and-the-limestone-race-to-real-time-ai-why-enterprises-win-or-lose-here/

4. Disney's selective AI copyright enforcement strategy

https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-ai-copyright-battles-seedance-nano-banana-sora-midjourney-2026-2

AI News Flash for February 15, 2026 at 17:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. India AI Impact Expo Opens Today, 12 Indigenous Foundation Models Unveiled

https://www.indiatvnews.com/technology/news/india-ai-impact-expo-2026-pm-modi-inauguration-bharat-mandapam-2026-02-15-1030358

2. AlphaGo Creator Leaves DeepMind to Found Ineffable Intelligence

https://fortune.com/2026/01/30/google-deepmind-ai-researcher-david-silver-leaves-to-found-ai-startup-ineffable-intelligence/

3. Google AI Overviews Showing Fake Phone Numbers, Enabling Scams

https://dnyuz.com/2026/02/15/googles-ai-overviews-can-scam-you-heres-how-to-stay-safe/

AI News Flash for February 15, 2026 at 16:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. Claude Desktop Extensions Zero-Click RCE Vulnerability

https://cybersecuritynews.com/claude-desktop-extensions-0-click-vulnerability/

2. AiFrame Fake AI Chrome Extension Attack Hits 260,000 Users

https://blog.rankiteo.com/antope1770985527-anthropic-openai-cyber-attack-february-2026/

3. LLMs Violate Professional Boundaries in Mental Health Dialogues

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-llms-violate-boundaries-mental-health.html

4. DeepSeek V4 Expected to Launch Tomorrow

https://introl.com/blog/deepseek-v4-february-2026-coding-model-release

AI News Flash for February 15, 2026 at 15:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. India AI Impact Summit 2026 Opens

https://telanganatoday.com/india-ai-impact-summit-2026-draws-strong-global-response-70-teams-named-finalists

2. xAI Major Reorganization and Macrohard Division

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/musk-announces-xai-re-org-following-key-departures-spacex-merger.html

3. AI "Doom Loop" Hitting Stock Markets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-15/a-stock-market-doom-loop-is-hitting-everything-that-touches-ai

4. Monaco AI Sales Startup Launches with $35M

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/former-founders-fund-vc-sam-blond-launches-ai-sales-startup-to-upend-salesforce/

AI News Flash for February 15, 2026 at 14:00 UTC.

Topics:

1. OpenAI safety researcher Zoe Hitzig resigns over ChatGPT ads

https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/11/openai-researcher-quits-slippery-slope-chatgpt-ads/

2. Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke launches Entire with record $60M seed

https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/10/entire-launches-60m-build-ai-focused-code-management-platform/

3. Nvidia skips gaming GPU for first time in 30 years due to AI memory shortage

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2026/02/06/news-nvidia-reportedly-plans-no-new-gaming-gpu-in-2026-amid-memory-tightness-first-time-in-30-years/

4. Wave of AI safety researcher departures across major labs

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/15/why-are-experts-sounding-the-alarm-on-ai-risks