OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, AI bot swarms can manipulate public beliefs, seven AI models launching in February, AI sell-off hits trucking and real estate, and white-collar workers quitting over AI.

Pentagon used Claude AI in a military raid and Anthropic wants out, MiniMax M2.5 matches Claude at 1/20th the cost, software companies desperately rebranding as AI, Deadpool writer says it's likely over for Hollywood, and UniX AI unveils Panther robots with bionic arms.

Anthropic raises a $30 billion war chest, 30,000 tech jobs gone in six weeks, Congress confronts the AI jobs crisis, OpenAI's Codex-Spark sidesteps Nvidia, and China drops a model bomb.

Daily AI briefing for February 13, 2026.

Meta announces a $10B AI data center in Louisiana, Anthropic partners with Palantir for classified government AI, Elon Musk's xAI faces scrutiny over Grok deepfakes, Apple acquires a British AI startup, and China unveils DeepSeek R2.