February 19, 2026 Sources

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Hacker News 4

SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks

Hacker News HuggingFace Papers 4

AI makes you boring

Hacker News 4

Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

Hacker News 3

Typing without having to type

Simon Willison 3

The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived

Simon Willison 3

Quoting Martin Fowler

Simon Willison 3

Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling

MIT Technology Review 3

The robots who predict the future

MIT Technology Review 3

AI Impact Summit 2026: How we’re partnering to make AI work for everyone

Google AI Blog 3

AI Impact Summit 2026

Google AI Blog 3

Our 2026 Responsible AI Progress Report

Google AI Blog 3

Google’s AI music maker is coming to the Gemini app

The Verge 3

Perplexity joins anti-ad camp as AI companies battle over trust and revenue

The Verge 3

Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips

The Verge 3

Google’s AI search results will make links more obvious

The Verge 3

Is your startup’s check engine light on? Google Cloud’s VP explains what to do

TechCrunch 3

Google Cloud’s VP for startups on reading your ‘check engine light’ before it’s too late

TechCrunch 3

Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than 6 months

TechCrunch 3

World Labs lands $1B, with $200M from Autodesk, to bring world models into 3D workflows

TechCrunch 3

Google adds music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app

TechCrunch 3

Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers

TechCrunch 3

Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI

TechCrunch 3

OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills

TechCrunch 3

India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars, and smart glasses

TechCrunch 3

Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open source AI

TechCrunch 3

Record scratch—Google's Lyria 3 AI music model is coming to Gemini today

Ars Technica 3

India Fuels Its AI Mission With NVIDIA

NVIDIA Blog 3

India’s Global Systems Integrators Build Next Wave of Enterprise Agents With NVIDIA AI, Transforming Back Office and Customer Support

NVIDIA Blog 3

NVIDIA and Global Industrial Software Leaders Partner With India’s Largest Manufacturers to Drive AI Boom

NVIDIA Blog 3

SWE-bench February 2026 leaderboard update

Simon Willison 3

Introducing OpenAI for India

OpenAI Blog 3

“No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI”

Google AI Blog 3

SLA2: Sparse-Linear Attention with Learnable Routing and QAT

HuggingFace Papers 3

AutoWebWorld: Synthesizing Infinite Verifiable Web Environments via Finite State Machines

HuggingFace Papers 3

GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

HuggingFace Papers 3

Sanity Checks for Sparse Autoencoders: Do SAEs Beat Random Baselines?

HuggingFace Papers 3

SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks

HuggingFace Papers 3

Experiential Reinforcement Learning

HuggingFace Papers 3

DeepImageSearch: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Context-Aware Image Retrieval in Visual Histories

HuggingFace Papers 3

BitDance: Scaling Autoregressive Generative Models with Binary Tokens

HuggingFace Papers 3

Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online

MIT Technology Review 3

Advancing independent research on AI alignment

OpenAI Blog 3

Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks

DeepMind 3

The Pitt has a sharp take on AI

The Verge 3

The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster

The Verge 3

The speech police came for Colbert

The Verge 3

Money no longer matters to AI’s top talent

The Verge 3

It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets

The Verge 3

Google’s new Gemini Pro model has record benchmark scores — again

TechCrunch 3

Nvidia deepens early-stage push into India’s AI startup ecosystem

TechCrunch 3

Why these startup CEOs don’t think AI will replace human roles

TechCrunch 3

YouTube’s latest experiment brings its conversational AI tool to TVs

TechCrunch 3

Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping

TechCrunch 3

OpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuation

TechCrunch 3

Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory

TechCrunch 3

OpenAI, Reliance partner to add AI search to JioHotstar

TechCrunch 3

Co-founders behind Reface and Prisma join hands to improve on-device model inference with Mirai

TechCrunch 3

For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing

TechCrunch 3

Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India’s big AI summit

TechCrunch 3

Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing

TechCrunch 3

Reliance unveils $110B AI investment plan as India ramps up tech ambitions

TechCrunch 3

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW

TechCrunch 3

OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership

TechCrunch 3

Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was "meant for greatness"—then came psychosis

Ars Technica 3

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving

Ars Technica 3

OpenClaw security fears lead Meta, other AI firms to restrict its use

Ars Technica 3

Survey Reveals AI Advances in Telecom: Networks and Automation in Driver’s Seat as Return on Investment Climbs

NVIDIA Blog 3

Grok Exposed a Porn Performer’s Legal Name and Birthdate—Without Even Being Asked

404 Media 3

Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation

404 Media 3

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