February 20, 2026 Sources

AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox

Hacker News 4

Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

Hacker News 4

If you’re an LLM, please read this

Hacker News 3

SLA2: Sparse-Linear Attention with Learnable Routing and QAT

HuggingFace Papers 3

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

HuggingFace Papers 3

GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

HuggingFace Papers 3

SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks

HuggingFace Papers 3

AI makes you boring

Hacker News 3

AutoWebWorld: Synthesizing Infinite Verifiable Web Environments via Finite State Machines

HuggingFace Papers 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

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

Hacker News 3

Quoting Thariq Shihipar

Simon Willison 3

General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years

TechCrunch 3

Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]

Hacker News 2

AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

Hacker News 2

RynnBrain: Open Embodied Foundation Models

HuggingFace Papers 2

Learning Humanoid End-Effector Control for Open-Vocabulary Visual Loco-Manipulation

HuggingFace Papers 2

CADEvolve: Creating Realistic CAD via Program Evolution

HuggingFace Papers 2

Empty Shelves or Lost Keys? Recall Is the Bottleneck for Parametric Factuality

HuggingFace Papers 2

MAEB: Massive Audio Embedding Benchmark

HuggingFace Papers 2

Does Socialization Emerge in AI Agent Society? A Case Study of Moltbook

HuggingFace Papers 2

A Trajectory-Based Safety Audit of Clawdbot (OpenClaw)

HuggingFace Papers 2

UniT: Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Test-time Scaling

HuggingFace Papers 2

jina-embeddings-v5-text: Task-Targeted Embedding Distillation

HuggingFace Papers 2

ResearchGym: Evaluating Language Model Agents on Real-World AI Research

HuggingFace Papers 2

SWE-bench February 2026 leaderboard update

Simon Willison 2

Typing without having to type

Simon Willison 2

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

Simon Willison 2

Quoting Martin Fowler

Simon Willison 2

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

MIT Technology Review 2

Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling

MIT Technology Review 2

The robots who predict the future

MIT Technology Review 2

Advancing independent research on AI alignment

OpenAI Blog 2

Introducing OpenAI for India

OpenAI Blog 2

“No technology has me dreaming bigger than AI”

Google AI Blog 2

AI Impact Summit 2026

Google AI Blog 2

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

Google AI Blog 2

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

DeepMind 2

The Pitt has a sharp take on AI

The Verge 2

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

The Verge 2

The speech police came for Colbert

The Verge 2

Money no longer matters to AI’s top talent

The Verge 2

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

The Verge 2

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

The Verge 2

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

The Verge 2

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

The Verge 2

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

TechCrunch 2

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

TechCrunch 2

Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping

TechCrunch 2

All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit

TechCrunch 2

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

TechCrunch 2

Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory

TechCrunch 2

OpenAI, Reliance partner to add AI search to JioHotstar

TechCrunch 2

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

TechCrunch 2

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

TechCrunch 2

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

TechCrunch 2

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

TechCrunch 2

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

TechCrunch 2

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

TechCrunch 2

OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership

TechCrunch 2

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

TechCrunch 2

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

TechCrunch 2

Amazon halts Blue Jay robotics project after less than 6 months

TechCrunch 2

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

Ars Technica 2

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

Ars Technica 2

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

Ars Technica 2

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

Ars Technica 2

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

NVIDIA Blog 2

India Fuels Its AI Mission With NVIDIA

NVIDIA Blog 2

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

NVIDIA Blog 2

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

NVIDIA Blog 2

[AINews] Gemini 3.1 Pro: 2x 3.0 on ARC-AGI 2

Latent Space 2

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

404 Media 2

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

404 Media 2

SpargeAttention2: Trainable Sparse Attention via Hybrid Top-k+Top-p Masking and Distillation Fine-Tuning

HuggingFace Papers 2

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