Latest news from the AI world
26 February 2026: Dario Amodei publishes a statement on Anthropic's limits vis‑à‑vis the U.S. Department of War, Perplexity obtains OS-level access on the Samsung Galaxy S26, Claude and Codex go GA for Copilot Business and Pro, NVIDIA unveils LillyPod with 1,016 Blackwell Ultra GPUs.
February 25, 2026: Anthropic buys Vercept to accelerate computer use (Claude Sonnet 4.6 at 72.5% on OSWorld), Perplexity launches Computer — an autonomous multi-model orchestrator, GitHub Copilot CLI goes generally available with MCP and agents support.
February 24, 2026: Anthropic publishes the third version of its Responsible Scaling Policy with a public Frontier Safety Roadmap and quarterly Risk Reports; GPT-5.3-Codex moves to general availability via the Responses API; Meta signs a multi-year AMD deal for ~6 GW of GPU capacity; Qwen 3.5 Medium launches 4 MoE models including a 35B that outperforms the 235B giant; Claude Code v2.1.51 introduces Remote Control from mobile.
February 23, 2026: Anthropic reveals that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax extracted 16 million exchanges via 24,000 fraudulent accounts to distill Claude; OpenAI drops SWE-bench Verified (59.4% defective tests) and recommends SWE-bench Pro; gpt-realtime-1.5, WebSockets in the Responses API, Veo 3.1 templates and Pika AI Selves.
Claude Code v2.1.49-2.1.50 extends multi-worktree agents and fixes 6 memory leaks, GitHub Copilot introduces cross-session persistent memory, and ElevenLabs cuts TTS latency by 40% on February 22, 2026.
Anthropic launches Claude Code Security in preview (500+ vulnerabilities detected in open source), Runway becomes a multi-model hub, and GitHub Copilot extends its model picker to Business/Enterprise on February 20, 2026.
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro with an ARC-AGI-2 score of 77.1%, OpenAI expands to India with Tata Group and Stargate infrastructure, Anthropic opens Claude in PowerPoint to Pro plans, and Mistral publishes its Voxtral Realtime technical report.
February 16-18, 2026: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improved computer use and 1M token window. Qwen releases Qwen3.5-397B in open-weight Apache 2.0. Google integrates Lyria 3 into Gemini. OpenAI unveils EVMbench, Cohere launches Tiny Aya, Runway opens its Gen-4.5 API.
February 14-16, 2026: Anthropic opens Bengaluru office with major partnerships in India. Kimi unveils Claw, a native OpenClaw app with 5,000+ skills. GitHub Copilot integrates MCP. OpenAI publishes Codex recap and launches First Proof challenge.
February 1-14, 2026: MiniMax releases M2.5, open-source frontier model with 80.2% on SWE-Bench. Kling launches its 3.0 model for video. Perplexity deploys Model Council (multi-model), Deep Research on Opus 4.6, and DRACO benchmark. Mistral announces its biggest hackathon, Cohere signs Magnus Carlsen.
February 13, 2026: GitHub launches Agentic Workflows in technical preview, GPT-5.2 derives a result in particle physics, OpenAI introduces Lockdown Mode against prompt injections, and Anthropic and Google invest in AI education.
Anthropic announces a $30 billion Series G ($380B valuation), OpenAI launches real-time GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on Cerebras, Google unveils Gemini 3 Deep Think with record scores in sciences, and xAI restructures teams with Macrohard.