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February 18, 2026

Chunwan Robots Trigger AI Crisis Memes
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Chunwan Robots Trigger AI Crisis Memes

2026 Spring Festival Gala showcased advanced robots in performances like martial arts and dances, sparking 'intelligence crisis' jokes in Bilibili danmaku. Live stream hit 1.33 billion danmaku, boosting engagement with game references and memes.

虎嗅 · 209d ago

AI Passwords Look Random But Crack Fast
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AI Passwords Look Random But Crack Fast

Generative AI tools create seemingly complex passwords that are highly predictable. Experts reveal these can be cracked within hours despite appearances.

The Register - AI/ML · 209d ago

World Labs Gets $200M Autodesk Funding for 3D World Models
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World Labs Gets $200M Autodesk Funding for 3D World Models

World Labs secured $200M from Autodesk to integrate world models into 3D workflows. The partnership explores bidirectional compatibility between their technologies.

TechCrunch AI · 209d ago

Olympians Embrace Chinese New Year via Alibaba Cloud AI
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Olympians Embrace Chinese New Year via Alibaba Cloud AI

During Chinese New Year at Milan Winter Olympic Village, foreign athletes gathered at Alibaba Cloud's AI intelligent badge exchange station to experience authentic traditions. They wrote 'Fu' characters, posted New Year wishes in their native languages on a 'good luck wall,' fostering cultural exchange.

机器之心 · 209d ago

Tencent Yuanbao Surpasses 50M DAU, 114M MAU
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Tencent Yuanbao Surpasses 50M DAU, 114M MAU

Tencent announces Yuanbao has exceeded 50 million daily active users and reached 114 million monthly active users. During the recent 10 billion cash red envelope event, users completed over 3.6 billion lottery draws and 1 billion AI tasks in the creation tab.

36氪 · 210d ago

Ant's UI-Venus-1.5 Tops SOTA for GUI Agents
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Ant's UI-Venus-1.5 Tops SOTA for GUI Agents

Ant Group open-sourced UI-Venus-1.5, a high-performance end-to-end GUI agent topping SOTA benchmarks. It unifies grounding, mobile, and web handling in one model, supporting 40+ mainstream Chinese apps and solving knowledge gaps, sim-to-real issues, and multi-model coordination.

机器之心 · 210d ago

Gaode Releases SpatialGenEval T2I Benchmark
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Gaode Releases SpatialGenEval T2I Benchmark

Alibaba's Gaode team introduces SpatialGenEval, a comprehensive benchmark for spatial intelligence in text-to-image models, accepted to ICLR 2026. It uses long, information-dense prompts to evaluate 10 dimensions across spatial perception, reasoning, and interaction in 25 real-world scenarios.

机器之心 · 210d ago

Spring Festival Sci-Fi Hit Explores AI Awakening
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Spring Festival Sci-Fi Hit Explores AI Awakening

'Xinghe Rumeng' stands out as the only VFX sci-fi blockbuster in Spring Festival releases, featuring star travel and an AI 'Good Dream System' for virtual realities. The film delivers bold visuals across diverse dream worlds and a tight plot on AI evolution gone awry.

虎嗅 · 210d ago

Godot Maintainers Battle Draining AI Slop PRs
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Godot Maintainers Battle Draining AI Slop PRs

Godot game engine maintainers are increasingly overwhelmed by low-quality AI-generated 'slop' pull requests on GitHub. Maintainer Rémi Verschelde called them 'draining and demoralizing.' Developers blame GitHub's features for enabling this flood of useless submissions.

The Register - AI/ML · 210d ago

Qwen-Code v0.10.5 Adds Qwen3.5-Plus Support
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Qwen-Code v0.10.5 Adds Qwen3.5-Plus Support

Qwen-Code has released version 0.10.5, introducing support for the Qwen3.5-Plus model in the Coding Plan. This follows a minor version bump from 0.10.4 via CI bot.

Qwen (GitHub Releases: qwen-code) · 210d ago

Sarvam Brings Edge AI to Phones, Cars, Glasses
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Sarvam Brings Edge AI to Phones, Cars, Glasses

India's Sarvam AI plans to deploy its models on feature phones, cars, and smart glasses. The edge models are tiny, occupying only megabytes, run on existing phone processors, and function offline.

TechCrunch AI · 210d ago

Bogus AI Four-Day Workweek Hype
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Bogus AI Four-Day Workweek Hype

Business leaders promote AI as enabling four-day workweeks by automating tasks, as highlighted in a Washington Post article. However, critics like Robert Reich argue that without worker bargaining power, productivity gains won't benefit employees.

The Guardian Technology · 210d ago

Vercel Redesigns Runtime Logs Search
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Vercel Redesigns Runtime Logs Search

Vercel has redesigned the Runtime Logs search bar in project dashboards for faster, intuitive filtering and exploration. Filters create visual pills for easy scanning and editing, with suggestions from actual log data and saved per-project recent queries.

Vercel News · 210d ago

Vercel Blob Launches Private Storage Beta
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Vercel Blob Launches Private Storage Beta

Vercel Blob now offers private storage in public beta for sensitive files like contracts and invoices, requiring authentication for all operations to prevent public exposure. Public storage suits media assets, while private needs tokens like BLOB_READ_WRITE_TOKEN.

Vercel News · 210d ago

Vercel 10x Faster WebStreams
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Vercel 10x Faster WebStreams

Vercel profiled Next.js server rendering and identified WebStreams as a major bottleneck due to Promise chains and allocations. They developed fast-webstreams library, reimplementing WHATWG Streams APIs on optimized Node.js streams backend for 12x speedup.

Vercel News · 210d ago

Peking U & Gaode Rebuild 3D Cities from Satellite Images
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Peking U & Gaode Rebuild 3D Cities from Satellite Images

Peking University and Gaode Maps jointly developed Orbit2Ground, a generative photogrammetry method that reconstructs high-fidelity 3D city models from sparse satellite images. It leverages urban geometric priors and generative AI to overcome extreme viewpoint extrapolation challenges from top-down to ground-level perspectives.

机器之心 · 210d ago

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Humain Pumps $3B into xAI

Saudi-backed AI firm Humain has invested $3 billion in Elon Musk's xAI startup. The investment was announced in a statement on Wednesday.

Bloomberg Technology · 210d ago

Doubao's Strategy in LLM Spring Festival Battle
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Doubao's Strategy in LLM Spring Festival Battle

ByteDance's Doubao is fiercely competing in China's domestic large model 'Spring Festival' arena. The company seeks to redefine next-generation AI application paradigms.

钛媒体 · 210d ago

ChatGPT 'Frenemy' Prompt for Daily Critiques
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ChatGPT 'Frenemy' Prompt for Daily Critiques

A 'frenemy' prompt transforms ChatGPT into a blunt devil’s advocate. It rigorously pressure-tests user ideas before external sharing.

TechRadar AI · 210d ago

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Spain and India Boost AI Tech Ties

Spain and India agreed to deepen economic and technological partnership. The deal comes amid intensifying global AI competition, post PMs' meeting.

Bloomberg Technology · 210d ago

Microsoft Warns of macOS Ransomware Surge
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Microsoft Warns of macOS Ransomware Surge

Microsoft reports ransomware attacks on macOS rising since late 2025, with hackers using Python for cross-platform stealers. Threats spread via Google Ads phishing sites and pirated software, stealing browser data and crypto wallets.

IT之家 · 210d ago

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Tech Stocks Recover as AI Fears Fade

Tech stocks rebounded Wednesday as investors bought the dip following AI-driven market battering. Bloomberg Intelligence's Mandeep Singh notes retreating AI scare trade.

Bloomberg Technology · 210d ago

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Uber Invests $100M in Robotaxi Chargers

Uber plans over $100 million spend on fast-charging stations for autonomous vehicles in the US. This positions Uber as a key robotaxi industry player.

Bloomberg Technology · 210d ago

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Google Builds US-India Fiber Routes

Alphabet unveils new fiber-optic routes connecting US to India and Southern Hemisphere. Part of broader India expansion initiatives.

Bloomberg Technology · 210d ago

Google Details Android XR UI Design
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Google Details Android XR UI Design

Google outlined Android XR app design principles for upcoming AI glasses with Samsung, releasing the Glimmer Jetpack Compose library. Interfaces float 1m away using light colors, shadows for depth, and soft notifications to suit transparent lenses without blocking real-world views.

IT之家 · 210d ago

HackerOne Updates Ts&Cs on AI Training Fears
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HackerOne Updates Ts&Cs on AI Training Fears

HackerOne is updating its Terms and Conditions after bug bounty hunters questioned whether their vulnerability submissions are being used to train generative AI models. The CEO praised security researchers and clarified that submissions are not treated as AI 'inputs'.

The Register - AI/ML · 210d ago

Zoomers Launch Bots-Hire-Humans Marketplace
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Zoomers Launch Bots-Hire-Humans Marketplace

Two young creators launched RentAHuman, the first marketplace where AI bots can hire humans for tasks. The platform reverses the gig economy with AI as employers.

Wired · 210d ago

Studios Threaten Suit Over Seedance AI Videos
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Studios Threaten Suit Over Seedance AI Videos

Netflix, Disney, and Warner Bros. threaten legal action against ByteDance's Seedance 2.0.

TechRadar AI · 210d ago

Robots Predicting the Future
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Robots Predicting the Future

The article introduces robots capable of predicting the future, drawing parallels to human forecasting abilities. Humans use past experience and cause-effect logic for survival tasks like hunting, planting crops, and social bonding.

MIT Technology Review · 210d ago

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AI Disrupts Staffing via In-House Recruitment

AI is automating candidate-employer matching, threatening the staffing industry. Companies are bringing recruitment in-house to cut costs.

Bloomberg Technology · 210d ago

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