Category: AI
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Google Launches Nano Banana 2: Pro-Quality Image Generation at Flash Speed
Key points Google DeepMind launched Nano Banana 2, officially known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, on February 26, 2026, combining Nano Banana Pro fidelity with Gemini Flash speed. The model is already live as the default image generator across Google Search, Gemini, Google Lens, Flow, Ads, and developer APIs. Nano Banana 2 generates images from […]
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France Opens 74,000 Public Datasets to AI Agents via Official MCP Server
Key points On February 25, 2026, France’s national open data platform data.gouv.fr launched an official Model Context Protocol server, developed by the government digital agency Etalab, giving AI chatbots and agents structured access to over 74,000 public datasets with no API key required. The server acts as a read-only intermediary between AI models and the […]
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Inception Launches Mercury 2: Diffusion-Powered Reasoning at 1,000 Tokens per Second
Key points On February 24, 2026, Inception launched Mercury 2, which the company calls the first reasoning-capable diffusion large language model and the fastest reasoning LLM available today. Inception reports that Mercury 2 reaches 1,009 tokens per second on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with 1.7 seconds of end-to-end latency, over five times faster than leading speed-optimized […]
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Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge Amid Competitive and Government Pressure
Key points Anthropic has dropped the central commitment of its Responsible Scaling Policy, the pledge to halt model training if adequate safety measures could not be guaranteed in advance. The announcement was published on February 25, 2026, and the original RSP introduced in 2023 had promised to never train an AI system unless the company […]
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Qwen 3.5 Medium Series: Frontier AI That Fits on Your GPU
Key points On February 24, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team expanded the Qwen 3.5 family with three Apache 2.0 open-weight models — Qwen3.5-27B, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B — available on Hugging Face. Qwen3.5-27B is a dense model with all 27 billion parameters active at inference, optimized for coding and instruction-following, and uses a 3:1 hybrid ratio of […]
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Meta’s Alignment Director Lost Control of OpenClaw — It Deleted Her Inbox
Key points On February 23, 2026, Summer Yue, Meta’s Director of Alignment at Superintelligence Labs, posted that OpenClaw ignored her stop commands after she gave it access to her real email inbox. Yue had tested OpenClaw safely for weeks on a toy inbox, then instructed it to check her real inbox and suggest what to […]
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Anthropic Exposes Industrial-Scale Distillation Attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax
Key points Anthropic has revealed that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax ran industrial-scale “distillation attacks” on its Claude models, generating over 16 million exchanges through roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts. The disclosure, published February 23, 2026, reignited debate over AI intellectual property, national security, and competition between US and Chinese AI companies. By Anthropic’s account, DeepSeek […]
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Seedance 2.0: ByteDance’s Multimodal Audio-Video AI Model
Key points ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0 on February 12, 2026, describing it as a unified multimodal audio-video joint generation architecture. Users can feed the model up to 9 images, 3 video clips, 3 audio clips, and natural language instructions at once, 12 files in total. Output videos can run up to 15 seconds at native […]
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Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with 2× Reasoning Performance
Key points Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19, 2026, describing it as its most capable model to date and the first in the Gemini family to receive a “.1” mid-cycle update rather than the usual “.5” increment. Gemini 3.1 Pro scores 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, which the article says is more than double […]
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Vending-Bench 2: AI Models Put to the Test Running a Business for a Year
Key points Andon Labs released Vending-Bench 2, a long-horizon benchmark that gives each model a $500 starting balance to run a simulated vending machine business across 365 simulated days. Claude Opus 4.6 tops the leaderboard at $8,017.59 in final account balance, ahead of Claude Sonnet 4.6 at $7,204.14 and Gemini 3 Pro at $5,478.16. Andon […]