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Latest story• Feb 19, 2026

Stop Thinking of AI as a Coworker. It's an Exoskeleton.

Physical exoskeletons at Ford reduce workplace injuries by 83 percent, and a similar revolution is quietly reshaping how companies think about artificial intelligence. Rather than pursuing autonomous AI agents that work independently, the most successful organizations are treating AI like an exoskeleton that amplifies human capability instead of replacing it. Companies deploying AI as standalone decision-makers...

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Radiant – Agentic AI sales CRM

An entrepreneur open-sourced Radiant AI CRM, an autonomous sales tool that integrates with email and calendar to analyze deals, draft follow-ups, attend meetings, and handle outreach automatically. The AI-powered system requires...

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The Path to Ubiquitous AI

Taalas has developed revolutionary AI hardware that transforms software models into custom silicon chips, achieving speeds 10 times faster than current systems while costing 20 times less to build and consuming 10 times less...

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Building a Resilient, Multi-User Agentic Streaming Application

Building multi-user AI agent applications that stream real-time reasoning faces critical problems when multiple users watch the same stream, browsers disconnect, or servers restart mid-process. The solution uses a...

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AI Makes You Boring

AI-assisted programming has led to a surge of low-effort projects on platforms like Hacker News, where developers rely on AI tools without deeply understanding problem spaces themselves. This trend creates boring discussions...

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Is free AI enough? How to choose the right chatbot for you - and when to upgrade

Free AI chatbot versions offer surprisingly strong capabilities, making it smart to test multiple options before paying for subscriptions. The top contenders—ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity—each...

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The Future of Agentic AI

AI technology is evolving from passive chatbots to active agentic systems that autonomously reason, plan, and execute complex tasks using tools and external resources. Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), adopted by major...

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OpenAI is reportedly close to finalizing $100 billion funding round

OpenAI is nearing completion of a massive $100 billion funding round that would value the AI company at over $850 billion, more than doubling its previous record $40 billion raise from March. Major investors include Amazon ($50...

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DuckDuckGo rolls out AI-powered image editing on Duck.ai

DuckDuckGo launched AI-powered image editing on Duck.ai, allowing users to upload photos and describe desired changes through text prompts using OpenAI's underlying technology. The privacy-focused feature removes user IP...

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This doctor is training AI to do her job. And it's a booming business

Dr. Alice Chiao, a former Stanford medical school instructor, now trains AI chatbots to diagnose and prescribe like doctors through reinforcement learning, grading AI responses to improve accuracy. She works with Mercor, a...

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AI Agents Are Now Hiring Humans: RentAHuman and the Inversion of Work

Over 10,000 people signed up within 48 hours to work for AI agents on RentAHuman.ai, a platform where artificial intelligence systems hire humans to perform physical tasks like package pickup since AI cannot exist in physical...

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Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory

Reload raised $2.275 million to build a workforce management platform for AI agents. Their Epic product gives coding agents shared memory and context to maintain consistency across development projects.

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

Google launched Gemini 3.1 Pro with enhanced problem-solving abilities, scoring a record 44.4% on Humanity's Last Exam and dramatically improving to 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 logic tests compared to its predecessor's 31.1%. However, the...

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Generative AI Can Write but It Can’t Replace Reading

Generative AI streamlines content creation but cannot replace deep thinking from reading books. Writers should use AI for brainstorming while developing core arguments through genuine understanding and critical thinking.

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Lyria 3: Inside Google DeepMind’s Most Advanced AI Music Model

Music just became programmable infrastructure. Google DeepMind's new Lyria 3 model doesn't just generate catchy loops like earlier AI systems—it creates full compositions with logical progression from intro to climax to...

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This local AI quickly replaced Ollama on my Mac - here's why

GPT4All, a free cross-platform local AI tool, has impressed users by offering superior features compared to Ollama, including support for multiple language models, local document integration, and no required API calls. The...

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Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet

Palo Alto Networks CEO says enterprise AI adoption lags consumer use, with only coding assistants widely implemented. The company reported $2.6 billion Q2 revenue despite investor margin concerns.

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Prompt Injection: The SQL Injection of LLMs?

Large language models broke traditional security by processing instructions and user data together, creating prompt injection vulnerabilities that can't be fixed like regular bugs.

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Unity Says It Has a New Product That Creates Entire Games Using AI

Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg announced a new AI tool that will allow developers to create entire casual games using only natural language prompts, eliminating the need for coding skills entirely. The company plans to unveil this...

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Moonshot AI Releases Open-Weight Kimi K2.5 Model with Vision and Agent Swarm Capabilities

Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2.5, an open-weight multimodal AI model that matches frontier models like GPT-5 in coding benchmarks while introducing a groundbreaking Agent Swarm feature that coordinates up to 100 sub-agents to...

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HiddenState – How I keep up with 500+ ML papers a day

HiddenState tracks over 500 machine learning papers daily using a W-index system that measures visibility and convergence across multiple sources rather than research quality. Papers are automatically sorted into "Signals" and...

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AI is helping hackers make new malware faster and more complex than ever - and things may only get tougher

Generative AI is dramatically accelerating cyberattacks, with hackers now stealing data in just 72 minutes compared to five hours previously, according to Palo Alto's security report. Identity weaknesses drive 90% of breaches...

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Apple's AI 'soap opera' is finally ending, analyst says

Apple's stock fell $202 billion on Siri AI delay reports, but Wedbush calls the sell-off overblown. The firm expects Apple's AI platform to generate $75-100 per share via subscriptions across 2.5 billion devices.

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Turn Your Expertise Into Published Books Using Advanced AI Technology

Aivolut AI Book Creator leverages GPT-5, Claude, and other advanced language models to help professionals generate complete, Amazon KDP-ready manuscripts in minutes rather than months. The platform creates structured books from...

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