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February 14, 2026, 12:00 PM
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Scott Shambaugh / The Shamblog:
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath  —  Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code …
New York Times:
Sources: the US DHS recently sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE  —  The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment …
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running iOS 18 as of Jan. 21, 2025  —  Apple has shared updated iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adoption figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads are running those software versions.
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more  —  Former employees say the restructuring followed tensions over safety and being “stuck in the catch-up phase.”
The Information:
Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept.  —  Grafana Labs, a software startup that helps companies monitor cloud and AI activity and spending, is finalizing a new funding round …
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Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is charging $60 per 1,000 impressions for ads in ChatGPT, a high price similar to Netflix's rate when it introduced ads  —  In May 2024, the big question for OpenAI was how it would make money with its revolutionary ChatGPT tool.  At a talk at Harvard, chief executive Sam Altman …
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to “a country of geniuses in a data center”, how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more  —  “That's why I'm sending this message of urgency”  —  Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”.

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From Mediagazer

New York Times:
Sources: an Iranian-aligned militia in Iraq is seeking the release of several detained militia members in exchange for freeing journalist Shelly Kittleson

Heather Bushman / Indianapolis Star:
Circle City Broadcasting lays off what staffers call a significant share of WRTV's staff, after buying the Indianapolis station from Scripps under an FCC waiver

Minho Kim / New York Times:
A US appeals court pauses a lower-court order that would have reinstated around 1,000 Voice of America journalists and staff who had been put on paid leave

More News

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
The US DoD published and then deleted a document adding Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD to a list of companies with alleged connections to the Chinese military

Earlier Picks

Fortune:
Sources: Binance in late 2025 fired employees who claimed to have uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B+ through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025
Alaina Demopoulos / The Guardian:
As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash
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