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News•Feb 11, 2026
AI Industry Rivals Are Teaming Up on a Startup Accelerator
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft and others have united to launch F/ai, a Paris‑based accelerator for European AI startups. Hosted by Station F, the program runs twice yearly, each three‑month cohort featuring 20 companies building on the partners' foundational models. Startups receive over $1 million in credits for AI models, compute and cloud services instead of direct cash. The initiative seeks to accelerate revenue generation and narrow Europe’s lag behind U.S. and Chinese AI ecosystems.
By WIRED AI
News•Feb 10, 2026
OpenAI Abandons ‘Io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware
OpenAI announced it will no longer use the "io" name for its upcoming AI hardware line after a trademark infringement lawsuit from audio‑device startup iyO. The decision was detailed in a court filing by VP Peter Welinder, who also confirmed...
By WIRED AI
News•Feb 9, 2026
No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York
New York’s Department of Labor added an AI‑related option to WARN filings 11 months ago, requiring firms with 50+ employees to disclose if automation caused layoffs. Across 162 companies and roughly 750 notices covering 28,300 workers, none selected the technology...
By WIRED AI
News•Feb 9, 2026
AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?
The New START treaty between the United States and Russia expired on February 5, 2026, leaving the world without its primary nuclear‑arms‑control framework. Researchers at the Federation of American Scientists propose a "cooperative technical means" system that leverages existing satellite constellations...
By WIRED AI
News•Feb 7, 2026
Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents, Exposed Real Humans’ Data
Security firm Wiz uncovered a critical vulnerability in Moltbook, an AI‑coded social network for AI agents, where a mishandled private key in JavaScript exposed thousands of email addresses and millions of API credentials. The flaw enabled complete account impersonation and...
By WIRED AI
News•Feb 4, 2026
Mistral's New Ultra-Fast Translation Model Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money
Mistral AI unveiled two new speech‑to‑text models, Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 and Voxtral Realtime, each built with 4 billion parameters and capable of translating 13 languages. Voxtral Realtime delivers near‑real‑time output in under 200 ms and runs locally on a phone or...
By WIRED AI
News•Feb 4, 2026
AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic
The latest TollBit report, backed by Akamai data, shows AI‑driven scraping bots now account for a sizable share of web traffic, with one out of every 50 visits to monitored sites originating from such bots. AI bots are increasingly ignoring...
By WIRED AI
News•Feb 4, 2026
HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is creating a generative‑AI tool to scan the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and automatically generate hypotheses about potential vaccine injuries. The system, listed in HHS’s 2025 AI inventory, builds on...
By WIRED AI
News•Feb 2, 2026
HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants
The Department of Health and Human Services has integrated Palantir’s artificial‑intelligence tools to screen grants, applications, and job descriptions for compliance with President Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and "gender ideology." In its first year, HHS paid...
By WIRED AI
News•Jan 29, 2026
An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account
Security researchers discovered that Bondu, an AI‑enabled stuffed‑dinosaur toy, left over 50,000 child chat transcripts accessible to anyone with a Gmail account through its parent portal. The flaw required no hacking—simply logging in with a Google ID revealed names, birthdates,...
By WIRED AI
News•Jan 29, 2026
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Data centers are fueling a surge in U.S. natural‑gas power development, with projects that could add up to 252 GW of gas‑fired capacity—nearly a 50 percent increase in the nation’s gas fleet. More than a third of this new demand is directly...
By WIRED AI
News•Jan 28, 2026
ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has deployed Palantir’s generative AI tools to automatically sort, translate, and summarize immigration‑enforcement tips submitted through its public tipline. The system, operational since May 2 2025, produces a “BLUF” (bottom line up front) summary using...
By WIRED AI
Deals•Jan 22, 2026
Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal
Google DeepMind announced a licensing agreement with Hume AI that includes hiring Hume AI’s CEO Alan Cowen and about seven engineers. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed, but it aims to integrate Hume AI’s emotionally intelligent voice technology into...
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