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AI Daily Roundup: February 17, 2026

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AI Daily Roundup: February 17, 2026

Today, Tuesday, February 17, 2026, brings fresh developments in AI. Here’s your daily roundup.

TL;DR

  • New SemiAnalysis InferenceX Data Shows NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Delivers up to 50x Better Performance and 35x Lower Costs for Agentic AI
  • Anthropic and Infosys collaborate to build AI agents for telecommunications and other regulated industries
  • Anthropic and the Government of Rwanda sign MOU for AI in health and education
  • Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India

📄 Paper Worth Reading

Academic research with practical implications

When to Think Fast and Slow? AMOR: Entropy-Based Metacognitive Gate for Dynamic SSM-Attention Switching

arXiv CS.AI | Feb 16

arXiv:2602.13215v1 Announce Type: new

Abstract: Transformers allocate uniform computation to every position, regardless of difficulty. State Space Models (SSMs) offer efficient alternatives but strug

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🏢 Company Announcements

New SemiAnalysis InferenceX Data Shows NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Delivers up to 50x Better Performance and 35x Lower Costs for Agentic AI

New SemiAnalysis InferenceX Data Shows NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Delivers up to 50x Better Performance and 35x Lower Costs for Agentic AI

NVIDIA AI Blog | Feb 16

The NVIDIA Blackwell platform has been widely adopted by leading inference providers such as Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks AI and Together AI to reduce cost per token by up to 10x. Now, the NVIDIA Bla

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Anthropic and Infosys collaborate to build AI agents for telecommunications and other regulated industries

Anthropic News | Feb 16

Anthropic and Infosys collaborate to build AI agents for telecommunications and other regulated industries

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Anthropic and the Government of Rwanda sign MOU for AI in health and education

Anthropic News | Feb 16

Anthropic and the Government of Rwanda sign MOU for AI in health and education

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Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India

Anthropic News | Feb 15

Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India

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📰 Top Stories

Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models

TechCrunch AI | Feb 17

Cohere’s Tiny Aya models support over 70 langauges

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As AI jitters rattle IT stocks, Infosys partners with Anthropic to build ‘enterprise-grade’ AI agents

TechCrunch AI | Feb 17

Under the partnership, Infosys plans to integrate Anthropic’s Claude models into its Topaz AI platform to build so-called “agentic” systems.

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Apple’s 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 is up to $300 off

Engadget | Feb 17

Apple released its new 14-inch MacBook Pro M5 in October with little fanfare. But, despite the underselling, we found the device to be a great upgrade to its predecessor and the best MacBook for creat

Apple @ Work Podcast: SaaS sprawl is a real problem for Apple IT admins

Apple @ Work Podcast: SaaS sprawl is a real problem for Apple IT admins

9to5Mac | Feb 17

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary t

Nothing pokes fun at Apple event by confirming Phone (4a) launch date – and there’s a condom for some reason

Nothing pokes fun at Apple event by confirming Phone (4a) launch date – and there’s a condom for some reason

9to5Google | Feb 17

Apple yesterday confirmed an event where it’s expected to launch new devices, and Nothing is poking fun at that by revealing its own March 5 launch event to debut the Phone (4a) series.

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Amazon’s Fire TV redesign is rolling out today

Engadget | Feb 17

During the flurry of CES 2026 news at the start of the year, it might have been easy to overlook Amazon’s announcement that the Fire TV user interface is getting a revamp. But that redesign is rolling

Apple plans M5-based Private Cloud Compute architecture for Apple Intelligence

Apple plans M5-based Private Cloud Compute architecture for Apple Intelligence

9to5Mac | Feb 17

According to a new Private Cloud Compute software release this week, Apple is starting to use M5 chips in Apple Private Cloud Compute servers. This is the infrastructure that powers Apple Intelligence

Mistral AI acquires AI infrastructure startup Koyeb

Mistral AI acquires AI infrastructure startup Koyeb

SiliconANGLE | Feb 17

Mistral AI SAS today announced that it has acquired Koyeb SAS, a startup with a cloud platform built to run artificial intelligence workloads. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed. Paris-base

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Last chance: the best Presidents’ Day laptop deals – Acer, HP, Lenovo, and Apple

ZDNet AI | Feb 17

We’re tracking the best laptop deals still live after Presidents’ Day 2026, including the versatile Acer Aspire 14 AI and lightweight MacBook Air.

Anthropic tries to hide Claude’s AI actions. Devs hate it

Hacker News Best | Feb 16

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OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI

The Verge AI | Feb 15

Sam Altman announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. He said that Steinberger has “a lot of amazing ideas” about getting AI agents to inte

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🎬 Videos Worth Watching

Best AI agent for programming: Claude Code vs OpenAI Codex vs OpenClaw | Peter Steinberger

Matt Wolfe AI | Feb 15

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💬 Community Discussions

Good job Anthropic 👏🏻 you just became the top closed Ai company in my books

r/ClaudeAI | Feb 16

Discussion thread on Reddit

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💬 r/ClaudeAI · ⬆️ 2876 · 💭 204 comments

Reminder

r/singularity | Feb 16

Discussion thread on Reddit

💬 r/singularity · ⬆️ 2244 · 💭 94 comments

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

r/ChatGPT | Feb 16

Discussion thread on Reddit

💬 r/ChatGPT · ⬆️ 1631 · 💭 185 comments

Touché

r/ChatGPT | Feb 16

Discussion thread on Reddit

💬 r/ChatGPT · ⬆️ 2689 · 💭 101 comments

Now you care about intellectual property rights, only went it doesn’t benefit you

r/OpenAI | Feb 16

Discussion thread on Reddit

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💬 r/OpenAI · ⬆️ 1853 · 💭 101 comments

DeepSeek V4 release soon

r/ChatGPT | Feb 17

Discussion thread on Reddit

💬 r/ChatGPT · ⬆️ 969 · 💭 62 comments

🔬 Research & Papers

When to Think Fast and Slow? AMOR: Entropy-Based Metacognitive Gate for Dynamic SSM-Attention Switching

arXiv CS.AI | Feb 16

arXiv:2602.13215v1 Announce Type: new

Abstract: Transformers allocate uniform computation to every position, regardless of difficulty. State Space Models (SSMs) offer efficient alternatives but strug

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Scaling the Scaling Logic: Agentic Meta-Synthesis of Logic Reasoning

arXiv CS.AI | Feb 16

arXiv:2602.13218v1 Announce Type: new

Abstract: Scaling verifiable training signals remains a key bottleneck for Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). Logical reasoning is a natural

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Metaphors’ journeys across time and genre: tracking the evolution of literary metaphors with temporal embeddings

arXiv CS.CL | Feb 16

arXiv:2602.13701v1 Announce Type: new

Abstract: Metaphors are a distinctive feature of literary language, yet they remain less studied experimentally than everyday metaphors. Moreover, previous psych

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