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Thursday, February 19, 2026
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★ Must ReadOpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuation

OpenAI is reportedly getting close to closing a $100 billion deal, with backers including Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft. The deal would value the ChatGPT-maker at $850 billion.

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AI makes you boring

Trending on Hacker News with 493 points and 280 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
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Gemini 3.1 Pro

Preview:

Hacker News · 1 min
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Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

micasa is a terminal UI that helps you track home stuff, in a single SQLite file. No cloud, no account, no subscription. Backup with cp.

Hacker News · 1 min
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We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science

Trending on Hacker News with 229 points and 168 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
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Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory

Reload announces a $2. 275 million raise in a round led by Anthemis and the launch of its first AI employee, Epic.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min
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The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster

A hacker tricked a popular AI coding tool into installing OpenClaw - the viral, open-source AI agent OpenClaw that "actually does things" - absolutely everywhere. Funny as a stunt, but a sign of what to come as more and more people let autonomous software use their computers on their behalf. The hacker took advantage of a vulnerability in Cline, an open-source AI coding agent popular among developers, that security researcher Adnan Khan had surfaced just days earlier as a proof of concept.

The Verge AI · 2 min
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Why these startup CEOs don’t think AI will replace human roles

The CEOs of Read AI and Lucidya told TechCrunch at Web Summit Qatar that they see AI tools replacing tasks, rather than workers.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min
Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails
Hacker News

Trending on Hacker News with 173 points and 74 comments.

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Towards Efficient Constraint Handling in Neural Solvers for Routing Problems
arXiv AI

arXiv:2602. 16012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural solvers have achieved impressive progress in addressing simple routing problems, particularly excelling in computational efficiency. However, their advantages under complex constraints remain nascent, for which current constraint-handling schemes via feasibility masking or implicit feasibility awareness can be inefficient or inapplicable for hard constraints.

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★ Must Read[AINews] Anthropic's Agent Autonomy study

a quiet day lets us dive deep into Anthropic's own version of the METR data

Fire Physics Was Broken. Not Anymore

Two Minute Papers — Fire Physics Was Broken.

[AINews] Claude Sonnet 4.6: clean upgrade of 4.5, mostly better with some caveats

Anthropic notches another W.

★ Must ReadBitter Lessons in Venture vs Growth: Anthropic vs OpenAI, Noam Shazeer, World Labs, Thinking Machines, Cursor, ASIC Economics — Martin Casado & Sarah Wang of a16z

We sit down with a16z's AI investing leaders for a wide ranging conversation about what the heck going on.

OpenAI reportedly finalizing $100B deal at more than $850B valuation
Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch AI
Reload wants to give your AI agents a shared memory
Dominic-Madori Davis, TechCrunch AI
actually does things
Robert Hart, The Verge AI
Why these startup CEOs don’t think AI will replace human roles
Ivan Mehta, TechCrunch AI