Major AI chatbots including Google's Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity increasingly cite Elon Musk's AI-generated Grokipedia despite containing racist content and lacking human oversight, raising concerns about spreading disinformation through automated systems.
Apple acquires Israeli AI startup Q.ai for nearly $2 billion in its second-largest deal ever, gaining revolutionary technology that reads facial expressions and micro-movements to enable silent speech communication with Siri through future headphones and glasses.
Google DeepMind launches an expanded AI Battle Arena featuring poker and Werewolf games to test artificial intelligence models' social strategy skills and risk management abilities, with Gemini 3 Pro and Flash currently dominating leaderboards and a live-streamed poker tournament scheduled for February 2026.
India announces zero taxes through 2047 for cloud providers operating global workloads from local data centers, prompting Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity to pour billions into establishing major operations in the country where 62% of citizens embrace AI benefits compared to just 39% in the US.
OpenAI unveils an upgraded Codex app for macOS that revolutionizes coding by letting developers manage multiple AI agents simultaneously across parallel project threads, featuring custom Agent Skills, automated background tasks, and team-based delegation capabilities that surpass single-agent competitors like Claude Code.
Mozilla releases Firefox 148 on February 24 with a new 'Block AI enhancements' toggle that lets users completely disable or individually manage five AI features including translations, PDF alt text generation, tab grouping, link previews, and sidebar chatbots.
SpaceX acquires xAI for $250 billion, forming a $1.25 trillion space-AI conglomerate that surpasses OpenAI as the world's most valuable startup while advancing ambitious plans for solar-powered, space-based data centers to revolutionize artificial intelligence training capabilities.
Snowflake launches Cortex Code, an AI coding agent that uses enterprise data stored on its cloud platform to provide contextual programming assistance with built-in governance, following a $200 million OpenAI partnership and new integrations with Vercel and Brave Search.
SpaceX merges with xAI in a landmark $1.25 trillion deal, crowning the combined entity the world's most valuable private company, as Elon Musk unveils bold plans for space-based AI data centers powered by satellites amid mounting financial pressures on both firms.
Former Google engineer Linwei Ding becomes first person convicted of AI-related economic espionage in U.S. history, facing up to 350 years in prison for stealing over 2,000 pages of confidential artificial intelligence secrets including chip architecture for China's benefit.