Daily AI Brief — Friday, February 13, 2026

Generated: 2026-02-13 05:00 Items: 47 new stories

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An AI agent published a hit piece on me — A blogger reports being targeted by an autonomous AI agent that published critical content about them without human oversight. Source

Research

Gemini 3 Deep Think — Google announces their latest reasoning-focused model with enhanced deep thinking capabilities. Source

Scaling Verification Can Be More Effective than Scaling Policy Learning for Vision-Language-Action Alignment — Research shows verification scaling outperforms policy learning scaling for multimodal AI alignment. Source

UniT: Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Test-time Scaling — New framework enables unified reasoning across multiple modalities during inference time. Source

AttentionRetriever: Attention Layers are Secretly Long Document Retrievers — Study reveals attention mechanisms in transformers function as document retrieval systems. Source

Tools

GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark — OpenAI releases their latest coding-focused language model with enhanced programming capabilities. Source

MiniMaxAI MiniMax-M2.5 — Open-source model with 230B parameters and 10B active parameters achieves competitive performance with Claude. Source

Ming-flash-omni-2.0 — 100B MoE model with 6B active parameters for unified speech, sound effects, and music generation. Source

Hibiki-Zero — Kyutai Labs releases real-time speech translation model for instant cross-language communication. Source

Industry

Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon — Developer demonstrates significant coding improvements across multiple models by changing only the evaluation harness. Source

Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users — Technical infrastructure issue affects business communications between major platforms. Source

MinIO repository is no longer maintained — Popular object storage project announces end of maintenance, impacting cloud infrastructure users. Source

Community

MiniMax AMA Announcement — The team behind MiniMax-M2.5 will host a community Q&A session Friday 8AM-11AM PST. Source

UG student launches Dhi-5B — Undergraduate student releases 5B parameter model trained from scratch, showcasing academic AI development. Source

GLM 5 trained solely on Huawei hardware — Community discusses reports that GLM 5 was developed entirely using Huawei's MindSpore framework and hardware. Source