AI News for February 5, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Google plans to spend up to $185B on AI infrastructure as chip startups raise billions: Alphabet announced plans to spend $175-185 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, nearly doubling the $91.4 billion spent in 2025 as it races to build data centers and computing infrastructure for AI.
[NEWS] Anthropic Super Bowl ad attacks OpenAI over ChatGPT ads: 'Ads are coming to AI, but not to Claude': Anthropic unveiled a Super Bowl ad campaign taking direct aim at OpenAI's decision to bring ads to ChatGPT, with the tagline "Ads are coming to AI.
[NEWS] ElevenLabs triples valuation to $11B in new funding round: AI voice startup ElevenLabs raised fresh funding at an $11 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation from a year ago.
[OPINION] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls software stock selloff 'most illogical thing in the world': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed fears that AI will replace software, calling the ongoing selloff in software stocks "the most illogical thing in the world." Speaking at a Cisco AI event, Huang argued that AI will use software tools rather than reinvent them, specifically naming ServiceNow, SAP, Cadence, and Synopsis as bright spots in the sector.
[NEWS] Google's Gemini reaches 750M monthly active users, closing gap with ChatGPT: Google disclosed that its Gemini chatbot has reached 750 million monthly active users, up from 650 million the previous quarter, as part of its Q4 2025 earnings report.
[TOOLS] GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents in Agent HQ launch: GitHub launched Agent HQ, integrating Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex coding agents directly into GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and VS Code for Copilot Pro Plus and Enterprise subscribers.
[NEWS] Microsoft's Copilot chatbot running into 'big problems': Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant is encountering integration issues and struggling with enterprise adoption, threatening its position as a competitive product against rivals.
[TOOLS] Mistral launches Voxtral Transcribe 2 speech-to-text model: French AI lab Mistral released Voxtral Transcribe 2, a multilingual speech-to-text model supporting 100+ languages with improved accuracy and lower latency.
[NEWS] Amazon makes Alexa+ AI assistant available to all US users: Amazon expanded availability of Alexa+, its AI-enhanced voice assistant, to all US users nearly a year after its initial limited launch.
[NEWS] Google faces pressure to bring ads to Gemini as AI race heats up: Google reports Q4 earnings today with investors watching how it balances Search revenue with Gemini growth.

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