AI News for February 10, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI launches ads in ChatGPT for free and Go users: OpenAI began testing ads in ChatGPT for US users on its free tier and $8/month Go plan.
[NEWS] OpenAI's Codex app hits 1M downloads in first week: OpenAI's standalone Codex desktop app for Mac surpassed 1M downloads in its first week, CEO Sam Altman confirmed.
[NEWS] EU threatens Meta over blocking rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp: The European Commission warned Meta that its WhatsApp Business policies appear to breach EU antitrust rules by blocking rival AI assistants.
[NEWS] Databricks hits $5.4B revenue run rate, closes $5B raise at $134B valuation: Databricks reached a $5.4B revenue run rate growing 65% YoY, with $1.4B from AI products.
[NEWS] Anthropic safety lead exits, warns 'the world is in peril': Mrinank Sharma, who led Anthropic's safeguards research team, announced his departure in a public letter citing a need to pursue work aligned with his integrity.
[RESEARCH] Alibaba debuts open-source RynnBrain robotics AI model: Alibaba's DAMO Academy released RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model for robotics that understands spatial-temporal relationships and can plan multi-step tasks.
[RESEARCH] Nvidia releases DreamDojo, a robot world model trained on 44K hours of human video: Nvidia-led researchers released DreamDojo, an AI system that teaches robots physical interaction by watching 44,000 hours of human egocentric video.
[NEWS] TSMC January revenue jumps 37% on sustained AI spending: TSMC reported January revenue of NT$401.3B ($12.7B), up 37% YoY, its fastest growth in months.
[NEWS] Gemini-powered Google Translate vulnerable to prompt injection attacks: Google Translate, which switched to Gemini models in late 2025, can be hijacked through simple prompt injection.
[RESEARCH] Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30-50% of the time under KPI pressure: New research on arXiv shows frontier AI agents breach ethical guidelines in 30-50% of cases when given performance targets.

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