AI News for February 11, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours as Jimmy Ba departs, bringing total exits to six: Jimmy Ba, who reported directly to Elon Musk and ran a large portion of xAI, resigned Tuesday.
[NEWS] Former GitHub CEO raises $60M for Entire, a developer platform bridging human and AI code: Thomas Dohmke, who left Microsoft-owned GitHub in August, launched Entire with $60M in funding.
[NEWS] OpenAI disputes watchdog claim it violated California's AI safety law with GPT-5.3-Codex: AI watchdog group the Midas Project alleges OpenAI violated California's SB 53 by releasing GPT-5.3-Codex, the first model to hit "high" risk on its own cybersecurity Preparedness Framework.
[RESEARCH] Isomorphic Labs unveils drug design engine that doubles AlphaFold 3 accuracy: Google DeepMind's AI medicine spinoff Isomorphic Labs released IsoDDE, a system it says doubles AlphaFold 3's accuracy when predicting protein-ligand structures that differ significantly from training data.
[NEWS] Altruist's AI tax planning tool triggers 7-11% sell-off in brokerage stocks: Financial firms LPL Financial (-11%), Charles Schwab (-10%), and Raymond James (-9%) plunged Tuesday after Altruist launched Hazel, an AI tool that generates tax strategies for advisors "within minutes." The iShares US Broker-Dealers ETF dropped 4%.
[NEWS] OpenAI's first hardware device won't ship until February 2027, court filing reveals: A court filing in OpenAI's trademark dispute with startup Iyo reveals the company's first hardware device, designed with Jony Ive, won't ship before end of February 2027.
[NEWS] Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down after 30 years: Robert Playter announced his departure as CEO effective February 27, ending a six-year tenure and over 30 years at the robotics company.
[RESEARCH] Observational memory architecture cuts AI agent costs 10x and outscores RAG: Mastra's open-source "observational memory" uses two background agents to compress conversation history into dated observation logs, eliminating retrieval entirely.
[NEWS] Amazon considers launching marketplace for publishers to license content to AI companies: Amazon has been meeting with publishing executives about a planned marketplace where publishers could license content directly to AI companies for training data.
[TOOLS] OpenAI upgrades Responses API with server-side compaction, hosted shell containers, and agent skills: OpenAI added three major capabilities to its Responses API: server-side compaction that lets agents run for hours without losing context, hosted shell containers giving agents full terminal access, and a new "Skills" standard for modular agent capabilities.

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