AI News for February 12, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] z.ai's open-source GLM-5 claims record-low hallucination rate using 'Slime RL' training: Chinese AI startup z.ai (Zhipu) released GLM-5, a 744B-parameter open-source model under MIT License that tops the Artificial Analysis hallucination benchmark with a 35-point improvement over its predecessor.
[NEWS] OpenAI disbands mission alignment team, names former leader 'chief futurist': OpenAI dissolved its internal team dedicated to ensuring AI systems are "safe, trustworthy, and consistently aligned with human values." Team members have been reassigned to other roles across the company.
[NEWS] Mistral's revenue grows 20x to $400M ARR, invests €1.2B in Swedish data centers: French AI startup Mistral reported its annualized revenue run rate surged from $20M to over $400M in one year, targeting $1B ARR by year-end.
[RESEARCH] GPT-5 outperforms US federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment: A research paper on SSRN found GPT-5 outperformed federal judges in a legal reasoning experiment, scoring 100% versus 52% for human judges.
[NEWS] Anthropic pledges to cover 100% of electricity grid upgrade costs for its data centers: Anthropic committed to paying all electricity grid upgrade costs tied to its AI data centers, absorbing expenses that would otherwise be passed to American households.
[TOOLS] Claude Cowork launches on Windows with full feature parity: Anthropic released Claude Cowork for Windows, bringing its AI agent software to roughly 70% of the desktop market.
[NEWS] Apple delays Siri AI overhaul again, some features pushed to iOS 27: Apple's planned AI-powered Siri overhaul has been delayed after internal testing uncovered fresh problems.
[NEWS] Twilio co-founder's nuclear fusion startup Inertia raises $450M Series A: Inertia, a nuclear fusion startup co-founded by Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson, raised $450M in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Alphabet's GV, Modern Capital, and Threshold Ventures.
[NEWS] Russia moves to fully block WhatsApp, affecting 100M+ users: Russia's government moved to "fully block" WhatsApp's encrypted messaging service as part of an effort to drive adoption of a state-sponsored app.
[NEWS] Apptronik raises $520M at $5.5B valuation for humanoid robots: Humanoid robotics startup Apptronik secured $520M in funding, tripling its valuation to over $5.5B from its initial Series A last year.

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