AI News for February 13, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic closes $30B Series G at $380B valuation, revenue hits $14B: Anthropic completed a $30B funding round led by GIC and Coatue, valuing the Claude maker at $380B post-money.
[NEWS] OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on Cerebras chips, its first non-Nvidia hardware: OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a lightweight coding model running on Cerebras' wafer-scale processors that delivers 15x faster generation at over 1,000 tokens/second.
[RESEARCH] Google upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think, tops ARC-AGI-2 at 84.6% and Codeforces at 3,455 Elo: Google DeepMind released a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, its specialized reasoning mode.
[NEWS] MiniMax releases open M2.5 model, claims it rivals frontier labs at 1/20th the cost of Claude Opus 4.6: Shanghai-based MiniMax launched M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning, models that promise frontier-level performance at up to 95% lower cost than competitors.
[NEWS] Spotify's best developers haven't written code since December, using internal AI system 'Honk': Spotify co-CEO Gustav Soderström revealed that the company's top developers "have not written a single line of code since December." Engineers use an internal system called Honk, built on Claude Code, that lets them fix bugs or add features from Slack on their phones during their commute.
[NEWS] Anthropic funds $20M pro-regulation super PAC against OpenAI-backed group: Anthropic is funding Public First Action, a political group supporting candidates who favor AI regulation, including Republican Marsha Blackburn's Tennessee gubernatorial campaign.
[NEWS] AI 'scare trade' spreads to trucking and logistics after Algorhythm freight tool launch: The Russell 3000 Trucking Index dropped 10% after Algorhythm Holdings, a $6M market-cap company, launched its SemiCab platform claiming 300-400% freight volume scaling without headcount increases.
[TOOLS] Chrome ships WebMCP in early preview: sites can expose tools to AI agents: Google Chrome launched WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol) in Chrome 146 Canary, a proposed web standard developed with Microsoft through the W3C.
[NEWS] xAI restructures after SpaceX merger, Musk pitches Moon-based data centers: xAI held its first all-hands since the SpaceX merger, with Elon Musk outlining four core teams: Grok (chat/voice), a coding unit, Imagine, and Macrohard (agents emulating companies).
[NEWS] Microsoft AI CEO predicts all white-collar tasks automated within 18 months: Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times that AI will achieve human-level performance on most professional tasks within 12-18 months.

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