AI News for February 14, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] AI 'scare trade' spreads from software to trucking, real estate, and travel, erasing trillions in market cap: AI-driven panic swept across stock markets this week, starting with software's steepest selloff in nearly 30 years ($2T in market cap erased) after Anthropic unveiled Claude Cowork plugins.
[NEWS] Meta plans facial recognition for smart glasses, internal memo says to launch while privacy groups are 'distracted': Meta plans to launch "Name Tag," a facial recognition feature for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, as soon as this year.
[NEWS] OpenAI drops 'safely' from its mission statement in latest IRS filing: OpenAI dropped the word "safely" from its IRS tax return mission statement, changing from building AI that "safely benefits humanity" to simply benefiting humanity.
[NEWS] OpenAI partners with defense companies on voice-controlled drone swarm software for US military: OpenAI has partnered with two defense technology companies selected by the Pentagon to compete in developing voice-controlled drone swarming software for the US military.
[NEWS] FTC accelerates antitrust probe into Microsoft's cloud and AI offerings including Copilot: The FTC issued civil investigative demands to at least half a dozen Microsoft competitors in recent weeks, probing whether the company illegally monopolizes enterprise computing markets with its cloud software and AI offerings, including Copilot.
[NEWS] Federal judge rules AI chat transcripts aren't privileged, prosecutors can access Claude conversations: Judge Jed Rakoff ruled prosecutors can access 31 Claude chat transcripts from finance founder Brad Heppner, accused of $150M fraud.
[NEWS] xAI loses half its cofounders as mass exodus follows SpaceX merger: xAI has lost 6 of its 12 original cofounders after Yuhuai (Tony) Wu and Jimmy Ba departed this week, joining a wave of staff exits.
[RESEARCH] GPT-5.2 derives new result in theoretical physics: OpenAI published research showing GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics, generating significant discussion on Hacker News with 231 points and 150 comments.
[NEWS] Anthropic safety researcher quits, warns 'world is in peril': Mrinank Sharma, who led an AI safeguards team at Anthropic, resigned with a public letter warning that "the world is in peril" from AI, bioweapons, and interconnected crises.
[NEWS] Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign drives 11% user boost, sparks Sam Altman response: Anthropic's Super Bowl ad campaign, which took a swipe at OpenAI's decision to add ads to ChatGPT, delivered an 11% user increase.

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