AI News for February 15, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Dario Amodei warns being off by one year on AI revenue could mean bankruptcy: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei explained why the company spends more cautiously than hyperscalers, warning that even a slight miscalculation on AI revenue timing "could be ruinous." He believes models performing at Nobel Prize level could exist within two years, but revenue may lag by one to five years as breakthroughs work through drug manufacturing, regulation, and other real-world bottlenecks.
[NEWS] US military used Anthropic's Claude in Venezuela raid to kidnap Maduro: The US military deployed Anthropic's Claude AI during the operation to kidnap Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from Caracas, according to the Wall Street Journal.
[NEWS] India hosts AI Impact Summit with Macron attending, seeks global consensus on 'AI commons': French President Macron will attend the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi and meet PM Modi as the two nations deepen tech and defense ties.
[NEWS] Computer science enrollment drops at UC campuses as students pivot to AI-specific degrees: UC system-wide CS enrollment fell 6% this year after a 3% decline in 2024, the first sustained drop since the dot-com crash.
[NEWS] AI agents reshape engineering: Canva runs overnight coding agents, startups replace 20-person teams: Startup Cora's six-person team produced code output that would have required 20-30 engineers five years ago.
[OPINION] Apollo economist: AI is everywhere except in macroeconomic data: Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok says AI has yet to manifest in employment, productivity, or inflation data, echoing Robert Solow's 1980s quip about computers.
[NEWS] German court rules AI-generated logos don't qualify for copyright protection: A German district court ruled that three logos created with generative AI don't qualify for copyright protection, finding they don't reflect the "personality of the creator." A plaintiff who created logos using an AI image generator sued after someone copied them.
[RESEARCH] Google DeepMind's bioacoustic model trained on birds outperforms specialized whale classifiers: A Google DeepMind bioacoustic model trained primarily on bird calls consistently beats models specifically built to classify whale sounds.
[RESEARCH] Neuromorphic computers solve complex math equations in Nature paper: Sandia National Laboratories researchers published a new algorithm in Nature Machine Intelligence that enables neuromorphic hardware to solve partial differential equations (PDEs), the mathematical foundation for modeling fluid dynamics, electromagnetic fields, and structural mechanics.
[TOOLS] Off Grid: open-source app runs AI text, image generation, and vision entirely offline on phones: Off Grid is an open-source mobile app offering text generation, image generation, vision AI, voice transcription, and document analysis, all running locally with zero data leaving the device.

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