AI News for February 17, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Alibaba releases Qwen3.5, its first natively multimodal open-weight model: Alibaba launched Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, a mixture-of-experts model that handles text, images, and up to two hours of video in a single architecture.
[NEWS] Dario Amodei says Anthropic faces 'incredible' pressure balancing safety with profit: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on the Dwarkesh podcast that the company struggles to maintain its safety commitments under commercial pressure.
[NEWS] ByteDance releases Seed 2.0 foundation models, claims parity with GPT-5.2 on vision tasks: ByteDance launched Seed 2.0, its latest foundation model generation powering TikTok and Lark.
[NEWS] Moonshot AI targets $10B valuation as Chinese AI startup funding surges: Moonshot, the company behind China's Kimi chatbot, is seeking a $10B valuation in an expanded funding round backed by Alibaba and Tencent.
[NEWS] SpaceX and xAI enter Pentagon contest for voice-controlled autonomous drone swarms: SpaceX and its subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled autonomous drone swarming technology.
[NEWS] Irish data watchdog probes X over Grok's sexualized AI images of EU residents: Ireland's Data Protection Commission launched an investigation into X over sexualized images created using Grok, including images of children.
[NEWS] Sony may delay next PlayStation to 2028-2029 as AI devours memory chip supply: Sony is considering pushing back its next PlayStation console to 2028-2029 due to AI-driven memory chip shortages, according to Bloomberg.
[NEWS] India targets $200B in AI investments over two years: India expects to attract more than $200B in AI-driven investments within two years, a top federal minister said at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi.
[NEWS] Screenwriter behind Deadpool says 'it's likely over for us' as Hollywood fights Seedance 2.0: Screenwriter Rhett Reese (Deadpool) wrote on X that "I hate to say it.
[NEWS] Anthropic partners with Infosys to build custom AI agents for enterprises: Anthropic and Infosys will develop custom AI agents for telecom and financial services companies, combining Claude models (including Claude Code) with Infosys' Topaz AI products.

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