AI News for February 21, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI projects $280B revenue by 2030, plans $600B in infrastructure spending: OpenAI told investors it expects revenue to exceed $280B by 2030, up from $20B annualized in 2025.
[NEWS] Microsoft names AI executive as Xbox CEO as Phil Spencer retires after 38 years: Microsoft Gaming is appointing an AI executive with prior leadership roles at Meta and Instacart as its new CEO, with the current Xbox head retiring after 38 years at Microsoft.
[TOOLS] Anthropic launches Claude Code Security for autonomous vulnerability hunting: Anthropic released Claude Code Security, its first product aimed at helping security teams find software bugs autonomously.
[NEWS] OpenAI flagged Canada school shooting suspect 8 months before attack, didn't alert police: OpenAI identified and banned the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025 for violating ChatGPT's usage policy related to "furtherance of violent activities." The company considered alerting Canada's RCMP but determined the activity didn't meet its threshold for law enforcement referral.
[NEWS] OpenAI's first hardware device: a $200-300 smart speaker with camera and facial recognition: OpenAI's first consumer device will be a smart speaker priced between $200-300 with a built-in camera and Face ID-like facial recognition for purchases.
[NEWS] Claude Code hits $2.5B ARR as Anthropic cements coding AI dominance: Claude Code reached $2.5B in annualized revenue, up from $1B in its first six months after launch.
[NEWS] ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to secure the future of local AI: The creator of llama.cpp announced that ggml.ai is joining Hugging Face.
[NEWS] Inside xAI: Musk's war rooms, 300-person group chats, and a Grok release delayed over Baldur's Gate: Musk has become deeply involved in xAI's day-to-day operations over the past six months, running a massive 300-person group chat active at all hours, directing product changes, and launching intensive "war rooms" to accelerate development.
[NEWS] Hackers used AI to breach 600 firewalls in weeks, Amazon security research reveals: A small group of hackers broke into more than 600 firewalls across dozens of countries in just five weeks using widely available AI tools, according to security research from Amazon.
[NEWS] CoreWeave stock tumbles 12% as lenders balk at data center financing: CoreWeave shares fell as much as 12% after Blue Owl Capital failed to secure debt financing for a $4B data center project in Pennsylvania that CoreWeave would occupy.

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