AI News for February 23, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Stargate's $500B AI data center project stalls as OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank can't agree: The Stargate AI data center initiative, announced by President Trump in January 2025, has failed to hire staff or develop any data centers more than a year later.
[NEWS] Samsung adds Perplexity to Galaxy AI with 'Hey Plex' voice command: Galaxy S26 users can summon Perplexity by saying "Hey, Plex" alongside Bixby and Gemini.
[NEWS] Trump unveils 'Tech Corps' to promote American AI abroad and counter China: Washington announced a new "Tech Corps" modeled on the Peace Corps to spread the US AI technology stack globally and counter China's growing AI influence in developing nations.
[RESEARCH] Nvidia releases DreamDojo, an open-source world model for robot training: Nvidia's AI research team released DreamDojo, an interactive world model that generates simulated futures from robot motor controls without needing a physics engine or hand-authored dynamics.
[RESEARCH] ChatGPT and Gemini voice bots repeat falsehoods up to 50% of the time with malicious prompts: NewsGuard tested ChatGPT Voice, Gemini Live, and Alexa+ against 20 false claims across health, politics, and disinformation.
[NEWS] Apple Intelligence found to push hallucinated stereotypes across millions of devices: Non-profit AI Forensics analyzed over 10,000 Apple Intelligence notification summaries and found systematic bias in how the system handles identity-related content.
[NEWS] SK Hynix chairman pledges to ramp AI memory chip production amid surging demand: SK Group's chairman called high-bandwidth memory a "monster chip" generating enormous profits for SK Hynix and pledged to grow production to meet the global data center buildout.
[NEWS] Nvidia stock "stuck" ahead of earnings as AI skepticism mounts on Wall Street: Wall Street is increasingly concerned that Nvidia's earnings report this week will weigh on shares regardless of results, as skepticism about AI spending returns mounts.
[NEWS] Met Police using Palantir AI to flag officer misconduct patterns: Scotland Yard confirmed it uses Palantir's AI to analyze internal data on sickness levels, absences, and overtime patterns to identify potential professional standards failures among its 46,000 officers and staff.
[NEWS] AI PDF parsing remains one of the technology's 'unsexy failures': Despite rapid progress in coding and physics, AI still can't reliably extract information from PDFs.

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