AI News for Feb 12, 2026

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Today's topics:
-AI agents meet open-source rules
-Optimizing for LLM discovery
-Multi-agent systems and toolchains
-World models and physical AI
-AI safety, evals, and benchmarks
-AI-first workplace mandates
-Surveillance and face recognition expansion
-Patents shift for UK software

-https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-built-aeo-tracking-for-coding-agents
-https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/runway-s-usd5-3b-valuation-fuels-world-models
-https://serpapi.com/
-https://thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-opus-46-system-card-part-2
-https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/10/openais-jony-ive-designed-device-delayed-to-2027/
-https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/alibaba-ai-model-robotics-rynnbrain-china.html
-https://ipwatchdog.com/2026/02/11/uk-supreme-court-issues-milestone-judgment-ai-software-patentability/
-https://the-ai-native.company/
-https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/musks-xai-loses-second-co-founder-in-two-days-as-jimmy-ba-departs.html
-https://about.fb.com/news/2026/02/animate-facebook-profile-picture-meta-ai/
-https://www.kimi.com/blog/agent-swarm.html
-https://www.gulte.com/trends/395721/brace-for-ai-or-leave-google-tells-employees
-https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-signs-clearview-ai-deal-to-use-face-recognition-for-tactical-targeting/
-https://developers.openai.com/cookbook/examples/skills_in_api
-https://www.apricitas.io/p/americas-1t-ai-gamble
-https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
-https://morphllm.com/blog/fast-context-rl-retrieval
-https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/agi-timelines-in-2025/
-https://github.com/facebookresearch/airs-bench
-https://research.google/blog/beyond-one-on-one-authoring-simulating-and-testing-dynamic-human-ai-group-conversations/


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