AI News for Feb 15, 2026

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Today's topics:
-Publishers block the Wayback Machine
-Offline, on-device AI app tools
-AI avatars in rural medicine
-Measuring AI-driven job disruption
-Autonomous agents in open source
-Deepfake impersonation law proposals
-AI slopware and maintainer trust
-Satirical prompt modes for coding

-https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/
-https://github.com/alichherawalla/off-grid-mobile
-https://www.npr.org/2026/02/14/nx-s1-5704189/dr-oz-ai-avatars-replace-rural-health-workers
-https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/03/ai-economy-labor-market-transformation/685731/
-https://sammyjankis.com/
-https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/we-urgently-need-a-federal-law-forbidding
-https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach
-https://github.com/nich2533/just_say_no
-https://ewie.online/posts/20260214-arborium-is-ai-slopw/


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