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Scientists sequenced Psychrobacter SC65A.3 from a 5,000-year Scarisoara Cave ice layer and found it withstands 10 of 28 widely used antibiotics, exposing a prehistoric source of today’s drug-resistance genes.
On 17-18 Feb 2026 senior U.S. defense officials publicly warned they may label Anthropic a “supply-chain risk,” forcing termination of its $200 million Claude contract unless the company drops bans on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
On 17 Feb 2026, a fault in YouTube’s recommendation system blanked homepages worldwide around 7:45-8 pm ET, triggering hundreds of thousands of outage reports before Google restored full service by 10:12 pm ET.
On 17 Feb 2026, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission formally launched a large-scale GDPR investigation into X’s Grok chatbot after reports it still generated non-consensual sexualised images, including of minors, despite earlier curbs.
On 16 Feb 2026, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the government will amend the Crime & Policing Bill to place all AI chatbots under the Online Safety Act while opening a three-month consultation in March on an Australian-style social-media ban for under-16s and other design-feature curbs, promising action "within months, not years."
On 13 Feb 2026 ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, and within 24 hours the Motion Picture Association formally demanded the tool be shut down for mass copyright infringement after a 15-second AI clip of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt amassed over a million views.
On 16 Feb 2026 India formally kicked off a five-day, 70,000 m² summit-cum-expo in New Delhi that gathers 60-plus nations, 600+ startups and unveils policy, funding and governance frameworks aimed at scaling “responsible, sovereign” AI across the country.
On 15 Feb 2026, Defense officials told Axios they may cancel Anthropic’s up-to-$200 million AI contract after months of stalled talks because the company refuses to lift bans on mass U.S. surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
On 16 Feb 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a five-day AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam, the first time the annual forum is held in the Global South and by far its largest edition.
On 15 Feb 2026 a C-17 flew Valar Atomics’ minivan-sized Ward microreactor—without fuel—from March Air Reserve Base, California, to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, marking the U.S. military’s first live demonstration that a nuclear power unit can be shipped by air for instant field use.
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