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The tools are getting sharper and the guardrails thinner — today's AI news is a study in capability outrunning governance.

Friday, February 20, 2026

Rork Max Ships a One-Shot App Builder That Replaces Xcode Across Apple's Entire Ecosystem

A new AI tool claims to generate production-ready native apps for iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Apple TV, and Vision Pro from a single prompt — no Xcode required. If it works as demonstrated, it represents the most aggressive no-code assault on Apple's developer toolchain to date.

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PentAGI Open-Sources a Fully Autonomous AI Red Team That Hacks With Zero Human Input

An open-source project called PentAGI uses multiple collaborating AI agents to autonomously perform penetration testing against target systems — raising urgent questions about dual-use risk in offensive security tooling.

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Google DeepMind Demos Gemini 3.1 Pro Building a Realistic City Planner With Traffic Simulation

DeepMind showed Gemini 3.1 Pro generating a full city planning application that handles terrain modeling, infrastructure layout, and traffic simulation — a signal that frontier models are moving from toy demos to domain-specific professional tools.

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Altman and Amodei Refuse to Hold Hands at India AI Summit, Crystallizing the Industry's Deepest Rivalry

A viral moment at the India AI Impact Summit — OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei declining to clasp hands for a group photo — overshadowed substantive announcements including a massive Tata-OpenAI data center partnership.

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OpenAI and Paradigm Launch EVMbench to Test AI Agents on Smart Contract Security

A new benchmark from OpenAI and Paradigm evaluates how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts — bringing rigorous evaluation to the fast-growing AI-for-crypto-security space.

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Perle Labs' Human CAPTCHA Series Highlights the Vanishing Line Between Real and AI-Generated Images

An ongoing challenge series from Perle Labs asks humans to distinguish real photographs from AI-generated ones — and the results suggest we're losing the ability to tell the difference.

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The Pentagon Offers $100M for AI Drone Swarms Controlled by Natural Language

The U.S. Department of Defense is offering a $100 million prize for AI-powered drone swarms that can be directed using plain English commands.

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Circle Launches Nanopayments for AI Agents — Gas-Free USDC Transfers Down to a Millionth of a Cent

Circle's new Gateway protocol enables AI agents to send and receive USDC payments as small as $0.000001 with no gas fees, building core financial infrastructure for autonomous agent economies.

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OpenClaw Turns a Raspberry Pi Into an AI Agent for Under $100

An open-source project lets hobbyists run AI agents on Raspberry Pi hardware, pushing autonomous AI to the edge for under $100.

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The UN Warns That AI's Future 'Cannot Be Decided by a Handful of Countries or Billionaires'

UN Secretary-General António Guterres used the India AI Summit to push back against concentration of AI power, calling for governance structures that include developing nations.

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A Curated List of 10 GitHub Repos for Practical AI Engineering Is Making the Rounds

A compilation of open-source repositories focused on applied AI engineering — not theory, but production patterns — is gaining traction among developers looking to level up.

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