The 12 most important AI stories of February 8, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Goldman Sachs is building AI agents with Anthropic’s Claude to automate trade accounting and client onboarding, aiming to speed work and boost efficiency.
CEO Sam Altman and several OpenAI executives stepped into a "food fight" over Anthropic's Super Bowl ad and threw jabs at Elon Musk.
Nvidia Corp. shares soared Friday as investors snapped up shares of companies positioned to benefit from the vast sum of money that big technology firms have said they’ll spend on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year.
Elon Musk's net worth soared past $800 billion this week after he merged SpaceX with xAI in a deal that valued the combined entity at $1.25 trillion.
Anthropic PBC is ironing out the final details on a funding round likely to raise more than $20 billion and slated to close as soon as next week.
ByteDance has introduced Protenix-v1, a comprehensive AlphaFold3 (AF3) reproduction for biomolecular structure prediction, released with code and model parameters under Apache 2.0.
Waymo is introducing the Waymo World Model, a frontier generative model built on top of Google DeepMind’s Genie 3, to produce photorealistic driving scenes at scale.
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI, denied reports that he had agreed to buy a penthouse overlooking London’s Hyde Park for about £57 million ($77.6 million).
Google and Peking University introduced 'PaperBanana,' a multi-agent system that automates high-quality academic diagrams and statistical plots.
Coursera and Udemy have announced a massive merger to create a unified AI-focused training platform, aiming to dominate the rapidly growing online AI education market.
Kling 3.0 has launched, introducing groundbreaking multishot and continuous video capabilities, setting a new benchmark for high-quality AI video generation.
OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot) announced a partnership with Google-owned VirusTotal to scan all skills published to ClawHub for security threats.
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