OpenAI Grants US Military Access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil Portal
Semafor ↗
OpenAI has officially launched a dedicated portal for the US military, marking a major policy shift regarding the use of its models for defense purposes.
AI BRIEFING · 2026-02-11
AI Briefing — February 11, 2026
The 10 most important AI stories of February 11, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Meta to Spend More Than $10 Billion on Indiana-Based Data Center Campus
Bloomberg Technology ↗
Meta announced a record $10B+ investment to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, one of its largest AI infrastructure projects.
Humanoid Maker Apptronik Triples Valuation to Over $5.5 Billion With New Funding
Bloomberg Technology ↗
Apptronik raised $520M from Google and John Deere, tripling its valuation to over $5.5B to accelerate its humanoid robot deployment.
OpenAI Disbands Mission Alignment Team as Lead Moves to Futurist Role
Platformer ↗
OpenAI has disbanded its core mission alignment team, transferring employees and moving lead Joshua Achiam to a 'Chief Futurist' position.
Z.ai launches GLM-5: Flagship Open-Weight Model for Agentic Tasks
MarkTechPost ↗
Z.ai released GLM-5, claiming best-in-class performance for reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic tasks among open-source models.
NVIDIA Researchers Introduce KVTC to Compress LLM Caches by 20x
MarkTechPost ↗
NVIDIA introduced KVTC, a breakthrough coding pipeline that compresses LLM caches by 20x, drastically reducing the memory bottleneck for AI serving.
Jeff Lawson’s Inertia Raises $450M for Grid-Scale Fusion Power
Bloomberg Technology ↗
Startup Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, raised $450M to build fusion power plants for AI using high-power lasers.
Mistral Releases New On-Device Speech-to-Text AI Models
AI Business ↗
Mistral dropped new high-performance speech-to-text models designed to run locally on devices for maximum privacy and edge computing.
AI Lab Flapping Airplanes Lands $180M Seed Round from Sequoia
TechCrunch AI ↗
New AI lab Flapping Airplanes raised one of the largest seed rounds in history to build models that learn like humans.
Anthropic CCO Takes Swipe at OpenAI Over Spending and Ad Model
CNBC Technology ↗
Anthropic’s chief commercial officer publicly criticized OpenAI’s spending and ad-based revenue model in an interview with CNBC.
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