22 February - 28 February 2026
Starting 22 February 2026
Trump drops AI company Anthropic over safety rulesPresident Trump ordered US government agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI after the company refused to change its safety rules for the military. The Pentagon called the startup a supply risk.- Anthropic is the AI company behind the Claude chatbot.
- The company refused to change its safety rules about how the military can use its AI.
- Trump directed all US agencies to toss out Anthropic's AI tools.
- The Pentagon called the startup a supply chain risk, a very unusual label for a US company.
- The dispute shows how tricky it is to agree on rules for powerful AI.
ChatGPT reaches 900 million weekly usersOpenAI announced that ChatGPT now has more than 900 million weekly active users and 50 million paying subscribers, closing in on one billion users.- ChatGPT grew by 100 million weekly users since October 2025.
- More than 50 million people now pay for a ChatGPT subscription.
- OpenAI also raised 110 billion dollars in new investment, one of the largest funding rounds in history.
- Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank are among the big investors.
- People use ChatGPT to learn, write, plan and build things.
The AI that can recreate what you are thinking aboutScientists are building AI systems that can read brain signals and turn them into words and rough pictures of what a person is imagining. It could one day help people who cannot speak.- The AI studies brain scans taken while people look at pictures or think.
- It can then turn the brain signals into words describing the thought.
- In tests, dream reconstructions were recognizable about 60% of the time.
- The technology could help people who have lost the ability to speak.
- Scientists say strong privacy rules will be needed to protect people's thoughts.
🤖 Fun Fact!
Did you know? A modern AI can read more books in a single day than a human could read in 10,000 lifetimes, and it trains on the equivalent of 100 million libraries of information!
