AI Updates on 2026-02-11

OpenAI updates GPT-5.2 instant model in ChatGPT with incremental improvements @sama
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6 with preemptive ASL-4 safety assessment and detailed sabotage risk report @AnthropicAI
Zai releases GLM-5 with 744B parameters (40B active) trained on 28.5T tokens under MIT license for commercial use @Zai_org
Anthropic ships Cowork on Windows with full feature parity to MacOS including file access and multi-step execution @claudeai
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 demonstrates one-shot manga-to-anime conversion and complex video generation capabilities @emollick

OpenAI CEO reports engineers rapidly switching from Claude to Codex for development work @sama
Anthropic reports 67% increase in PRs per developer using Claude Code and launches contribution metrics for Team and Enterprise users @_catwu
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announces Entire with $60M seed funding to build next developer platform for agent-human collaboration @GergelyOrosz
Two senior engineers including co-founders exit xAI amid internal controversy @TechCrunch
PyTorch Foundation appoints Mark Collier as Executive Director while Matt White becomes CTO to scale leadership capacity @PyTorch
Startups and enterprises adopting follow-the-sun team formation with AI agents enabling continuous development across timezones @GergelyOrosz

Nature commentary by linguists and philosophers declares that by reasonable standards, artificial systems that are generally intelligent now exist @emollick
Stanford HAI emphasizes need for measurement science for AI systems similar to physics and learning sciences @StanfordHAI

Docusign partners with NVIDIA to test Nemotron-Parse model for extracting complex tables in agreements with reduced manual corrections @NVIDIAAI
Adora launches with $7M funding to help product teams visualize entire product experiences using AI-powered journey mapping @benblumenrose
Stripe launches machine payments preview enabling developers to directly charge AI agents with few lines of code @jeff_weinstein

Google DeepMind's Gemini Deep Think with agentic workflows helps solve research-level problems in mathematics, physics, and computer science @GoogleDeepMind
Research agent Aletheia powered by advanced Gemini Deep Think autonomously produces publishable math research and solves Erdős problems @lmthang
MIT researchers develop method for AI agents to execute programs by backtracking and making multiple attempts to fix mistakes @MIT_CSAIL
New research on Learning to Continually Learn via Meta-learning Memory Designs shows agents can design better memory mechanisms than humans @jeffclune
Nature Machine Intelligence study finds LLM judgment of empathic communication exceeds crowd reliability and nearly matches expert annotations @mattgroh