AI Updates on 2026-02-15

OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex with significantly improved UI design taste and advanced shell scripting capabilities @gdb

OpenAI reports India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, marking significant international adoption @TechCrunch
US productivity growth reaches 2.7% for 2025, nearly double the previous decade's average, with AI adoption cited as contributing factor @emollick
Anthropic launches official Claude Cowork plugins providing specialized knowledge for complex tasks, positioning as scalable successor to GPTs for enterprise agents @emollick

Anthropic's Amanda Askell emphasizes treating personal political views as potential bias rather than training AI models to adopt them @AmandaAskell
Researcher argues AI labs must adapt safety frameworks to account for inference compute, as model capabilities now scale dramatically with computational resources @polynoamial
Developer warns of "cognitive debt" where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code erodes mental models, making future development decisions harder @simonw

Researchers find frontier models overfit to ARC benchmark's original encoding format, with performance dropping when symbols replace numbers @fchollet
Hugging Face releases QED-Nano, a 4B parameter model for mathematical proof writing competitive with 120B models, with full pipeline open-sourced @huggingface
New visual reasoning benchmark shows 3-year-old children significantly outperform all frontier AI models on basic perception tasks @random_walker