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• Elon Musk Pushes AI to Be ‘Unhinged,’ Former Employees Say

  16-02-2026 19:38 via eweek.com
  As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google race to fortify their AI guardrails, Elon Musk appears to be loosening his.Former xAI insiders say the billionaire is pushing to make his chatbot “more unhinged,” framing safety measures as censorship rather than protection. According to employees who spoke anonymously, the company’s dedicated safety function has effectively been dismantled, replaced by a high-pressure, top-down culture where decisions flow directly from Musk.Supporters argue th
  
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• Microsoft AI CEO: AI to Automate Most Office Work Within 12–18 Months

  16-02-2026 17:42 via eweek.com
  The countdown for white-collar work may have already begun.Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, suggests that the future of white-collar work may be uncertain. In a recent interview with the Financial Times, he predicted that artificial intelligence will automate most professional tasks within 12 to 18 months, including work done by lawyers, accountants, marketers, and project managers. The forecast adds fuel to a growing debate about how quickly AI systems will transition from assist
  
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• 5 Video Generators That’ll Blow Your Mind in 2026

  16-02-2026 16:09 via eweek.com
  We’ve officially moved past the era of glitched-out characters and floating objects. Today, creating a high-end film or an elite social ad is less about having a massive budget and more about having a solid internet connection. As a journalist who has covered the tech beat for years, I’ve seen AI video generator tools go from shaky prototypes two years ago to tools that are actually making Hollywood a little nervous.Choosing the right tool is no longer just about “which on
  
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• OpenAI Just Solved 5 of 10 ‘Impossible’ Math Problems

  16-02-2026 15:50 via eweek.com
  Remember when AI winning a math olympiad felt like a big deal?Eleven of the world’s top mathematicians (including a Fields Medalist) decided that was child’s play. So they created First Proof, a set of 10 unpublished, research-level math problems pulled straight from their own work, and gave AI one week to solve them.The catch: none of these problems had ever appeared on the internet. No training data shortcuts. No pattern matching. Just raw mathematical reasoning.OpenAI’s Chie
  
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• Google Chrome Launches WebMCP in Early Preview for AI Agent Interactions

  16-02-2026 15:00 via eweek.com
  Google’s Chrome team has rolled out an early preview of WebMCP, a proposed web standard that enables websites to communicate directly with AI agents via structured tools rather than relying on messy screen scraping.Today, when AI agents access websites, they often rely on screenshots or raw HTML to determine what to do. That means parsing code, scanning layouts, and making repeated guesses, a process that can be slow, expensive, and prone to breaking when page designs change.WebMCP, short
  
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