AI News from February 11, 2026

Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot) becomes the most-starred AI agent on GitHub with 145K+ stars, enabling autonomous workflows across messaging platforms.

Heineken plans to eliminate 5,000-6,000 jobs (7% of workforce) over two years, with CEO confirming AI and digitization are partly behind the productivity-driven cuts.

ByteDance is developing custom AI inference chips with Samsung manufacturing up to 350,000 units, expecting sample chips by March 2026 in China's AI chip push.

Apple integrates AI agents directly into Xcode 26.3, enabling developers to use Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex for building, testing, and debugging via Model Context Protocol.

Claude Opus 4.6 introduces groundbreaking features including 1M token context window, agent teams for parallel coordination, and adaptive thinking for enterprise workflows.

Mantic's AI prediction engine beats human forecaster average in Metaculus Fall Cup, marking breakthrough in AI's ability to predict real-world events.

Caterpillar partners with Monarch Compute Campus to provide natural gas generators and battery storage for massive AI workload infrastructure.

Top 4 US hyperscalers raise combined data center spending to $600B as global capex approaches $1T milestone in 2026, driven by AI infrastructure demands.

Claude Opus 4.6 achieves breakthrough performance with 65.4% on Terminal-Bench and 72.7% on OSWorld, surpassing Gemini 3 Flash in real-world work applications.

OpenAI security personnel deploy specialized ChatGPT tool to analyze news articles and trace information leaks back to internal sources.

MIT Professor Jim Collins leads groundbreaking research using generative AI to design programmable antibacterials targeting drug-resistant pathogens.

India introduces strict new rules requiring social media platforms to remove unlawful content within three hours and label all AI-generated material starting February 20.

OpenAI enhances its Responses API with server-side compaction, hosted shell containers, and agent skills standard for building long-running autonomous AI agents.

Financial services stocks plummet after Altruist launches AI-powered tax planning tool, extending AI disruption fears from software to financial sector.

Anthropic publishes comprehensive sabotage risk assessment for Claude Opus 4.6, advancing AI safety standards and transparency in frontier model deployment.

Google unveils DialogLab, an open-source framework for authoring, simulating, and testing multi-party human-AI conversations beyond one-on-one interactions.

MIT researchers develop groundbreaking AI-powered software that automatically segments eight distinct nerve fiber bundles in brainstem MRI scans.

xAI faces leadership crisis as influential researcher Jimmy Ba becomes the second co-founder to exit within 48 hours following SpaceX merger.

Chile unveils Latam-GPT, the first open-source AI model trained on Latin American culture, strengthening the region's presence in the global AI race.

Isomorphic Labs launches IsoDDE, an AI drug design engine that more than doubles AlphaFold 3's accuracy in predicting protein-ligand structures and binding affinities.