AI News from February 13, 2026

Claude app reaches No. 7 on US App Store after Anthropic's darkly comedic Super Bowl commercials criticizing AI chatbot ads drive 32% download increase.

Researchers unveil dSHERLOCK AI tool that diagnoses deadly Candida auris infections in 20 minutes, revolutionizing hospital infection control.

Growing number of Democratic candidates put AI policy at heart of campaigns, addressing concerns about screen time, deepfakes, and workforce impacts.

China takes major step toward AI-powered space infrastructure, deploying 10 AI models in satellite constellation with inter-satellite networking capabilities.

DeepSeek and Alibaba AI models spreading globally are programmed to present positive views of China while avoiding negative topics, researchers discover.

Google enhances Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex scientific tasks and launches Aletheia, an AI agent that solved 91.9% of advanced mathematics problems.

TikTok owner ByteDance releases Seedance 2.0, triggering Hollywood outcry over unauthorized use of copyrighted works as AI-generated deepfakes go viral.

NVIDIA's Blackwell GB200 NVL72 achieves 10x better tokenomics than Hopper. Leading AI providers adopt 72-chip configuration.

Google upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for science and engineering. Achieves 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2 and Elo 3455 on competitive coding.

OpenAI begins ChatGPT ad rollout featuring Adobe, Target, Ford, and luxury brands. Ads target educated, creative professionals.

Zoë Hitzig quits OpenAI citing concerns that ChatGPT advertising could manipulate users in unprecedented ways by exploiting intimate psychological data shared with the AI.

Google reports commercially motivated actors conducted distillation attacks on Gemini with over 100,000 prompts to extract AI model capabilities and intellectual property.

OpenAI warns US lawmakers that Chinese startup DeepSeek used distillation techniques to extract capabilities from US AI models, posing business and national security threats.