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onMarch 10, 2026

Florida Senate Approves AI Bill of Rights on March 4—First State to Ban Government AI Contracts, Mandate Chatbot Age Verification, and Restrict User Data Sales

Florida just made chatbots a controlled substance for minors. The March 4 Senate vote creates a regulatory framework that treats AI companies…

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Artur Markus

onMarch 7, 2026

31 Companies Hit Unicorn Status in January 2026—Highest Monthly Count Since June 2022, Adding $58.5B in Valuation

The funding winter ended two months ago and most of the industry missed it. Fifty-four companies crossed the billion-dollar threshold in…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 28, 2026

UiPath Acquires WorkFusion to Build Agentic AI Platform for Financial Crime Compliance—Expands Beyond Traditional RPA Into Autonomous Workflow Intelligence

UiPath just spent hundreds of millions to make its core product obsolete. The February 2026 WorkFusion acquisition marks the moment the RPA…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 20, 2026

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark: 1,000+ Tokens Per Second Coding Model for Real-Time Development

OpenAI just admitted that bigger isn’t always better. Their new coding model generates 1,000+ tokens per second—and it’s…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 16, 2026

Snorkel AI Commits $3M to Open Benchmarks Grant—Targeting the ‘Biggest Blind Spot’ Where AI Models Excel on Tests But Fail in Production

Claude Opus 4.6 just scored 76% on MRCR v2—up from 18.5% on its predecessor. GPT-5.3-Codex hit 77.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.0. Neither score…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 14, 2026

Apple Xcode 26.3 Launches Agentic Coding with Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex Integration

Apple just handed its IDE the keys to the car. Xcode 26.3 doesn’t assist developers—it replaces entire development workflows with…

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 13, 2026

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extracted 97.5% of The Great Gatsby Verbatim—Stanford Study Proves Production LLMs Memorize Entire Copyrighted Books

Claude 3.7 Sonnet just reproduced 97.5% of The Great Gatsby word-for-word. Not through search—through memory baked into its parameters.

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Artur Markus

onFebruary 11, 2026

Claude Opus 4.6 Scores 76% on Long-Context Retrieval—4X Better Than Its Predecessor at 18.5%

A 310% improvement in a single release isn’t iteration—it’s a discontinuity. Anthropic just proved that model performance can…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 22, 2026

TII’s Falcon-H1R 7B Outperforms 47B Models on Math Reasoning While Running on a 16GB Laptop

A 7-billion parameter model just scored 88.1% on AIME-24 math reasoning, beating models with 47 billion parameters. The parameter count arms…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 16, 2026

Illumina Launches 1 Billion Cell Atlas: 20 Petabytes of CRISPR Data Built with AstraZeneca, Merck, and Lilly to Train Next-Gen Drug Discovery AI

Illumina just gave AI drug discovery something it’s never had: ground truth data for what happens when you toggle every human gene on…

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