Feb 20, 2026

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Diagram shows SleepFM's data processing flow from sleep signals to disease prediction using neural networks.
Feb 20, 2026

Sleep Signals Predict Illness: SleepFM detects signs of neurological disorders years before symptoms manifest

Difficulty sleeping often precedes heart disease, psychiatric disorders, and many other illnesses. Researchers used data gathered during sleep studies to detect such conditions.
Two comparison tables show AI model performance across varied benchmarks, highlighting LFM2.5-1.2B.
Feb 20, 2026

Faster Reasoning at the Edge: Liquid AI’s small reasoning model mixes attention with convolutional layers for efficiency

Reasoning models in the 1 to 2 billion-parameter range typically require more than 1 gigabyte of RAM to run. Liquid AI released one that runs in less than 900 megabytes, and does it with exceptional speed and efficiency.
Two images show an AI-generated cake design and its baked version, both featuring a yellow cat theme.
Feb 20, 2026

How AI Will Create Jobs: Whenever technology unlocks human creativity, it creates far more jobs than it destroys. AI-driven job growth has already started.

Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow.
Bar chart showing tech lobbying budgets in 2025, with Meta leading at $26.29M, followed by Amazon and Alphabet.
Feb 20, 2026

Big AI Spends Big On Lobbying: Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia pour millions into government influence

Top tech and AI companies spent more than $100 million to influence government policy in 2025, the first time they exceeded that figure.
Benchmark table shows GLM-5 outperforming other models in reasoning, coding, and general agent tasks.
Feb 20, 2026

GLM-5 Scales Up: Z.ai’s updated model boasts top open-weights Intelligence Index score

Z.ai more than doubled the size of its flagship large language model to deliver outstanding performance among open-weights competitors.
Two images show an AI-generated cake design and its baked version, both featuring a yellow cat theme.
Feb 20, 2026

The New Open-Weights Leader, Big AI’s Political Influence, Predicting Illness, Faster Reasoning

The Batch AI News and Insights: Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow.

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