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Wednesday — February 18, 2026

25 stories — deduplicated across sources, ranked by significance, every source cited.

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★ Top story · ModelsFeb 18

Introducing EVMbench

OpenAI and Paradigm introduce EVMbench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents’ ability to detect, patch, and exploit high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities.

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Wednesday — February 18, 2026

Introducing EVMbench

A new way to express yourself: Gemini can now create music

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 397B-A17 beats its larger trillion-parameter model — at a fraction of the cost - VentureBeat

Chinese AI models festoon Spring Festival a year after DeepSeek shock - Reuters

Deepseek v3: How to download the Chinese neural network Deepseek AI, all methods - Хабр

Alibaba Unveils New Qwen AI Model as China’s AI Race Intensifies - waya.media

Introducing OpenAI for India

IBM and UC Berkeley Diagnose Why Enterprise Agents Fail Using IT-Bench and MAST

India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars, and smart glasses - TechCrunch

Indian AI lab Sarvam’s new models are a major bet on the viability of open source AI - TechCrunch

Meet Pratyush Kumar, Co-Brain Of Sarvam AI That Claims To Outperform Gemini, ChatGPT - NDTV

Sarvam takes on Google, OpenAI and Anthropic; launches 105-billion parameter open-source model for India - The Times of India

One-Shot Any Web App with Gradio's gr.HTML

ChatGPT and Gemini struggle with complex Indian languages — but this Bengaluru startup says it can do better - TechRadar

How NVIDIA Extreme Hardware-Software Co-Design Delivered a Large Inference Boost for Sarvam AI’s Sovereign Models | NVIDIA Technical Blog - NVIDIA Developer

Mistral AI to Buy Software Infrastructure Startup Koyeb - WSJ

Mistral CEO: AI could replace more than half of companies’ software - Computerworld

More than 50% of enterprise software could switch to AI, Mistral CEO says - CNBC

Mistral AI CEO: Over half of SaaS spending to shift to AI - CNBC

Mistral AI deepens compute ambitions with Koyeb acquisition - InfoWorld

Indian AI startup Sarvam launches 22 local-language models - Tech in Asia

Sarvam AI launches India-first sovereign AI models - MSN

'Companies like Emergent are taking India global in AI': Sarvam AI CEO - MSN

"You Need Ability To Suffer To Succeed": Sarvam AI Founder At NDTV AI Summit - NDTV

Key facts: Appaloosa cuts Alibaba stake by $400M; Qwen AI leads in downloads