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AI news on February 26, 2026 · Thursday

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

Alibaba's open Qwen 3.5 takes aim at GPT-5 mini and Claude Sonnet 4.5 at a fraction of the cost - the-decoder.com

Models·Qwen News·Feb 26Q
ModelsClaude Sonnet 4.5GPT-5 miniGPT-5

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

Policy·Google DeepMind Blog·Feb 26G

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and OpenAI partner to accelerate federal permitting

Research·OpenAI Blog·Feb 26O

OpenAI Codex and Figma launch seamless code-to-design experience

Products·OpenAI Blog·Feb 26O

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War - Anthropic

Other·Anthropic News·Feb 26A

Citi forms AI-focused infrastructure banking team; makes first investment in Japan - Finextra Research

Research·Sakana AI News·Feb 26S

Exclusive: DeepSeek withholds latest AI model from US chipmakers including Nvidia, sources say - Reuters

Models·DeepSeek News +1·Feb 26DD

Mistral AI Lands Accenture as Latest Big Client - WSJ

Models·Mistral AI News·Feb 26M

'Turning AI experiment into real P&L impact': Mistral AI CEO & Accenture EMEA CEO on new partnership - CNBC

Models·Mistral AI News·Feb 26M

Accenture and Mistral AI Accelerate Enterprise Reinvention with Scalable AI that Delivers Strategic Autonomy for Customers - Accenture

Models·Mistral AI News·Feb 26M

Team Visma | Lease a Bike joins forces with Artificial Intelligence pioneer Mistral AI - Team Visma | Lease a Bike

Models·Mistral AI News·Feb 26M

The Sequence Chat #814: Z.ai's Zixuan Li Talks About GLM - TheSequence

Other·Zhipu AI News·Feb 26Z

Mistral AI inks a deal with global consulting giant Accenture - TechCrunch

Models·Mistral AI News·Feb 26M