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These are the daily tech headlines for Thursday, February 12, 2026. I'm Rob Dunwood. Apple's anticipated AI powered Siri redesign, meant to be a more capable assistant, has been delayed due to internal testing problems, including sluggishness and a failure to process queries. Instead of a single launch, Apple will now roll out new features incrementally through updates like iOS 26.4, possibly next month, iOS 26.5 in May, and iOS 20 later in the year. The company previously confirmed that Google's Gemini models will help power the new Siri, which is expected to eventually function like an AI chatbot. Russia has completely blocked WhatsApp, the country's most popular messaging app owned by meta platforms, after it failed to comply with local laws. The Kremlin is prompting its own surveillance prone national Messenger Max as an alternative. This move, which isolates over 100 million users from secure communication and forces them to use VPNs to access the service, is part of a broader six month effort by Russian authorities to establish a sovereign communication infrastructure that mandates foreign tech companies submit to local regulations or be shut down. Soaring memory prices are driving corporate buyers to accelerate PC purchases, boosting revenue for PC makers like Lenovo. This imbalance, worsened by the curse of AI, is forecasted to constrain PC and smartphone unit volume later in 2026. Despite lower shipments overall PC market revenue is still expected to grow due to higher pricing and a shift to premium AI PCs. Resellers like CDW anticipate stronger year hardware growth as buyers pull purchases forward to avoid steeper costs. Analysts predict rising costs passed to consumers could cause a 10 to 15% decline in PC shipments as the market adjusts to new higher price points. Anthropic is significantly upgrading their fair tier of its Claude chatbot, directly challenging OpenAI's plan to introduce ads to free chatgpt. Free Claude users now receive previously paid features such as file creation, editing using Sonnet 4.5 for documents like Excel and PDFs, publishers, third party integrations and custom task teaching skills. These improvements also include better search and longer conversations with Anthropic, emphasizing that Claude will remain entirely ad free, a commitment recently highlighted in the super bowl ad mocking OpenAI's new ad model and GPT 4.0. In other anthropic news, the company is committing $20 million to the 2026 political elections through the Public First Action PAC, which supports Pro AI regulation candidates such as Republicans Marsha Blackburn and Pete Ricketts. The PAC $75 million is smaller than the rival Leading the Future PAC, which has $125 million. Anthropic justifies the spending as necessary for policy safeguards, though critics like David Sacks view it as a regulatory capture strategy. This follows the US President's executive order establishing a national AI regulatory framework. Police recovered deleted video of a mask suspect from Nancy Guthrie's non paying Nest camera nine days after abduction, despite Google's policy of only saving three hours of event history for non subs. This successful voluntary recovery by Google in aid of the investigation suggests that Nest event data persists and is recoverable from Google's back end servers long after it is inaccessible to the user, raising privacy concerns about the company's stated data deletion policy. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a reorganization at the company's XAI artificial intelligence venture, including some personal departures to improve speed of execution, while noting they are hiring aggressively. This overhaul follows the recent exits of co founders Jimmy Bond and Tony Wu, adding to previous departures. The changes come after SpaceX acquired Xai last week in an all stock transaction, valuing the combined entity at $1.25 trillion. The company is preparing for an anticipated IPO this year amidst regulatory probes into Xai's Grok AI chatbot over its role in the creation of deepfake porn. ByteDance has released a new video generating AI model that has garnered attention, including from Elon Musk, and gone viral in China for its ability to create cinematic storylines from SIMP simple prompts, earning comparisons to Deepseek. This development signals that video and picture generation models are becoming the next major advancement in AI, following the widespread adoption of tech centric models like ChatGPT and Deepseek's R1. And finally, Nvidia has launched a native GeForce now app for select Amazon Fire TV devices, including the second gen Fire TV Stick 4K and 4K Max and the original Fire TV Stick 4K Max. This eliminates the need for sideloading The Android app while streaming quality on Fire TV is capable at 1080p resolution to 60 frames per second with SDR and stereo audio. It provides a convenient cloud gaming option for users who own compatible Fire TV hardware and a controller. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to dailytechnews show.com and if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check us out. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next time.