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These are the daily tech headlines for the week ending Saturday, February 14, 2026. Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. I'm Sarah Lane. ByteDance released Daobao 2.0, an updated version of its flagship AI chatbot, adding improved reasoning, coding, and multimodal abilities. ByteDance says the new model is cheaper to run than rivals and supports longer context windows and more complex tasks as it looks to expand enterprise and developer adoption. Disney sent a cease and desist letter to ByteDance accusing the company of using its copyrighted content without permission to train the CE Dance 2.0 AI video generation model. Axios reports it got a copy of that letter. The move would be the most serious action so far by a major Hollywood studio against By Dance following the model's launch and adds to growing tensions between media companies and AI developers over training data rights. The Wall Street Journal sources say the US Military used Anthropic's AI model Claude to during the classified operation that led to the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Claude was reportedly deployed through a partnership with Palantir Technologies. Anthropic's official usage policies prohibit its AI from being used to facilitate violence, develop weapons, or conduct surveillance. An Anthropic spokesperson declined to confirm specific use in the mission the saying any deployment must comply with those policies. According to data from BNP Paribus, Anthropic saw a jump in users after its super bowl ad criticizing OpenAI's move to introduce ads in ChatGPT. Visits to Claude's site rose 6.5% and daily active users rose 11%. Meanwhile, ChatGPT's daily users increased 2.7% and Google's Gemini rose 1.4% After after the game, you will recall that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called Anthropic's ads deceptive and clearly dishonest. Apple reports that 66% of all iPhones are now running iOS 26, including 74% of devices released in the past four years. That's based on app Store activity. As of this past week for iPads, 57% of all devices and 66 of those from the past four years are are also on iPadOS 26. YouTube released a dedicated Vision OS app for the Apple Vision Pro two years after the headset launched and replacing the early Web only experience that didn't support features like offline downloads. The new app plays regular videos and shorts on a large virtual screen, including a spatial tab for 3D and VR content, and can stream up to 8K on the M5 models. The app is available now in the Vision OS App store for both M2 and M5 versions of the headset, The New York Times sources say The Department of Homeland Security has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to tech companies, including Google, Meta, Reddit and Discord, looking for identifying information on users who have criticized ICE or shared agents locations. Unlike warrants. The these subpoenas can be issued by DHS directly, and they've reportedly increased quite a bit over the past year. Some companies have complied with parts of the requests, while civil liberties groups like the ACLU argue the tactic is being used to chill protected speech. In at least one case, Meta notified affected users and gave them time to challenge the subpoenas in court. Security Researchers at Q Continuum and Layer X have identified more than 300 malicious Chrome extensions with more than 37 million downloads that leak browsing data, spy on users, or steal personal information. Q Continuum found 287 extensions transmitting users history or search data, often to unsecured networks or collection servers, and possibly monetized by data brokers. Layer X reported 30 extensions posing as AI tools sharing identical code and infrastructure with with 15 specifically targeting Gmail to extract emails. Amazon backed X Energy received U.S. approval to produce advanced nuclear reactor fuel, the first license of its kind in more than 50 years. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission authorized the company's Triso X unit to build two fuel production facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where construction is already underway. The company expects to begin manufacturing the fuel in 2028. Valve's latest Steam client beta lets users attach their PC or Steam deck hardware specs to game reviews, making performance related feedback more meaningful. The update also allows optional sharing of anonymized frame rate data from Steam OS devices, helping Valve improve game compatibility through tools like Proton. Other tweaks include bug fixes and a refined way to provide feedback on whether a game should be deck verified. For more analysis of the tech news of the day and the week, subscribe to dailytechnewsshow.com that's where you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I'm Sarah Lane. Thank you for listening. Enjoy your weekend and we'll talk to you Monday.
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