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These are the daily tech headlines for Monday, February 16, 2026. I'm Jen. Former NPR host David Green is suing Google over the similarities of his voice and speaking style to the mail podcast Voice in the Notebook LM Tool. Green's lawsuit was filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court and cites an unnamed AI forensic firm use its tool to determine a confidence rating of 53 to 60% that it was Greene's voice the model was trained on. In a statement to the Washington Post, Green Google said the sound of the male voice in NotebookLM's audio overviews is based on a paid professional actor Google hired previously. Actress Scarlett Johansson complained publicly about an OpenAI chatgpt voice mimicking her style, and OpenAI later removed the voice following complaints and cease and desist orders last week from Disney and Paramount over copyright infringement in ByteDance's AI video tool Sea Dance 2.0. The motion picture Association Chairman and CEO Charles Rifkin stated in a single day, the Chinese AI Service Sea Dance 2.0 has engaged in unauthorized use of U.S. copyrighted works on a massive scale. On Monday, ByteDance told CNBC, ByteDance respects intellectual property rights and we have heard the concerns regarding CDANCE 2.0. The company also stated steps are being taken to strengthen current safeguards. Google is adding a Gemini powered audio summary to Google Docs, providing a short synopsis using natural language for a document including multiple tabs. The feature enables a selection of different voice styles such as Narrator, Coach and Persuader. The audio summaries feature is rolling out gradually, limited to paid user tiers including Workspace, business standard and plus, enterprise plan standard and plus, and AI add ons like Google AI Ultra and AI Pro. On Western Digital's Q2 earnings call, CEO Irving Tan said WD's capacity for 2026 is already booked through Western Digital's consumer share of supply dropped to 5% with enterprise demand grabbing the rest. Tan also stated long term agreements with enterprise customers include a large capacity percentage for 2027 and 2028 supplies. OpenAI officially discontinued access to the GPT4O model, noted for glazing users and popular for creating AI partners and companions. The model was previously pulled last August but reinstated after complaints. A statement on OpenAI's website reads, the vast majority of usage has shifted to GPT 5.2, with only 0.1% of users still choosing GPT 4o each day. OpenAI is currently involved in several wrongful death lawsuits which specify use of the GPT4O model. YouTube continues to test tweaks to notifications for users that hit the bell but do not engage with the channel's videos when notified about new content. Users in the experiment will then no longer receive push notifications for new posts on that channel, regardless of their selection preference. The videos will remain viewable on the standard subscriptions feedback. Google states the experiment aims to reduce users simply disabling all notifications from the app instead of altering their preferences per channel, thereby helping creators 9 to 5. Google reports YouTube's continued crackdown on ad blockers may now lead to disabling the ability to view comments and even a video's description. A new flood of social media posts claims the inability to view descriptions or comments started occurring on all videos on the platform. It remains possible the missing sections could be caused by a tweak within ad blockers, causing the new issues in 2025. Content creators noted a severe drop in views, which Google attributed to ad blocking tools impacting view counts, and Apple announced a special Apple experience for press on March 4th at 9am Eastern. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says the rumored products coming soon could include a new low cost MacBook with the A18 Pro chip and new MacBook Air M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models. Also possible are new Mac displays, an iPhone 17e and new iPad models alongside a beta of iOS 26.4 with some Google Gemini powered Siri features. For more discussion on the tech news of the day, subscribe to the Daily Tech news show@dailytechnewshow.com where you can also find the show notes and links to our every headline. Please remember to rate and review daily tech headlines on your podcast service of choice from everyone here at Daily Tech Headlines. Thanks for listening.