Is your AI startup just a pretty wrapper? Google says the clock is ticking. Plus, the first Android malware that uses AI to outsmart your phone, safety researchers are quitting OpenAI and Anthropic in protest, ads are coming to ChatGPT, India bets big on AI, Adobe gets torched for killing a beloved tool, and a social network where only bots are allowed. All that plus the transcription tool that costs a fraction of a penny per minute.

• Google exec warns AI wrappers: https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2026/google-exec-warns-ai-wrapper-startups-could-be-in-trouble/
• PromptSpy malware: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/promptspy-android-malware-abuses-google.html
• AI researchers leaving: https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/business/openai-anthropic-departures-nightcap
• Anthropic Super Bowl ad results: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/anthropic-open-ai-super-bowl-ads.html
• India AI Summit: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/22/all-the-important-news-from-the-ongoing-india-ai-summit/
• Adobe Animate reversal: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/adobe-animate-is-shutting-down-as-company-focuses-on-ai/
• Voxtral Transcribe 2: https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-transcribe-2
• Moltbook: https://dentro.de/ai/news/

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 just dropped and Hollywood is panicking, we break down why this AI video tool changes everything for creators. Plus, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have the most awkward photo op of 2026, OpenAI and Microsoft pour millions into AI safety, Google goes geothermal to power AI, states crack down on chatbots talking to your kids, and a university gets caught faking their own robot. All that plus a tool that lets you build a website just by describing it.

1. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/china/china-ai-seedance-intl-hnk-dst
2. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/openai-sam-altman-anthropic-dario-amodei-india-ai-summit.html
3. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/openai-and-microsoft-join-uks-international-coalition-to-safeguard-ai-development
4. https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/google_ormat_geothermal_datacenter_deal
5. https://ctmirror.org/2026/02/05/data-privacy-online-safety-tong-ct/
6. https://techstartups.com/2026/02/20/top-tech-news-today-february-20-2026/
7. https://www.siteground.com/coderick-ai
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Impact_Summit

Today on Basically AI, we cover India's new frontier AI commitments and the massive wave of investment heading into AI infrastructure, plus Sam Altman's renewed push for urgent regulation. Then we hit the product front: OpenAI's ad pivot (and the backlash), Anthropic's Claude 4.6 leap for coding/agents, and DeepMind's Deep Think approach for science.

OpenAI hires Instagram partnerships exec (The Verge)

OpenAI creative partnerships hire (Vanity Fair)

India "Frontier AI Impact Commitments" (Economic Times)

AI investment pledges at India summit (Reuters)

Reliance investment / India AI push (Reuters)

Tata data center business signs OpenAI as customer (Reuters)

Google: AI Impact Summit partnerships (Official Google Blog)

Altman: world urgently needs AI regulation (TechXplore / AFP)

OpenAI: Testing ads in ChatGPT (Official)

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 (Official)

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Official)

DeepMind: Gemini Deep Think (Official)

Google: Gemini Deep Think update (Official Google Blog)

BAFTA "human creativity" guidance (Financial Times)

Security: AI collapses response window (The Hacker News)