Morning Brief - February 18, 2026
Weather
- Chicago: Check locally (no API configured)
AI Trends (Feb 17)
Hot Topics
- AI Pragmatism - Moving from hype to practical deployment (TechCrunch)
- Agentic AI - "Whoever owns that front door to the super agent will shape the market" (IBM)
- Reasoning Models - o1, DeepSeek-R1 leading the paradigm shift
- Multimodal - Becoming standard across frontier models
- Efficiency - GPT-4 level performance at dramatically lower costs
India AI Summit
- Altman, Pichai, Amodei, Hassabis at Delhi
- 60%+ of new GCCs AI-focused
- The "AI talent factory" narrative growing
Tasks
- Review content scheduler setup
- Continue India AI thread development
- Check cron job status
Notes
- Committed all skills/scripts to git
- Repo ready on main branch (local)