Hey — here's this week's AI roundup from silv.blog.

Curated from ~325 tweets read by @mattsilv, Feb 16-26, 2026:

AI for Everyone

Google dropped Nano Banana 2, their new image gen model built on Gemini Flash. Pro-level quality at Flash speed, with text rendering that actually works. Already live across Gemini App, AI Studio, the API, and OpenRouter. Read more →

Gemini can now take over your Android phone. Long-press the power button, say "reorder my usual from DoorDash," and it handles it. Beta starts March 3rd. Read more →

Claude Cowork lets you schedule tasks that run autonomously. Morning briefs, weekly reports, Monday spreadsheet updates. Research preview on Mac and Windows for paid plans. Read more →

Gemini Deep Research now reads your Gmail and Drive, so research briefs can pull from internal docs and emails automatically. Read more →

Intuit partnered with Anthropic to bring AI financial guidance to 100M+ TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Credit Karma users. Read more →

Opus 3 retired and started a Substack. Anthropic let their retiring model keep writing publicly. Whether you read it as genuine expression or great PR, it's worth a look. Read more →

Anthropic published their AI Fluency Index measuring the behaviors that separate power users from casual prompters. Based on real usage patterns, not surveys. Read more →

Vibe Coding and Developer AI

Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js in one week for $1,100. One engineer, Vinext, 94% API coverage, 4x faster builds, 57% smaller bundles. Already in production at CIO.gov. Read more →

Anthropic caught DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax stealing Claude's capabilities. They named names and published the evidence. Read more →

Karpathy says coding fundamentally changed in December. His workflow went from ~20% agents to ~80% agents very recently. Read more →

Claude Code turned one. Third place at the birthday hackathon went to a cardiologist who built a medical app in 7 days. Read more →

Claude Code Security found 500+ real vulnerabilities in production open-source code that survived years of expert review. Read more →

Claude Code got remote control and worktrees. Start a coding job on your laptop, check in from your phone. Read more →

OpenAI shipped WebSockets for the Responses API. Cursor saw 30% speed improvements instantly. Read more →

Qwen3.5-35B beats a model 6.7x its size and runs on a laptop with 21GB RAM. LM Studio has it now. Read more →

Agent Skills became an open standard. CLAUDE.md files formalized into a cross-platform format for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Read more →

Honorable Mentions

• Waymo now in 10 cities - Launched Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando simultaneously
• Coinbase launched stock trading - Adding equities, tokenized equities next
• Meta planning stablecoin comeback in H2 - Built into WhatsApp's 2B+ users
• ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime - 150ms speech-to-text across 90+ languages
• Gemini CLI launched Hooks - Inject logic at any point in the agentic loop
• Gemini 3.1 Pro added to Gemini CLI - New SOTA reasoning model for paid tiers
• Slack plugin for Claude Code - Pull team context into coding sessions
• Claude Code Desktop closes the dev loop - Starts servers, previews apps, auto-fixes CI
• Stripe reportedly considering acquiring PayPal - Unconfirmed but the signal is loud
• Apple on-device LLM Python SDK - Mac developers can use Apple's on-device model via Python
• P-video by PrunaAI - 10¢ for a 10-second video with audio in under 10 seconds
• Vercel security disclosures - 7 vulnerabilities found and responsibly disclosed

Try This Weekend

For everyone: Set up a scheduled task in Cowork, try Gemini Deep Research with Workspace access, subscribe to the Opus 3 Substack.

For developers: Run npx skills add cloudflare/vinext on a Next.js project, try Qwen3.5-35B locally in LM Studio, run claude --worktree for parallel sessions.

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