AI Safety People Are Quitting, Malware Is Getting Smarter, and Google Has a Warning

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.

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• 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/