OpenAI Retires GPT-4o, Launches Codex-Spark on Cerebras Chips & MiniMax M2.5 Shakes Up AI Market | February 14, 2026

📋 Quick Takeaways

OpenAI officially retires GPT-4o and several legacy models from ChatGPT on February 13, amid 13 consolidated lawsuits over mental health harms

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark launches on Cerebras chips — OpenAI’s first production model not running on Nvidia, delivering 1,000+ tokens/sec at 15x faster speeds

MiniMax M2.5 from China achieves near-frontier performance on SWE-Bench at 1/10th to 1/20th the cost of Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5

Zhipu AI’s GLM-5 reaches Intelligence Index score of 50, trained on Huawei Ascend chips — a milestone for non-Nvidia AI training

Baker McKenzie cuts up to 1,000 jobs citing AI, in the largest AI-driven layoff in the legal industry

Google warns that nation-state hackers from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia are using Gemini for cyberattacks

Waymo deploys 6th-generation Ojai robotaxis, plans expansion to 20+ cities including Tokyo and London

Anthropic’s Super Bowl ad drives 11% user growth and Apple App Store top-10 ranking, beating OpenAI, Google, and Meta

Samsung begins shipping HBM4 samples, the next-gen memory critical for AI accelerator performance

Autonomous vehicles forecast to operate or test in 39 global markets by end of 2026

🤖 AI Model Releases & Retirements

OpenAI Officially Retires GPT-4o and Legacy Models from ChatGPT

On February 13, OpenAI officially pulled the plug on GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini from ChatGPT, alongside the previously announced retirement of GPT-5 Instant and Thinking. All conversations now default to GPT-5.2. API access remains unchanged for the time being.

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Anthropic Closes $15B Mega-Round at $350B Valuation | Big Tech Earnings Test AI ROI | January 28, 2026

📋 Quick Takeaways

Anthropic closes $10-15B funding round at $350B valuation, with Microsoft and Nvidia potentially adding more; company generated ~$10B revenue in 2025

Big Tech earnings week begins with Microsoft, Meta, Tesla reporting January 28; hyperscalers expected to spend $470B+ in AI capex for 2026

AWS signs historic $38B deal with OpenAI for cloud infrastructure, while Amazon explores $10B direct investment

Global AI spending projected at $2.5 trillion in 2026, with infrastructure spending alone exceeding $1.3 trillion

Apple-Google Gemini partnership confirmed for major Siri overhaul, pushing Alphabet above $4T market cap

China AI race intensifies as Moonshot releases new omni-model ahead of expected DeepSeek breakthrough

💰 Major AI Funding & Investments

Anthropic Closes $10-15B Funding Round at $350B Valuation

Landmark Deal: Anthropic has closed its latest funding round above the initial $10 billion target, landing between $10-15 billion at a staggering $350 billion valuation, with potential for additional contributions from Microsoft and Nvidia.