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Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in November as the head of its safety research team, joins Anthropic's alignment team (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/862…

An OpenAI safety research lead departed for Anthropic
Andrea Vallone has joined Anthropic’s alignment team.

Wikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861935/wikipedia-25th-anniversary-2026
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Wikipedia turns 25 and shares a glimpse into the lives of its volunteer editors
Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a mini docuseries that highlights its editors from around the globe, as well as a digital time capsule capturing the site’s most notable moments.

AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/843883/ai-image-generators-better-worse

AI image generators are getting better by getting worse
AI image generators are getting way better at creating realistic fakes, by making image quality a little bit worse.

Mozilla appoints Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its CEO amid a challenging period for Mozilla's for-profit arm with layoffs, restructuring, and its Google dependence (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo says he thinks Mozilla and Firefox still have a role to play in the web, even as things shift toward AI.

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/862109/wikip

Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for ‘enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity are paying to gain access to the nonprofit’s projects, allowing them to use Wikipedia for AI training.

DoorDash and Waymo announce a partnership to let DoorDash use Waymo's robotaxis for delivery, starting with deliveries from Phoenix's DashMart store (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/800455/waymo-doordash-autonomous-food-…

DoorDash will use Waymo’s robotaxis for delivery in Phoenix
Waymo is teaming up with DoorDash to use its driverless vehicles to delivery takeout orders to customers in Phoenix.

GM is adding native Apple Music to select vehicles, and rolls out support for digital keys, after it started phasing out CarPlay in 2023 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/844697/gm-cadillac-chevy-apple-music-native

Cadillac and Chevy are getting native Apple Music
GM is bringing native Apple Music to Cadillac and Chevy vehicles, thanks to its decision to block Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

Anthropic announces Skills for Claude, a tool with folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load to improve performance on some tasks (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/800868/anthro…

Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work
Anthropic has announced a new feature for its Claude AI chatbot called Skills, which should make AI agents more useful.

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too
Meta is discontinuing Horizon Workrooms and Meta Horizon managed services, amidst its many VR layoffs.