Magnificent 7 Weekly Briefing

February 13, 2026

Tech giants accelerated AI advances and a data center boom. Tesla saw executive exits and tanking sales. Microsoft battled numerous zero-day flaws, and more.

Google rolled out the upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think, which achieved passing marks in tough benchmarks, while NVIDIA highlighted that partners achieved up to 10x cost reduction for AI inference using its Blackwell platform. ¹²³⁴
Multiple tech giants announced massive infrastructure projects, including Meta breaking ground on a $10 billion, 1GW data center in Indiana, Amazon confirming a $5 billion data center project in Washington, and Google investing in TeraWulf’s shift from Bitcoin mining to AI data centers. ⁵⁶⁷⁸
Google faced multiple new challenges globally, including renewed EU antitrust probes concerning its ad pricing practices and an antitrust complaint from European publishers regarding its AI Overviews product. ^91011121314
Microsoft disclosed an "extraordinarily high" number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, issuing multiple urgent fixes for flaws affecting Windows and Office users; Apple also patched a critical iOS zero-day exploit. ^{1516171819202122}
Tesla experienced significant executive turnover, including multiple sales leaders departing, amid a major strategic shift toward robotics, while retail sales in China reportedly tanked 45% year-over-year. ^2324252627
The company also announced plans to discontinue the older Model S and Model X vehicles, focusing instead on competitive $300,000 pricing for the long-range Semi, while Amazon began closing all of its Amazon Fresh store locations. ²⁸²⁹³⁰
Other developments included Apple's advanced Siri AI features reportedly being delayed until late 2026 due to technical issues, and Amazon expanding its Same-Day Prescription Delivery service to 4,500 cities and gaining FCC approval for its Leo satellite launches. ^313233343536

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