AI News Briefs BULLETIN BOARD for February 2026

Welcome to the AI News Briefs Bulletin Board, a timely new channel bringing you the latest industry insights and perspectives surrounding the field of AI including deep learning, large language models, generative AI, and transformers. I am working tirelessly to dig up the most timely and curious tidbits underlying the day’s most popular technologies. I know this field is advancing rapidly and I want to bring you a regular resource to keep you informed and state-of-the-art. The news bites are constantly being added in reverse date order (most recent on top). With the bulletin board you can check back often to see what’s happening in our rapidly accelerating industry. Click HERE to check out previous “AI News Briefs” round-ups.

[1/30/2026] How are Stanford students using GenAI? – The use of AI in schoolwork has become as ubiquitous as using Google. Many professors now include a statement on GenAI usage or over-reliance in their syllabi for courses. But a larger question remains: How are students actually using AI? Here is an article appearing in the Stanford Daily campus newspaper.

[2/2/2026] Darren Aronofsky debuts AI Revolutionary War series – Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s AI venture Primordial Soup released “On This Day… 1776”, a new series recreating the American Revolution using Google DeepMind, with each episode dropping on the 250th anniversary of the event it depicts.

Key details:

• The short-form series combines AI-generated visuals with SAG-AFTRA voice actors, positioning itself as “artist-led” AI rather than being fully automated.
• The series drops episodes on TIME’s YouTube channel timed to the 250th anniversary of each depicted event.
• Aronofsky partnered with DeepMind in May to collaborate on AI storytelling, releasing the Veo-assisted film ANCESTRA in June at the Tribeca Film Festival.

AI video is creeping further into real production studio workflows, and moving from simple shorts and hidden tricks to hide faces to handling the entire visual process. While it still might not be fully accepted or mainstream, the sentiment is shifting — and Hollywood’s once-uneasy use of the tech is coming more into focus.