1. OpenAI in the Sky: Voice-Controlled Drone Swarms

In a significant expansion of its defense portfolio, OpenAI was tapped today for a US military trial involving drone swarm orchestration [2.1].

• The Mission: The Pentagon is using OpenAI’s technology to translate a battlefield commander’s voice commands into digital instructions for hundreds of autonomous drones simultaneously.

• The Layer: OpenAI is not building the weapons; it is acting as the "Orchestrator"—the cognitive bridge between human intent and machine execution.

• The Guardrail: To address safety concerns, the military is using an open-source version of OpenAI's model rather than the full-frontier GPT-5.3, allowing for air-gapped security in combat zones.

2. Valentine’s Day 2026: The "FaceTime" Catfish Crisis

Cybersecurity firms today issued a "Red Alert" for what they are calling Romance Scams 2.0 [3.1, 3.2].

• The Deepfake FaceTime: The old rule of "ask for a video call to verify identity" has officially been broken. Scammers are now using real-time generative video to conduct 20-minute "live" dates that are indistinguishable from real humans.

• The Surge: There has been a 44% jump in fake Valentine’s domains this month alone. Fraudsters are using "Social Media Scrapers" to build AI personas tailored perfectly to a victim's specific psychological profile and loneliness triggers [3.1].

• The Financial Toll: Reported losses from AI-enabled relationship scams are projected to hit a record high this weekend, with many victims being "coached" into fake AI-crypto investment schemes.

3. The India-AI Impact Summit: A Global South Awakening

Leaders from 20 nations are arriving in New Delhi today for the India-AI Impact Summit 2026, which kicks off on Monday [1.1].

• The Power Shift: This is the first major AI summit hosted in the Global South. It aims to challenge the "Silicon Valley/Brussels" duopoly on AI governance.

• The "AI Commons": India is expected to propose a global "shared compute infrastructure," allowing developing nations to access the processing power needed for sovereign AI without being beholden to Western cloud providers [1.3].

The Evolution of the Scam: 2024 vs. 2026

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4. Corporate: Huawei’s "Shared Intelligence" Strategy

At a global summit in Singapore today, Huawei Cloud unveiled its 2026 partner policy [1.4].

• The Focus: Moving away from simple cloud storage, Huawei is pivoting to "Infrastructure-as-an-Agent." * The Goal: Providing specialized, pre-trained vertical models for manufacturing and logistics that can "self-correct" supply chain disruptions in real-time.

Prompt of the Day: The Deepfake "Safe Word"

If you or a family member are active in online dating or remote business, you need a non-digital way to verify identity.

The Prompt:

"Create a 'Family Verification Protocol' for me. It should include 3 non-obvious questions that an AI scraper couldn't find on my social media (e.g., 'What was the color of the rug in our first apartment?'). Also, draft a brief guide for my elderly relatives on how to spot 'Audio Latency' or 'Visual Glitches' that reveal a real-time deepfake during a phone or video call."