On February 17, 2026, on-chain data indicated that Law Blocks AI's LBT token advanced into the top seven AI application tokens by market capitalization, reaching $54.65 million after a 0.16% gain over the previous 24 hours. LBT is trading near $0.2234, with its price having risen more than 4.2% in 30 days and nearly 30% in 90 days, while the project rolls out AI-driven legal tools such as online mediation, an AI Legal Chat, and a Lawyer Marketplace.

Shiba Inu ambassador Shytoshi Kusama said on Feb. 17, 2026 he will stream during a solar eclipse to outline a "new system" and revisit details Friday, with YouTube and X carrying replays. Earlier, SHIB marketing lead Lucie described a standalone Human Legacy AI platform, built over six months with 100,000+ lines of code, capped at 114,000 lifetime users and citing an internal $2M valuation.

On Feb. 9, Crypto.com launched its ai.com AI agent platform and has now obtained the ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for AI management systems. The firm is positioning AI services as one of its three core business lines, rolling out SDKs and data products while emphasizing secure and transparent AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA has introduced its latest GB300 NVL72 systems, which deliver 50 times more work per megawatt and cut per-token processing costs by 35 times compared with the earlier Hopper platform. Separate testing on the GB200 NVL72 indicates more than tenfold gains in information processed per watt, while rapid growth in AI coding assistants and a widening global AI skills gap are reshaping hardware demand and enterprise strategies. Projections show the AI agent market climbing from 4.92 billion dollars in 2024 to 44.97 billion dollars by 2035, as businesses increasingly adopt off‑the‑shelf AI solutions.

According to Gemini's analysis, XRP could reach $10 by late 2026 while Bitcoin targets $250,000, with Solana projected toward $600 by 2027. The outlook draws on fundamentals, roadmaps, and macro trends, and cites XRP at $1.49 and SOL trading near $84 after a late‑2025 correction.

On February 16, South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service said it will expand its AI-driven VISTA platform by adding an Nvidia H100 GPU using a 170 million Korean won ($117,640 USD) budget, aiming to improve real-time detection of market manipulation. The agency targets completing the hardware addition by the second quarter and is advancing algorithms to spot suspicious accounts and abnormal trading patterns.

On February 16, 2026, the UK government set out plans to bring AI chatbots under the Online Safety Act and strengthen protections for young users. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the move would close a legal gap and require providers to block illegal material, with regulators gaining faster powers to act against emerging risks.

On February 14 2026, Elon Musk responded to criticism that xAI dismantled its internal safety team and shifted the Grok model toward unfiltered, NSFW content. Former employees say the safety group has become "dead" and that engineers are urged to ship quickly, even as xAI loses half of its original 12 co-founders following a merger with SpaceX. Musk argues that safety is everyone's responsibility, pointing to Tesla and SpaceX, while xAI scales its Colossus GPU cluster and reorganizes around four main product areas.