Day: February 18, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg is signaling that Meta’s revamped AI effort will start showing up in consumer products within months, with commerce emerging as a marquee use case for 2026. On Meta’s earnings call, Zuckerberg said the company rebuilt its AI foundations in 2025 after restructuring its AI lab, and plans to begin “shipping” new models and products soon. He highlighted “agentic” shopping tools designed to help users find the right products from businesses in Meta’s catalog—positioning personalized context (history, interests, content, relationships) as the differentiator that could make Meta’s agents more useful than rivals…

CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO George Kurtz is calling 2026 the “breakout year” for the agentic security operations center, arguing that SOC teams are being pushed to reinvent how they work as enterprises race to adopt AI. Kurtz said the SOC is entering a “revolution” phase where automating triage and investigation through AI agents becomes essential to keep pace with rising workloads and new risks tied to securing AI tools…