AI Weekly Rundown Feb 09 to Feb 16: Major Updates From 🚫OpenAI Board 'Unanimously' Rejecting Takeover Bid by Elon Musk, Perplexity, Anthropic, Google Gemini, GPT-5, Deepfake ban calls, Physical AI at NBA All stars game and a lot more

OpenAI rejected a buyout from Elon Musk while also planning for future GPT models.

Competitors like Perplexity and Anthropic are challenging OpenAI's dominance, as seen with Perplexity's Deep Research and Anthropic's next Claude model.

AI is expanding into diverse sectors, like physical AI appearing at the NBA All-Star Tech Summit and Meta investing in humanoid robots.

Ethical and regulatory concerns continue, such as Thomson Reuters winning a major copyright case and Scarlett Johansson calling for a deepfake ban.

The UK government is rebranding its AI regulatory body focusing on AI security, and Google's Gemini AI has enhanced memory capabilities.

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