Daily News Digest - Summary for February 16, 2026

CIA Google’s New Gemini 3 Deepthink Shatters AI Benchmarks and Blows Away Competitors

Daily News Digest - Summary for February 16, 2026

CIA Google’s New Gemini 3 Deepthink Shatters AI Benchmarks and Blows Away Competitors

Too bad you can’t trust anything CIA Google does cause of its shady history of censorship, blacklists, and lies

Etienne Note: Check out our article: How the CIA Created Google for the basics. Then check out these articles from The Liberator Dropbox: CIA Google from the Folder: Understanding the CIA Monopoly Media Propaganda Matrix: Audit Suggest Google Favors a Small Number of Major Outlets, CIA Google Spent $26 Billion to Hide this Phone Setting from You, Google Censoring Gmail and the Their AI Social Credit System, Google Gmail Favors Left Wing Candidates Sends Far More Conservative Emails to Spam, Research Proves that Google Manipulated Millions to Favor Clinton,

Google Press Release by The Deep Think team, Headline and Subheadline “Pro-Modified” by Etienne

Today, we’re releasing a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, our specialized reasoning mode, built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering.

We updated Gemini 3 Deep Think in close partnership with scientists and researchers to tackle tough research challenges — where problems often lack clear guardrails or a single correct solution and data is often messy or incomplete. By blending deep scientific knowledge with everyday engineering utility, Deep Think moves beyond abstract theory to drive practical applications…


DOJ May Have Only Released 2% of Epstein Cache — Despite Bondi’s Claim ‘All’ Files Released, Report Finds

A new investigation examining emails sent between federal investigators and prosecutors has raised fresh doubts over the Department of Justice’s claim that it has released the full cache of Epstein

Epstein Files: Investigation suggests just 2% of data ...

by David Gilmour
A new investigation examining emails sent between federal investigators and prosecutors has raised fresh doubts over the Department of Justice’s claim that it has released the full cache of Jeffrey Epstein files, suggesting the material made public amounts to just 2% of the data gathered by federal agents.

U.K.-based broadcaster Channel 4 News reported that internal emails seen by its journalists show federal investigators expected to process between 20 and 40 terabytes of data seized from Epstein’s properties, including his Florida mansion, New York townhouse, and private island…


Amazon’s Ring and Google’s Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

One of Google’s Nest surveillance cameras, whose recordings can be accessed by Google even if users don’t subscribe to the security firm’s services. CC Photo Lab / Shutterstock

by Glenn Greenwald

That the U.S. Surveillance State is rapidly growing to the point of ubiquity has been demonstrated over the past week by seemingly benign events. While the picture that emerges is grim, to put it mildly, at least Americans are again confronted with crystal clarity over how severe this has become.

The latest round of valid panic over privacy began during the Super Bowl held on Sunday. During the game, Amazon ran a commercial for its Ring camera security system. The ad manipulatively exploited people’s love of dogs to induce them to ignore the consequences of what Amazon was touting. It seems that trick did not work…


Reports Claim US Readying ‘Long-Term’ Attrition Op Against Iran

Reuters reports ‘insider info’ that Trump is preparing for a large-scale Iranian strike operation lasting weeks or even months.

by Simplicius

This news comes as Trump sends a second aircraft carrier to the region. Recall that during Desert Storm and the 2003 Iraq War, the US had six carrier strike groups (CSGs) operating in the region…


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