**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

🤖 Deep Research AI Tools
OpenAI and local alternatives advance AI-driven deep research capabilities.

Why OpenAI isn’t bringing deep research to its API just yet

🔒 AI Security Leadership
Singulr AI appoints a new Chief Security Officer to tackle AI governance and security.

Singulr AI Appoints Richard Bird as Chief Security Officer

🌐 Browser Automation with AI
Open-source projects like Browser Use enable AI to control web browsers for various tasks.
https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use

🕹️ AI in Gaming
Anthropic’s Claude AI showcases its capabilities by playing Pokémon on Twitch.

Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon on Twitch — slowly

📱 AI for App Development
Lovable raises $15M for its platform enabling anyone to build apps using generative AI.

Sweden’s Lovable, an app-building AI platform, rakes in $15M after spectacular growth

📚 Freedom of Information and Data
Illinois debates allowing public bodies to hide information in databases, impacting FOIA requests.
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2025/02/09/fixing-illinois-foia/

🧬 Medical AI Advancements
Afynia secures funding to commercialize a microRNA panel test for diagnosing endometriosis.

University spin-out Afynia secures $5M seed to commercialize its microRNA panel test for endometriosis

💰 IT Budget and AI Opportunities
Global IT budgets are projected to reach $12 trillion by 2031, with significant AI investment opportunities.

Omdia: IT Opportunity to Reach $8.2 Tn by 2031 Amid Rising Budgets

🛳️ Automating Customs with AI
DocUnlock aims to automate the tedious paperwork process for commercial importing.

DocUnlock wants to solve a customs bottleneck

🚀 AI-Powered App Creation
Quora’s Poe now allows users to create and share custom AI-powered apps.

Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share custom AI-powered apps

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