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AI Daily Brief — 10 February 2026

Three threads run Tuesday. Fortune publishes the Midas Project‘s formal complaint that OpenAI deployed GPT-5.3-Codex without the misalignment safeguards California’s SB 53 requires — potentially the first test case of the new frontier-safety law, with millions in fines on the table. OpenAI disputes the claim. Runway closes a $315M Series E at a $5.3B valuation, led by General Atlantic, and launches a $10M venture fund alongside. Salesforce lays off under 1,000 across marketing, product, data analytics and the Agentforce AI unit, explicitly citing Agentforce-driven efficiency gains in support.

Top stories

  • Midas Project — first test case of SB 53. The complaint alleges that GPT-5.3-Codex — the first OpenAI model to hit “High” cybersecurity risk on the Preparedness Framework — was deployed without the specific misalignment safeguards SB 53 requires. OpenAI tells Fortune it is “confident in our compliance with frontier safety laws, including SB 53,” citing the public system card and a Safety Advisory Group review. via Fortune
  • Runway — $315M Series E at $5.3B. General Atlantic leads, with NVIDIA, Adobe Ventures, AMD Ventures, Fidelity and Felicis participating. Valuation up from $3.3B at the Series D last April; total raised ~$860M. Capital is earmarked for pre-training the next generation of world models and cross-industry applications. via TechCrunch
  • Runway — $10M venture fund. Alongside the Series E, Runway launches a $10M fund to back early-stage AI startups — positioning itself as an investor as well as a platform. via Runway
  • Salesforce — sub-1,000 layoffs citing Agentforce. The disclosure surfaces via LinkedIn employee posts rather than a formal announcement; the company explicitly cites Agentforce-driven efficiency gains: “Because of the benefits and efficiencies of Agentforce, we’ve seen the number of support cases we handle decline and we no longer need to actively backfill support engineer roles.” Support headcount has dropped from ~9,000 → ~5,000 over the trailing 12 months. Stock closed Feb 9 at $194.03, -27% YTD. via MetaIntro

Money & infra

Tuesday lands as a record-pace day for AI funding rolling into a record-pace month. Industry attention turns to Anthropic‘s $30B Series G close at a $380B post-money — expected Thursday — which would mark the third-largest VC round on record.

Quiet corners

No first-party model shipping from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, xAI, Microsoft AI or Thinking Machines Lab. Chinese labs continue the pre-Lunar-New-Year hold; the wave of Chinese model launches is queued for the 16-17 February window.

By the numbers

  • Runway Series E: $315M · $5.3B valuation (up from $3.3B last April) · total raised ~$860M
  • Runway venture fund: $10M
  • Salesforce support headcount: ~9,000 → ~5,000 in trailing 12 months · stock -27% YTD
  • SB 53 (California frontier-safety law): first formal complaint · OpenAI disputes · fines on the table
  • On deck: Anthropic $30B Series G at $380B post-money — Thursday

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from publicly reported announcements on 10 February 2026.