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How to Create Delicious Meals With Google's AI Food Tool 🍛

ChatGPT is getting a Lockdown Mode 🔒

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Gina Acosta
February 17, 2026

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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

When cooking at home, it's easy to get stuck making the same meals every week, but AI can help you mix things up. In today's issue, we show how you can use a Google AI experiment tool to blend cuisines, explore flavor ideas, and generate fresh, exciting recipes in seconds. You might just find your next go-to meal.

Let’s jump into it!

Read Time: 4.5 min

Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

  • OpenAI Introduces Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk Labels in ChatGPT

  • Alibaba Unveils New Qwen3.5 Model

  • AI Tutorial: Create amazing meals using Google's AI food tool

  • AI Tools to check out

  • AI Findings/Resources

  • The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

OPENAI

OpenAI Introduces Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk Labels in ChatGPT

OpenAI has announced new security controls inside ChatGPT aimed at reducing the risk of prompt injection attacks, a growing class of exploits where malicious instructions attempt to manipulate AI systems or extract sensitive data.

Details:

  • OpenAI introduced Lockdown Mode, an optional high security setting that tightly restricts how ChatGPT interacts with external systems. It is designed for high risk environments such as executives or security teams that handle sensitive data.

  • In Lockdown Mode, certain tools are disabled or constrained to prevent data from being exposed through prompt injection. For example, web browsing is limited to cached content inside OpenAI’s controlled environment rather than live external requests.

  • Workspace administrators retain granular control, allowing them to choose which apps and actions remain available when Lockdown Mode is active.

  • OpenAI is also standardizing an “Elevated Risk” label across ChatGPT, ChatGPT Atlas, and Codex to flag features that may introduce additional risk.

Lockdown Mode is currently available for ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, ChatGPT for Healthcare, and ChatGPT for Teachers, with plans to expand availability in the coming months.

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ALIBABA

Alibaba Unveils New Qwen3.5 Model

Alibaba Group has introduced Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, a new open weight multimodal model built to be faster, cheaper, and more agent capable than its predecessors.

Details:

  • Qwen3.5 combines text, image, and video processing in a single architecture and uses a mixture of experts design where only 17 billion of its 397 billion parameters activate per query, helping reduce compute costs while keeping performance high.

  • Alibaba says architectural upgrades allow the model to run dramatically faster than earlier Qwen models while maintaining comparable output quality.

  • Benchmarks show strong gains in instruction following, multilingualism, and agentic tasks, where Qwen3.5 performs near leading models from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, though it trails in reasoning and coding performance.

  • The model expands multilingual reach to 201 languages and dialects and introduces a larger token vocabulary, which Alibaba says improves efficiency and responsiveness across global workloads.

  • The open weight release is paired with a hosted cloud version and aggressive API pricing ($0.40 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output).

The race is heating up among Chinese AI labs, with Zhipu AI and ByteDance releasing highly competitive models in recent weeks, all of them having benchmark performance rivaling the best models, open availability, and rock-bottom pricing compared to their Western counterparts.

AI Tutorial

Create amazing meals using Google's AI food tool

  1. Go to the Food Mood website and select "Launch experiment."

  2. Select the type of food (starter, soup, main course, or dessert), number of people to serve, and two countries for cuisine inspiration.

You can also select the random recipe button and have Food Mood come up with a situation for you.

  1. You can also select diet options or add specific ingredients you want included.

  1. Select Let’s Cook.

  2. You'll get a description of the dish along with prep time, ingredients list, step-by-step instructions, and pro tips. Scroll down to see alternative dishes using the same ingredients.

  3. You can share the recipe with others or click "Back to Generate" to start over.

AI Tools to check out

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📹 Winmov: AI video generator powered by Grok, Veo 3.1, Kling and more top models.

💡 Articos: Turns your ideas, landing pages, and messages into structured audience conversations so you can make decisions with clarity, not assumptions.

✏️ Pencil: An agent-driven MCP canvas built around an open design format that lives in your codebase.

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AI Findings/Resources

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The latest in AI and Tech

The Walt Disney Company sent a cease-and-desist letter in which it accused the platform of enabling unauthorized use of protected characters.

ByteDance is now developing stronger intellectual property safeguards but has not detailed what those controls will include.

The feature mirrors the web version’s capabilities, supports voice and file inputs, and offers two models tuned for either complex or lightweight requests. The company says the agent cannot access other Telegram chats.

St. Peter's Basilica has partnered with Translated to offer AI-assisted live translations of Holy Mass in 60 languages.

Visitors can scan QR codes inside the Basilica to access real-time audio and text translations on their smartphones, with no app or special equipment required.

CEO Matthew Bromberg told investors the company will share more details at the upcoming Game Developers Conference Festival of Gaming in March.

After months of contentious negotiations, the Pentagon is close to cutting ties with Anthropic and may label the AI company a “supply chain risk” after becoming frustrated with restrictions on how it can use the technology. This would mean that anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military would have to cut ties with the company.

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