## ElizaOS Development Updates - February 17, 2026

### Claude AI Model Release

- Claude released Sonnet 4.6, their most capable Sonnet model
- Features upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design
- Includes a 1 million token context window in beta
- Announcement was shared across multiple ElizaOS development channels

### ElizaOS News Site Updates

- Major update implemented with automated video generation capabilities
- Jin demonstrated a 100 percent automated system using PlayCanvas for rendering daily news summaries
- Team is working on one-on-one interview features where users can talk to a chatbot and have conversations automatically generated into interview show format
- Design experiments completed with multiple layout concepts, with spread format selected as preferred choice

### Team Structure Changes

- Hanzla brought on as replacement after CJ's departure
- Sayo transitioned to working as a partner rather than team member while maintaining daily collaboration
- ELIZAOS token confirmed as main token with revenue being used for buybacks

### Repository Development Activity

- Critical Renovate configuration issue preventing pull requests was successfully resolved in elizaos/eliza repository
- Multiple pull requests merged including major database refactor, Renovate configuration updates, and dependency bumps for cargo and npm/yarn package groups
- New plugin proposal submitted for @elizaos/plugin-buzz-bd in elizaos-plugins/registry repository

### Milady AI Project

- GitHub issue opened to address NPX command installation problems
- Project currently in pre-release status with binaries available for testing

### Spartan Development

- Developers manually cloned multiple plugins including plugin-evm, plugin-farcaster, plugin-jupiter, plugin-knowledge, plugin-mysql, and plugin-solana
- Docker files initiated for the project