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- Excel: The software that's hard to quit
- Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X
- Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck
- True Positive Weekly #143
- An AI approach for single-image-based 3D character animation with preserved proportions
- Everything You Need to Know About HackerNoon’s Proof of Usefulness Hackathon
- Microsoft and Stripe bring shopping checkout directly into Copilot chat for US users
- Google Updates Gmail With Suite of AI Tools
- Decoding black box AI with human-readable data descriptions and influence
- Google and AI startup to settle lawsuits alleging chatbots led to teen suicide
- Officials piloting software to tackle deepfakes ahead of Scottish and Welsh elections
- A rare joy at police station in Huyton | Brief letters
- DeepSeek's AI gains traction in developing nations, Microsoft report says
- How Orbs Is Bringing Professional Perpetuals Trading to Monad Without Custom Infrastructure
- Hundreds of nonconsensual AI images being created by Grok on X, data shows
- Snowflake announces its intent to buy observability platform Observe
- Hyundai Reveals AI Robotics Roadmap at CES
- Anthropic eyes $350bn valuation with latest fundraising round
- Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere
- Gmail adds new AI features, turning it into a personal assistant
- Why this VC thinks 2026 will be ‘the year of the consumer’
- Texans Are Fighting a 6,000 Acre Nuclear-Powered Datacenter
- DryRun Security Gains Momentum With AI-Native Code Intelligence
- Arcfra, Netfos Partner to Advance Cloud and AI Innovation in Taiwan
- Envoc Appoints James (Jim) DuBos as President and Chief Operating Officer
- Powerful Local AI Automations with n8n, MCP and Ollama
- EU orders X to preserve all Grok-related documents through 2026
- Google, Character.ai settle lawsuits over teen suicides
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health: Here’s what to know
- One image is all robots need to find their way
- New report highlights potential for AI to accelerate the real-world impact of research
- Former Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla’s startup triples to $100M valuation
- Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
- Goertek Unveils Next-Generation Technologies at CES 2026
- The Growing Impact of Agentic AI on Workflow Automation
- InfoWorld Names Prophecy Winner in 2025 List of Technology of the Year
- FaceTec Onboards Digital Identity Veteran for Global Strategic Partnerships
- Kontakt.io Introduces Patient Journey Analytics
- iScribeHealth Selected as AI Scribing Partner for Lifepoint Health Physicians
- AI Modernization: Making Intelligence Accessible, Secure, and Scalable
- AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse : In recent months, I’ve noticed a troubling trend with AI coding assistants . After two years of steady improvements, over the course of 2025, most of ...
- 10 Most Popular GitHub Repositories for Learning AI
- Enterprise resource planning: AI driven tools to meet today’s changing financial services landscape
- Google brings Gemini AI to Gmail with summaries, smart replies, and inbox prioritization
- Tailwind's shattered business model is a grim warning for every business relying on site visits in the AI era
- China expected to approve Nvidia H200 imports this quarter after initial hesitation
- Arm Holdings establishes new business unit for robotics and automotive
- New study urges stronger AI safeguards to protect worker safety and well-being
- Using unstructured data to fuel enterprise AI success
- The Download: mimicking pregnancy’s first moments in a lab, and AI parameters explained
- Alpha Omega Appoints David Walls Chief Financial Officer
- Google, Character.AI agree to settle suits involving teen suicide
- Dancing isn't enough: Industry pushes for practical robots
- Vibe coding a mobile app with Claude Opus 4.5
- SolarWinds Named Sterling’s 2025 Software Partner of the Year
- eInfochips Earns IoT Development Service Provider of the Year
- Cynomi Appoints Veteran Cybersecurity Channel Leader Shane Deegan as CRO
- ChatGPT levels up with Health
- Precisely Achieves FedRAMP Authorization
- Startups go public in litmus test for Chinese AI
- From Experiment to Enterprise: Governing AI Agents for Measurable ROI
- Beyond the Hype: Four Surprising Truths About AI ROI in 2025
- AI Is Not Just an API Call: What iOS Engineers Learn the Hard Way in Production
- RingCentral Appoints Mahmoud ElAssir to Board of Directors
- KnowBe4 Ranked #1 in G2 Winter Grid for Security Awareness Training
- Jumpmind Names New CFO and Chief Information Security Officer
- Horizon3.ai Appoints Andres Botero as Chief Marketing Officer
- Dr. ChatGPT is now officially in, as OpenAI launches dedicated health section for its chatbot
- Truepic Welcomes Kerry Whorton Cooper to its Board of Advisors
- HawkSoft and Sonant Integrate Voice AI for Independent Insurance Agencies
- When Validation Writes Itself: How AI and Low-Code Are Reprogramming Compliance
- Beyond 85%: Why Your AI Project is Stuck in the Messy Middle
- Gran Turismo 2026: The Great AI Showdown for Autonomous Driving
- Skylight Health Acquires Stellation Care
- PaXini Unveils the “Tactile Infrastructure” for Embodied AI at CES 2026
- MUFJ Bank Adopts Private AI
- Less than a trillionth of a second: Ultrafast UV light could transform communications and imaging
AI RESEARCH
- March 11 Is the Day Your AI Company’s Strategy Lives or Dies
- Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather
- Netomi’s lessons for scaling agentic systems into the enterprise
- Text2SQL with Execution Feedback: How Reinforcement Learning Makes Small Models Competitive
- Network Flow Optimization: From Portland Roastery to Emergency: How to Power Network Flow
- The Core Skills AI Practitioners Need for Agentic AI in 2026
- OpenAI for Healthcare
- A Real World LangChain Guide and Playbook
- AI Is Missing the Point
- Causal Discovery in Marketing Mix Modelling
- How Real-Time Data Transforms AI: From Chatbot Failures to Fraud Prevention (And Why Your Business…
- OpenAI’s o3 scored 87.5% On The Hardest AI Test Ever. Here’s Why That Number Means Almost Nothing.
- Core Agentic AI Skills, AI Tools for Marketing & Sales, AI Alignment, and Deploying Agents at Scale
- From Chatbots to Critical Infrastructure: The Production AI Agent Revolution of 2025
- Artificial Analysis: The Independent Ratings Agency of AI — with George Cameron and Micah-Hill Smith
- Why Your AI Always Agrees With You (Even When You’re Dead Wrong)
- LAI #109: Agents Are Overhyped (Here’s What Actually Works)
- Likelihood-Free Sampling And Its Combinatorial Workarounds For Continuous Autoregressive Generation
- Train LLM to Improve Math Reasoning — Part 4
- The Sequence Opinion #786: The Great Absorption: When System Code Becomes Model Weights
- The Machine Ethics podcast: Companion AI with Giulia Trojano
- Article: Agentic Terminal - How Your Terminal Comes Alive with CLI Agents
- MIT's Recursive Language Models Just Killed Context Limits
- 5 Underrated Libraries & Frameworks for AI Engineers to Learn in 2026
- Python for Data Science, AI, and Development
- LLM-as-a-Judge: How Modern AI Systems Evaluate Reasoning, Tools, and Truth
- Feature Engineering: Event Data → Snapshot Features with merge_asof()
- Trading E2E Platform Project Implementation
- What’s Being Built Beneath the AI Products
- How to Estimate the Efficient Price with a Kalman Filter (Market Noise Model) — Python Solution
CLOUD AI
- 2025 at Google
- The Google guide for holiday help
- Investing in America 2025
- I/O 2025
- Google Cloud Next 25
- The Check Up with Google
- The AI for Science Forum: A new era of discovery
- 2023 at Google
- about Gemini, our most capable AI model
- What our quantum computing milestone means
- How to make AI that’s good for people : If we want AI to play a positive role in tomorrow’s world, it must be guided by human concerns.
- New AI features and more for Android and Pixel
- Scaling medical content review at Flo Health using Amazon Bedrock (Part 1)
- Detect and redact personally identifiable information using Amazon Bedrock Data Automation and Guardrails
- Speed meets scale: Load testing SageMakerAI endpoints with Observe.AI’s testing tool
CLOUD ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS regions
- AWS Lambda adds support for .NET 10
- Amazon Quick adds third-party AI agents and expands built-in actions library
- Amazon MQ now supports certificate based authentication with mutual TLS for RabbitMQ brokers
- Amazon EC2 M8i instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
- Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
CLOUD BUSINESS
- Honeycomb’s ‘Private Cloud’ Is Largely About OpenTelemetry, AI and AWS
- OnePlus is offering $100 off its latest flagship (and giving away free earbuds)
- The sneaky ways AI chatbots keep you hooked - and coming back for more
- MSI's new 16-inch laptop has a hybrid form factor that's right up my alley
- A New JavaScript Framework? In this Economy?
- I have no problem ditching my AirPods for these earbuds - especially at this affordable price
- I tried on Infinix's new AI glasses at CES - 3 swappable frames offer real style options
- The coolest audio gear of CES 2026: soundbars, headphones, speakers and more
- Unify the Data Stack for AI With Incremental Cloud Migrations
- 3 Ways Enterprises Can Scale AI Gains in 2026
- Why Most APIs Fail in AI Systems and How To Fix It
- This bright LED power bank got me through a 3-day blackout - and it can do so much more
- I tried Gemini's 'scheduled actions' to automate my AI - the potential is enormous (but Google has work to do)
- I didn't expect a 16-inch Windows laptop to crack my top five - but this is a gem
- This free tool gives you one easy way to install apps on Linux and Mac - here's how
- Autonomous, Resilient Workflows: How Close Are They to Reality?
- CES 2026 live updates: Biggest news on TVs, laptops, and weird gadgets
- Best of CES 2026 awards: CNET Group names 22 winners and best overall
- Need a new job? These AI roles are the fastest growing in the US, says LinkedIn
- Smart jewelry is getting smarter - and more stylish finally - at CES 2026
- This genius new iPad case from my favorite Kindle accessory maker will save your face
- Your Gmail is getting an AI makeover - here's what to expect and when
- Own a Samsung TV? I changed these 6 settings to speed up the whole system
- 9 exciting products at CES 2026 that you can actually buy today (including a surprise pick)
CLOUD SECURITY
- Can Agentic AI be trusted with sensitive data?
- How does Agentic AI adapt to changing security needs?
- CrowdStrike Acquires SGNL for $740 Million to Thwart AI-Powered Cyber Threats
- Embracing Uncertainty with AI Agents: Vulnerability Assessment using Pydantic AI
- Stop Leaking API Keys: The Backend for Frontend (BFF) Pattern Explained
- The Silent Scourge: A Call to Action Against Burnout in Cybersecurity
- Real-time malware defense: Leveraging AWS Network Firewall active threat defense
- Introducing the AI Maturity Model for Cybersecurity
- PayPal email scam: How it worked before the fix
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- The Ultimate AI Diet Agent: Syncing Real-Time Health Data with Local Supermarket Inventory using CrewAI
- Cómo el código mata al misterio matemático en los Transformers
- AI Trading: Lesson Learned #119: Paper Trading API Key Mismatch After Account Reset
- Non-decision-making AI governance with internal audit and stop conditions
- Audio Studio AI Pro - Open source audio enhancement with AI-powered noise reduction
- What's Coming with LangChainJS and Gemini?
- Agents with memory: how Agno and SurrealDB enable reliable AI systems
- Building AI Products That Scale Financially, Not Just Technically
- ZEGOCLOUD Competitors – Comparing the Top 9 Alternatives
- 2026-01-08 Daily Ai News
- .NET 10 runtime now available in AWS Lambda
- Building, Failing, and Building Again: The Relentless Journey of Dominik Václavík
- Building a Production-Grade E-Commerce Platform on GCP: A Complete DevOps Journey
- Text-to-Clip: Building a Serverless AI Engine that Edits Video from Descriptions
- Creating a Custom Skill for Claude Code: Automating Bilingual Blog Writing
- Running Llama 3 Locally with Apple MLX: A Guide to Unified Memory
- Building an MCP Server for Bitbucket: Connecting LLMs to Your DevOps Workflow
- Scaling Development with Parallel AI Agents
- TypeScript for AI Agents: From Friction to Flow with Sub-Agents
- Beyond Customer Bots: Building an Internal AI Coach for HR 🚀
- Azure OpenAI's Content Filter: When Safety Theater Blocks Real Work
- Kubernetes Debugging in 3 Passi: logs, describe, events
- Virtual Private Cloud Spiegato Semplice
- Congrats to the AI Agents Intensive Course Writing Challenge Winners!
- A smart investment: FINRA builds a culture of improvement with DORA : To protect investors and ensure market integrity, regulatory bodies in the financial sector must operate with exceptional efficiency and foresight. Th...
- How I Built an AI Terraform Review Agent on Serverless AWS
- Offline License Activation with QR Codes: Serving Air-Gapped Environments in C#
- I finally Deployed on AWS
- 10 AWS Production Incidents That Taught Me Real-World SRE
- Day-30 Kubernetes Networking Decoded: Why We Need Ingress and Ingress Controllers
- Browser-Based kubectl Access: Managing Kubernetes Without Bastion Hosts
- Using AWS App Runner to build & host my website
- Day 4 of building ExplainThis, a developer tool to explain a GitHub repo in plain English
- Why JSON Format Is No Longer Suitable for Generative AI and LLM Models
- Why Traditional API Gateways Fail at AI Governance (And What Actually Works)
- Building AI applications without AI Slop
- Supercharge Your AI Coding Workflow: A Complete Guide to Git Worktrees with Claude Code
- Designing for Failure: Building Reliable Crypto-to-Utility Payments with Provider Failover
- Zero-Friction Database Branching with Neon, Git Hooks, and Claude Code
- Trademark Registration in Kuwait
- Open Sourcing FortyOne: Agentic Project Management With an AI Teammate
- Elevating Innovation: The Future of Cloud with Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- AI Can Write Code. But "Trying Things Out" Still Feels Scary
- 🔐 Cloud Security Best Practices: How to Secure Cloud-Based Web Applications Without Slowing Down
- 🎉 Big News for Python Developers & Mermaid Fans: "mmdc" Makes Mermaid Diagrams Easy as Python! 🚀
- Exploring AI-Driven Immersive Experiences
- COOLIFY : THE DEPLOYMENT ARBITRAGE RECLAIMING STARTUP RUNWAY FROM VERCEL
- title: How I Optimized My AI Image App from 3s to 300ms with Next.js & Supabase
- Apache Airflow for Production: Essential Concepts Every Developer Should Know
- Vibecoding On‑Chain — Using AI to Prototype Solidity Contracts (Safely)
- TailwindSQL: The Weirdest, and Maybe Nicest, Developer Trend You’ll See Today
- How to Crack Any Software Developer Interview in 2026 (Updated for AI & Modern Hiring)
- Myth vs reality: “AI will replace Devs”
- Clone Graph: Coding Problem Solution Explained
- 🚨 AWS 128: Setting Up Amazon ECR and Pushing Docker Images
- Learning Docker by Building a Three-Tier MERN Application
- New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Presented by Google AI
DEVOPS
ENTERPRISE TECH
- Infosys partners with AWS and Cognition to speed up enterprise Adoption of Generative AI
- Most enterprises aren't ready for AI - what's needed is composability : Rudy Kuhn of Celonis unpacks why enterprises can't become truly AI-ready until their processes are visible, modular, and free from system constraints.
- Do you speak fluent AI yet? How organizations need to get the corporate tongue around some people-centric challenges on the road to the Agentic Enterprise : Organizations need to up their fluency game when it comes to the journey towards the Agentic Enterprise.
- CES 2026 – can Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot carry the humanoid industry on its shoulder? : Together, Boston Dynamics, Hyundai, and Google aim to prove that humanoid robots are a viable technology for real-world applications. Can they succeed
FINANCIAL
- One US Helicopter Got Hit In The Raid To Capture Maduro But Managed To Stay In The Air: Report
- BGIN Blockchain directors purchase shares in open market
- Guidewire approves new $500M share repurchase plan
- Intel in spotlight as Trump says he had 'great' meeting with CEO
- AXT revises down Q4 revenue estimate, shares down ~20%
- Nvidia-backed UK AI hyperscaler Nscale considers $2B funding round: report
- Aehr Test Systems receives over $5.5 million in Sonoma system orders
- Apple trades in red for seven straight sessions
- NASA to bring ISS Crew-11 astronauts back to Earth earlier than planned after medical situation
- Modernization Demands More Than AI. People Will Define the Future of Business
- Tulsi Gabbard Mocked By Trump Aides Who Purposefully Left Her Out of Maduro Planning: Report
- Archer Aviation integrates NVIDIA IGX Thor platform for autonomous flight
- Tech Voices: China, Nvidia readying restrictions for H200 chips
- Microsoft, Google, Big Tech obtain reprieve from EU digital overhaul: report
- Republican Senator Rushes to Defend Vote Against Trump's Venezuela Agenda
- Agentic commerce 'plays right into Shopify's strength' -- Scotiabank
- Good news keeps coming for Nvidia but not the stock. Time to buy?
- This 2025 laggard is off to a strong start in 2026 — why the rally may not last
- Qualcomm unveils deals with Volkswagen, Hyundai Mobis to boost auto unit
- Senators plan to introduce bipartisan quantum bill: report
- Colombian President Petro Said He Feared Being Captured Like Maduro Before Having a Friendly Call With Trump
- BrightHeart bags €11M to expand FDA-cleared AI ultrasound platform across the US and Europe
- AI unicorn Quantexa reports revenue boost, as losses halve
- Cyberette is building forensic-grade AI for a post-truth internet
- Clinical voice AI startup Tucuvi raises $20M
- Figma gets an upgrade, Intuit sees rating cut as Wells Fargo highlights 2026 outlook for software stocks
- SentinelOne receives 'high impact level' GovRAMP authorization, opening door for government contracts
- Applied Digital surges after Q2 earnings reveal pipeline to add 900 MW of data center capacity: analysts
- Memory, storage stocks tumble after epic run
- Musk, OpenAI lawyers trade barbs as lawsuit heads to trial
- Kinaxis appoints Razat Gaurav as new CEO
- OSI Systems wins $30 million naval communications order
- CrowdStrike announces deal for SGNL to boost AI capabilities
- Microsoft pursues potential data center in Lowell, Mich.
- Datametrex secures about C$400,000 in new purchase orders
- Snowflake to acquire AI-powered observability platform provider Observe
- Snowflake upgraded to Buy as its data management becomes critical for enterprise gen-AI: Argus
- CNBC Daily Open: Magnificent Seven competition heats up
- Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out
- CrowdStrike buys identity security startup SGNL for $740 million in latest deal push
- Who Is Philip Yancey? 'Unfaithful' Christian Author Vows To Spend Remaining Years Restoring Marriage
- Google and AI Firm Settle Contentious Teen Suicide Lawsuit - Here's What Happened
- Samsung Electronics Q4 Profit Triples on AI Memory Prices—Why Jobs Are Now at Risk
- Ken Griffin's Citadel Sells Amazon Shares for This AI Stock That Soared 1,000% in Two Years
- Online Sleuths Claim Barron Trump Is Behind 'Suspicious' Maduro Prediction Bet—Here's Why
- Jimmy Kimmel Accuses Trump Of Using 'Chat GPT' For Military Plans, Expert Warns Venezuela Raid Risks WW3
- Google and Character.AI to Resolve Multiple Lawsuits Over Teen Safety
- Border Czar Homan Defends ICE Agents After Killing Of Woman In Minneapolis: 'Not Seen ICE Act Outside Of Policy'
- Lookiero Outfittery Group closes a €17M round to boost growth and reinforce its AI strategy
- Judge Rules Elon Musk Can Take OpenAI Lawsuit Against Sam Altman to Jury
- Trump Administration Freezes $10 Billion in Childcare Funding for 5 Democratic States Over Fraud Claims
- Ford AI Assistant Revealed at CES 2026: Could New Tech Worsen 5,000 Job Vacancies Crisis?
- Bitcoin Billionaire Chen Zhi Taken Into Custody Amid Massive Crypto Scam Allegations
- TD SYNNEX Non-GAAP EPS of $3.83 beats by $0.10, revenue of $17.4B beats by $450M
- D-Wave Quantum's buy of Quantum Circuits gives it 'formidable ally,' Wedbush says
- Exodus Movement reports holding 1,704 bitcoin as of December end
- Lumentum in focus as Needham ups price target, reiterates it as top pick for 2026
- Tenable in spotlight as Needham sees headwinds on the horizon
- Trump's defense spending plans, Venezuelan oil, Ford's eyes-off driving push and more in Morning Squawk
- ICE Agents Blocked A Doctor From Checking On Renee Nicole Good After Fatal Shooting: 'We Have Our Own Medics'
- Canva Recruits Ex-Adobe Generative AI Lead to Drive EdTech Innovation
- What the 'Jensen Huang Billionaire Tax' Would Actually Mean for Ordinary California Residents
- A 100-Year-Old Stock Market Indicator Shows Bull Market Remains on Solid Footing
- The iPhone 21 Long Game: Why Apple is Making Fans Wait Until 2028 for 200MP
- Microsoft to Cut 20000 Jobs Immediately — Here's Why AI is the Main Culprit
- Amazon's AI Hypocrisy: Suing Others for Scraping While Listing Small Businesses Without Consent
- Ceragon Networks gives Q4 and 2026 topline guidance
- Legaltech Alice raises €1M to bring trustworthy AI workflows to legal casework
- Samsung projects threefold increase in profit on AI boom
- Arm reorganizes to launch Physical AI unit amid robotics rush: report
- Alphabet is worth more than Apple for the first time since 2019
- China moves to approve limited Nvidia H200 purchases - Bloomberg
- Meta faces China probe over acquisition of AI agent startup Manus
- The first of China’s 'AI tigers' goes public as Zhipu climbs in Hong Kong debut
- Microsoft revealed as company behind controversial data center proposal in Michigan township
GENERAL US
- X is facilitating nonconsensual sexual AI-generated images. The law – and society – must catch up - The Conversation
- Copper in the Age of AI: Challenges of Electrification - S&P Global
- Introducing ChatGPT Health - OpenAI
- China Is Investigating Meta’s Acquisition of the AI Start-Ip Manus - The New York Times
- AI model predicts disease risk while you sleep - Stanford Report
- AI images and internet rumors spread confusion about ICE agent involved in shooting
- 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells - The Washington Post
- Video shows ICE agent in Minneapolis fired at driver as vehicle veered past him - The Washington Post
- Terrified Investors Are Bracing for an AI Bubble "Reckoning" - Futurism
- Gmail is entering the Gemini era - blog.google
- Utah allows nation's first AI drug prescriptions - Axios
- AI Is Being Used to Find Valuable Commodities in Our Trash - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal
- Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI-Powered Observability at Enterprise Scale - Snowflake
- Datavault AI Expands IBM Collaboration to Deploy Enterprise-Grade AI at the Edge with Available Infrastructure’s SanQtum AI Platform - IBM Newsroom
- Announcing Gemini 3 Within Snowflake Cortex AI: A Deeper Google Cloud Collaboration to Help Customers Build Smarter, Faster and More Secure AI - Snowflake
- Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out - CNBC
- Microsoft propels retail forward with agentic AI capabilities that power intelligent automation for every retail function - Microsoft Source
- 10 HR Trends That Matter Most As AI Transforms Organizations - Forbes
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health to review your medical records
- DeepSeek's AI gains traction in developing nations, Microsoft report says - The Washington Post
- The 3 Best AI Stocks to Buy for 2026 - Yahoo Finance
- Use of artificial intelligence saved Equinor USD 130 million in 2025 - Equinor
- Archer To Build Next Wave of Aviation AI Technology With NVIDIA IGX Thor - Archer Aviation
- Judges are identifying suspected AI hallucinations in Pa. court cases — including one at the highest levels - Spotlight PA
- Minneapolis protests remain peaceful after ICE officer fatally shoots woman - The Washington Post
- Meta faces China probe over acquisition of AI agent startup Manus - CNBC
- Government accused of dragging its heels on deepfake law over Grok AI
- Gmail's new AI features, turning it into a personal assistant - The Washington Post
- Trump administration jails migrant teens in facility known for child abuse - The Washington Post
- Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality - Quanta Magazine
- Utah launches first-in-the-nation trial that lets AI renew your prescription - The Washington Post
- These Lesser Known AI Stocks Are Reaching Record Highs - Forbes
- China to probe Meta's acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus - The Washington Post
- Analysis | Can AI do your job? See the results from hundreds of tests. - The Washington Post
- Federal judge demands Halligan explain why she’s still listed as U.S. attorney - The Washington Post
- IBM Announces Long-Term Renewal as the Official AI, Cloud and Digital Transformation Partner for The All England Lawn Tennis Club - IBM Newsroom
- AI ‘Fatigue’ Leaves Investors Focused on S&P’s Other 493 Stocks - Yahoo Finance
- AI Is Being Used to Find Valuable Commodities in Our Trash - The Wall Street Journal
- Google, Character.AI to settle suits involving minor suicides and AI chatbots - CNBC
- Utah PD testing AI report writing software shares comical error caused by 'The Princess and the Frog' - Police1
- Meet the AI Assistant That Knows Your Vehicle Better Than You Do - Ford From the Road
- Can AI do your job? See the results from hundreds of tests.
- The first of China’s 'AI tigers' goes public as Zhipu climbs in Hong Kong debut - CNBC
- 10 AI Startup Companies To Watch In 2026 - crn.com
- AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests - Fortune
- Four Futures for Jobs in the New Economy: AI and Talent in 2030 - The World Economic Forum
- China’s first 'AI tiger' goes public as Zhipu climbs in Hong Kong debut - CNBC
- AI company, Google settle lawsuit over Florida teen's suicide linked to Character.AI chatbot - CBS News
- Why AI Boosts Creativity for Some Employees but Not Others - Harvard Business Review
- AI may not need massive training data after all - ScienceDaily
- Dose of uncertainty: Experts wary of AI health gadgets at CES - The Washington Post
- Integrated experimental and AI innovations for RNA structure determination - Nature
MAINSTREAM
- Mississippi Gov. Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area (Sophie Bates/Associated Press)
- This Home Air Quality Monitor Tracks Everything, Including the Risk of Flu
- I Watched a Drone Pick Up a Robot Vacuum and (Sort Of) Carry It Up the Stairs at CES 2026
- At CES 2026, Gbrain's Phin Stim Signals a New Era for Implantable Brain Therapy
- Mafia hit or family dispute? Questions remain after killing by slain gangster’s niece - Los Angeles Times
- Republican-led House fails to override Trump vetoes - Reuters
- OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
- Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
- OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
- Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
- Razer put a waifu in a bottle at CES 2026
- The US withdraws from dozens of international bodies, including climate-focused organizations
- Speediance's Compact Resistance Trainer and Wearable Make Wellness and Fitness More Connected
- The New ‘Jujustu Kaisen’ Opening Is an Art History Fever Dream
- Demond Williams Jr. exiting Washington despite NIL contract prompts agent to drop him - Los Angeles Times
- UN says the US has ‘legal obligation’ to fund agencies after Trump withdraws from several - AP News
- ‘Worst in Show’ CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells - AP News
- Breakingviews - Venezuela’s oil claims are a slick, goopy mess - Reuters
- NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply (Cody Combs/The National)
- Source: a few weeks before Grok started "digitally undressing" people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator (Hadas Gold/CNN)
- Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
- ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up
- Stop Using AI to Unmask the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
- Microsoft Forced Copilot Into Your Life. Now It Can Accidentally Drain Your Bank Account
- Bose is ending SoundTouch's cloud features, but not entirely killing the speakers
- This Necklace Lets You Bring a Personal AI Companion With You Everywhere
- Google and Character.AI Settle Suits Over Child Harm, Including Suicide, Linked to AI Chatbots
- This Canine AI Wearable Could Spot Problems With Your Pooch Early
- Go-to-market strategies for an AI era
- Critics pan spyware maker NSO’s transparency claims amid its push to enter US market
- GTMfund has rewritten the distribution playbook for the AI era
- Russian drone strikes cause major blackouts in two regions of Ukraine - AP News
- France to vote against Mercosur trade deal, Macron says - Reuters
- Israel bars some aid workers from Gaza as groups face suspension - Reuters
- AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
- China Is Investigating Meta’s Acquisition of the AI Start-Ip Manus
- Archeologists Just Found a 2,000-Year-Old Battle Trumpet That May Be Linked to Queen Boudica : The newly discovered Iron Age instrument may have been played in the Celtic resistance against the Roman Empire
- Tailwind CSS lays off three of its four engineers after Google traffic to its documentation fell ~40% from early 2023 due to AI, causing an ~80% drop in revenue (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
- Starmer vows action against X over Grok’s AI sexualised images of children
- The future of PCs in the age of AI
- Putting the US AI boom(let) in perspective
- OpenAI to acquire the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo
- Nvidia’s reportedly asking Chinese customers to pay upfront for its H200 AI chips
- CES 2026: Follow live for the best, weirdest, and most interesting tech as physical AI and robots dominate the event
- Russia Strikes Ukraine’s Power Sector as Allies Draft Peace Plan - Bloomberg.com
- JD.com Weighs Raising $1.4 Billion in Debut Dim Sum Bond Sale - Bloomberg.com
- DeepSeek’s AI gains traction in developing nations, Microsoft report says - AP News
- People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good
- The Future for Pentax is Uncertain, but Ricoh is Committed to the Brand
- Chinese AI startup MiniMax raises ~$619M in its Hong Kong IPO, at the top of its marketed range; sources: its institutional offering was oversubscribed by 70x+ (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
- FIFA says parts of 2026 World Cup soccer games will be broadcast live on TikTok and some creators will get access to press conferences and training sessions (Jessica Hopkins/The Athletic)
- Trump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty
- Google Just Stuffed a Bunch of New AI Into Your Gmail
- OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health: A Dedicated Tab for Medical Inquiries
- I Saw the Future of AI-Powered Beauty, and It Told Me I'm Old
- Google is putting even more AI into Gmail, and some of it is on by default
- Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI will face a jury in March
- AI Race in Europe Fires Up Market for Data-Center Backed Bonds - Bloomberg.com
- Russia says foreign troops in Ukraine would be targets after UK and France pledge post-ceasefire deployment - Reuters
- Mexico's daily murder rate down 40% under Sheinbaum, president says - Reuters
- Pomelo Care, which delivers 24/7 virtual care for women by using data to flag pregnancy risks and more, raised $92M led by Stripes at a $1.7B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
- Illicit crypto addresses received a record $154B in 2025, up 162% YoY, driven by sanctions evasion; Russia's A7A5 token transacted $93.3B+ in less than one year (Chainalysis)
- ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues
- Google announces AI Overviews in Gmail search, experimental AI-organized inbox
- Roborock's Rover takes robot vacuums where none have gone before: up the stairs
- Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI heads to jury trial after judge rejects dismissal
- Apple AirPods Pro 3 are back on sale at a record low price
- Google Has a New AI Inbox for Gmail Users, and That's Not All
- The New ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Trailer Teases a Wacky Tech Apocalypse
- Jessica Jones’ Return Could Lead to Her Own TV Show Again
- Gmail debuts a personalized AI Inbox, AI Overviews in search, and more
- Badenoch claims forthcoming business rates U-turn for pubs ‘too little, too late’ – UK politics live
- Commentary: Yes, California should tax billionaires' wealth. Here's why - Los Angeles Times
- UC sets new record in California student enrollment as it weathers Trump challenges - Los Angeles Times
- Spain's Sanchez says US wants to grab Venezuela resources, sets dangerous precedent - Reuters
- Germany's Mittelstand cuts AI investments in 2025, study shows - Reuters
- NYT Photographer on Antarctica Expedition Details His Extensive Camera Gear
- Jellyfish and Sea Anemones Sleep Just Like Us : Sea anemones and jellyfish don’t have brains, but the way their neurons behave during sleep shows some surprising similarities to humans
- Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
- The EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
- Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users; the features required a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail, showing users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US "trusted testers" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
- Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
- ChatGPT Health has arrived
- Expect AI to take centre stage in 2026’s cyber landscape
- Alphabet passes Apple in market cap for the first time since 2019 amid contrasting AI fortunes
- Gmail is getting a Gemini AI overhaul
- ElevationLabs' 10-year extended battery case for AirTags is 30 percent off
- Agentic AI is coming for quantitative research
- ‘Brilliant for work-life balance’: how Britain is embracing the ‘workation’
- ‘Active shooter’ or ICE agent’s victim? What happened in L.A. New Year’s Eve killing - Los Angeles Times
- California’s exodus isn’t just billionaires — it’s regular people renting U-Hauls, too - Los Angeles Times
- China’s Oil Giants Turn to Beijing as Venezuela Shock Raises Stakes - Bloomberg.com
- Defense Stocks Soar Again as Trump Plans Military Budget Boost - Bloomberg.com
- Baillie Gifford, GIC Are Said to Buy Shares in MiniMax’s $619 Million Hong Kong IPO - Bloomberg.com
- Teen triplets pursue dream of representing Jamaica in ski racing at Winter Olympics - AP News
- What Americans think about crowdfunding campaigns, according to a new AP-NORC poll - AP News
- Canadian dollar extends losing streak as oil uncertainty raises trade pact risk - Reuters
- EU Commission has ordered X to retain all Grok documents until end 2026, spokesperson says - Reuters
- Google Is Adding an ‘AI Inbox’ to Gmail That Summarizes Emails
- Sources: China is considering how to build fences around its AI know-how amid the AI race and is identifying standout companies to add to an export control list (Wall Street Journal)
- Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts "we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie" within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy streamer (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
- Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics are bringing Gemini-powered robots to the factory floor
- Grok is generating thousands of AI "undressing" deepfakes every hour on X
- Your AirPods Could Be the Key to Taking a Great iPhone Photo
- AI Spending Boom Fuels 24-Year High for Convertible Bond Deals - Bloomberg.com
- Woman killed by ICE agent in Minneapolis was a mother of 3, poet and new to the city - AP News
- China against 'political disinformation' about US government email breach - Reuters
- Volvo Cars aims to tackle range anxiety with new mid-size electric SUV - Reuters
- European defence stocks hit record high, dollar gains as geopolitics bites - Reuters
- KeyCorp banking unit to pay $7.77 million to resolve US fraud claims - Reuters
- Musk lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion can go to trial, US judge says
- The AI race is creating a new world order
- OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health. Should we trust it?
- ChatGPT Health Launches With Apple Health Integration
- Sources: China's Salt Typhoon accessed the emails of staff on powerful US House committees, detected last December, and intercepted senior US officials' calls (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
- A profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who was shunned in investor circles for his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza before Replit's AI agent took off (Margaux MacColl/The San Francisco ...)
- A profile of VC firm Index Ventures, which saw billions in gains from exits in 2025, including Figma, Scale AI, and Dream Games, as it looks ahead to succession (Bloomberg)
- OpenAI tries tackling privacy concerns with new ChatGPT Health
- Tech titans divided over whether to pay billionaire tax or flee California
- AI tool Grok used to create child sexual abuse imagery, watchdog says
- Watch Nvidia, Siemens to Build Industrial AI Operating System - Bloomberg.com
- Google and chatbot maker Character to settle lawsuit alleging chatbot pushed teen to suicide - AP News
- French farmers block Paris streets in protest against Mercosur trade deal - Reuters
- Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
- China says it will investigate Meta's $2B Manus acquisition to assess compliance with laws on export controls, tech import and export, and overseas investment (CNBC)
- NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station
- Claude maker Anthropic to raise $10bn round at $350bn valuation – reports
- Treasuries Gain, Stocks Set for Back-to-Back Loss: Markets Wrap - Bloomberg.com
- China to assess, investigate Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus - Reuters
- Local governments across China are funding dozens of "robot training centers", where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (Rest of World)
- Big US hospital systems have become a proving ground for AI adoption; a survey finds that 27% of health systems are paying for commercial AI licenses (Wall Street Journal)
- China’s OpenAI Rival Zhipu Debuts in HK After $558 Million IPO - Bloomberg.com
- Nigerian court grants bail to ex-justice minister Malami, trial to start in February - Reuters
- Chinese AI company Zhipu opened up 3.3% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$558M in its IPO at a valuation of about $6.55B (Yantoultra Ngui/Reuters)
- Sources: to hedge against Beijing approval risk, Nvidia is requiring Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, with no cancellations, refunds, or changes (Reuters)
- Microsoft's chief scientist Eric Horvitz warns that the US' cuts to academic research funding could push talent abroad and hand rivals an edge in the AI race (Financial Times)
- Trump cuts to academia risks ceding AI lead, warns Microsoft scientist
- Orange County judge, who campaigned on boosting trust in the justice system, to plead guilty to fraud - Los Angeles Times
- JPMorgan appoints Sri Kosaraju as global chair of investment banking - Reuters
- Thai economy's competitiveness is declining, central bank warns - Reuters
- Sources: OpenAI last fall set aside RSUs worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500B; it has already awarded about $80B in vested equity (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
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- xAI teases major Grok upgrade, hints at Grok Code CLI
- Gmail's new AI Inbox uses Gemini, but Google says it won’t train AI on user emails
- Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?
- GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets Linux Servers
- New Zero-Click Attack Lets ChatGPT User Steal Data
- China-Linked UAT-7290 Targets Telecom Networks in South Asia
- Cyera secures $400M to scale AI-native data security platform and enterprise adoption
- Vannadium’s Leap combines on-chain performance and data integrity for explainable AI
- Upwind Choppy AI simplifies cloud security exploration and investigation
- Phishing Attacks Exploit Misconfigured Email Routing Settings to Target Microsoft 365 Users
- Microsoft Exchange Online outage blocks access to mailboxes via IMAP4
- Microsoft to enforce MFA for Microsoft 365 admin center sign-ins
- Fifth of Breaches Take Two Weeks to Recover From
- US To Leave Global Forum on Cyber Expertise
- Maximum Severity “Ni8mare” Bug Lets Hackers Hijack n8n Servers
- StackRox: Open-source Kubernetes security platform
- What happens to insider risk when AI becomes a coworker
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