AI INFRASTRUCTURE
AI NEWS
- Meta Signs Deals With Nuclear Energy Companies
- Infosys, AWS Partner on Enterprise AI
- Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children
- Using AI for Line Edits, Voice, and Consistency (Without Cheating)
- The HackerNoon Newsletter: Meet Saaniya Chugh - HackerNoon Writing Course Guest Speaker (1/9/2026)
- Musk’s X ordered by UK government to tackle wave of indecent imagery or face ban
- How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data
- Discrete spatial diffusion models data while obeying scientific principles
- Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power
- Behind the Blog: The 'View From Nowhere'
- OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”
- Siemens Unveils Tech Pipeline to Accelerate Industrial AI
- Using AI, Mathematicians Find Hidden Glitches in Fluid Equations
- AI data centers could stabilize the power grid
- New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be
- Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery
- How AI Accelerates PMUT Design for Biomedical Ultrasonic Applications : This whitepaper provides MEMS engineers, biomedical device developers, and multiphysics simulation specialists with a practical AI-accelerated workflo...
- Q&A: How AI could optimize the power grid
- The Download: the case for AI slop, and helping CRISPR fulfill its promise
- Kupid AI Chatbot Review: Pricing Options and Functional Scope
- Kupid AI Image Generator: Pricing Details and Feature Set
- Cool future tech at CES!
- X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire
- What fashion trends will follow us into 2026? | Fiona Katauskas
- Grok is undressing women and children. Don’t expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan
- Orbitype.com Launches Orbitype Intelligence
- Cumulus Neuroscience Appoints Ricardo Sáinz Fuertes, MD as New Board Chair
- Illumina Launches Scalable Software for Connected Multiomic Analysis
- One Genomics, CiRA Partner to Advance Precision Genome Engineering
- 5 Useful Python Scripts to Automate Data Cleaning
- Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial
- Minimax stock doubles on Hong Kong debut
- Global AI compute hits 15 million H100 equivalents, Epoch AI finds
- Meta bets big on nuclear power with 6.6 gigawatt expansion plan
- 🔵 Gmail enters its Gemini Era and what developers really think about working with AI Agents
- Stanford’s AI spots hidden disease warnings that show up while you sleep
- X response to Grok sexualised images scandal ‘insulting’ to victims of misogyny, says No 10 – UK politics live
- Rivvit appoints Bret Bange as Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer
- Upwind Announced the Launch of Choppy AI
- ThreatModeler Acquires IriusRisk to Advance AI-Era Security
- Infosys, AWS partner to drive enterprise GenAI adoption
- Cyera secures $400m Series F as demand for enterprise AI security grows
- Snowflake to acquire AI observability startup Observe
- CrowdStrike to enhance AI-era identity security with SGNL acquisition
- Grok turns off AI image generation for non-payers after nudes backlash
- How to Scrape Any Website Using Bright Data MCP Server and AI Agents
- UK ministers considering leaving X amid concern over AI tool images
- CharmHealth, PointClickCare Enable Real-Time Post-Acute Data Exchange
- CareCloud Brings Wellsoft to Urgent Care with Affinity Deal
- 11:11 Systems Successfully Completes Acquisition of Ntirety
- Etiometry’s AI Platform Delivers Measurable Results for Hospitals
- Monnit Enters Japanese Market Through Partnership With Widetec
- Gmail's Gemini glow-up
- OpenAI launches healthcare product line, signs up major US hospitals
- Eleveight AI Deploys NVIDIA B300 Blackwell GPUs in Armenia
- AI gobbling up memory chips essential to gadget makers
- Chinese AI unicorn MiniMax soars in Hong Kong debut
- Elon Musk's xAI to build $20 billion data center in Mississippi
- From climbing vacuums to cyber pets: Some highlights of CES 2026
- Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
- Stibo Systems Boosts Retail CX with Microsoft AI and MDM Integration
- Atomicwork Appoints Jeegar Shah as Head of Applied AI
- Konovo Strengthens Global Leadership with Healthcare Technology Executives
- SentinelOne Earns GovRAMP High Authorization for AI Platform
- CrowdStrike to Acquire SGNL to Transform Identity Security for the AI Era
- Researchers extract up to 96% of Harry Potter word-for-word from leading AI models
- What Nobody Tells You About AI Agents: 6 Surprising Costs and Realities
- EPAM, Cursor Partner to Build and Scale AI-Native Enterprise Teams
- Arkstone Taps Ian Campbell as CEO
- Flowfinity Update Adds AI Assistants to Workflows, Boosts Access Control
- Wiliot Unveils Next-Gen IoT Pixel, Powering the Data Layer Behind Physical AI
- Why OpenAI is Set to Become the Most Lucrative IPO of 2026 on Wall Street
- The Next Big Thing Isn’t on Your Phone. It’s AI-Powered XR and It’s Already Taking Over. Part II
- Grok being used to create sexually violent videos featuring women, research finds
AI RESEARCH
- Creating an Advanced AI Agent From Scratch with Python in 2026: Part 1
- AgentBuilder: Exploring Scaffolds for Prototyping User Experiences of Interface Agents
- AdaBoN: Adaptive Best-of-N Alignment
- Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Wealth Accumulation
- OpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy
- High-Elasticity Stocks and Deep-Drawdown Accumulation
- Which Evaluation for Which Model? A Taxonomy for Speech Model Assessment
- The Complete Guide to Structured RAG: Building AI Systems That Actually Work
- Beyond DPO: ORPO, KTO, and the New Post-Training Stack
- 10 Must-See Sessions at the Virtual Agentic AI Summit in January
- Claude Code Hits Different
- Inferring Optical Tissue Properties from Photoplethysmography using Hybrid Amortized Inference
- Pretraining with Hierarchical Memories: Separating Long-Tail and Common Knowledge
- Vision Transformers Eliminated the Inductive Biases We Spent Decades Engineering
- Agent-native Architectures: How to Build Apps After the End of Code
- AAAI presidential panel – AI reasoning
- Datadog uses Codex for system-level code review
- Building a Multi-Agent Research Workflow with LangGraph
- PCA — Covariance Matrix, Eigen Vector, Eigen value
- Top 30 Decision Tree Interview Questions and Answers (Part 1 of 2)
- How to Create an ML-Focused Newsletter
- Mini book: The InfoQ Trends Reports 2025 eMag
- Fast-track product validation using AI
- Agentic AI Systems: A Complete Conceptual Checklist Part 2
- Mamba: From Intuition to Proof — How Delta-Gated State Space Models challenges the Transformer
- Embeddings: The Silent Language AI Uses to Understand Everything
- Beyond the Hype: A Technical Deep-Dive Into the AI Tools Ecosystem of 2026
- Why Your RAG System Fails — And How Better Chunking Fixes It
- The Superposition Problem: Why Traditional QA Fails for Quantum Computing
- Beyond Prompts: Context Engineering as Production AI’s Critical Infrastructure Layer
- Time Series Forecasting Analysis with Python
- Build Your First AI Agent with GPT‑4.1 in Python
- The Iceberg Index: Decoding MIT’s Agent-Based Model That Reveals AI’s 5X Hidden Labor Market Impact
- 3 Questions: How AI could optimize the power grid
- Medium Algorithm Analysis with Python: How to Improve Visibility and Readability
- From Business Intelligence to Decision Intelligence: What Is Actually Changing?
- Multi-Agent Travel Planner with Agno Workflows and Langfuse Observability
CLOUD AI
- Accelerating LLM inference with post-training weight and activation using AWQ and GPTQ on Amazon SageMaker AI
- Sentiment Analysis with Text and Audio Using AWS Generative AI Services: Approaches, Challenges, and Solutions
- Architecting TrueLook’s AI-powered construction safety system on Amazon SageMaker AI
- How Beekeeper optimized user personalization with Amazon Bedrock
CLOUD ANNOUNCEMENTS
CLOUD BUSINESS
- The Hidden Cost Killing Your Innovation Strategy
- Five CES 2026 products I'd buy as soon as they'd take my money
- Open Source Retrieval Infrastructure Can Fix AI’s Production Gap
- These premium OnePlus earbuds are on sale for $30 off - grab them before they're gone
- These fashion-forward headphones have no business sounding this good for the price
- Still haven't updated to iOS 26? You're far from alone - surprisingly
- The One Mistake That Weakens Every AI-Generated App
- Wave Browser helps wipe out your to-do list—and toxic ocean waste
- Tailwind Creator Says AI Played a Role in Downsizing
- OpenEverest, a Tool To Manage Multiple Databases on Kubernetes
- Free Dockhand Tool Simplifies Docker Container Management
- RingConn Gen 3 debuts at CES 2026 - with two big features Oura doesn't have
- Google Cloud: A Deep Dive into GKE Sandbox for Agents
- Most people ignore this productivity-enhancing monitor setting - here's why you shouldn't
- Is turning off Windows Security a bad idea in 2026? A PC expert's bottom line
- Stop using your router's USB port - what PC experts recommend instead
- HP's 45-hour battery life OmniBook is the most exciting laptop unveiling at CES this year
- The right way to run an internet speed test (and how I use the results for better Wi-Fi)
- I never thought a gaming laptop could replace my work PC - until I used this Lenovo
- I tried Motorola's foldable phone at CES, and it beats the Samsung Z Fold 7 in a useful way
- What is Wi-Fi 8? And why speed isn't your primary concern with the latest standard
- One of our favorite smartwatches of 2025 is on sale for $50 off for the New Year
- 7 Windows laptops that caught us by surprise at CES 2026 - including this trackpad beast
- I saw the future of sleep earbuds at CES - and you can preorder them today
- A network-free smart home? The Emerson brand is doing just that (without a hub!)
- These CES smart glasses caught me off guard, beating every other pair I've tried in a big way
- Should you upgrade your Wi-Fi router to mesh? I compared both for months, and here's my pick
- AI PCs aren't selling, and Microsoft's PC partners are scrambling
- Wi-Fi 8: Stability, not speed, is the name of its game
CLOUD SECURITY
- Beyond “Is Your SOC AI Ready?” Plan the Journey!
- Prompt Frameworks for AI Results: A Practical Guide for Leaders and Product Teams
- What AI Agents Can Teach Us About NHI Governance
- Why Senior Software Engineers Will Matter More (In 2026) in an AI-First World
- Radware Discloses ZombieAgent Technique to Compromise AI Agents
- The First Question Security Should Ask on AI Projects
- Are There IDORs Lurking in Your Code? LLMs Are Finding Critical Business Logic Vulns—and They’re Everywhere
- INFORM 2026: MITRE’s Updated Threat-Informed Defense Maturity Model Explained
- AI Deception Is Here: What Security Teams Must Do Now
- AWS named Leader in the 2025 ISG report for Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Services (EU)
- Securing the Future: AI Strategy Meets Cloud Security Operations
- Peek-A-Boo! 🫣 Emoji Smuggling and Modern LLMs – FireTail Blog
- How Generative AI is Reshaping Zero Trust Security
- SCIM Provisioning Explained: Automating User Lifecycle Management with SSO
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- AI Trading: Lesson Learned #127: Comprehensive Trust Audit - CEO Questions Answered (Jan 9, 2026)
- production-grade guide to Configuration & Secrets in Kubernetes
- Dockerizing an Angular SSR App for Production (Single Origin + /api Proxy + Working Transfer Cache)
- Retrieval rules for agents: retrieve-first, cite, and never obey retrieved instructions
- Stop Manually Booking Doctors: Build an Autonomous Health Agent with LangGraph & Playwright
- How 7‑Eleven Transformed Maintenance Technician Knowledge Access with Databricks Agent Bricks
- Thumbtack Powering Safe, Smart Home Services on Databricks with GenAI
- How I Reduced Friction in My Studies Using AI, Rust, and Obsidian.
- How will AI affect the cost of software development in 2026?
- Vector Databases (with OpenAI and Supabase) - Part 1
- Vibe Coding vs AI-Driven Development: The Contracts Problem (and GS-TDD)
- AI Should Serve Society - Not Just Industry and Billionaires
- Kubernetes Networking — Broken Labs & Incident Response
- Building an AI Matching Engine Without Big Tech Resources
- AI Trading: Lesson Learned #124: Secret Exposure Incident - Jan 9, 2026
- 🚀 Unlocking the Future: My AI Agent Mesh Portfolio Backend for the New Year, New You Challenge
- AI Trading: LL-124: Phil Town CSP Strategy Not Executing Trades
- CES 2026: Why Trust and Security Are the New Frontiers for AI
- How Modern Retail Platforms Sync POS, ERP, and eCommerce Using APIs
- Scaling Performance Testing: Leveraging the AWS Distributed Load Testing Solution
- Error is delayed alignment, not failure
- From Linux Primitives to Docker Swarm: A Deep Dive into Container Networking 🚀
- My New 2026 Portfolio: Powered by Google Cloud & AI
- Build a ChatGPT App with Mapbox
- Progress First, Judgment Later: Gutenberg and AI (Bite-size Article)
- 🧠✂️ Neural Network Lobotomy: Removed 7 Layers from an LLM — It Became 30% Faster
- Zoneless Angular Explained — How Change Detection Works Without Zone.js
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) — Integrating AI LLMs with Modern DevOps Systems
- How Hackensack Meridian Health de-risked network migration using VPC Flow Logs : Network administrators rely heavily on VPC Flow Logs for visibility into their network traffic. Last year, we updated VPC Flow Logs to offer expanded ...
- 🎓 Thrilled to Announce My BTech 3rd Year Project 🚀 Blockchain-Based Digital Credential Verification System
- Forzar nuevas versiones de AWS Lambda cuando solo cambias dependencias
- Auto Scaling Role & Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS)
- Docker Compose Magic: How to Automate All Your Container Updates with Watchtower and Diun
- Solved: First KubeCon after the AI bubble bursts?
- Orchestrating Intelligence: Simplifying Agentic Workflows with Model Context Protocol
- I Built a GitHub Action That Uses AI to Explain Why Your CI Failed
- y509: A terminal user interface (TUI) tool for viewing and analyzing X.509 certificate chains
- [In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring with Private Endpoints
- [Launched] Generally Available: Geo-Replication for Azure Service Bus Premium
- $3,000 Prize Pool · Global Online Hackathon · Agent Infrastructure Tech Stack
- Building a Theme System with Next.js 15 and Tailwind CSS v4 (Without dark: Prefix)
- The Tiny Sliders That Power AI (and Why There Are Trillions of Them)
- 🏥 Medical Knowledge Assistant: AI-Powered Health Information with Algolia Agent Studio
- RAG without the cloud: .NET + Semantic Kernel + Ollama on your laptop
- When AI Gets Stuck, Don’t Fix It — Restart It
- 📊 2026-01-09 - Daily Intelligence Recap - Top 9 Signals
- How to Review AI‑Generated Solidity Like an Auditor (For Beginners)
- Why Startups and IndieDevs Should Choose Monolith First, Lessons From My Micro-SaaS Project, For ...
- DGX Spark AU Pricing: $6,249-$7,999 at Major Retailers
- Master Image Metadata: EXIF for AI Images, Privacy Protection & Photo Management
- Shader: AI-Powered Tailwind Palette Generator
- 🚀 Build, Push, and Deploy a Python App image to Cloud Run Using Google Cloud Build Triggers
- From Zero to SDF Editor Beta: How I Used AI to Force My Dream Project Out of the Prototype Stage. What I learned?
- Jan 9, 2026 | The Tongyi Weekly: Your weekly dose of cutting-edge AI from Tongyi Lab
- I Built a Tool That Turns Any OpenAPI Spec Into n8n Workflow Nodes in Seconds
- My Cloud Practitioner Certification Journey and the Resources to Certify with Confidence
- Solved: Anyone found a DLP that actually catches data leaving through cloud and browser tools?
- Laid Off on the First Workday of the Year—and What Came Next
- Reclaiming Idle GPUs in Kubernetes: Why We Built a Custom Scheduler Plugin
- IAM is Broken for AI Agents: Introducing Dynamic RBAC for Agentic Security
- Human‑Driven vs AI‑Driven IDEs
- Por Qué Small Language Models (Phi-3) Están Matando el Mito "Bigger is Better"
- 🚨 How We Rescued a Dead Azure Linux VM After SSH, Agent, and OS Disk All Broke (A Real Production War Story)
- I Built an AI That Analyzes Its Own Decisions
- 🚀 Introducing LoongFlow — A Cognitive Evolutionary AI Framework (Open Source)
- Async Programming in Rust (async/await)
- AI, Fake Reviews, and the Trust Crisis in SaaS
- Criei uma extensão para VS Code que transforma TODOs em um quadro Kanban e issues reais no Jira
- From 7 sec to 3 sec: Reducing Load Time in a Rails-Powered Restaurant App
- How I Built an Interactive "Wiki-Killer" for Dragon Quest VII using Astro & Tailwind
- Scrapy with Docker: Deploy Anywhere in Minutes
- Docker Kanvas Challenges Helm and Kustomize for Kubernetes Dominance
- 🚀 Stop drowning in Tabs: Meet Noi, the Open Source Browser Built for AI
- AI Trading: Lesson Learned: False PR Merge Claims - Took Credit for Auto-Merged Work
- If OpenAI Swallows Pinterest: How 200 Billion Intent Images Could Reshape the AI Technology Stack
- Silent Spend Tracker – A Non-Conversational Agent for Automatic Daily Expense Totals
- The Missing Piece in AI Agents: Continual Learning
DEVOPS
- DeepSeek to Unfurl AI Model with Enhanced Coding Capabilities in February: Report
- Kubernetes v1.35: Restricting executables invoked by kubeconfigs via exec plugin allowList added to kuberc
- Snowflake Plans $1B Acquisition of Observe to Expand AI-Powered Observability
- When Systems Work But No One Wakes Up: The Failure Between Monitoring and Human Response
- Ready or Not, AI is Rewriting the Rules for Software Testing
ENTERPRISE TECH
- Professional Services hits Inflection point with AI Agents
- Cyber-insurance underwriters are rewriting the rules – and identity security is the new price of entry : Cyber-insurers are tightening requirements as claims rise, shifting from compliance checks to mandated identity controls. New Delinea research shows i...
- CES 2026 - loving the machines at Caterpillar as AI turns steel into silicon and the physical digital : It's over a century old, but Caterpillar is adapting to building the new AI-powered physical world in the same way as it did the analog version...
- AI and copyright – technical proposals and legal absurdity abound in UK Government Inquiry : The UK’s fascinating inquiry into AI training and copyright continues. But is anyone listening? They should be.
FINANCIAL
- Minnesota ICE Shooting Bodycam Contradicts Self-Defence Claim, Critics Say
- Oklo Stock Jumps 20% as Meta's £120 Billion Nuclear Gamble Powers AI Ambitions and 5 Million Homes
- Mexican President Sheinbaum Says Trump's Threats To Conduct Land Strikes Against Cartels Are Part Of His 'Way Of Communication'
- Amazon plans first big-box retail store in Chicago suburb
- Intel pops on Trump praise and these 10 ETFs are taking notice
- Grok and X should be suspended from Apple, Google app stores, Democratic senators say
- US senators ask Apple and Google to remove X, Grok from app stores
- Amazon Pharmacy starts offering Novo Nordisk's Wegovy weight loss pill
- OpenAI and SoftBank Group announce $1 billion investment in SB Energy as part of massive AI buildout
- a16z raises $15B in 2025 to accelerate tech advances, accounting for 18% of all venture capital in US
- Quantum computing has advantages over traditional, but still in early innings: BMO
- Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion, as VC firm goes big in infrastructure, defense
- Marjorie Taylor Greene Takes Aim At Secret Service Over Suspected Link To Standoff At D.C. Restaurant: 'Making Up Horrific Lies'
- Capital flows to scale as 2025 closed, Swap raises $100M, and CES 2026 showcases Europe’s hardware renaissance
- Intel stock jumps 6% after CEO meets with Trump as U.S. stake doubles value
- Sandisk surges after report indicating company could double price of 3D NAND for enterprise SSDs: report
- Humanoid robots take over CES in Las Vegas as tech industry touts future of AI
- MAGA Supporters Urge Barron Trump to Marry Princess of Denmark and Claim Greenland as Dowry
- BigBear.ai partners with Kraft Group
- Apple CEO's compensation drops slightly in 2025; board recommends shareholders vote no on China audit
- Semiconductors in focus as Mizuho downgrades Qualcomm, changes price targets
- Bitmine Immersion appoints Young Kim as CFO and COO
- Nvidia partner Lambda aims to raise at least $350M ahead of IPO this year: report
- Bitmine Immersion Technologies appoints Young Kim as CFO, COO
- BMO downgrades Adobe to Market Perform on increasing competition, no positive catalysts
- Elon Musk Lawsuit Claims OpenAI Betrayed Its Mission, Raising Fears for AI Trust
- Google Surges to Nearly $4 Trillion, Overtakes Apple for First Time as AI Threatens OpenAI and NVIDIA
- iOS Productivity Features: 15 iPhone Tips and iOS Hidden Tools That Supercharge Your Daily Workflow
- 'I'm Not Black': Elon Musk Slams South Africa's 140 Discriminatory Laws – Does Reverse Racism Really Exist Here?
- Google's Gemini AI Enters Gmail — Are Your Private Emails Now Being Read?
- AI Addiction Grows as Check Point Ranks Brazil No.1 for Workers Handing Tasks to Bots
- 'Reject the Evidence of Your Eyes': Users Say Renee Good ICE Shooting Is Straight Out of George Orwell's 1984 Playbook
- Ondas prices $1B registered direct offering, shares up
- Appian to press IP claims against Pegasystems after court ruling; Pegasystems 'vindicated'
- Jobs data, a potential tariff ruling, the latest on Venezuela and more in Morning Squawk
- Big Tech spared strict rules in EU's digital networks act revamp: report
- Elon Musk’s xAI restricts Grok images to paying users after deepfake outcry
- Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster
- Elon Musk's xAI to invest over $20B in Mississippi data center
- ASE Technology December revenue rises 11.3% year-on-year
- Canadian Solar prices $200M convertible debt offering
- TSMC December revenue rises 20.4% year over year, slips from November
- Nvidia hires Google exec as its first marketing chief
- Intel stock rises after Trump touts 'very successful' CEO, applauds government's investment
- MiniMax surges in Hong Kong debut, marking yet another Chinese AI listing
- Nvidia-backed Lambda plans to raise $350M before IPO - report
GENERAL US
- Is the AI Supercycle Really Just Beginning? - The Motley Fool
- How Judges Are Using AI to Help Decide Your Legal Dispute - The Wall Street Journal
- CWG Live: Scattered showers wane mid-evening; rainy Saturday - The Washington Post
- Humanoid robots take over CES in Las Vegas as tech industry touts future of AI - CNBC
- Future Proofing Your Career In An Era Of AI - Forbes
- We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' - Tech Policy Press
- The Downside to Using AI for All Those Boring Tasks at Work - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal
- Meet Sweden, the unicorn factory chasing America in the AI race - Fortune
- Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster - CNBC
- Elon Musk’s AI bot Grok limits image generation amid deepfakes backlash - Al Jazeera
- Boston Dynamics' AI-powered humanoid robot is learning to work in a factory - cbsnews.com
- AI stocks jump amid broadly positive outlook for 2026 markets - NBC News
- AI is intensifying a 'collapse' of trust online, experts say - NBC News
- Building Vertical AI: An early stage playbook for founders - Bessemer Venture Partners
- Your next primary care doctor could be online only, accessed through an AI tool : Shots - Health News - NPR
- Physical AI dominates CES but humanity will still have to wait a while for humanoid servants - Reuters
- AI Chatbot Startup, Google to Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal
- Global AI adoption in 2025 — A widening digital divide - The Official Microsoft Blog
- Watch: Backlash against Musk's Grok AI explained
- Georgia town of 5,000 vows to fight ICE plan to warehouse 9,000 detainees - The Washington Post
- Gmail now uses AI to help you write messages and keep track of your inbox - CBS News
- 3 Millionaire-Maker Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks - The Motley Fool
- AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse - IEEE Spectrum
- Meta signs three nuclear power deals to help support its AI data centers - The Washington Post
- Opinion | Action-taking AI is speeding ahead. Let’s get some guardrails up. - The Washington Post
- Breakingviews - China's AI firms tread treacherous path to profit - Reuters
- At CES 2026, AI Leaves the Screen and Enters the Real World - Scientific American
- AI has finally started making drug-like antibodies. When will it revolutionize biopharma? - statnews.com
- An acclaimed photographer’s black-and-white dreamscapes, in 3 New York shows - The Washington Post
- See the ‘freezing fogbow’ that formed during a Hawaii snowstorm - The Washington Post
- He was called a ‘terrorist sympathizer.’ Now his AI company is valued at $3B - The San Francisco Standard
- AI in the Doctor’s Office: How Standards Can Support Trustworthiness - National Institute of Standards and Technology (.gov)
- Jeffries to meet with new House Dem AI commission - Politico
- EPAM and Cursor Announce Strategic Partnership to Build and Scale AI-Native Teams for Global Enterprises - EPAM
- Building a safer future for AI research - Virginia Tech News
- 2026 AI Legal Forecast: From Innovation to Compliance - Baker Donelson
- Grok limits image generator after backlash over sexualized AI images - The Washington Post
- See how AI images claiming to reveal Minneapolis ICE agent’s face spread confusion - The Washington Post
- Why some people are wired to help strangers, and what their brains reveal - The Washington Post
- Chinese AI Firm Zhipu Makes Lukewarm Trading Debut - The Wall Street Journal
- Expert Predictions on What’s at Stake in AI Policy in 2026 - Tech Policy Press
- Grok limits image generator after backlash over sexualized AI images
- See how AI images claiming to reveal Minneapolis ICE agent’s face spread confusion
- Judge indicates Elon Musk's fraud lawsuit against OpenAI will head to trial - The Washington Post
- Google and AI startup to settle lawsuits alleging chatbots led to teen suicide - The Guardian
- AI is transforming the pharma industry for the better - The Economist
- Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes
- California tax revenue getting a boost from AI boom — but for how long? - CalMatters
- 2 Top Artificial Intelligence Stocks to Buy Right Now - The Motley Fool
- 2 Top Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Ready for a Bull Run - The Motley Fool
- Investing in Protege AI - Andreessen Horowitz
MAINSTREAM
- How Prepared Are ISS Astronauts for Medical Emergencies? : NASA crews go through extensive training and have access to tools and drugs to treat medical issues, from dental problems and migraines to heart attac...
- Stevie Wonder’s Rule for AI at CES 2026—‘Make Life Better for the Living’ : At CES 2026, Stevie Wonder offered a simple test for tech. And in the smart glasses boom, the most persuasive tools aren’t about perfect sight b...
- Anthropic adds safeguards to prevent third-party apps, like OpenCode, from spoofing Claude Code to access Claude models for more favorable pricing and limits (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
- Google: Don’t make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank
- Reddit Played a Part in Nailing Jesse Plemons’ Suspicious ‘Bugonia’ Character
- Meta becomes the latest big tech company turning to nuclear power for AI needs - AP News
- Five-star Diaz on target again as Morocco beat Cameroon 2-0 - Reuters
- North Korea says South Korean drone entered its airspace on Jan 4 - Reuters
- Israeli strikes kill 11 in Gaza after failed rocket launch - Reuters
- Boltz, which is developing open frontier AI models for biomolecular research, raised a $28M seed led by Zetta, Amplify, and a16z at a valuation of $125M (Andrew Dunn/Endpoints News)
- Aivela Takes a Different Spin on the Health-Tracking Smart Ring
- OpenAI and SoftBank to invest $1bn in energy and data centre supplier
- Bitcoin Stalls at $90,000 as Markets Await Fed, Tariff News - Bloomberg.com
- Amazon Has Big Hopes for Wearable AI — Starting With This $50 Gadget - Bloomberg.com
- Free agent outfielder Max Kepler suspended 80 games by MLB following positive drug test - AP News
- OpenAI and kids safety group Common Sense Media partner to consolidate competing measures for a California ballot initiative meant to protect kids from chatbots (Maria Curi/Axios)
- Kerry student wins Stripe YSTE with brain cancer treatment
- Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS
- This Tiny Titanium Smart Ring Is Actually a Powerful AI Meeting Recorder
- Why You Should Be Using ChatGPT's Voice Mode More Often
- Elon Musk's Grok Faces Backlash Over Nonconsensual AI-Altered Images
- If You Love ‘Cloud Atlas,’ You’ve Got to See This New Documentary
- Finally! Bear under Altadena home for 6 weeks is evicted by paintballs, electrified mat - Los Angeles Times
- Billionaire NFL Owner Battles Billboards Near His SoFi Stadium - Bloomberg.com
- Hedge Fund D1’s SpaceX Bet Fuels Its 39% Private Book Gain - Bloomberg.com
- Rolls-Royce SMR project could kickstart EU supply chain - Reuters
- OpenAI heads for deal with kids’ safety group on California ballot measure
- OpenAI and SoftBank says they will each invest $500M in SB Energy to support the infrastructure company's growth as a data center developer and operator (Bloomberg)
- Amazon files planning documents in Illinois to construct a 225,000 square foot big-box store, a return to a "Target-like" retail concept it previously shelved (Ann Gehan/The Information)
- The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service (The Guardian)
- Scientists Discover Brain Circuit That Acts Like a ‘Brake’ on Motivation : A new study in macaques identifies a brain circuit that acts like a “brake” on motivation
- WikiFlix Helps You Catch Up on Films That Just Entered the Public Domain
- ICE Agent’s Cellphone Video of Renee Good’s Killing Leaks to Right-Wing Outlet
- Inside CES 2026’s “physical AI” takeover
- L.A. Affairs: I sent her a Hail Mary before leaving the country. Would we ever reconnect? - Los Angeles Times
- Ford disbands Argo AI autonomous vehicle unit, posts loss - AP News
- Photos show the aftermath of Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine - AP News
- Russia says it fired its Oreshnik hypersonic missile at Ukraine - Reuters
- This AI App Lets You Relight Your Photos
- Dell admits customers are not buying PCs just because they "have AI"
- CES 2026: Follow live for the best, weirdest, most interesting tech as this robot and AI-heavy event wraps up
- CES: So very big, so little sustainability tech
- The Clicks co-founder explains who its tiny Communicator phone is for
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- Quantum neural network may be able to cheat the uncertainty principle
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- Grok image editing limited on X after users prompt AI deepfakes
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- Venezuela Frees Close Aide to Nobel Winner Machado From Prison - Bloomberg.com
- Who Is Stephen Miller? The Trump Aide Driving Policy in the Second Term - Bloomberg.com
- Trump Ready to Pivot If Court Overturns Tariffs, Aide Says - Bloomberg.com
- Bessent Says Argentina Repaid Drawdown on $20 Billion Swap Line - Bloomberg.com
- The aftermath of the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in photos - AP News
- Musk's AI bot Grok limits some image generation on X after backlash - Reuters
- DeepSeek to launch new AI model focused on coding in February, The Information reports - Reuters
- Wingtech pursues international arbitration against Dutch state over Nexperia seizure - Reuters
- A16z captured 18%+ of all US venture capital allocated in 2025 and now manages $90B in assets, vs Sequoia Capital's $56B and General Catalyst's $43B (Iain Martin/Forbes)
- Sources say DeepSeek will launch V4, its next-generation model, in the coming weeks and say it outperformed Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT series in coding (The Information)
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- Grok image generation is now paywalled on X amid AI "undressing" deepfake controversy
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- 'The Pitt' Season 2: The show's creator on healthcare cuts, ICE and AI - Los Angeles Times
- RRJ Capital Raises $1.1 Billion for Debut Private Credit Fund - Bloomberg.com
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- Andreessen Horowitz Raises $15 Billion in Its Largest-Ever Funding - Bloomberg.com
- Meta signs three nuclear power deals to help support its AI data centers - AP News
- As Trump promises Venezuelan renaissance, locals struggle with crumbling economy - AP News
- Elevated prices strain retail demand in India; China gold premiums widen - Reuters
- Elon Musk’s Grok App Restricts AI Image Editing Tool After Backlash
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- Rain, which helps businesses issue stablecoin-linked Visa cards, raised a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1.95B valuation, bringing total funding to $338M+ (Pragyan Kalita/Reuters)
- X is restricting Grok's image capabilities via the @grok reply command, but free users can still create sexual deepfakes through the standalone Grok app or site (Robert Hart/The Verge)
- a16z raises over $15B across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund and $3B for unspecified "other venture strategies" (Dan Primack/Axios)
- Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (Helena Horton/The Guardian)
- That time when an AI police report hallucinated an officer turning into a frog
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- Meta strikes deals with nuclear start-ups to meet AI power demand
- The venture firm that ate Silicon Valley just raised another $15 billion
- Vanke’s Former Chairman Yu Resigns from Struggling Developer - Bloomberg.com
- Photos show protests over the shooting of 2 people by federal immigration agents in Oregon - AP News
- Jeju Air crash victims could have all survived without concrete barrier, lawmaker says - Reuters
- Supreme Court set to issue rulings as Trump awaits fate of tariffs - Reuters
- No 10 condemns move by X to restrict Grok AI image creation tool as insulting
- Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax
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- Image editing on Grok limited on X after users prompt AI deepfakes
- Build a Strength Training Workout Program That Will Make 2026 Your Strongest Year
- What to know about the air traffic control overhaul and the company FAA hired to manage it - AP News
- Russia fires hypersonic missile at target near Ukraine's border with NATO - Reuters
- US to provide $45 million to help implement Cambodian-Thai accords - Reuters
- Japan to explain stance on China's export controls in US next week, finmin says - Reuters
- ‘Physical AI’ Is Coming for Your Car
- How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
- Ireland’s national AI centre given €5.7m to advance European digital initiative
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- Elon Musk’s xAI restricts Grok after outcry over sexualised images
- CK Hutchison Is Said to Pick Goldman Sachs, UBS for HK-London IPO of Watson Group - Bloomberg.com
- Nvidia Enlists Google Cloud Executive as Its Marketing Chief - Bloomberg.com
- Google Adds New AI Features to Gmail and Pushes It Toward a Personal Assistant
- Anthropic adds Allianz to growing list of enterprise wins
- Trump pick for Gaza board Nickolay Mladenov frequently worked to ease Mideast tensions - AP News
- Musk's xAI to invest over $20 billion in Mississippi data center - Reuters
- A Free Script Disables Built-In AI Features Across Windows 11
- Chinese humanoid robotics companies dominated CES 2026, but a wide gap remains between choreographed demonstrations and real-world deployment (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
- Taiwan’s US Trade Surplus Set for Record as Talks Drag On - Bloomberg.com
- Swiss families file legal complaint over New Year's bar fire - Reuters
- Chinese automaker Xpeng touts AI pivot in face of fierce competition - Reuters
- France's armed forces ministry awards Mistral AI framework agreement - Reuters
- How to AI-proof your job
- Smartphone and PC prices set to rise as AI boom drains memory chips
- China’s AI chip dragons’ firepower is mostly mythical
- Zelensky replaces Ukraine’s security chief ahead of Paris talks - Los Angeles Times
- Russia attacks Ukraine with drones and missiles, killing 3 in Kyiv - AP News
- Stuffed dragons rain after Ilia Malinin's brilliant short program at US Figure Skating Championships - AP News
- J&J strikes deal with US government to cut drug prices, gain tariff exemptions - Reuters
- Can the ICE agent who shot a Minneapolis woman be prosecuted? - Reuters
- How AI's predictive power is helping to prevent deforestation - Reuters
- Grok AI: is it legal to produce or post undressed images of people without their consent?
- Chinese AI startup MiniMax jumped as much as 54% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday, after raising ~$619M in its IPO priced at ~$21.17 per share (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
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- World Economic Forum: Deepfake Face-Swapping Tools Are Creating Critical Security Risks
- Europol Leads Global Crackdown on Black Axe Cybercrime Gang, 34 Arrested
- AI-Powered Truman Show Operation Industrializes Investment Fraud
- FBI Warns of North Korean QR Phishing Campaigns
- How AI agents are turning security inside-out
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