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AI NEWS
- Why are more bosses sharing the top job?
- Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
- How test-time training allows models to ‘learn’ long documents instead of just caching them
- Google's Universal Commerce Protocol Drives AI Shopping
- Are we giving AI a pulse through language?
- From brain scans to alloys: Teaching AI to make sense of complex research data
- Novel AI method sharpens 3D X-ray vision
- Apple to Overhaul AI Efforts, Siri With Google Gemini
- OpenAI, SoftBank Invest $1B in SB Energy as AI Buildout Continues
- Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems
- AlphaTON Capital Closes $46M AI Infrastructure Expansion to Address Demands for Confidential Compute
- The Guardian view on regulating big tech: politicians must back Ofcom’s challenge to Musk | Editorial
- Amazon says 97% of its devices can support Alexa+
- Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs
- Model steering is a more efficient way to train AI models
- The HackerNoon Newsletter: Will AI Agents Pump Up Our Profits? (1/12/2026)
- AI-Powered Credit Scoring for the Thin File and Informal Economy
- Anthropic blocks xAI's Claude access
- Apple chooses Google's Gemini AI to power Siri
- AI shouldn't try to be your friend, according to new research
- CES showed me why Chinese tech companies feel so optimistic
- ChatGPT's Micro-Cap Portfolio: Week 24
- How Benn Jordan Discovered Flock's Cameras Were Left Streaming to the Internet
- We Tried 5 Missing Data Imputation Methods: The Simplest Method Won (Sort Of)
- Machine Learning System Monitors Patient Pain During Surgery : This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore . In the operating room, patients undergoing procedure...
- Apple turns to Google's Gemini as Siri's technical debt becomes too much to handle
- Humanoid robots or human connection? What Elon Musk's Optimus reveals about our AI ambitions
- To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte
- 'Shame Thrives in Seclusion:' How AI Porn Chatbots Isolate Us All
- How to Self-Host n8n on Docker in 5 Simple Steps
- Deep: How Spotify is using AI Agents to manage tech debt
- I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneous
- Mitigating emissions from air freight: Unlocking the potential of SAF with book and claim
- Harmattan AI raises $200M Series B led by Dassault Aviation, becomes defense unicorn
- X rated: Ofcom investigates Grok – podcast
- Eggie, Neo, Isaac and Memo are domestic robots. But would you let them load your dishwasher?
- Sole Source Capital Acquires Brite, a Cybersecurity & MSP
- Brado, Santé Ventures Partner to Transform Patient Navigation and Engagement
- Study: Just 1% Fully Adopt JIT Privileged Access as AI IDs Rise
- 7 Must-Have Tools for Your Coding Workflow
- RoboChallenge’s Top-Ranked Embodied AI Model Goes Open Source
- Can we prevent AI from acting like a sociopath?
- Generative AI might be Hurting the Labor Market
- Malaysia blocks Elon Musk’s Grok AI over fake, sexualised images
- Webroot Recognized for Lightweight Protection by Expert Consumers
- Enhanced Genomics Appoints Dr Katerina Leftheris to Its BOD
- CyberCube Forecasts AI Reality Check Amid Rapid Change in Cyber Insurance
- Jamf Leads the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools
- GeneDx and Komodo Health Build Comprehensive Rare Disease Dataset
- Bidgely Redefines Energy AI in 2025: From Machine Learning to Agentic AI
- Nerdio Appoints Scott Manchester as Chief Product and Technology Officer
- Zenity Now Available on AWS Marketplace
- Torq hits $1.2bn valuation for agentic AI-driven security platform
- SoftBank and OpenAI commit $1bn to SB Energy for US AI data centre push
- UK regulator investigates X over Grok AI's role in generating sexualized deepfakes
- Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare one week after OpenAI's hospital push
- Google brings personalized discounts to AI search and launches open commerce protocol
- Semiconductor Leader Taps Articul8 to Speed Product Releases
- Torq Secures $140M Series D at $1.2B Valuation to Lead AI SOC, Agentic AI Era
- Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
- Hyperscale AI data centers: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
- Mechanistic interpretability: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
- AI companions: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
- Generative coding: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
- The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station
- Ofcom investigating Elon Musk’s X after outcry over sexualised AI images
- AmplifyMD Names Stephen Klasko and Rod Hochman to Board and Advisory Team
- Performive Rebrands as CloudFirst
- Paul Chua Joins Health-ISAC® as Asia Pacific Operations Director
- Tidal Cyber Appoints Jessica Hall as Vice President of Product
- Amera IoT’s Breakthrough in Quantum-Proof Encryption with 14 U.S. Patents
- Informatica Leads 2026 Gartner MQ for Data & Analytics Platforms
- Murj Achieves Record Growth in 2025
- Percona Announces OpenEverest
- Illumina and PREMIA partner to expand clinical access to CGP in Asia
- Yuwell Medical Makes Its Debut at CES 2026
- Algolia takes on the Next Era of AI-Driven Retail at NRF 2026
- The Future Is Agents Orchestrating Agents Orchestrating Agents
- Inside Tharwa: The UAE Stablecoin Replacing Dollar Reserves with Diversified Real-World Assets
- Monday briefing: How Elon Musk’s Grok is being used as a tool for digital sexual abuse
- Interpretive Drift: Why Service Systems Keep Solving the Wrong Problem
- When AI Can Make “Perfect Decisions”: Why Dynamic Contracts Are the Real Safety Layer
- AI Coding Tip 002 - Speak the Model’s Native Tongue
- We're Building AI Wrong, and the Indie Developers Will Prove It
- Publishers fear AI search summaries and chatbots mean ‘end of traffic era’
AI RESEARCH
- The AI Race in Early 2026: Nine Developments Shaping the Year
- Teaching Claude To Remember: Part 4 — Skills (Your AI’s Tribal Knowledge)
- State of the AI: January 2026 Report
- If AI Can Undress You, So Your Face Is Now a Password?
- Important LLM Papers for the Week From 05/01/2026 To 10/01/2026
- Taming Schema Hallucinations: Structured Agentic Reasoning for Valid Config Generation
- I Was Stuck at a 0.53 Score Until I Visualized My Data As a Network
- So how much does OpenAI owe us?
- CSS at Scale With StyleX
- Multivariate Conformal Prediction using Optimal Transport
- DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search
- MoEs Are Stronger than You Think: Hyper-Parallel Inference Scaling with RoE
- The implications of ChatGPT apps
- One Concept, Four Levels: What Is an LLM?
- Training a Model with Limited Memory using Mixed Precision and Gradient Checkpointing
- Train a Model Faster with torch.compile and Gradient Accumulation
- Training a Model on Multiple GPUs with Data Parallelism
- Practical Agentic Coding with Google Jules
- How To Make LLMs Write Stylishly
- Agent-Ready APIs: The Foundation of Scalable Agentic AI
- The Manager's Apprentice
- Generative AI RAG Applications — Choosing RightVector Database
- Why AI Needs a Sense of Caution
- Import AI 440: Red queen AI; AI regulating AI; o-ring automation
- Federated Learning Explained: A Deep Technical Dive (And How Poets Can Actually Use It)
- Integrating Streamlit with Snowflake for Live Cloud Data Apps (Part 2)
- LLMs, MCPs, and Agents in Decision Intelligence
- Robots to navigate hiking trails
- Podcast: Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and Conflict-free Replicated Data Types
- Google Releases Gemma Scope 2 to Deepen Understanding of LLM Behavior
- FACTS Benchmark Suite Introduced to Evaluate Factual Accuracy of Large Language Models
- Agent Loop Caching: The Missing Optimization for Agent Workflows
- How I Optimize Tokens While Building AI Agents (Without Killing Output Quality)
- From Models to Systems: How AI Engineering Changed in 2026
- VL-JEPA: The Model Challenging LLMs
- ARIMA vs. SARIMA in Python: Choosing the Right Model for Seasonal Data
- Stop Wasting Your AI Coding Assistant: The Agentic Coding Workflow Top Engineers Use
- Gemma vs Gemini: Functions, Deployment, and When to Use Each
- The Practical Guide to Building AI Agents: Hands-On GitHub Agent in 5 Minutes
- Long Context Compaction for AI Agents — Part 1: Design Principles
- An Economy Disrupted: How We Can Survive (and Thrive) in the Singularity.
CLOUD ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Amazon Lex launches configurable voice activity detection sensitivity
- Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now validates service quotas before creating clusters on console
- Amazon Inspector adds Java Gradle support and expands ecosystem coverage
- Amazon Connect now provides agent screen recording status tracking
- Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region
CLOUD ARCHITECTURE
CLOUD BUSINESS
- I'm still thinking about the 8 weirdest tech gadgets I saw at CES - and some are even useful
- The AI Verification Bottleneck: Developer Toil Isn’t Shrinking
- A Field Guide to 2026 Federal, State and EU AI Laws
- Can Google save Apple AI? Gemini to power a new, personalized Siri
- Heading out to protest? Disable your phone's biometrics, and 6 more ways to protect your privacy
- These 8 audio products at CES 2026 were so impressive, I had to listen twice
- How we rate deals at ZDNET in 2026
- Map Your API Landscape To Prevent Agentic AI Disaster
- 3 ways to stop iPhone apps from tracking you right now - it's easy
- Anker Solix's new whole-home backup is the power outage solution of my dreams - here's why
- Forks, Clouds and the New Economics of Open Source Licensing
- How To Use LLMs for Continuous, Creative Code Refactoring
- Even Linus Torvalds is vibe coding now
- This leather valet is the best-looking charging station I've ever put my phone on
- The Weekend Our Pipeline Processed the Same Data 47 Times
- My favorite color e-reader is on sale, just in time for my 2026 reading goals
- How To Scale GitOps Without Hitting the ‘Argo Ceiling’
- Victrola just solved one of the biggest problems with your record player setup - here's how
- 5 ways to grow your business with AI - without sidelining your people
- How I used ChatGPT's $20 Plus plan to fix a nightmare bug - fast
- How to talk to your appliances - no Wi-Fi, hub, or smart home privacy risks required
- How to remove Copilot AI from Windows 11 today
- New Mobile SDK Brings Low-Code Development to On-Device AI
- Why these Klipsch audio products were two of my favorite CES 2026 finds
- I tried the new Linux Mint 22.3 - it's a masterclass in polish and quality-of-life fixes
- Why you'll pay more for AI in 2026, and 3 money-saving tips to try
- I tried Lumus' AR waveguide prototype at CES, and saw where AR glasses go next
CLOUD SECURITY
- Why 38% of Consumers Now Use AI to Shop Online & What Retailers Need to Know
- Attackers Probing Popular LLMs Looking for Access to APIs: Report
- Account Takeover (ATO) Attacks Explained: Detection, Prevention & Mitigation
- Predict 2026: AI, Trust and the Security Reckoning Ahead
- Tenable Is a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms
- What Enterprises Need in AI Governance Software | Kovrr
- Corrupting LLMs Through Weird Generalizations
- Zero-Trust Isn’t Optional Anymore—It’s Your AI Agent Fire Drill
- Your Cloud May Be Secure, But Are Your Backups? Lessons From The EY Incident
- Closing the Zero Trust Governance Gap: Why Automation is Essential
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- Stop Tab-Switching: Push Claude Code Updates to Your Phone with ntfy
- From Zero to SQS Lambda in 15 Minutes
- AWS Graviton migration with Kiro CLI and the Arm MCP server
- Measuring What Matters: Adding Multiple Dimension Sets to AWS Lambda Powertools
- Login with Google on an iPhone (Local Metro server + Dev Build) - Part 4/7: Google Cloud Console
- Transactional AI v0.2: Production-Ready with Full Observability
- A Real-World Serverless Appointment Booking Backend on AWS
- Smart Coding vs Vibe Coding: Engineering Discipline in the Age of AI
- The Agent Control Plane: Why Intelligence Without Governance Is a Bug
- Why "Ownership" is the Best Certification: Building Infrastructure for an AWS Legend
- Is an AI Model Software? – A Low‑Level Technical View
- I Built a Full AWS S3 Integration in Under 2 Hours—From First Prompt to Production
- Building Nature’s View — A Responsive Website Using HTML, CSS & JavaScript
- What Actually Wins League of Legends Games? ML Analysis of 250K Matches
- Building a Hybrid-Private RAG Platform on AWS: From Prototype to Production with Python
- I Bought a Robot Vacuum, Not a Cloud Spy
- Beyond the Vibe-Check: Using Z3 Theorem Provers to Guardrail LLM Logic
- What are AI agent skills and how to use them - complete breakdown with examples
- Complete Guide: Deploying a Laravel + React Application on Kubernetes with Minikube
- Building Voice Trainer: a tiny, local‑first pitch analysis tool for gender‑affirming voice practice
- `XmlFluentValidator`: Code-First XML Validation That Stays Close to Your Rules
- I let four AI code reviewers fight over my PRs
- From Vibe-Coding to Engineering: My 48-Hour Battle with Docker & Windows
- AuraInspector: Auditing Salesforce Aura for Data Exposure : Written by: Amine Ismail, Anirudha Kanodia Introduction Mandiant is releasing AuraInspector, a new open-source tool designed to help defenders identif...
- AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda for .NET 10, AWS Client VPN quickstart, Best of AWS re:Invent, and more (January 12, 2026)
- Amazon Nova 2 Multimodal Embeddings with Amazon S3 Vectors and AWS Java SDK - Part 1 Introduction
- AWS Lambda: The Serverless Engine Powering Cloud Automation
- 🩺 How I Troubleshoot an EC2 Instance in the Real World (Using Instance Diagnostics)
- Quiverstone: The Single Pane of Glass for AWS Multi-Account Chaos
- I built a spatial 3D knowledge graph with React Three Fiber & Gemini AI 🌌
- My 2026 Roadmap: How I’m Future-Proofing My Fullstack Career in the Age of AI
- I let an AI with "20 years experience" architect my project and it was a disaster
- Asegurar un rol de servicio para AWS Lambda - Secure the service role used by AWS Lambda
- Error handling anti-patterns rules Claude-Mem codebase.
- 2D Spatial Recognition with Local LLM: Comparing Prompt Strategies
- I Gave My AI Agent 2,700 Blocks and Took Away Its Keyboard
- Neuron AI Laravel SDK
- Run `gh` Command in Claude Code on the Web
- Building GeoAI Models: From Spatial Data to Actionable Insights
- Why Your AI Assistant Will Soon Complete Purchases Without You
- Human–AI Collaboration in Project Teams — Redefining Leadership and Decision-Making
- OIDC UserInfo Endpoint Explained for Backend Engineers
- How to Scrape Google AI Mode Using Python
- Contextual Inference with Generative AI: Turning Messy Notes into Professional Meeting Minutes
- Explain Basic AI Concepts And Terminologies
- Building AI Agents in 2025: From ChatGPT to Multi-Agent Systems
- Serverless Picture Gallery on Google Cloud - Part 2
- Why Streaming AI Responses Feels Faster Than It Is (Android + SSE)
- Building Automated Containment for AI-to-AI Systems: A Technical Deep Dive
- Load Balancing Explained (Simple Guide for Beginners)
- Discovering n8n — Wish I Found It Sooner (Part 1 )
- Smart Contract Security 101 — Reentrancy & Common AI‑Generated Mistakes
- AI for operations: remove friction, not people
- Introduction to DevOps #4. What Problems DevOps Solves
- AI-Powered Commit Message Generator with Sring Boot & Cerebras
- Introduction to DevOps #5. DevOps Tooling Landscape
DEVOPS
- A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting
- Predict 2026: Why AI Will Force DevOps to Reinvent Itself
- Cursor Allies with 1Password to Secure AI Coding Secrets
- OpenCost: Reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead to 2026
- Beyond the Prompt: A Quality-First Framework for AI-Assisted Engineering
- Five Great DevOps Job Opportunities
- Meta Introduces Confucius Code Agent: A New Approach to AI-Powered Software Engineering
ENTERPRISE TECH
- Enterprise hits and misses - the CES hype rollercoaster is robotic, and enterprises get a progress report on AI fluency : This week - can enterprises achieve AI fluency in 2026? If so, how will they get there? CES is not a show for the hype-allergic, but this year, the ro...
- Security and AI news from the week beginning 5 January 2026
- Primark cites doubling down on digital in Europe, but just can't shake off that bricks-and-mortar mindset : The UK retailer's conversion to online remains glacial...
FINANCIAL
- Mexican President Sheinbaum Says Trump Suggested Sending U.S. Troops To Mexico But She Said No
- OpenAI acquires health-care technology startup Torch for $60 million, source says
- OneSpan acquires Build38
- Tech Voices: Nvidia-Lilly AI lab, Apple-Google, Meta's new president
- OpenAI acquires Torch to support ChatGPT Health
- Jamf appoints David Helfer as chief revenue officer
- Thermo Fisher to work with Nvidia on using AI to improve lab workflows
- Okta in spotlight as Citi adds 90-day catalyst watch
- Democratizing AI Agents: nemo's Approach to Meeting Audiences Where They Are for Everyday Business Workflows
- Elizabeth Warren fears workers will 'lose big' with 401(k) crypto, presses SEC chair Atkins for answers
- Reducing Injection Anxiety: Painless World Aims to Give Patients the Confidence to Inject at Home
- How Batula AI Is Redefining Customer Calls for Small Businesses
- Nintendo keeping an eye on high RAM prices, tariff impact: report
- Activist Engaged Capital plans proxy fight at BlackLine - Reuters
- Google reaches $4T market cap as Gemini shines bright
- Nvidia deepens life sciences push with BioNeMo expansion, new lab partnerships
- Trump Administration nears trade deal with Taiwan; TSM ticks up: report
- Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year
- The Apple-Google AI deal is a massive win for investors in both tech giants
- Tallinn AI startup Flashka raises €1M pre-seed and hits 1M users in a year
- AmpliTech receives $9M from $4 unit subscription rights offering
- Eli Lilly, Nvidia to launch AI co-innovation lab for drug discovery
- HUB Cyber Security appoints Limor Zur-Stoller as CFO
- Apple chooses Google's Gemini to run next version of Siri
- Tech investors assess minerals mining as U.S. takeover talk on Greenland grows, CEO tells CNBC
- Alphabet hits $4 trillion market capitalization
- Datadog, Appian both receive upgrades to Overweight by Morgan Stanley
- Amkor Technology downgraded at UBS on more balanced risk-reward
- Descartes gets an upgrade, while Snowflake, DoubleVerify and GitLab cut at Barclays
- Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Could Lose Billions Under California's Billionaire Tax
- Trump Claims Iran 'Called To Negotiate' As Protester Death Toll Hits 500
- Basecamp Research unveils programmable gene insertion AI models, as confirms Nvidia investment
- Strategy adds $1.25B worth of bitcoin last week
- Akamai edges up; receives double upgrade from Morgan Stanley on growth prospects
- Quantum Computing selected as stalking horse bidder for Luminar assets
- Bitmine Immersion buys over 24K Ethereum in past week
- Powell's criminal investigation, Google's AI shopping push, Boeing deliveries and more in Morning Squawk
- Meta names former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president, vice chair
- GitLab, Nutanix receive downgrades to Equal-weight by Morgan Stanley
- Zoom rises after rating upgrade at Citi
- Applied Materials, Advanced Energy in focus as Susquehanna upgrades on semi strength
- Trump Has '2 to 4 Months Left' Claims Physical Therapist After President Wanders Off Mid-Meeting
- Ice Agent Who Shot and Killed Renee Good Is Married to a Migrant Filipina: Photos and What We Know
- White House's Leavitt Shares Message Claiming U.S. Used Weapon That Made Venezuelan Forces Vomit Blood During Maduro Raid
- Walmart Partners with Google to Launch Gemini AI-Powered Personal Shopping Assistant
- China Detains Early Rain Church Figures—Why Unregistered Christians Are Growing Afraid
- Indonesia Does What Others Are Still Debating: Blocks Grok AI Over Harmful Deepfakes
- Google Removes AI Overviews for Specific Medical Questions Following Reports of Inaccuracies
- Avenue Biosciences raises $5.7M to scale high-throughput protein engineering
- Instagram Security Alert After 17.5M User Data Exposure — Why Reset Emails Raised Alarms
- Rigetti Computing delaying its Cepheus-1-108Q system a 'modest' step back: Wedbush
- UK's Ofcom launches probe into X over Grok AI deepfake images
- CrowdStrike downgraded at KeyBanc; firm praises Snowflake, Okta others
- Lightwave Logic appoints Aref Chowdhury as chief technology officer
- Palantir upgraded at Citi as commercial, government 'supercycle' coming this year
- Fortinet, Check Point could face headwinds as DRAM prices impact buildouts of firewalls: Wedbush
- Digi Power X to buy $20 mln of Nvidia B300 GPUs for NeoCloudz AI platform
- Meta urges Australia to rethink under-16 social media ban after blocking over 500,000 accounts
- French startup Harmattan AI hits unicorn status, as it strikes deal with French aerospace group
- BE Semiconductor shares rise as Q4 orders surge
- "No AI can promise to be safe”: Britain’s ChatGPT rival takes on big tech over sexualised deepfakes and AI harm
- Wedbush remains bullish on Apple while highlighting key goals for iPhone maker in 2026
- Belden issues €450M senior notes in a private offering
- Apple, Samsung lead smartphone market in 2025: Counterpoint
- Supreme Court to hear Cisco’s appeal over Falun Gong technology lawsuit
- Chinese solar stocks surge on export tax rebate cuts; battery shares fall on similar plans
- Zepo Intelligence secures $15M to safeguard workspaces from AI risks
GENERAL US
- Apple calls on Google to help smarten up Siri and bring other AI features to the iPhone - The Washington Post
- AI can now 'see' optical illusions. What does it tell us about our own brains? - BBC
- Google's corporate parent joins $4 trillion club as investors continue to bet on AI breakthroughs - The Washington Post
- Risky shadow AI use remains widespread - Cybersecurity Dive
- DOJ creates task force to challenge state AI regulations - CBS News
- Bridging the gap between AI and medicine: Claude in Microsoft Foundry advances capabilities for healthcare and life sciences customers - Microsoft
- Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tools
- Apple taps Google to power a new Siri and future AI tools - The Washington Post
- The Downside to Using AI for All Those Boring Tasks at Work - The Wall Street Journal
- I'm an AI strategist. Here are 4 things you'll never catch me using AI for - CNBC
- Britain Investigates Elon Musk’s X Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images - The New York Times
- Hyperscale AI data centers: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026 - MIT Technology Review
- The Myth of the AI Race: Neither America Nor China Can Achieve True Tech Dominance - Foreign Affairs
- The next great divergence: How AI could split the world again if we don’t intervene - Brookings
- What a new law and an investigation could mean for Grok AI deepfakes
- Winning the AI Arms Race Against the Chinese Communist Party - House.gov
- AI experts differ on what the technology's capabilities are. Emotions explain why. - Psychology Today
- AI and Computer Science: How a CS Master’s Prepares You | SNHU - Southern New Hampshire University
- Zuckerberg draws Trump’s praise for his choice for Meta president
- UK to bring into force law to tackle Grok AI deepfakes this week
- How artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of war - The Hill
- 10 AI Predictions for 2026 - AI Business
- Instagram denies breach after many receive emails asking to reset password
- Stocks waver, dollar slips as DOJ opens criminal probe into Fed chair - The Washington Post
- Ahead of spring training, some Nats minor leaguers will get an extra camp - The Washington Post
- Ofcom investigates Elon Musk's X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes
- MTA Explores How to Use AI to Monitor Thousands of Cameras in Transit System - THE CITY - NYC News
- Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk's Grok over AI deepfakes - NPR
- Here Are My Top 10 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks for 2026 - The Motley Fool
- Google Bets on AI-Based Shopping With New AI Agents for Retailers - The Wall Street Journal
- Tech and retail back a new AI shopping standard at NRF 2026 - Axios
- Notes on AI Apps in 2026 - Andreessen Horowitz
- Maryland bill seeks to ban Trump’s ICE agents from joining state police - The Washington Post
- Press Release: From Search to Checkout: PayPal Supports Trusted AI Checkout with Google - PayPal Newsroom
- Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk's Grok over AI deepfakes
- America’s AI Boom Is Running Into An Unplanned Water Problem - Forbes
- This Utah pilot program puts AI in the driver seat on patient prescription renewals - Deseret News
MAINSTREAM
- Cowork for Claude Can Tap Into a Folder on Your Computer and Organize Its Contents
- Hands-on with Bee, Amazon’s latest AI wearable
- OpenAI buys tiny health records startup Torch for, reportedly, $100M
- How Can Technology Drive Sustainability in the Supply Chain? - Bloomberg Media
- Personal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed certain systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
- Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
- Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws
- Meta Reportedly Cutting About 1,500 VR and AR Jobs Amid Renewed Push to Become an AI Juggernaut
- I’m Claiming Stellan Skarsgård’s Golden Globe for ‘Andor’
- Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI
- Why Amazon bought Bee, an AI wearable
- Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is launching its own AI infrastructure initiative
- Cloudflare Says Winter Olympics Cybersecurity Is at Risk in Spat With Italian Regulators
- Telefonica Is Said to Weigh Revamp of Its Technology Unit - Bloomberg.com
- SocGen Turns to Microsoft’s Copilot After Scrapping Own AI Tool - Bloomberg.com
- Peter Arduini on AI, Global Strategy - Bloomberg.com
- OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying $100M in equity (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
- Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
- Lego's first Pokémon sets are now available for pre-order
- Apple couldn't build the best AI for Siri, so it's borrowing Google's
- Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare following OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health reveal
- As Timothy Busfield's child sex abuse allegations come to light, wife Melissa Gilbert goes dark on Instagram - Los Angeles Times
- Watch Meta Signs Multi-Gigawatt Nuclear Deals to Power AI Data Centers - Bloomberg.com
- Grok Sparks Global Alarm on Deepfakes: Helen Toner on AI Risks - Bloomberg.com
- Chinese Robot Maker Inovance Is Said to Weigh Hong Kong Listing - Bloomberg.com
- Medtronic Partners With Neuralink Rival Precision for Brain Tech - Bloomberg.com
- Lux Capital Raises $1.5 Billion Fund to Target Frontier Tech - Bloomberg.com
- Explainer: What is at stake in Uganda's presidential election? - Reuters
- Wall Street indexes gain with tech, Walmart - Reuters
- Thank You Hipsters: Because of You, Film Is Thriving Again
- Anthropic launches Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code to automate complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers (Webb Wright/ZDNET)
- Apple chooses Google’s Gemini over OpenAI’s ChatGPT to power next-gen Siri
- AI Skills
- Anthropic made a version of its coding AI for regular people
- Mark Zuckerberg announces new 'Meta Compute' initiative for its data center and AI projects
- Google Moves to Simplify AI-Driven Shopping as Retailers Show Support
- Apple Picks Google Gemini to Power Siri
- Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code
- Trump’s EPA plans to ignore health effects of air pollution
- NBCUniversal’s AI-Driven Vision for Advertising at CES 2026 - Los Angeles Times
- Angels among nine MLB teams that have terminated their FanDuel Sports Network deals - Los Angeles Times
- New AI Model Lets Robot Neo Learn Tasks From Scratch - Bloomberg.com
- Ramaphosa Concedes Party Failings as South Africa Elections Near - Bloomberg.com
- Health-Tracking Toothbrushes, Mouth Guards Lure Consumers With Audacious Claims - Bloomberg.com
- Defending Super Bowl champion Eagles flop against 49ers, could lead to staff changes - AP News
- Claude Cowork automates complex tasks for you now - at your own risk
- Ben Jennings on Elon Musk’s Grok AI tool – cartoon
- Trump Administration Nears Trade Deal With Taiwan
- SG-image’s New 75mm f/1.2 Medium Format Portrait Prime Is Under $500
- We're about to simulate a human brain on a supercomputer
- Google says Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but also future Apple Intelligence features (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
- Sources: the US nears a trade deal with Taiwan that would reduce tariffs on the island's exports and include a commitment from TSMC to build 5+ fabs in Arizona (New York Times)
- Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is establishing a new "top-level" initiative called Meta Compute to build "tens of gigawatts" of AI infrastructure during this decade (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- Can a Brain-Sensing Gaming Headset Finally Make Me a Pro Player?
- Apple Taps Google Gemini to Give Siri an AI Glow-Up
- Paramount won't quit, files suit against Warner Bros. Discovery over rejected bid
- Google’s Gemini to power Apple’s AI features like Siri
- Paramount files lawsuit against Warner Bros. amidst controversial Netflix merger
- Alaska Air Undertakes Technology Upgrades After Painful Outages - Bloomberg.com
- How AI Is Changing the Music Industry | Bloomberg Tech: Europe 1/9/2026 - Bloomberg.com
- Watch Meta Turns to Multi-Gigawatt Nuclear Deals for AI Data Centers - Bloomberg.com
- Watch will.i.am on AI, Music, Creative 'Renaissance' - Bloomberg.com
- Google Confirms Multiyear AI Deal to Power Apple Models, Siri - Bloomberg.com
- Security Startup Torq Raises Cash at $1.2 Billion Valuation - Bloomberg.com
- Google parent Alphabet hits $4tn valuation after AI deal with Apple
- Meta taps former Trump adviser to be president, vice chair
- Document: Meta said last week that it would exclude Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp, after an order from the country's antitrust authority (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
- Researchers including from Nvidia and Microsoft use AI on 1M+ species to generate potential new gene editing and drug therapies, including AI-designed enzymes (Financial Times)
- World Liberty Financial launches World Liberty Markets, letting users lend and borrow digital assets among one another, supporting its own token USD1 and others (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
- Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini
- A New Jersey lawsuit shows how hard it is to fight deepfake porn
- Alphabet hits $4tn valuation on AI hopes
- What I Learned Playing Liar’s Poker Against AI - Bloomberg.com
- Britain Has a Cunning Plan to Cut Its Borrowing Costs - Bloomberg.com
- Live updates: DOJ subpoenas central bank and threatens criminal indictment, Fed Chair Powell says - AP News
- Norway gives $400 million to Ukraine for energy sector, administration - Reuters
- Speed demons Argo and Zoulou lead Atlantic charge as fleet sets sail - Reuters
- Nintendo Denies Promo Photos Were AI-Generated, Despite Some Weird Thumbs
- Apple announces a multi-year Google deal to use Gemini and Cloud to power Siri's features in 2026, saying Google's tech "provides the most capable foundation" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
- Crypto custody company BitGo aims to raise up to $201M in its IPO on the NYSE at an up to $1.96B valuation, selling 11.8M shares at $15 to $17 per share (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
- Nvidia and Eli Lilly plan to invest $1B over five years in a new Silicon Valley-based AI drug laboratory, aiming to boost the pharmaceutical industry's AI use (Bloomberg)
- A viral Chinese app called "Are You Dead?" that checks on people living alone becomes the top paid app in Apple's App Store in China, as many elderly live alone (Financial Times)
- The New ‘One Piece’ Trailer Introduces Some Baroque Baddies
- Meta appoints ex-Trump and Bush official as its new president and vice chairman
- Meta hires former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chair
- Nvidia and Microsoft back AI breakthrough for gene therapies
- Dina Powell McCormick appointed president and vice-chair at Meta
- Watch Iran Protests Could Add Volatility to Markets, Lombard Odier's Lee Says - Bloomberg.com
- Xi Pledges to Maintain Corruption Fight in China, Xinhua Says - Bloomberg.com
- Woodpeckers’ Secret Strength Revealed—Plus, Flu Surge, AI Sleep Predictions and CES 2026 Trends : Why flu cases are spiking, how AI predicts disease from your sleep, and what surprising biomechanics lie behind woodpeckers’ powerful pecks.
- Meta appoints Dina Powell McCormick, a prominent banking executive and former Republican official, as president and vice chair, reporting to Mark Zuckerberg (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- Ofcom launches X probe over Grok AI abuse concerns
- This ElevationLabs 10-year extended battery case for AirTags is on sale for only $16
- Smithsonian Swaps Trump’s Portrait and Changes Caption Following Pressure From Administration
- Google removes AI Overviews from some medical searches after experts warn of risks to users' health
- UK’s Ofcom investigates X over Grok’s sexualised AI images of women and children
- Fed Chair Powell says Justice Dept. has subpoenaed central bank, threatens criminal indictment - Los Angeles Times
- Prudential Financial Is Said to Mull India Asset Manager Sale - Bloomberg.com
- India Space Agency Rocket Fails to Launch Second Time in A Year - Bloomberg.com
- Railroads and their regulators thwart safety fixes, costing lives - AP News
- India's TCS beats quarterly revenue estimate on AI-led demand - Reuters
- AI’s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan’s coastal villages
- CES 2026 report: AI, autonomy, and robotic products are still finding their way, country-level booths are growing, Nvidia underpinned much of the show, and more (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software)
- A look at claims from Google and others about quantum computing breakthroughs over the past few months that helped boost quantum computing stocks in 2025 (Richard Waters/Financial Times)
- Meta says it shut down nearly 550K accounts in Australia to comply with its under-16 social media ban, including 330K Instagram and 173K Facebook accounts (Nasteho Said/Bloomberg)
- Paris-based autonomous drone maker Harmattan AI raised a $200M Series B led by Dassault at a $1.4B valuation, and aims to produce 10K drones per month in 2026 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- Off the ballot, Ugandan president’s son waits in the wings this election - AP News
- Rupee dragged by weak equities, hovers near record-low levels against yuan - Reuters
- Silicon, not oil: Why the U.S. needs the Gulf for AI
- 10 Software Tweaks To Make an Old Windows Laptop Fast Again
- Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to xAI's Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual and nonconsensual content (Bloomberg)
- CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make their AI products cute and relatable, from Lenovo's chatty motorized laptop to Sharp's ChatGPT-powered Poketomo (Chris Velazco/Washington Post)
- Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after expert inaccuracy warnings, but slight keyword tweaks still trigger AI responses (Andrew Gregory/The Guardian)
- Startup wisdom: How to get your startup noticed — 5 principles to master
- Past the tipping point: Why the climate transition is now in our hands
- Vibe coding is transforming software. Enterprise is the next frontier
- Bananas, champagne, and robots: Why automation still needs humans
- Opinion: Europe can lead in tech — if regulation and culture align
- After OpenAI, Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare
- These Gen Zers just raised $11.75M to put Africa’s defense back in the hands of Africans
- UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children
- ‘Hangzhou Six’ Tech Startup BrainCo Is Said to File for Hong Kong IPO - Bloomberg.com
- Live updates: Situation under total control after protests in Iran, foreign minister claims - AP News
- Demand for AI, tech experts pushes UK financial sector vacancies up 12%, recruiter says - Reuters
- Thai Reformist Party Pledges to Revive ‘Fifth Tiger’ Economy as Election Nears - Bloomberg.com
- Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk’s Grok over AI deepfakes - AP News
- South Korea to probe drones North Korea says violated its airspace - Reuters
- Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints (Bloomberg)
- The risky bet by AI start-ups
- It’s another one-and-done postseason for Justin Herbert and Chargers - Los Angeles Times
- US futures slip while Asian shares gain as Fed chair Powell faces legal threat - AP News
- TSMC Q4 profit poised to soar 27% as AI demand drives growth - Reuters
- Naver, the largest South Korean buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as an alternative for countries reluctant to use US or Chinese services (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
MARKET RESEARCH
SECURITY
- University of Hawaii Cancer Center hit by ransomware attack
- Palo Alto Networks Introduces New Vibe Coding Security Governance Framework
- Apple confirms Google Gemini will power Siri, says privacy remains a priority
- Target's dev server offline after hackers claim to steal source code
- CISA Closes Ten Emergency Directives After Federal Cyber Reviews
- California Shuts Down Health Data Resales By Unregistered Brokers
- Prevent cloud data leaks with Microsoft 365 access reviews
- Max severity Ni8mare flaw impacts nearly 60,000 n8n instances
- World Economic Forum: Cyber-fraud overtakes ransomware as business leaders' top cyber-security concern
- Claude connects to more healthcare data under security oversight
- Debian 13.3 is now available with targeted corrections, updates
- Cyber fraud network behind €5,93 million in losses dismantled in Spain
- Illicit Crypto Activity Hits Record $158bn in 2025
- BreachForums Database Leak Turns the Tables on Threat Actors
- Anthropic brings Claude to healthcare with HIPAA-ready Enterprise tools
Total Sources: 493 | Generated: 1/12/2026