AI NEWS
- ‘Not regulated’: launch of ChatGPT Health in Australia causes concern among experts
- Trump imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia AI chips and others, citing national security
- ‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand
- Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales on where the name comes from
- ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
- New Legislation Would Rein In ICE’s Facial Recognition App
- Aembit Announces Agenda and Speaker Lineup for NHIcon 2026 on Agentic AI Security
- 7 AI Automation Tools for Streamlined Workflows
- Zhipu AI's GLM-Image uses "semantic tokens" to teach AI the difference between a face and a font
- Anthropic cuts AI productivity forecasts in half after analyzing Claude's real-world failure rates
- OpenAI quietly launches ChatGPT Translate, a standalone tool that looks like Google Translate and DeepL
- IG Defence Secures Army, Navy Orders for Indigenous Counter-Drone System
- Three IT Giants, Three AI Playbooks
- New RoboReward dataset and models automate robotic training and evaluation
- After Italy, WhatsApp excludes Brazil from rival chatbot ban
- OpenAI brings back three top researchers from Mira Murati's startup Thinking Machines
- OpenAI’s Bengaluru Workshop Helps Nonprofits Scale AI for Social Impact
- LTTS Rides $200 Crore Deal Streak to Strong 10% Q3 Growth
- Elon Musk Admits Anthropic Has Done ‘Something Special With Coding’ Despite xAI Being Blocked
- AI Trends: 2025 Lookback and 2026 Outlook
- Gemini's ‘Personal Intelligence’ upgrade
- OpenAI signs $10 billion deal with Cerebras Systems
- Google Launches Market Access Programme to Scale Indian AI startups
- 85% of Enterprises Now Run or Test Autonomous AI Agents: HCLSoftware
- GrowthPal Announces $2.6 Mn Funding to Enhance its AI-Driven M&A Copilot
- Stellaris Has Fallen Out of Love With AI Demos, and Other VCs May Follow Suit
- OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 Better Than Claude Opus 4.5 for Long Autonomous Tasks, Says Cursor
- Claude Code Finally Fixes the Huge Issue With MCPs
- BharathCloud, JLL To Develop AI-Ready Sovereign Cloud
- Airbnb Names Meta Generative AI Head Ahmad Al-Dahle as CTO
- Bengaluru-Based Aule Space is Building ‘Jetpacks’ to Save Dying Satellites
- Infosys Adds 5,000 Jobs in Q3 While TCS & HCLTech Keep Cutting
- Vellore Institute of Technology Alumni is Thinking Machines Lab’s New CTO
- HCLTech Elevates Sandeep Saxena to Drive India-led Growth Push
- Gemini Introduces Personal Intelligence to Connect Gmail, Photos and Other Google Apps
- How Indian IT’s AI-led Growth Could Hinge on Regional Data, Talent
- Ola Electric Extends 4680 Bharat Cell Platform to Indian Startups
- Actor McConaughey seeks to patent image to protect from AI
- Guarding Europe’s hidden lifelines: how AI could protect subsea infrastructure
- Last Week in AI #332 - Apple + Gemini, OpenAI + Cerebras, Claude Cowork
- Beginner AI Tutorials Teach “Hello World.” This Teaches “Production.”
- Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium | Van Badham
- Stop Muting Your Users: Building a Pragmatic Interruption State Machine for Voice AI
- The Attention Tax: Why Modern Teams Feel Slower Even With AI
- Why My AI Rollout Failed Until I Designed With Teams, Not For Them
- The Job Market Is Now AI-Native - We’re Still Pretending It’s Human-Led
AI RESEARCH
- OptiMind: A small language model with optimization expertise
- Vector Databases: Unlocking the Future of Intelligent AI and Semantic Search
- Did AGI Already Arrive While We Were Busy Arguing About What It Means?
- From Brains to Agents: My Journey Building LLM Systems That Act
- The Sequence Opinion #790: From Book Smarts to Street Smarts: How AI Benchmarks are Changing
- AWS Hikes EC2 Capacity Block Rates by 15% in Uniform ML Pricing Adjustment
- Mistral Releases OCR 3 With Improved Accuracy on Handwritten and Structured Documents
- How everyday foam reveals the secret logic of artificial intelligence
- Your AI Agent Works in Demo. It Dies in Production. Here’s Why.
- LLM Evaluation Analysis with Python
- DELIVERY DELAY PREDICTOR: Machine Learning System for Logistics Optimization
- The Context Window Paradox: Engineering Trade-offs in Modern LLM Architecture
- The Context Advantage: How Palantir AIP Operates the Modern Enterprise
- Decision-Making Algorithms with Python: Thompson Sampling
- Learning CUDA From First Principles
- Stop Wasting PDFs — Build a RAG That Actually Understands Them
- The 390x Speed Advantage: Unpacking AI’s Victory in Clinical Diagnosis
- From scripts to pipelines in the age of LLMs
- LLMs can’t be trusted to do scientific coding accurately, but humans make mistakes too
AI TOOLS
CLOUD BUSINESS
- Stop Wasting AI Investment on a Broken Change Approval Process
- I tested power-saving devices that promise lower electricity bills - only one was legit
- Why I use this $200 Android tablet more than my iPad, and don't regret it
- Why everyone needs this USB power meter I tested that's shockingly accurate (and it's cheap)
- Are 'advanced electromagnetic' de-icing devices for your car legit? I took one apart to find out
- All the Android 17 features Google already confirmed - and 4 I'm still hoping for
- Is Verizon still down? How to check your local area for outages, SOS status, and more
- At 25, Wikipedia embodies what the internet could have been - but can it survive AI?
- This ideal distro for Linux newbies includes a bonus for Windows users
- A new Opera One is coming with some killer new features
- Best Buy is selling Apple AirPods Max for $100 off in every color
- Is Govee's new nugget ice maker worth its $500 premium price tag? Here's my verdict a few weeks in
CLOUD SECURITY
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- The Magic of .sock: Why Modern Infrastructure Relies on Unix Domain Sockets
- Designing an AI-Operable Release Workflow
- Your AI Agent Has Too Much Power: Understanding and Taming Excessive Agency
- LLMs Did Not Replace You. They Replaced Your Excuses
- Why We Built Another LLM Gateway (And Made It 50x Faster than every available one)
- Solved: Cloudflare is down again
- AWS Blockchain Service: A Beginner’s Guide to Building a Private Blockchain Network
- How I Finally Fixed My Serverless + esbuild + Prisma Packaging Nightmare
- Micro Frontend Architecture, BFF, and Microservices — Explained Simply with Real‑World Examples
- InAppAI: Open-Source AI Agents for React Apps
- Vector Art vs Raster Graphics: Key Differences Explained
- SeaTunnel CDC Explained: A Layman’s Guide
- AWS Community Builders Program 2026 – How and Why to apply
- Transforming enterprise workflows: How IBM is unlocking AI's potential
- Durable Functions in Lambda
- From Cloudflare Zero-trust to Tailscale
- Importing a Custom EC2 Key Pair in AWS: A Step-by-Step Guide
- Build an AI-Powered Competitive Intelligence Monitor
- The Death of the Wiki: How AI Knowledge Graphs Are Changing Search
- When we built a real-time AI system for baseball training, the model wasn’t the hardest part. HUMAN BEHAVIOR WAS
- Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: Release Context and Story Progression
- [question] Self-hosting Forem with Docker Compose instead of QEMU VM + Cloud setup
- Rethinking Network Defense: Why We Should Explore ML-Assisted Risk Assessment on Top of Traditional Scanners
- Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
- The Cloud Exit Strategy: How to Run a Production SaaS for $5/Month
- Your Cloud Database is a Security Theater
- The "Kernel" release of the Agent Control Plane is finally here.
- When Birthday Photography Becomes a Template — and Why AI Feels Like an Alternative
- 👗 StyleMatch - Your AI Personal Fashion Stylist
- Seamless Integration of Google Workspace and Gemini API via External URLs
- I built a bread baking schedule app in 3 hours with Claude Code — without writing a single line of code
- From Code Dreams to Cloud Reality: Building My AI-Powered Developer Portfolio
- ArkTS Concurrency Guide 2025 Async Programming with Promises and Await (Part 1)
- Building NeonAIX: Or How I Accidentally Learned How AI Actually Works
- Mastering Google Flow: Create AI Videos Like a Pro Developer and Monetize on Facebook & Instagram
- Networking 101 #4. DNS Explained
- How coding with AI Changed My Developer mindset
ENTERPRISE TECH
- From AI ideas to execution - why experimentation is key : Atlassian’s Tiffany To shows that experimentation grounded in real use cases, tested assumptions, and trust is the key to moving AI from theory to tra...
- UiPath’s platform transition - a case of execution over re-invention. COO Ashim Gupta explains : UiPath CFO and COO Ashim Gupta outlines why the company’s recent progress rests less on agentic AI re-positioning and more on execution discipline – f...
- Camunda report says 75% of organisation admit gap between agentic AI vision and reality
- CIO interview - CAA's Matt Taylor secures the supply chain and insources tech delivery : A 15-year journey to the CIO role at the UK's regulator for aviation
FINANCIAL
- Disturbing Telegram Groups Exposed: One Uses GrokAI to 'Undress' Women, Another Shares Rape 'Tutorials'
- Full List of 81 House Republicans Who Voted Against Defunding $315M Democracy Fund
- Tensions Flare in Minneapolis as Federal Agent Shoots A Venezuelan National Following Alleged Shovel and Broom Assault
- Kristi Noem Impeachment Gains Traction to End Her 'Reign of Terror'
- ICE Agent's 'Internal Bleeding' Claim Mocked Online — Internet Says Video Shows Him Strutting Free
- ICE Agent Mocks Protester's $200K Salary Boast, Claims He Earns the Same Without a College Degree
- Mexican President Sheinbaum Rejects Report Claiming U.S. Demands To Pursue Politicians With Alleged Cartel Ties
- Grok AI Deepfake Crisis Gets Ugly: 'Stranger Things' Child Star Become the Next Target
- Bitmine Immersion makes $200M equity investment in MrBeast’s Beast Industries
- SAP signs deal with Syngenta to boost AI in agriculture
- Asana rises after rating upgrade at Citi
- OpenAI made 'conscious decision' to sit out Apple Siri deal: report
- Manhattan Associates rises after Citi upgrades to Buy
- China begins to create purchase rules for Nvidia H200 chips: report
- Greenland talks, oil's retreat, the latest on the Netflix-WBD deal and more in Morning Squawk
- AWS launches EU Sovereign Cloud, plans expansion
- TSM rises after Q4 profit surges amid AI boom; plans more US factories
- European, U.S. chip stocks rise after TSMC results
- Biggest stock movers Thursday: DELL, LRCX, TSM and more
- Ericsson proposes to cut 1,600 jobs in Sweden
- CNBC Daily Open: Greenland and Iran tensions drive investors to gold and silver
- Australia banned social media for under 16s a month ago — here's how it's going
- Feedelity raises €510K to turn customer feedback into action
- Switzerland probes Microsoft over rising licensing fees
- CNBC's Inside India newsletter: AI is taking over core operations of Indian IT companies
- Skene raises €800k to accelerate software growth via AI agents
- Lytra completes pre-seed financing for AI-driven manufacturing solution
- Luna Systems raises €1.5M to bring AI rider assistance to cycling and motorcycles
- Cyb3r Operations raises £4M to address third-party risk blind spots
- Microsoft strikes record soil carbon credit deal
- Amazon launches its 'sovereign' cloud in Europe and plots expansion
- TSMC fourth-quarter profit beats estimates, soaring 35%, as AI chip demand stays strong
GENERAL US
- 2 No-Brainer AI Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist in 2026 - Yahoo Finance
- A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know. - The New York Times
- Survey: How Executives Are Thinking About AI in 2026 - Harvard Business Review
- Cisco AI Summit will define what comes next - Cisco Blogs
- China to probe Meta's acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus - The Washington Post
- Democrats launch campaign for Virginia voters to join redistricting fight - The Washington Post
- Behind the Curtain: The job replacement AI machine - Axios
- Announcing the winner of the Global AI Film Award - blog.google
- Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday - The Washington Post
- Oracle sued by bondholders over losses tied to AI buildout - Reuters
- Holden Spaht in the Financial Times: The risky bet by AI start-ups - Thoma Bravo
- X says Grok, Musk's AI chatbot, is blocked from undressing images in places where it's illegal - The Washington Post
- The AI Shift: Agentic AI is coming for quantitative research - Financial Times
- Guest column | Today’s writers are too chummy. They should start brawling again. - The Washington Post
- Romantic letters from au pair to boss revealed in double-murder trial - The Washington Post
- Bill Gates says AI could be used as a bioterrorism weapon akin to the COVID pandemic if it falls into the wrong hands - Fortune
- Nvidia CEO delivers biblical-scale reality check on AI - thestreet.com
- California investigates Grok over AI deepfakes - BBC
MAINSTREAM
- Anthropic researchers say rich countries' higher AI use risks deepening economic disparities and widening living standard gaps, driven by productivity gains (Financial Times)
- BlackRock raises $12.5B as part of its Microsoft partnership to bankroll data centers and energy infrastructure, bringing it closer to its $30B goal from 2024 (Silla Brush/Bloomberg)
- Researchers discover WhisperPair, a set of vulnerabilities in Google's Fast Pair protocol affecting 17 audio device models from 10 brands; Google has patched (Wired)
- What AI is actually doing to jobs in Europe
- Irish edtech ‘creating global standard’ for AI skills secures €1m
- AirTags drop back down to $65 for a four-pack
- OpenAI quietly rolls out a dedicated ChatGPT translation tool
- Spotify is raising US subscription prices again – here's how much more you'll pay
- Why men use AI at work more than women
- Wizz CEO Revises Outlook on Airbus Deliveries, Fewer Groundings - Bloomberg.com
- LSEG Debuts Digital Settlement Platform in Blockchain Push - Bloomberg.com
- Thailand Approves New Data Center Projects Worth $3.1 Billion - Bloomberg.com
- China Gets a Jump on Trying AI Everywhere From Cars to Birdbaths - Bloomberg.com
- Morocco beats Nigeria on penalties to reach Africa Cup of Nations final against Senegal - AP News
- Azerbaijan releases four Armenian prisoners in sign of deepening peace - Reuters
- Berlin-based Parloa, which develops AI customer service agents for Booking.com and others, raised $350M at a $3B valuation, taking its total raised to $560M+ (Financial Times)
- Polymarket and Kalshi count Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser, and Trump Media plans to launch Truth Predict, raising ethical questions during Trump's second term (Sharon LaFraniere/New York Times)
- Self-help gurus like Tony Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, and Matthew Hussey are charging up to $99 per month to access AI chatbots that promise personalized advice (Sara Ashley O'Brien/Wall Street Journal)
- AWS signs a two-year supply deal with Rio Tinto to access its Arizona copper mine, the US' first new source in 10+ years, as AI data centers create huge demand (Ryan Dezember/Wall Street Journal)
- Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month for subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, in its first US hike since July 2024 (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
- Dublin’s Luna bags €1.5m to bring its AI safety camera to market
- German AI start-up Parloa triples its valuation to $3bn
- Rich countries’ greater use of AI risks deepening inequality, Anthropic warns
- Are You Still Using Bleach? A Laundry Expert Explains Why That's a Big Mistake
- Meta Taps Former Trump Adviser for New Role Driving AI Buildout - Bloomberg.com
- Taiwan computer chip maker TSMC’s to expand investment as profit jumps 35% - AP News
- Russia expels British diplomat from Moscow embassy over spying claims - AP News
- Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: ‘Are you dead?' - AP News
- Russia says it awaits US response on 'important' issue of expiring nuclear treaty - Reuters
- Sadiq Khan to urge ministers to act over ‘colossal’ impact of AI on London jobs
- Grok scandal highlights how AI industry is ‘too unconstrained’, tech pioneer says
- The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians
- A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know.
- South Korea dropped Naver's and NCSoft's teams from its competition to develop its first sovereign AI model, as LG's, SK Telecom's, and Upstage's teams advanced (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
- The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- WitnessAI, which intercepts employees' custom GenAI models usage and applies safeguards, raised $58M led by Sound Ventures, taking its total funding to $85M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
- ASML hits a $500B+ market cap for the first time, the third European company to reach the milestone, after TSMC reported strong earnings; ASML is up 24% YTD (Bloomberg)
- Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (Cade Metz/New York Times)
- All major AI models risk encouraging dangerous science experiments
- AWS launches European Sovereign Cloud, creating a new parent company for its sovereign cloud that will be locally controlled in the EU and run by EU citizens (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
- Irish start-up Equal1 raises $60m to deploy its quantum tech
- Musk’s xAI bows to pressure and blocks Grok from ‘nudifying’ images
- Supply chain snags and TSMC’s big spending
- Commodore 64 Ultimate review – it’s like 1982 all over again!
- ASML Soars Above $500 Billion Value on TSMC’s Upbeat Outlook - Bloomberg.com
- Press freedom advocates worry that raid on Washington Post journalist's home will chill reporting - AP News
- Ailing astronaut returns to Earth early in NASA’s first medical evacuation - AP News
- Wikipedia owner signs on Microsoft, Meta in AI content training deals - Reuters
- Cornell, Georgetown, UPenn must face lawsuit over financial aid - Reuters
- BOJ to raise rates again to 1% or higher by end-September, possibly by July: Reuters poll - Reuters
- Meta unveils 'Meta Compute' initiative to build AI infrastructure - Reuters
- Google Integrates Gmail, YouTube, and Search Data Directly Into Gemini
- PS5 Pro May Get a Major AI Upscaling Upgrade Soon
- Opera One Adds Color-Coded Tab Islands and Rebuilds Its Browser AI
- Chinese chipmaker SpacemiT, whose RISC-V-based K1 chip is used in industrial systems, robotics, edge computing, and AI devices, raised an ~$86M Series B (Bloomberg)
- A car you can chat with and that gets you? Volvo dishes on AI-wielding EX60.
- OpenAI inks AI chips deal with Nvidia challenger Cerebras
- AWS expanding in Belgium, Netherlands and Portugal, amid sovereign cloud launch
- Toyota Industries' shares hit record on sweetened bid, Elliott's response awaited - Reuters
- Amazon launches new Europe-based cloud service to address user concerns - Reuters
- Source: Apple's Google Gemini deal will be a cloud contract where Apple pays Google; another source says OpenAI declined to be Apple's custom model provider (Financial Times)
- Hong Kong-based WeLab, which operates two digital banks in Hong Kong and Indonesia, raised $220M in equity and debt from HSBC, Prudential Hong Kong, and others (Denise Wee/Bloomberg)
- Blockchain-based lender Figure unveils the On-Chain Public Equity Network to issue, trade, and lend stocks natively on a blockchain, not as tokenized replicas (Kyle Baird/The Block)
- Expectations from AI ramp up as investors eye returns in 2026
- Clickbait review – gripping drama about the human cost of moderating the internet
- The UK’s online retail habit is bigger than we thought
- Past three Fed chairs decry 'unprecedented' assault by Trump on Powell - Reuters
- OpenAI quietly rolls out ChatGPT Translate, a standalone website that currently supports plain text translations across 50+ languages (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
- TSMC reports Q4 net profit up 35% YoY to a record ~$16B, handily beating estimates, as it benefited from surging demand for AI chips (Reuters)
- TSMC posts record quarterly profit on AI boom
- Apple sits out AI arms race to play kingmaker between Google and OpenAI
- L.A. unions push new tax on companies with ‘overpaid’ CEOs - Los Angeles Times
- China Drinks Maker Eastroc Beverage Said to Gauge Interest for Billion-Dollar Plus Hong Kong Listing - Bloomberg.com
- OpenAI Hires Three Staffers From Mira Murati’s AI Startup - Bloomberg.com
- Brazilian police kill 4 in Rio favela in operation to contain Red Command criminal gang - AP News
- Democrats propose state laws to limit ICE after Minneapolis shooting of Renee Good - AP News
- Another crane collapses in Thailand killing 2 people, police say - Reuters
- Haiti drone operation strikes home of gang leader 'Barbecue' - Reuters
- A source close to Thinking Machines alleged that ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
- Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
- Alibaba links Qwen to its online shopping and travel services, including Taobao, Alipay, Fliggy, and Amap, aiming to build a one-stop AI app for its 100M users (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
SECURITY
- Data Privacy Teams Face Staffing Shortages and Budget Constraints, ISACA Warns
- ICE Agent Doxxing Site DDoS-ed Via Russian Servers
- F5 targets AI runtime risk with new guardrails and adversarial testing tools
- AWS European Sovereign Cloud puts data, operations, and oversight inside the EU
- JumpCloud introduces AI features to govern shadow AI and autonomous agents
- Cybersecurity spending keeps rising, so why is business impact still hard to explain?
Total Sources: 261 | Generated: 1/15/2026