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Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging, which it could launch as early as 2027 — Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker …
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Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface — Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot …
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A look at Craig Federighi's approach to AI at Apple; sources say he led a push to use other companies' models to help launch a revamped Siri later in 2026 — Last fall, Apple's software chief, Craig Federighi, delivered a warm message to a meeting of the company's combined software and AI groups.| New York Times: |
NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M+ sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X — Over nine days, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.
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Sources: the US and China approve a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a group of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake, set to close this week — The US and China have signed off on a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a consortium of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake …
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Google rolls out Personal Intelligence in AI Mode to access users' Gmail and Google Photos data for more tailored responses, for US Pro and Ultra subscribers — AI Mode, Google's conversational Search feature for complex questions, is getting more personalized.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands its AI-powered Prompted Playlists beta to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following initial testing in New Zealand — Spotify is rolling out Prompted Playlists, a new AI playlist creation tool, to Premium subscribers in the U.S. and Canada.
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Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800+ creatives launch “Stealing Isn't Innovation” to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others — Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, George Saunders, and other creatives say that AI companies are … | AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: |
xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the startup, after saying on a podcast last week that xAI has skirted regulations while building its data centers — Interesting timing. — Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless …
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Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift their focus to a housing legislation push — A sweeping US crypto market bill is likely to be delayed by at least several weeks as key lawmakers shift their focus … | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Waymo launches its robotaxi service in Miami, its sixth market, initially covering a 60-square-mile area, and partners with Moove for fleet management — Alphabet's Waymo said Thursday that its robotaxi service is now open to paying riders in Miami, kicking off a 2026 market expansion.
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Source: Google DeepMind signs a licensing deal with Hume AI, which builds emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and ~7 top engineers — Hume AI's CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.
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Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more — Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world.
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Q&A with recently departed OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek, who claims OpenAI's shift toward more conservative ways made high-risk, pioneering work harder — Are all the AI superpowers playing it too safe? — ∙ Paid — On January 5th, famed AI researcher Jerry Tworek stunned world+dog …
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An analysis of 5,290 AI research papers at NeurIPS: 141, or ~3%, had US-China AI lab collaboration, vs. 134/4,497 in 2024; Llama featured in 106 Chinese papers — WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI's Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.| Financial Times: |
Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia's stock is up ~800% over the past 12 months, as AI demand and constrained NAND flash supply boost the chipmaker's pricing power — Kioxia's stock has gained around 800 per cent in the past 12 months — For all Japan's image as a high-tech economy …
More: PC Gamer, DigiTimes, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, Club386, and OC3D
| Kyu-Seok Shim / Reuters: |
South Korea enacts the AI Basic Act, which it says includes the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating AI, as startups warn of compliance burdens — South Korea introduced on Thursday what it says is the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating artificial intelligence …
More: Oman Observer, Türkiye Today, and Telecompaper
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Autodesk plans to cut about 1,000 jobs, or ~7% of its workforce, as part of a global restructuring plan seeking to strengthen sales and marketing — The move is the final phase of efforts by the maker of AutoCAD to streamline customer engagement and bolster its sales channels.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Cambio, creator of AI-powered commercial real estate software for institutional investors, raised an $18M Series A led by Maverick Ventures at a $100M valuation — Cambio, a startup that has built AI-powered commercial real estate software for institutional investors, has raised $18 million …
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A US House panel okays a bipartisan bill pushing congressional oversight of AI chip exports and banning Nvidia Blackwell sales to China for at least two years — Congress is one step closer to gaining the authority to review artificial intelligence chip sales to China … | Bloomberg: |
BitGo raises $212.8M in its IPO, selling 11.8M+ shares at $18 each, above the $15 to $17 range, giving it a ~$2.1B market value, in 2026's first crypto US IPO — BitGo Holdings Inc. and some of its backers raised $212.8 million in a US initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed range.| Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal: |
Survey: over 40% of executives said AI saved them more than eight hours per week, while two-thirds of non-management staff said they saved less than two hours — How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report — Largest divergence:
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Adobe rolls out Firefly Foundry, which creates AI-generated “commercially safe” images, video, and more grounded in a brand or franchise's creative universe — Adobe is rolling out a new AI offering aiming to create common ground among major talent agencies, top filmmakers … | Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic projected a 40% gross margin from selling AI to companies and developers in 2025, down from est. of 50%, due to 23% higher inference costs — Anthropic last month projected it would generate a 40% gross profit margin from selling AI to businesses and application developers in 2025 … | Anjli Raval / Financial Times: |
A look at the entry-level hiring squeeze in marketing, communications, and customer service as executives increasingly argue AI can absorb much of the workload — Economic uncertainty and the arrival of AI have brought a reduction in entry-level roles, with potentially disastrous consequences for young people| Bloomberg: |
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch calls claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US a “fairy tale”, and China's open-source tech is “probably stressing” US CEOs — Claims that Chinese technology for artificial intelligence lags the US are a “fairy tale,” Arthur Mensch …
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| Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to create a commercial AI product for cross-hardware efficiency, raised a $150M seed led by a16z at an $800M valuation — Inferact, an AI startup formed by the creators of open-source software vLLM, has raised $150 million in a seed funding round that values the company at $800 million.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised a $100M Series B led by TQ Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M+, says it has ARR of $10M+ — Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised a $100 million Series B led by TQ Ventures, founder and CEO Jake Cooper tells Axios Pro.
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