AI INFRASTRUCTURE
AI NEWS
- Microsoft announces glut of new data centers but says it won’t let your electricity bill go up
- China reportedly tightens Nvidia H200 restrictions, limits purchases to special cases
- AI images complicate search for escaped monkeys in St. Louis
- Google Deepmind updates Veo 3.1 with reference image function for more dynamic videos
- Meta Launches Meta Compute to Build out AI Architecture
- Researcher affirms human creativity's value amid AI
- AI 'CHEF' could help those with cognitive declines complete home tasks
- AI could be your next line manager
- Neo humanoid maker 1X releases world model to help bots learn what they see
- Musk v Starmer: will UK ban X over Grok nudification? – The Latest
- OpenAI's "Sweetpea" AI wearable allegedly takes aim at Apple's Airpods
- Salesforce releases new AI slackbot based on Anthropic's Claude
- Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities With Sex Scandals
- New framework verifies AI-generated chatbot answers
- Adaptive motion system helps robots achieve human-like dexterity with minimal data
- AI Implicated as Escaped Monkeys Rampage Through St. Louis
- Your First AI Data Flywheel in Under 100 Lines of Python
- The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Ultimate Developers Guide to Jira Success (1/13/2026)
- Thousands of Monzo bank customers report app outage
- Tech Life
- Police Unmask Millions of Surveillance Targets Because of Flock Redaction Error
- The Complete Guide to Logging for Python Developers
- Microsoft pledges to cover data center power costs as community pushback grows
- Google’s AI Shopping List: Smart Assistants, Smarter Carts and the Future of Retail
- CodeRabbit vs Code Reviews in Kilo: Which One Is Best For You in 2026
- Partnering with Sandstone: An AI-Native Platform for In-House Legal Teams
- Three Centuries of the Future on Margin
- Australian politicians are condemning X and Grok, so why won’t they leave the platform?
- After the Bondi attack, a deepfaked Guardian video went viral. It won't be the last – video
- Apple launches ‘Creator Studio’ bundle of apps for $12.99 per month
- Zelis® Announced the Acquisition of Rivet
- Northwestern Medicine Selects Tempus to Expand Genomic Testing
- Acumatica Names Jon Pollock Chief Product Officer
- OneSpan to Acquire Build38 to Boost Mobile App Protection
- Speechmatics, Sully.ai Partner to Scale Healthcare AI Infrastructure Globally
- CrowdStrike and Nord Security Partner to Redefine SMB Cybersecurity
- AITech Interview with Snehal Patel, Chief Product Officer, Vectra AI
- Hexaware Partners with AccuKnox for Cloud Security Services
- 5 Useful Python Scripts for Effective Feature Engineering
- CSV vs. Parquet vs. Arrow: Storage Formats Explained
- Apple, Google go official for Siri revamp
- AI models don't have a unified "self" - and that's not a bug
- UAE leads with 64% AI adoption rate, leaving the US and Europe far behind, Microsoft says
- Anthropic's Claude Cowork was built in under two weeks using Claude Code to write the code
- Anthropic's new Cowork feature brings Claude Code's agent capabilities to people who don't write code
- UK startup turns planetary biodiversity into AI-generated drug candidates
- OpenAI acquires Torch to build a "medical memory for AI"
- 1Password Appoints Nancy Wang as Chief Technology Officer to Lead AI Strategy
- DDN Earns Top Spot on CRN’s Cloud 100 List for 2026
- Contextual Intelligence Becomes the New Standard For Exceptional CX in 2026
- OutSystems Welcomes SaaS Veteran Fay Sien Goon as Chief Financial Officer
- CallTrackingMetrics Rebrands to CTM
- Cast AI Valued at Over $1 Billion With the Launch of Its GPU Marketplace
- Microsoft's Brad Smith pushes Big Tech to 'pay our way' for AI data centers amid rising opposition
- What a virtual zebrafish can teach us about autonomous AI
- Want to get better at using ChatGPT? New research highlights empathy
- Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
- Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother
- This AI spots dangerous blood cells doctors often miss
- Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI
- Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
AI RESEARCH
- Securing AI Agents Without Slowing Innovation
- Top 20 Random Forest Interview Questions & Answers
- Claude Code Coded Claude Cowork
- UIUC Built a Routing Library for LLMs That Supports 16+ Strategies (From KNN to Multi-Round RL)
- Emmett Shear on AI Alignment, Agency, and Raising a New Intelligence
- Why Your Power BI Report is Slow: A 10-Minute Performance Audit
- Demystifying the QR Decomposition
- 1. The Modern Web & Why FastAPI Exists in 2026
- QCon London 2026: Practitioner-Led Tracks on Connectivity & Production AI Engineering
- GOLD/SILVER RATIO: GenAI with Quant Agents on Microsoft AI Foundry
- Technical Deep Dive: How DigitalOcean and AMD Delivered a 2x Production Inference Performance Increase for Character.ai
- What Makes Modern Online Casinos So Popular
- Build an Instant Chat Assistant with Groq & Llama 3
- TAI #187: OpenAI’s Health Push and the Real State of LLMs in Medicine
- Run AI on Your Laptop: Google’s 0.5GB Model You Can Train at Home
- Google Antigravity Made My IDE Feel Like a Small Engineering Team
- n8n AI Agent Node Memory: Complete Setup Guide for 2026
- Google Introduces Conductor, a Context-Driven Development Extension for Gemini CLI
- Solving Fragmented Mobile Analytics: Uber’s Platform-Led Approach
- The Sequence Knowledge #788: Inside the Generator: Meet The Top Synthetic Data Generation Frameworks for Modern AI
- Emerging AI patterns in finance (what to watch in 2026)
- Taking humanoid soccer to the next level: An interview with RoboCup trustee Alessandra Rossi
- Teaching an AI to Fly Rockets
- Why Your AI Agent Fails After Some Steps (And How Deep Agents Fix It)
- Understanding the Core Computational Blocks in Deep Learning: A Hands-On Tutorial
- 9 RAG Architectures That Save You Months of Dev Work
- 10 Techniques to Make Advanced RAG: A Complete Guide with Examples
- Understanding the Transformer Architecture: The Foundation of Modern AI
- GARCH Volatility Modeling with Python: Risk-Adjusted Position Sizing
- Building an Embedding-Based Surface Defect Detection System for Factories Using Qdrant
- The Multi-Agent Playbook: 6 Agent Patterns for AI-Developers (With Examples)
AI TOOLS
- Object Detection vs Vision-Language Models: When Should You Use Each?
- ChatPRD + Replit: From Spec to Running App in Minutes
- Evaluating DeepAgents CLI on Terminal Bench 2.0
- Evaluating Deep Agents: Our Learnings
- LangSmith Agent Builder now in Public Beta
- Using skills with Deep Agents
- Fastweb + Vodafone: Transforming Customer Experience with AI Agents using LangGraph and LangSmith
- Introducing LangSmith Fetch: Debug agents from your terminal
- Introducing Polly: Your AI Agent Engineer
- Agent Engineering: A New Discipline
- How agents can use filesystems for context engineering
- How Jimdo empower solopreneurs with AI-powered business assistance
- How ServiceNow uses LangSmith to get visibility into its customer success agents
- Execute Code with Sandboxes for DeepAgents
- Debugging Deep Agents with LangSmith
- Now GA: LangSmith Agent Builder
- What Does Successful AI Adoption Look Like in Regulatory Affairs?
CLOUD ANNOUNCEMENTS
CLOUD BUSINESS
- Why 40% of AI Agents Might Fail (and How To Save Yours)
- Tenants: The Missing Backbone of Modern Developer Platforms
- Why Neoclouds Are the Answer To AI Storage Lock-in
- 4 Core Principles for Scaling Your API Engineering Practice
- A 60-second demo of this MagSafe accessory had me entranced - now it's going viral
- This Bluetooth tracker effectively replaced the AirTag on my keychain for one important reason
- I tried Asus' new dual-screen ZenBook, and it might just be my new laptop for work travel
- I tested this pair of $40 headphones and refuse to believe they sound this good
- This smart home breakthrough lets you control appliances without Wi-Fi (and its security risks)
- Avoiding the iOS 26 update? 4 reasons iPhone users should do it - ASAP
- Your Roku just got 6 new free channels - including sports and game shows
- Ramp Adds Developer Tools to Platform With AI Coding Assistant
- How I made my pickpocket-proof tech bag even harder to steal (and a lot easier to recover)
- Here's a 5-in-1 charger that simplified travel for me, and with a quality build
- Traditional Code Review Is Dead. What Comes Next?
- This swappable USB cable replaced all the random cords in my junk drawer
- My ultimate Windows keyboard shortcuts guide to give every user type a productivity boost
- This snap-on iPhone charger finally let me toss my charging cables - and it's cheap
- Should you buy Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 in 2026? I invested in a pair, and don't regret it
- Mastering Frontend Tradeoffs: The 2026 Guide for Senior Devs
- I tried Gmail's new Gemini AI features, and now I want to unsubscribe
- Vanilla OS vs. Bazzite: Which immutable Linux distro is right for you?
- Shopify, Walmart Endorse Google’s New Open Commerce Protocol
- Why I'm more excited about these Klipsch headphones than Sony and Bose releases in 2026
- 5 sure-fire ways to upgrade your soundbar's audio quality without spending a dime
- Why I put my Bose QuietComfort headphones away shortly after testing this competitor
- Your Slackbot just got a huge AI agent upgrade - what it can do now (starting today)
- Too many people are overlooking Anker's ingenious charging accessories lineup for 2026
- Own an Apple TV? I changed these 12 settings to make the system run like new again
- How much RAM does your PC really need in 2026? A Windows and Mac expert's verdict
- Skipping this PC maintenance step could cost you - here's the right way to clean your system
- 10+ useful Google Docs tricks that streamlined my workflow (no plug-ins required)
- Own an Android phone? I changed these 12 settings to greatly improve the battery life
- That handy-looking router USB port can cause problems - here's what PC experts use instead
- This bright LED power bank turned out to be my most useful blackout gadget
- Want Microsoft 365? Just don't choose Premium - here's why
- Why the 2026 Moto G Power is hands-down my favorite budget Android
- Can this $25 multimeter hold its own against my $250 unit? I put it to the test
- OneDrive Backup just got a massive change for the better - how it works now
- This clever Victrola upgrade eliminates a major headache for record players
CLOUD SECURITY
- Lack of isolation in agentic browsers resurfaces old vulnerabilities
- Session-Based Authentication vs Token-Based Authentication: Key Differences Explained
- Streamline security response at scale with AWS Security Hub automation
- BodySnatcher (CVE-2025-12420): A Broken Authentication and Agentic Hijacking Vulnerability in ServiceNow
- Cloudflare Says ‘Non C’è Modo’ (No Way) In Defiance of Italy Piracy Shield Law
- Email is Not Legacy. It’s Infrastructure.
- Best Practices to Achieve the Benefits of Agentic AI in Pentesting
CLOUD TECHNICAL
- SaaS developer, DevOps engineer, or startup founder Are Bleeding Money on Subscriptions (Here’s How to Fix It)
- Serverless MCP: Stateless Execution for Enterprise AI Tools
- 1 year of using AI tools in enterprise apps — here’s what I learned
- I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem.
- Trying Out the New Conductor Extension in Gemini CLI — We’re Gonna Add Auth to Our Full Stack
- I’ve SSH’d Into EC2 Dozens of Times. This One Still Took 4 Hours!
- Optimizing storage performance for Amazon EKS on AWS Outposts
- Building AI Infrastructure for a Post-Framework World
- I Taught a 4B Parameter LLM to Play Wordle on a Mac M4 (Using GRPO)
- Claude Code Remote: Your AI, Anywhere You Go
- The Infinite Buffer: Why AI Agents Are Rebuilding the Lisp Machine
- A gRPC transport for the Model Context Protocol : AI agents are moving from test environments to the core of enterprise operations, where they must interact reliably with external tools and systems to...
- AI-startup's concepts are all same with our MIT-licensed OSS projects. Is this convergent evolution? or OSS etiquette violation?
- If I Had to Learn DevOps Again in 2026, This Is the Path I’d Follow
- How I Stopped My AI Coding Assistant from Cheating on Git Hooks
- How One Game Made Me a Gamer Again
- Using AI for Terraform: running locally with Langflow, OpenSearch, & Ollama
- Build an HTML Media Player
- The Silent Revolution of Workflow Automation: How n8n Broke the Market
- Why AI backend code breaks when specs are vague (and what I’m building to fix it)
- New Google Public Sector research shows that nearly 90% of federal agencies are already using AI : Across the federal landscape, the scale and complexity of agency missions demand constant focus. As public servants continue to heed the mandate to do...
- Conversation Memory Collapse: Why Excessive Context Weakens AI
- AWS Is Moving Toward AI Factories, Not One-Off AI Projects
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) Exam Report 2026: Don’t Rely on Old Guides (Mastering the Post-2025 Revision)
- Enhancing Privacy with Stealth Addresses on Public Blockchains
- I Fired the "One-Click" AI Builders: How I Built a React Portfolio with Gemini (Without Knowing React)
- 🔓 Unlock "Infinite" Claude: The Open Source Hack for Bypassing Rate Limits
- I Accidentally AirDropped a File to a Stranger. She Is Now My Wife.
- Send Transactional Emails in Node.js with Convex and AutoSend API
DEVOPS
- The symbiotic revolution: AI and cloud native technologies transforming the digital landscape
- Part 1: Death of the Toil: How AI Agents Are Replacing Traditional Runbooks
- Part 2: From Reactive to Predictive: Training LLMs on Your Incident History
- Lessons from 2025: The Year “Agent Mitigation” Became a Thing
ENTERPRISE TECH
- Wasabi banks $70m to expand move into AI infrastructure
- Into 2026 - how marketing teams and individual marketers are evolving, thanks to AI : AI is driving change across all parts of the organization, and marketing is no exception. Here’s how it’s changing team structures and responsibilitie...
- AI emerging as key safety driver as commercial fleets cut crash rates by 73% : Kelly Soderlund, Head of Insights at Samsara, discusses how Samsara's Fleet Safety Report shows how AI-powered monitoring can reduce serious road inci...
- New owners re-build Purplebricks with AI CRM after £1 acquisition, slashing costs 70% : No-code Creatio platform key to successful tech and company M&A that now runs combined customer outreach 70% cheaper than either business did befo...
- Slackbot re-born for the Agentic Enterprise - Slack CTO Parker Harris gets personal about a game-changing overhaul for the tech : Slackbot has been around since the earliest days of Slack, but it's about to take on a new life...
FINANCIAL
- When Averages Fall Short: Understanding Uncertainty Through the Work of Dr. Sam Savage
- Semiconductor sales weaken in November, but NAND still a bright spot: MS
- Tapasya Investment Fund I trims stake in Fannie Mae, invests in Adobe in 2025
- Goldman Sachs expects IBM's upcoming 2026 guidance to reflect improving demand
- Palantir is trying to 'destroy' Percepta through legal action, startup's execs say in filing
- Sono-Tek GAAP EPS of $0.02, revenue of $5M
- Intel, AMD lead in daily gains as most semiconductor stocks show mixed action
- China approves tech companies buying Nvidia H200 GPUs in some cases: report
- Apple launches Creator Studio in new subscription package for digital creators
- Oppenheimer downgrades Adobe to Perform as demotions pile up
- NetApp initiated with Buy, while HP sees rating cut to Sell at Goldman
- Global PC shipments rose 9% in 2025; supply constraints cloud 2026 outlook
- Dell added as a new short idea at Hedgeye
- Data center REIT CEO says real estate ‘not in an oversupply state’
- Alibaba-backed PixVerse launches real-time AI video tool, top executive tells CNBC
- Salesforce releases updated Slackbot powered by Anthropic's AI model
- Trump Orders Americans to Leave Iran as Security Raids Blackout Homes Nationwide
- Who Is Elon Musk's New Baby Mama Ashley St Clair and What She Has Actually Said About Transgender Issues
- ICE Agents' Families Drop Bombshell Confessions About Extremism, Abuse Claims, and Lives Torn Apart After Getting Hired
- Osama Bin Laden Conspiracy Theories Emerge Over Missing Evidence 15 Years After Raid
- Quantum startup Haiqu raises $11M
- Dataroid raises $6.6M to scale its analytics platform worldwide
- LIV4 raises €500k to modernise industrial quality management
- Ahead Health raises $6M to build AI-powered health system in Europe
- Verna raises $4M to turn nature programs into measurable action
- Bricks.sh secures €1.6M pre-seed to expand AI-native internal tools
- Heated ICE Encounter: Man Tells Agent to Arrest 'Melania Trump' and Jonathan Ross' Filipina Wife
- Kristi Noem DHS Podium Phrase Sparks Nazi Slogan Claims—Here's What It Means
- Trump Phone Worth the Wait? Inside the T1 Gold's Hardware, Software and Promises
- SEALSQ announces preliminary 2025 revenue and 2026 outlook
- The market's Powell reaction, JPMorgan earnings, Siri's AI upgrade and more in Morning Squawk
- Intel, AMD upgraded to Overweight as server CPUs mostly sold out for 2026: KeyBanc
- Signing Day Sports prices $5.6 million public offering of stocks and warrants
- Check Point, Varonis in focus as Citi adds negative Catalyst Watch; Rapid7 downgraded
- Memory supply crunch affects PC, smartphone, auto markets in 2026: KeyBanc
- Rezolve Ai raises 2025–2026 revenue outlook, forecasts $350M in 2026 sales
- AudioEye sees Q4 2025 net sales of up to 10.5M
- Soluna reports December project updates, closes $32 mln direct offering
- Microsoft says communities won't see energy price hikes near data centers as utility costs rise
- Spectral Capital appoints Daniel Gilcher as CFO ahead of planned NASDAQ uplisting
- KLA Corp. rises on back of TD Cowen upgrade
- Trump does not want higher electricity bills for Americans due to data centers; Microsoft unveils plan to manage AI infrastructure
- CrowdStrike to acquire Seraphic Security in cash-and-stock transaction
- Cisco keeps CoreWeave stake steady, adds Rubrik, in new 13-F
- Palo Alto Networks receives early termination notice from FTC on Chronosphere deal
- Salesforce's Slack releases AI-powered Slackbot
- Extreme Networks exploring purchase of Ruckus from CommScope - report
- Arm's rating cut at BofA ahead of earnings results
- Ichor announces preliminary Q4 2025 financial results
- nLIGHT expects Q4 revenue between $78M to $80M
- Synopsys slips as Piper Sandler downgrades on potential 'prolonged headwinds'
- Redefining Banking Integration: Vijaya Sekhar Paidipalli's Transformation of the Outbound Integration Architecture with AWS Cloud
- Driving Digital Transformation in Banking: Vijaya Sekhar Paidipalli's Vision for AI-Powered Workday Cloud Integration
- SK Hynix to invest $13B in South Korean AI chip packaging plant
- Nvidia says no upfront payment needed for H200 chips - report
GENERAL US
- Aaron Rodgers, Mike Tomlin and the Steelers enter offseason of uncertainty - The Washington Post
- ‘This Is Where the Serpent Lives’ was worth the very long wait - The Washington Post
- Supreme Court appears skeptical of arguments against bans of trans athletes - The Washington Post
- U.S. lost more immigrants than it gained in 2025, new estimate shows - The Washington Post
- Why CES 2026 Signals The End Of ‘AI As A Tool’ - Forbes
- Four Ways I Use AI as a Principal (and One Way I Never Will) (Opinion) - Education Week
- Salesforce releases updated Slackbot powered by Anthropic's AI model - CNBC
- Apple teams up with Google Gemini for AI-powered Siri - CNN
- Partnering with Sandstone: An AI-Native Platform for In-House Legal Teams - Sequoia Capital
- Job applicants are winning the AI arms race against recruiters - The Economist
- Pentagon embraces Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry - PBS
- College announces AI partnership with Anthropic, company accused of plagiarizing Dartmouth professors’ publications - The Dartmouth
- The Home Depot and Google Cloud Launch Agentic AI Tools to Help Customers and Associates Bring Projects from ‘How-to’ to ‘Done’ - The Home Depot
- Try an ‘airport divorce’ if you want to stay a happy couple - The Washington Post
- AstraZeneca to acquire Modella AI to speed oncology drug research - Reuters
- Job Seekers Find a New Source of Income: Training AI to Do Their Old Roles - The Wall Street Journal
- Utah tests AI for routine medication refills through regulatory relief program - Fierce Healthcare
- 'Godfather of AI' says the technology will create massive unemployment and send profits soaring — 'that is the capitalist system' - Fortune
- NVIDIA and Lilly Announce Co-Innovation AI Lab to Reinvent Drug Discovery In the Age of AI - Eli Lilly
- Bellingham employee suspected of using AI to manipulate contract bid process - Bellingham Herald
- How AI-generated content increased disinformation after Maduro’s removal - NPR
- Here comes the advertising in AI chatbots
- WPI's Kathryn Clay discusses how AI data centers may lower consumer electricity prices - The Washington Post
- Zuckerberg draws Trump’s praise for his choice for Meta president - The Washington Post
- SoundHound AI: Buy or Sell in 2026? - The Motley Fool
- ServiceNow Patches Critical AI Platform Flaw Allowing Unauthenticated User Impersonation - The Hacker News
- Building leaders in the age of AI - McKinsey & Company
- War Department 'SWAT Team' Removes Barriers to Efficient AI Development - U.S. Department of War (.gov)
- How 2026 Could Decide the Future of Artificial Intelligence - Council on Foreign Relations
- Microsoft's Brad Smith pushes Big Tech to 'pay our way' for AI data centers amid rising opposition - The Washington Post
- Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk’s Grok over AI sexually explicit AI images - The Washington Post
- CWG Live: Sunny and near 50 today; rain showers late Wednesday - The Washington Post
- U.S. plane used in boat strike was made to look like civilian aircraft - The Washington Post
- Former sailor sentenced to 16 years after selling Navy secrets to China - The Washington Post
- College paper fights to stop AI slop website from stealing its identity - The Washington Post
- Anthropic Launches Claude AI for Healthcare with Secure Health Record Access - The Hacker News
- Contributor: You can blame me for all those em dashes in AI-generated text - Los Angeles Times
- Harmattan AI’s $200 million Series B led by Dassault Aviation - Press kits - Dassault Aviation
- How AI is shrinking the job market for teens : The Indicator from Planet Money - NPR
- The AI question every job candidate on interview should be prepared to answer - CNBC
- Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work (Ep. 267) - Conversations with Tyler
- Building Community-First AI Infrastructure - The Official Microsoft Blog
- Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
- Apple turns to Google to power AI upgrade for Siri
- Column | Carolyn Hax: Husband sees hyphenating name for fairness as too much of a hassle - The Washington Post
MAINSTREAM
- Iconic Oscar Wilde Portrait by Legendary Photographer Sarony to Be Sold at Auction
- U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Rising for the First Time in Two Years—They Could Climb Far Higher : The skyrocketing electricity demands of AI data centers—and a cold snap—are driving up America’s emissions after years of declines, a new report...
- Mercedes pauses the rollout of Drive Pilot, a Level 3 "eyes off" driving feature available in Europe and the US, citing low demand and high production costs (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
- Roblox's AI-powered age verification system, which expanded globally last week using tech from a company called Persona, faces criticism for misidentifying ages (David Gilbert/Wired)
- Sources: AI chip startup Etched raised $500M led by Stripes at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to almost $1B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
- Anthropic shakes up its C-suite; chief product officer Mike Krieger will become the co-lead of its Labs incubator; head of product Ami Vora will become CPO (Hayden Field/The Verge)
- China’s Hottest App Is a Daily Test of Whether You’re Still Alive
- Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers
- EPA moves to stop considering economic benefits of cleaner air
- Scott Adams, Dilbert creator, dead at 68
- Taiwan issues arrest warrant for Pete Lau, CEO of OnePlus
- Cooking Dinner in the Air Fryer? Avoid the Olive Oil and Use This Instead
- Marc Andreessen to Tech Founders: ‘Raise Prices, Raise Prices, Raise Prices’
- In 2026, Google Is Focused on Making AI Actually Useful
- No Need to Wait for the iPhone 18. Just Buy the iPhone 17
- ‘Star Trek Real’: Hegseth Praises Grok for Allowing Users to Fight Wars
- Your Slack Is Infected With an AI Agent Now
- AI researchers are now studying LLMs as if they were living organisms
- Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare — but maybe not as a chatbot
- Ring founder details the camera company’s ‘intelligent assistant’ era
- A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google’s AI agent shopping protocol — Google says she’s wrong
- Chargers lament failing to win for Justin Herbert in playoffs: ‘I want it bad for him’ - Los Angeles Times
- A U.S. Navy sailor told his friend China was asking him to spy for them. Then he did it - Los Angeles Times
- Arizona draws a line on groundwater use after letting Saudi-owned company pump freely for years - Los Angeles Times
- AI - Bloomberg.com
- Saks’ CEO Baker to Exit Luxury Retailer Ahead of Bankruptcy - Bloomberg.com
- EPA Will No Longer Consider Value of Human Health Benefits in Setting Air Pollution Rules - Bloomberg.com
- Immigrant detainee at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ agrees to leave US, asks that lawsuit be dismissed - AP News
- Mike Tomlin steps down after 19 seasons as coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers - AP News
- Trump visits a Ford pickup truck factory, aiming to promote his efforts to boost manufacturing - AP News
- US charges man shot by Border Patrol agent in Portland - Reuters
- US withdraws policy expressly barring lending bias against immigrants - Reuters
- Nigeria's Chelle eyes defensive game against Morocco - Reuters
- 'Traitors', 'Big Brother' franchise owners in talks over potential tie-up - Reuters
- Grok no-brainer is make-or-break for EU tech rules - Reuters
- Roblox’s AI-Powered Age Verification Is a Complete Mess
- A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Taiwan issues an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau for allegedly illegally hiring 70+ Taiwanese engineers, as it tries to stop China from raiding workers (Li Liu/Bloomberg)
- The US FCC waives a rule that forced Verizon to unlock phones 60 days after they are activated, which could make it harder for people to switch from Verizon (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
- The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images (Bloomberg)
- Google Pulls Some Health-Related AI Overviews as Industry Goes All-In on Healthcare
- EPA Will No Longer Factor Health Costs Into Rules on Two Deadly Air Pollutants
- Apple, Google Confirm Multiyear Deal for AI Technology, Siri - Bloomberg.com
- Boeing Beats Airbus to Claim First Jet Sales Crown Since 2018 - Bloomberg.com
- Caterpillar Crosses $300 Billion in Market Value on AI Rally - Bloomberg.com
- Attorneys give dueling narratives in double murder trial of Virginia man having affair with au pair - AP News
- Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicating efforts to capture them - AP News
- Bringing charges against the Fed: What we do (and don’t) know - AP News
- Snoop Dogg's NBA analyst role underscores why his on-air presence and global appeal keeps growing - AP News
- Alonso grateful to Real despite failed coaching stint - Reuters
- Massive cyberattack on Polish power system in December failed, minister says - Reuters
- Germany indicts Ukrainians over alleged Russian exploding parcels plot - Reuters
- Ukraine parliament blocks Zelenskiy's energy minister choice in surprise rebuke - Reuters
- India reins in booming quick-commerce sector over '10-minute' delivery claim - Reuters
- Investors back energy providers over big tech for 2026 AI bets, says BlackRock - Reuters
- Tories call for block on Chinese super-embassy amid claims of hidden chamber near sensitive cables – UK politics live
- It’s the governance of AI that matters, not its ‘personhood’ | Letters
- Apple Chooses Google Gemini Over OpenAI for Future Siri and AI Features
- CrowdStrike acquires Israel-based browser security startup Seraphic, a source says for around $400M; Seraphic has raised around $37M in total (Meir Orbach/CTech)
- Onebrief, which makes AI-powered military workflow software, raised a $200M Series D, nearly doubling its valuation from $1.1B to $2.1B in about half of a year (Colin Demarest/Axios)
- Flip, which offers an Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $31M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
- Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, a version of its coding AI for regular people
- Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s First AI Gadget May Try to Kill AirPods
- ElevenLabs CEO says the voice AI startup crossed $330 million ARR last year
- Adobe Analysts Turn Most Bearish Since 2013 as AI Threat Looms - Bloomberg.com
- Hedge Funds Turn Chaos Into Cash for Best Gains in 16 Years - Bloomberg.com
- Mike Tomlin and the Steelers face familiar questions after their latest early playoff exit - AP News
- Offshore wind developer prevails in court as Trump says the US 'will not approve any windmills' - AP News
- Microsoft's Brad Smith pushes Big Tech to 'pay our way' for AI data centers amid rising opposition - AP News
- England unhappy with review technology after Carey reprieved in Adelaide test - Reuters
- AI News | Latest Headlines and Developments - Reuters
- S&P 500, Nasdaq steady after mixed results from JPMorgan, Delta Air - Reuters
- Apple rolls out Creator Studio to boost services push, adds AI features - Reuters
- Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says
- Microsoft Pledges to Pay More for Electricity, Drawing Praise From Trump
- Why India’s plan to make AI companies pay for training data should go global
- Creator Studio Is Apple’s Long-Awaited Answer to Adobe Creative Cloud
- Photographer Captures People With Their Cars in Stark Portraits
- Vertical Solar Panels—Wind-Resistant Trackers for High Latitudes : Traditional solar fails in the windswept north. Two Swedish inventors are betting on aerodynamic resilience to solve the latitude gap
- NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC, with participation from Nvidia and others (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
- Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
- Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
- Crypto scams received $14B+ on-chain in 2025, up from 2024's $12B and potentially rising to $17B+ as more wallets are found; impersonation scams jumped 1,400% (Chainalysis)
- Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- Austin-based webAI, which is building AI models that run locally on devices, raised "high double-digit" millions in a Series A at a $2.5B pre-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
- When shopping stops being a place
- Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
- Anthropic launches Cowork, Claude Code for non-coding work
- Report: How might AI and automation impact jobs leading up to 2030?
- OpenAI buys health-tech Torch for $100m
- Meta refocuses on AI hardware as metaverse layoffs begin
- Star Wars Outlaws developer Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm face layoffs
- AirTags are back on sale, with a four-pack going for $65
- Insta360 releases AI-powered follow-up to its Link webcams
- The Morning After: Apple will use Gemini to power Siri AI
- Proton's Lumo AI chatbot now has an encrypted space for your projects
- Thin Phones Head-to-Head: iPhone Air vs. Galaxy S25 Edge
- Xbox Game Pass Takes You to a Galaxy Far, Far Away in Star Wars Outlaws
- This Duck-Billed Microphone Protects Against Eavesdroppers, but It Sure Is a Look
- The Latest ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Trailer Gives Us an Unlikely Team-Up
- Father-son team reclaims world record with 408 mph FPV drone
- Nvidia's long-rumored N1X Arm CPU surfaces again in Dell laptop leak
- Trump says tech giants, not consumers, must pay higher electricity costs tied to AI data centers
- Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz
- Meta is cutting hundreds of metaverse jobs now that AI is the priority
- Superorganism raises $25M to back biodiversity startups
- Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup
- Slackbot is an AI agent now
- Brazil orders Meta to suspend policy banning third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp
- AI cannot take responsibility for human faults
- Games Workshop bans use of AI in its designs
- Home Office TikTok account posting deportation footage accused of turning ‘brutality into clickbait’
- Don’t hold your breath for robots’ ChatGPT moment
- Microsoft warns that China is winning AI race outside the west
- A year after the L.A. fires, trail crew workers reflect on what we’ve learned - Los Angeles Times
- Trump pick for Gaza board Nickolay Mladenov frequently worked to ease Mideast tensions - Los Angeles Times
- Meta Said to Discuss Doubling Ray-Ban Glasses Output After Surge in Demand - Bloomberg.com
- Why AI Data Centers in Space Aren’t Totally Science Fiction - Bloomberg.com
- TCS CEO on India’s IT Outlook and AI Strategy - Bloomberg.com
- Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices - Bloomberg.com
- UK Recruiters Face Dire Year With Tough Jobs Market, AI Risk - Bloomberg.com
- Conspiracy theorists burn 5G towers claiming link to virus - AP News
- Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk - AP News
- Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration - AP News
- Word war: In Russia-Ukraine war, information became a weapon - AP News
- US accuses Russia of 'dangerous and inexplicable escalation' of war in Ukraine as Trump seeks peace - AP News
- Mexican president tells Trump that US intervention against cartels is ‘unnecessary’ - AP News
- Top central bankers express ‘full solidarity’ with Fed Chair Powell in clash with Trump - AP News
- Tensions flare in Minnesota as protesters and federal agents repeatedly square off - AP News
- Explainer: Honda unveils its new level 3 technology, but how does it work? - Reuters
- US IRS pauses modernization investments to evaluate AI technology - Reuters
- OpenAI-backed startup brings chatbot technology to first major law firm - Reuters
- DeepSeek sparks AI stock selloff; Nvidia posts record market-cap loss - Reuters
- China's Lens Technology to raise up to $608 million via Hong Kong listing - Reuters
- The Future of Sustainable Blockchain Technology is Here - Reuters
- US pauses implementation of $40 billion technology deal with Britain - Reuters
- Market Logic Announces Technology Partnership with Zappi to Accelerate Innovation with AI - Reuters
- Shanghai Biren Technology Co Ltd - Reuters
- Love Machines by James Muldoon review – inside the uncanny world of AI relationships
- Why AI datacentres are draining our energy and water – Full Story podcast
- Reid Hoffman Wants Silicon Valley to ‘Stand Up’ Against the Trump Administration
- Nigeria Set to Pass Sweeping AI Rules for Digital Economy - Bloomberg.com
- Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (Bloomberg)
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- Microsoft January 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 114 flaws
- Central Maine Healthcare breach exposed data of over 145,000 people
- CISA Flags Actively Exploited Gogs Vulnerability With No Patch
- Betterment confirms data breach after wave of crypto scam emails
- SHADOW#REACTOR Campaign Uses Text-Only Staging to Deploy Remcos RAT
- Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Components and Outlook Express
- F5 NGINXaaS for Google Cloud protects cloud-native applications
- Enterprise security faces a three-front war: cybercrime, AI misuse, and supply chains
- AI EdgeLabs launches Compliance Center and Linux Audit for NIS2 and CRA readiness
- AuraInspector: Open-source tool to audit Salesforce Aura access control misconfigurations
- Minimal Ubuntu Pro expands Canonical’s cloud security offerings
- Concentric AI releases Private Scan Manager for AWS GovCloud (US)
- Acronis Archival Storage brings compliance-ready, S3-compatible cold storage to MSPs
- Global Magecart Campaign Targets Six Card Networks
- Phishing Scams Exploit Browser-in-the-Browser Attacks to Steal Facebook Passwords
- New Chinese-Made Malware Framework Targets Linux-Based Cloud Environments
- Parliament Asks Security Pros to Shape Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
- Cybersecurity jobs available right now: January 13, 2026
Total Sources: 465 | Generated: 1/13/2026