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OpenAI Signs $10 Billion Deal With Cerebras
OpenAI and Cerebras announced a multi-year compute partnership on 14th January, in which Cerebras will provide dedicated infrastructure for OpenAI's models. The arrangement involves a $10 billion commitment from OpenAI to secure computing capacity for running inference at scale. Cerebras stated that the partnership will help OpenAI models deliver faster response times for complex, time-consuming tasks. OpenAI is no longer relying solely on internally-managed infrastructure o
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Apple and Google Announce Multi-Year Partnership For Siri
Apple and Google announced on 12th January that they are partnering on artificial intelligence, with Google's Gemini models powering Apple's next-generation Siri voice assistant. The multi-year agreement makes Google's technology the foundation for Apple's foundational models going forward, ending years of Apple pursuing AI independence. Apple stated that after "thorough assessment," Google's technology offers "the most robust foundation" for building AI systems at Apple sca
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AI Security Firm Raises $140 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation
Torq, an AI-driven security operations platform, completed a $140 million Series D funding round led by Merlin Ventures on 11th January, 2026. The round brings the company's total valuation to $1.2 billion and total funding to $332 million. Existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners and Insight Ventures Partners had participated. Torq builds AI agents that automate security operations workflows such as alert triage, investigations, and response handling, at enterp
2 days ago1 min read
OpenAI and SoftBank Co-invest $1 Billion
OpenAI and SoftBank Group announced a $1 billion co-investment into SB Energy on 9th January, to accelerate the buildout of AI infrastructure. SB Energy will construct and manage a 1-gigawatt data center facility in Milam County, Texas, which was initially announced in September. The investment is part of the broader Stargate initiative announced last January, which targets $500 billion in total capital deployment. The partnership combines SoftBank and Ares Management's expe
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xAI Raises $20 Billion
Elon Musk's xAI closed a $20 billion Series E funding round on January 6, 2026, exceeding its original $15 billion target. The round included backing from Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, and strategic investors like Nvidia and Cisco. The company now sits at a $230 billion valuation. In 2025, OpenAI raised $40 billion, Anthropic raised $13 billion, and Project Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion. Roughly 15 AI companies collectiv
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India's Tech Ministry Issues Formal Notice to X Over Grok AI Safeguards
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued a formal notice to X on January 1 flagging serious lapses in how the platform is managing Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot. The government has directed X to undertake a comprehensive technical and governance review of Grok's prompt processing and output generation, with a requirement to submit a detailed action taken report within 72 hours. Rather than allowing companies to self-regulate AI safety, the government i
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NVIDIA's New Platform Vera Rubin Is Here
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced at CES 2026 that the company's next-generation Vera Rubin platform is now in full production and will ship to customers including Microsoft and Amazon in the second half of 2026. The announcement accelerates the timeline by six months compared to NVIDIA's previously stated schedule and just shows that demand for next-generation AI infrastructure is so urgent the company is ramping production ahead of schedule. The Vera Rubin platform compris
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Indian Government Escalates The Grok Issue
Five days after India's Ministry of Electronics issued a formal notice to X demanding a comprehensive review of Grok's safety failures, X has still not submitted the required compliance report. The government responded on January 6 by issuing a formal directive requiring the immediate removal of all vulgar and obscene content generated by Grok, with a new 24-hour compliance window closing January 7 at midnight. The first notice had given X a period of 72 hours to conduct a t
Jan 71 min read
Qualcomm Launches New Robotics Technology
Qualcomm announced a full suite of robotics technologies designed to power physical artificial intelligence systems ranging from household robots to full-size humanoids. Technology companies approach AI deployment differently now, moving from software-first to hardware-centric strategies where processors, chipsets, and sensor integration become the actual competitive differentiator. The portfolio includes processors specifically designed for robotic inference, computer visio
Jan 61 min read
India's Tech Ministry Issues Formal Notice to X Over Grok AI Safeguards
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued a formal notice to X on January 1 flagging serious lapses in how the platform is managing Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot. The government has directed X to undertake a comprehensive technical and governance review of Grok's prompt processing and output generation, with a requirement to submit a detailed action taken report within 72 hours. Rather than allowing companies to self-regulate AI safety, the government i
Jan 51 min read
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The Generational Divide In How People Use AI
Image Credit: generated with Gemini Gen Z views AI as a central operating system, as an extension of their thought process they integrate into everything. Millennials use it to maximize productivity at work while maintaining boundaries. Gen X approaches it cautiously when it saves time. Boomers prefer it invisible and simple. These might seem like minor preferences, but they’re pretty different relationships with the same technology, and they're colliding in actual workplaces
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How Language Models Get Trapped By Their Own Politeness
Image Credit: Generated with Gemini The more successfully AI models are trained to sound agreeable and helpful, the easier they become to manipulate. It's a feature of the alignment objective itself. Models go through a process called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, where human raters grade responses on helpfulness, harmlessness, and honesty. In practice, what gets rated as "helpful" often means "agreeable." A model that restates the user's assumption without push
3 days ago3 min read
Why Pre-2020 Training Data Makes Modern AI Predictions Obsolete
Image Credit: Generated with Gemini A fraud detection model trained on historical transaction patterns in 2018 performed excellently when deployed. Five years later, with the same architecture and no retraining, it began missing fraud that spammers had evolved to execute. The model was not broken. The world had simply changed. The statistical relationships between transaction features and fraud outcomes had shifted, while the model remained confident in its outdated patterns
3 days ago4 min read
Longer Context Windows Might Not Be The Best For AI
The prevailing assumption about AI is that more information available to a model means better reasoning and more reliable outputs. But recent research shows that expanding a model's context window actually degrades its ability to follow instructions precisely ( Together AI, 2025 ). The important thing to understand here is that attention capacity is finite. When a model must distribute attention across a larger input, each individual token receives less focused attention. In
Jan 74 min read
Why Prompt Engineering Was Always Temporary
In 2023, Anthropic posted a Prompt Engineer job with a $375,000 salary and no requirement for a computer science degree. McKinsey had reported that 7% of organizations were hiring Prompt Engineers. The Wall Street Journal called it the job of the future. In 2025, the role has effectively disappeared ( Salesforceben, 2025 ). Job postings for "Prompt Engineer" peaked at 144 searches per million on Indeed in April 2023. By mid-2025, that number had collapsed to 20-30 per millio
Dec 30, 20253 min read
The Lack Of Explainability In AI
Image generated with Gemini The EU AI Act demands explainability for high-risk systems. ISO 42001 requires documented, repeatable controls over AI decision-making. NIST's AI Risk Management Framework expects you to explain how and why your systems make decisions. The requirement appears in every governance framework published in the last three years. But there is a huge gap between requiring explainability and what companies actually deploy. Companies are shipping AI systems
Dec 26, 20253 min read
Why Social Media Feels Addictive: Dopamine by Design
Image on Unsplash You've probably noticed something strange about your phone. You open it to check one message and thirty minutes vanish. You scroll past something mildly interesting and suddenly your feed feels custom built to keep you in that exact spot. This isn't accidental. It's engineered. Social media platforms use AI algorithms designed specifically to maximize how long you stay on them. These aren't passive recommendation systems that just show you what might be rele
Dec 24, 20253 min read
How AI Is Shaping Cinematography
Image on Unsplash The video generation process that used to require a crew of five or six people is now happening in thirty minutes on a smartphone. Not because people are getting particularly skilled in the art, but because AI tools guide us through every step now. A solo creator can now produce at least a 100 professional-quality videos per month using AI video generation tools ( Clippie AI, 2025 ). Those numbers are not even an exaggeration. With the adoption of improving
Dec 23, 20253 min read
How AI Helped Farmers
Image generated with Gemini In India, 38 million farmers received a text message this summer with weather information that fundamentally altered what decisions they could make about their livelihoods. The message told them when the monsoon would arrive and they could plan four weeks in advance instead of being forced to guess ( University of Chicago, 2025 ). This might not sound that big until you understand what the alternative looks like. A farmer in South Asia has to decid
Dec 4, 20253 min read
AI Is Saving Endangered Languages and Killing Them at the Same Time
Image on Unsplash Languages are dying faster than ever before. UNESCO estimates that nearly 40% of the world's languages are endangered, and the rate of language loss could triple within 40 years ( Venus Moon, 2025 ). Every two weeks another minority language disappears completely ( Goethe Institute, 2019 ). Artificial intelligence has emerged as a tool to preserve these languages. Meta's "No Language Left Behind" program expanded its translation systems to include over 200 l
Dec 1, 20252 min read
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