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Wednesday, January 21 2026 - Elon Says: IPO NOW!
- Anthropic’s CEO stuns Davos with Nvidia criticism (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT (Reuters)
- OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch (The Information)
- Netflix Is Testing Vertical Video Features For Mobile (THR)
- YouTubers will be able to make Shorts with their own AI likenesses (The Verge)
- YouTube CEO Neal Mohan’s Big Ideas for 2026: More Superstar Creators and Transparency, Less AI Slop (THR)
- Why Elon Musk Is Racing to Take SpaceX Public (WSJ)
Tuesday, January 20 2026 - The “Assistant Axis”
- Netflix revises its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, it’s all cash (CNN)
- Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL (The Verge)
- An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them (NYTimes)
- Most of Instagram’s ads ran on Reels in 2025, data shows (CNBC)
- Anthropic Uncovers AI Personality Crisis as Models Secretly Switch Identities (eWeek)
Monday, January 19 2026 - Ads Come To ChatGPT
- OpenAI brings advertising to ChatGPT in push for new revenue (FT)
- OpenAI’s Revenue Soars Past $20 Billion After 233% Jump—But Explosive Growth Comes With Massive Compute Costs And A $17 Billion Burn Rate (Benzinga)
- Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away (WSJ)
- ‘No Reasons to Own’: Software Stocks Sink on Fear of New AI Tool (Bloomberg)
- Musk Seeks Up to $134 Billion Damages From OpenAI, Microsoft (Bloomberg)
- Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation (The Information)
- There’s a Hit Movie Set Deep Inside an AI Lab—and It Will Give You Goosebumps (WSJ)
Thursday, January 15 2026 - Ain’t No Drama Like AI Industry Drama
- Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI (Wired)
- Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says (Ars Technica)
- TSMC delivers another record quarter as profit jumps 35% fueled by robust AI chip demand (CNBC)
- Ireland Is Trying to Get Back on the Data Center Bandwagon (Bloomberg)
- Spotify Raises Premium Subscription Prices in US to $13 a Month (Bloomberg)
Wednesday, January 14 2026 - NOT Alright, Alright, Alright
- Exclusive: China’s customs agents told Nvidia’s H200 chips are not permitted, sources say (Reuters)
- Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts (The Verge)
- Tesla Driver-Assist System FSD Will Switch to Subscription-Only, Musk Says (Bloomberg)
- Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself to Fight AI Misuse (WSJ)
- Microsoft’s Spending on Anthropic AI Is on Pace to Hit $500 Million (The Information)
- Apple Struggling With Key Material Shortage as AI Chips Drain Supply (MacRumors)
- McKinsey challenges graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment overhaul (FT)
Tuesday, January 13 2026 - Microsoft Pledges To Pay Its Own Way
- Microsoft responds to AI data center revolt, vowing to cover full power costs and reject local tax breaks (GeekWire)
- Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices (Bloomberg)
- Apple debuts ‘Apple Creator Studio’ subscription, here’s what you get (9to5Mac)
- Google Gemini Partnership With Apple Will Go Beyond Siri Revamp (MacRumors)
- Anthropic’s new Cowork tool offers Claude Code without the code (TechCrunch)
Monday, January 12 2026 - Siri Goes With Gemini
- Apple picks Google’s Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year (CNBC)
- UK’s Ofcom investigates X over Grok’s sexualised AI images of women and children (FT)
- Anthropic expands into healthcare a week after OpenAI launched a similar product (Business Insider)
- Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI (Sherwood News)
- AI’s Memorization Crisis (The Atlantic)
Friday, January 09 2026 - Grok Still Groking
- No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature (The Verge)
- Musk’s xAI Burns Almost $8 Billion, Reveals Optimus Plan (Bloomberg)
- Chinese Firms Dominated Global Humanoid Robot Shipments in 2025 (Bloomberg)
- DeepSeek To Release Next Flagship AI Model With Strong Coding Ability (The Information)
- Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion for new funds (Axios)
- A16z’s $15 Billion Fund Vacuumed Up A Fifth Of Venture Dollars Raised Last Year (Forbes)
Thursday, January 08 2026 - ChatGPT Health
- Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What’s on X (Wired)
- Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI (The Verge)
Wednesday, January 07 2026 - CES Day 3
- Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $20 Billion (NYTimes)
- Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would ‘invade’ Venezuela (FT)
- Americans Hate AI. Which Party Will Benefit? (Politico)
- The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape (Washington Post)
- Three Reasons We Can’t Get Enough of LinkedIn (WSJ)
- What surprised us the most at CES 2026 (The Verge)
Tuesday, January 06 2026 - CES Day 2
- Nvidia launches Vera Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026 (The Verge)
- AMD shows off new higher performing AI chip at CES event (Reuters)
- I tested Nvidia’s Tesla Full Self-Driving competitor — Tesla should be worried (The Verge)
- Dell Admits It Made a Huge Mistake When It Abandoned XPS (Gizmodo)
- Robot Vacuum Maker Roborock Shows Off Stair-Climbing Model With Legs (Bloomberg)
- Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years (The Verge)
Monday, January 05 2026 - CES Day 1
- Exclusive: Samsung to double AI mobile devices to 800 million units this year (Reuters)
- Voice control opening and closing comes to Samsung’s Family Hub smart fridges (The Verge)
- Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture (The Verge)
- SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to launch landmark IPOs (FT)
- Reddit overtakes TikTok in UK thanks to search algorithms and gen Z (The Guardian)
- How Meta’s Reels Became a $50 Billion Business (WSJ)