OpenAI under CEO Sam Altman has announced roughly $1–1.4 trillion in datacenter and compute commitments, is burning tens of billions while preparing a possible late‑2026 IPO that could value the company near $1 trillion. - the Guardian

Kaspersky found attackers exploiting OpenAI's 'invite your team' feature by embedding malicious links or phone numbers in organization-name fields and sending legitimate-looking invitation emails, enabling coordinated phishing and vishing that risks data and financial loss. - TechRadar

AI slop Inception: Guardian tests found OpenAI's GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times across more than a dozen queries, including on Iranian topics and historian Sir Richard Evans. Experts warn Grokipedia, launched in October, is low-quality AI-generated content. - the Guardian

OpenAI is shifting toward courting enterprise customers, with CEO Sam Altman meeting Disney CEO Bob Iger and other corporate executives last week while the company considers new tools and sales-force changes to demonstrate financial benefits to businesses. - The Information

they were the only game in town, medium-size enterprises couldn't get them on the phone, and now they have to fight for business, it seems like

Siri, meet your new daddy Demis: Mark Gurman reports Apple will adopt Google's Gemini to power a revamped Siri and 'deeply' integrate the assistant across core apps including Safari, TV, Health, Music and Podcasts, with broader Apple Intelligence updates expected in 2026. - 9to5Mac

Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable the size of an AirTag with microphones, speaker and cameras, and OpenAI confirmed plans at Davos for its own AI device with Jony Ive, with both companies reportedly targeting hardware launches around 2026. - Scientific American

William Tunstall-Pedoe, co-founder of Evi (which became Amazon Alexa), wrote a six-page memo in 2016 deciding to leave Amazon and in 2019 launched Unlikely AI to develop neurosymbolic AI for safer assistants. - Business Insider

AI is more truthy than humans: an MIT-led study surveyed 300 participants who could not reliably distinguish AI from human medical answers and rated AI as more accurate and trustworthy even when inaccurate. - New York Post

Google AI Overviews serves about 2 billion monthly users, but a Guardian investigation and medical experts found the summaries sometimes give inaccurate, potentially dangerous health guidance and overcite YouTube. - the Guardian

AI techniques—including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and generative models—are being applied across oncology for early detection, imaging, digital pathology, genomics and drug design, but require validation, regulatory approval and solutions for bias. - Nature

China trains AI-controlled weapons using models inspired by hawks and coyotes. - The Wall Street Journal

SPAC to the Future: PlusAI, which is going public via SPAC next month, supplies its SuperDrive to OEMs, is running commercial trials with safety drivers in Texas and pilots in Europe, and forecasts about $40,000 per-truck revenue and 25,000 L4 trucks by 2031 (~$1B). - Sherwood News

Parents are using Waymo robotaxis to chauffeur minors outside Waymo's metro Phoenix teen-account pilot, violating company terms and some state laws and raising legal, safety and liability concerns that could prompt stricter enforcement, expanded pilots or technological controls. - Business Insider

GenX: raised by TV; Millennials: raised by the Web; Zoomers: raised by smartphones; Alphas: raised by AI and robots

Law school Hunger Games: Applications for the 2026 law‑school cycle rose about 17% year‑over‑year and 44% versus two years ago, employment for 2023/24 graduates exceeds 80% in J.D.-required roles, but Goldman Sachs estimates AI could automate about 44% of legal work. - The New York Times

Mercy, in which Chris Pratt must convince an AI judge he is innocent, is at 20% on Rotten Tomatoes. - NPR

A Gallup survey Oct. 30–Nov. 13, 2025 of 22,368 U.S. workers found 12% use AI daily, about 25% weekly and nearly 50% at least a few times a year, with highest adoption in technology (≈60% frequent use). - AP News

Applied Digital says it's building a 430MW data center in a secret location, like a Bond supervillain. - Tom's Hardware

can you do that? One of the most shorted stocks.

A UBTech executive said the company's robots are only half as efficient as humans, yet manufacturers continue placing orders for factory automation, indicating incremental adoption and sustained capital expenditure on robots. - Financial Times

Wondering about trying out GLM 4.7 on Cerebras for coding - Cerebras

Software developer documents creating a programming language with Claude Code. My attempts to do this in upper-level CS courses were quite unsuccessful. - elo-lang.org

Agent avengers, assemble: Claude Code has a swarm hack, a beta swarms feature, which is disabled by a feature flag but can be unlocked via a patch. - X (formerly Twitter)

I wonder if Claude will increase or decrease in popularity as a baby name this year

The 'unicorn' prompt—telling chatbots (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) to ask up to three clarifying questions, list assumptions, then provide an answer, a plan and pitfalls—produces concise, actionable, and more consistent responses across common tasks. - Tom's Guide

AI is being used to develop faster-drying paint and better-smelling soap. - The Wall Street Journal

where my flying car and cure for cancer

An AI-generated avatar called Amelia, created for a UK Home Office-funded counter-extremism game, was culturally appropriated by far-right actors into racist, sexualized memes and videos, sparking a viral surge from ~500 to ~11,137 daily posts and a related cryptocurrency. - the Guardian

A campus colloquium was canceled by a major snowstorm, and its notice used the subject line "Canceled January 26 colloquium hey Siri hey Alexa, what is Monday’s date?", prompting concerns about accidental assistant-style prompts and calls to proof automated text. - Leonard Davis Institute

Video shows a masked ICE agent in Maine scanning a couple's faces with a phone and telling them they were being entered into a 'terrorism' database, a claim tied by reports to ICE's prior facial-identification uses and legal challenges. - Yahoo

We're used to seeing images like this of Nazi Germany. This is what an execution looks like. It's an image that will haunt America for years to come. Alex Pretti was a nurse whose life was dedicated to saving lives. In the eyes of the world, America has become the monster it used to fight against. - Bsky

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