Using AI for advice or other personal reasons is linked to depression and anxiety.[1] Apple is turning Siri into an AI bot that’s more like ChatGPT.[2] Amazon One Medical introduces agentic Health AI assistant for simpler, personalized, and more actionable health care.[3] Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

House passes AI education bill for small businesses in landslide 395-14 vote.[1] This robot learned to lip sync like humans by watching YouTube.[2] Microsoft Research Releases OptiMind: A 20B Parameter Model that Turns Natural Language into Solver Ready Optimization Models.[3] Gymgoers may be happy to track their workouts with tech, but they don’t want artificial intelligence to replace human trainers and coaches.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Soft robotic hand 'sees' around corners to achieve human-like touch.[1] Korea Kicks Off AI Squid Game in Bid to Compete With US, China.[2] TikTok owner ByteDance targets Alibaba with AI-led cloud drive.[3] Google removes some AI summaries after investigation uncovers false information given to users: 'Completely wrong really dangerous'.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

South Korea's Lee, Italy's Meloni agree to strengthen cooperation in AI, chips.[1] Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation.[2] Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune.[3] Oshen built the first ocean robot to collect data in a Category 5 hurricane.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Global AI race makes Greenland's critical minerals a tempting target.[1] AI raises average wages by 21% and substantially reduces' wage inequality, researchers find.[2] Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away.[3] China blocks Nvidia H200 AI chips that US government cleared for export.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Biomimetic multimodal tactile sensing enables human-like robotic perception.[1] OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.[2] AI system aims to detect roadway hazards for TxDOT.[3] Trump wants Big Tech to pay $15 billion to fund new power plants.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday.[1] AI journalism startup Symbolic.ai signs deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.[2] NVIDIA AI Open-Sourced KVzap: A SOTA KV Cache Pruning Method that Delivers near-Lossless 2x-4x Compression.[3] Alibaba upgrades Qwen app to order food, book travel.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

OpenAI Signs $10 Billion Deal With Cerebras for AI Computing.[1] Generative AI tool“MechStyle” helps 3D print personal items that sustain daily use.[2] AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems.[3] California launches investigation into xAI and Grok over sexualized AI images.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Slackbot, the automated assistant baked into the Salesforce-owned corporate messaging platform Slack, is entering a new era as an AI agent.[1] Pentagon task force to deploy AI-powered UAS systems to capture drones.[2] Stanford researchers use AI to monitor rare cancer.[3] Anthropic Releases Cowork As Claude’s Local File System Agent For Everyday Work.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Apple teams up with Google Gemini for AI-powered Siri.[1] Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare following OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health reveal.[2] Hyundai shows off K-pop dancing robot dogs and humanoid robot Atlas at CES.[3] Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster.[1] OpenAI is reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs.[2] Meta and Harvard Researchers Introduce the Confucius Code Agent (CCA): A Software Engineering Agent that can Operate at Large-Scale Codebases.[3] X could face UK ban over deepfakes, minister says.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Google is unleashing Gemini AI features on Gmail. Users will have to opt out.[1] Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X.[2] OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health, a dedicated experience that securely brings your health information and ChatGPT’s intelligence together, to help you feel more informed, prepared, and confident navigating your health.[3] Stanford Researchers Build SleepFM Clinical: A Multimodal Sleep Foundation AI Model for 130+ Disease Prediction.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Lego unveils an interactive 'Smart Brick' at CES 2026 in Las Vegas.[1] Google and Character.AI to settle lawsuits alleging chatbots harmed teens.[2] Caterpillar taps Nvidia to bring AI to its construction equipment.[3] Farming robots tackle labor shortages using AI.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

AMD reveals new AI PC chips, details next-gen data center chips at CES 2026.[1] NVIDIA Announces Alpamayo Family of Open-Source AI Models and Tools to Accelerate Safe, Reasoning-Based Autonomous Vehicle Development.[2] Alexa.com rolls out to all Alexa+ Early Access customers, bringing the power of Alexa+ to your browser.[3] MIT scientists investigate memorization risk in the age of clinical AI.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Boston Dynamics' AI-powered humanoid robot is learning to work in a factory.[1] Alaska's court system built an AI chatbot. It didn't go smoothly.[2] India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over ‘obscene’ AI content.[3] DeepSeek Researchers Apply a 1967 Matrix Normalization Algorithm to Fix Instability in Hyper Connections.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Bernie Sanders and Ron DeSantis speak out against data center boom. It’s a bad sign for AI industry.[1] AI detects stomach cancer risk from upper endoscopic images in remote communities.[2] European banks plan to cut 200,000 jobs as AI takes hold Alibaba Tongyi Lab Releases MAI-UI: A Foundation GUI Agent Family that Surpasses Gemini 2.5 Pro, Seed1.8 and UI-Tars-2 on AndroidWorld.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Meta to buy Chinese startup Manus to boost advanced AI.[1] Korea building national AI-ready health data infrastructure.[2] From Gemma 3 270M to FunctionGemma, How Google AI Built a Compact Function Calling Specialist for Edge Workloads.[3] 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq’s assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record.[1] China issues draft rules to regulate AI with human-like interaction.[2] Waymo is testing Gemini as an in-car AI assistant in its robotaxis.[3] This AI Paper from Stanford and Harvard Explains Why Most ‘Agentic AI’ Systems Feel Impressive in Demos and then Completely Fall Apart in Real Use.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp.[1] Google Health AI Releases MedASR: a Conformer Based Medical Speech to Text Model for Clinical Dictation.[2] Google Introduces A2UI (Agent-to-User Interface): An Open Sourc Protocol for Agent Driven Interfaces.[3] Deep-learning electronic structure calculations.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks.[1] AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.[2] Google DeepMind Researchers Release Gemma Scope 2 as a Full Stack Interpretability Suite for Gemma 3 Models.[3] OpenAI introduces evaluations for chain-of-thought monitorability and studies how it scales with test-time compute, reinforcement learning, and pretraining.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

OpenAI allows users to directly adjust ChatGPT’s enthusiasm level.[1] NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3: A Hybrid Mamba Transformer MoE Stack for Long Context Agentic AI.[2] Meta’s Yann LeCun targets €3bn valuation for AI start-up.[3] Machine learning enables scalable and systematic hierarchical virus taxonomy.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Maryland farmers fight power companies over AI boom.[1] MetaGPT takes a one-line requirement as input and outputs user stories / competitive analysis/requirements / data structures / APIs / documents, etc.[2] AI tool to detect hidden health distress wins international hackathon.[3] Investment in data centers worldwide hit record $61bn in 2025, report finds.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

NVIDIA, US Government to Boost AI Infrastructure and R&D Investments Through Landmark Genesis Mission.[1] ChatGPT launches an app store, lets developers know it’s open for business.[2] Luma Announces Ray3 Modify for Start–End Frame Video Control.[3] Google’s vibe-coding tool Opal comes to Gemini.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

EgoX: Generate immersive first-person video from any third-person clip.[1] DoorDash rolls out Zesty, an AI social app for discovering new restaurants.[2] Meta’s AI glasses can now help you hear conversations better.[3] US FDA qualifies first AI tool to help speed liver disease drug development.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]

US government launches ‘Tech Force’ to hire AI talent.[1] Deep-learning model predicts how fruit flies form, cell by cell.[2] Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models.[3] Podcast industry under siege as AI bots flood airways.[4] Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4]