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Top 10 — News
- Inside OpenAI’s big play for science In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at w…
- Data center power outage took out TikTok first weekend under US ownership US TikTok users experienced a wide range of errors, sparking conspiracies.
- TikTok attributes recent glitches to a power outage at a US data center The timing of these outages lines up with the long-awaited creation of a separate U.S.
- MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva Anthropic's Claude got a bit livelier today thanks to a new extension to MCP, the open-source protocol that allows AI agents to easily acce…
- MCP Apps, the Model Context Protocol’s first official extension, turns AI responses into interactive interfaces The Model Context Protocol just got its first official extension with "MCP Apps." AI tools can now embed interactive interfaces directly in…
- ‘Uncanny Valley’: Donald Trump’s Davos Drama, AI Midterms, and ChatGPT’s Last Resort On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared the stage at the World E…
- I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/i-let-chatgpt-analyze-a-decade-of-my-apple-watch-data-then-i-called-my-doctor/ar-AA1…
- Competing Visions of Ethical AI: A Case Study of OpenAI arXiv:2601.16513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Introduction.
- IEEE Brings Hands-On STEM Activities to India’s Rural Areas “Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.” Spoken by Sonia Sotomayor , associate justice of the U.S.
- ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770221 Points:…
AI tools & model updates
- ChatGPT fails to spot 92% of fake videos made by OpenAI’s own Sora tool A Newsguard investigation reveals that top chatbots rarely identify fake videos as such.
- Scaling NVFP4 Inference for FLUX.2 on NVIDIA Blackwell Data Center GPUs In 2025, NVIDIA partnered with Black Forest Labs (BFL) to optimize the FLUX.1 text-to-image model series, unlocking FP4 image generation pe…
- modelcontextprotocol/servers: Release 2026.1.14 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.10.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Amazon Quick Suite launches expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type support for SPICE datasets Amazon Quick Suite SPICE engine is now supporting higher scale, faster ingestion, and broader data types to power advanced analytics and AI…
- ollama/ollama: v0.15.2 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Tips for getting coding agents to write good Python tests Someone asked on Hacker News if I had any tips for getting coding agents to write decent quality tests.
- vllm-project/vllm: v0.14.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.0-stable Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain==1.2.7
Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (100)
In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at w…
US TikTok users experienced a wide range of errors, sparking conspiracies.
Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
This is the first major upgrade since Apple introduced AirTags five years ago.
The timing of these outages lines up with the long-awaited creation of a separate U.S.
The London High Court awarded the London-based satirist and human rights activist Ghanem Al-Masarir more than £3 million, after finding the…
Ricursive joins Recursive and Unconventional AI in raising massive funds at multi-billion valuations out of the gate.
Anthropic's Claude got a bit livelier today thanks to a new extension to MCP, the open-source protocol that allows AI agents to easily acce…
Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps inside the chatbot interface, with Cowork integration coming soon.
In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access to special…
OpenAI's co-founder and longtime president, Greg Brockman, didn't just make a run-of-the-mill donation to the main pro-Trump super PAC - to…
Maia comes equipped with over 100 billion transistors, delivering over 10 petaflops in 4-bit precision and approximately 5 petaflops of 8-b…
The YouTubers claim Snap, like others, used AI datasets meant for research and academic use to train its AI models.
UpScrolled is a social network that pledges to remain impartial to political agendas.
Skylight, co-founded by CEO Tori White and CTO Reed Harmeyer, offers a built-in video editor; user profiles; support for likes, commenting,…
Kirk Milhoan's comments come as federal vaccine policy slides to insignificance.
Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks.
Staffers warn DOT's use of Gemini to draft rules could cause injuries and deaths.
Storing recovery keys with Microsoft allows the company to unlock your disk.
Toad: "So some dinosaur just shows up and he's now part of the group.
No display?
Elon Musk's company faces fines of up to 6 percent of its daily turnover.
"These are just the difficulties of designing a spacesuit for the lunar environment."
TikTok's takeover in the US has prompted users to join an alternative social platform called UpScrolled.
Edenlux builds wearable tech to protect and train your eyes, inspired by its founder’s personal vision recovery.
SpotDraft now processes over 1 million contracts annually using its AI tool, with contract volumes up 173% year-over-year.
Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case, which accused the firm of "unlawful and intentional interceptio…
Many members of the international games industry are skipping the 2026 Game Developers Conference because of the growing ICE presence and o…
Unwavering Trump loyalist and VC Keith Rabois caused his colleague and his firm's founder to distance themselves from his comments on ICE.
From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machin…
A company called Life Electric Vehicle Holdings has emerged as the top bidder for Rad Power's assets.
Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered softw…
The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund.
Europe-based venture fund 2150 raised the money to invest in climate tech startups that help solve cities' carbon footprint.
More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call…
X is facing an investigation from the European Commission over the sexualized deepfakes generated by its Grok AI chatbot.
Some people rarely lose things.
Google could owe you some money, now that it's moving to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it handled recordings captured when its dev…
If you prefer over-ear headphones to earbuds and own an iPhone or another Apple device, the AirPods Max with USB-C are worth a look, especi…
The Model Context Protocol just got its first official extension with "MCP Apps." AI tools can now embed interactive interfaces directly in…
"Fuck ICE first, second, third, and fourth.
Most vertical video microdrama apps have been focused on putting out newly produced series meant to be watched on your phone.
Recently released documents show the big business opportunity that social media companies saw in recruiting teens to their platforms and ho…
OpenAI is reportedly charging around $60 per 1,000 impressions for ChatGPT ads, pricing that matches premium TV spots like NFL games rather…
The story sounds simple: ChatGPT launched, jobs in AI-exposed fields disappeared.
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts unpack the news from Davos, where Trump and major AI companies shared the stage at the World E…
Anthropic is integrating popular work tools like Asana, Figma, and Slack as interactive apps directly into Claude.
Nvidia invests $2 billion in cloud provider Coreweave, buying shares at $87.20 each.
WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.
As the data center backlash grows, support is growing for server factories and the hundreds of jobs they’re expected to bring.
Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/i-let-chatgpt-analyze-a-decade-of-my-apple-watch-data-then-i-called-my-doctor/ar-AA1…
“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.” Spoken by Sonia Sotomayor , associate justice of the U.S.
The European Commission has initiated new proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Internal crisis meetings, a leader who cried "bullshit" and convinced no one, and billion-dollar negotiations that fell apart: Bloomberg re…
Sexual deepfakes continue to get more sophisticated, capable, easy to access, and perilous for millions of women who are abused with the te…
Plus: Asus exits the smartphone market, and Sony partners with TCL on TVs.
A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail.
Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scal…
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The web’s best resource for spotting AI writing has ironically become a manual for AI models to hide it.
Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.
Watch our livestream on China’s dominance, influence, and how it is rewriting the future.
arXiv:2601.16513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Introduction.
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770221 Points:…
arXiv:2601.16824v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An increasing number of LLM-based applications are being developed to facilitate romantic…
Article URL: https://betakit.com/y-combinator-website-no-longer-lists-canada-as-a-country-it-invests-in/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin…
arXiv:2601.16226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present the first empirical derivation of a continuous-time stochastic model for real-…
arXiv:2601.16752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Obtaining meaningful and informed consent from users is essential for ensuring they maint…
arXiv:2510.15303v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large web-scale datasets have driven the rapid advancement of pre-trained languag…
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/google-ai-overviews-youtube-medical-citations-study Comments URL: https://n…
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/26/iphone-5s-software-update/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774108 Po…
arXiv:2601.16398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithmic audits are essential tools for examining systems for properties required by reg…
arXiv:2601.16926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growing reliance on Artificial Intelligence (AI) models in high-stakes decision-making…
arXiv:2601.16930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Harm is invoked everywhere from cybersecurity, ethics, risk analysis, to adversarial AI, ye…
arXiv:2601.16237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixed-motive multi-agent settings are rife with persistent free-riding because individual…
arXiv:2601.16496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated graph learning (FGL) enables collaborative training of graph neural networks (G…
arXiv:2601.16627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing demand for diverse and high-quality facial datasets for training and testing…
arXiv:2601.16656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: People are increasingly turning to generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot) for emo…
arXiv:2601.16669v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to legal domain-specific tasks,…
arXiv:2506.17347v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Over the past decade, policymakers have developed a set of regulatory tools to ensure A…
arXiv:2511.04922v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A growing body of literature has focused on understanding and addressing workplace AI d…
arXiv:2502.14122v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant advances in natural langua…
arXiv:2505.21548v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are used worldwide, yet exhibit Western cultural ten…
arXiv:2506.10194v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autocrats use secret police to stay in power, as these organizations deter and su…
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arXiv:2506.11777v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved major advances in natural images and…
arXiv:2511.17655v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This study deliberates on the application of advanced AI techniques for brain tum…
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Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/business/the-secret-society-of-people-wh...
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (75)
A Newsguard investigation reveals that top chatbots rarely identify fake videos as such.
In 2025, NVIDIA partnered with Black Forest Labs (BFL) to optimize the FLUX.1 text-to-image model series, unlocking FP4 image generation pe…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
One of my favourite features of ChatGPT is its ability to write and execute code in a container.
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT OpenAI's long-rumored introduction of ads to ChatGPT just became a whole lot mo…
Deploying AI applications across diverse consumer hardware has traditionally forced a trade-off.
Global climate models are good at the big picture—but local climate extremes, like hurricanes and typhoons, often disappear in the details.
Nvidia has released a new conversational AI model designed to eliminate a fundamental trade-off in existing systems.
This blog post is part of a series designed to help developers learn NVIDIA CUDA Tile programming for building high-performance GPU kernels…
NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation has become the fastest-adopted NVIDIA gaming technology ever.
Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security This is outstanding news, especially given our de…
NVIDIA cuOpt is a GPU-accelerated optimization engine designed to deliver fast, high-quality solutions for large, complex decision-making p…
Microsoft's new Maia 200 chip is built specifically for inference and delivers 30 percent better performance per dollar than the company's…
Amazon Quick Suite SPICE engine is now supporting higher scale, faster ingestion, and broader data types to power advanced analytics and AI…
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands the availability of its on-demand analysis experience to four additional Regions - Asia Pacific…
Amazon Connect now provides agent scheduling metrics in data lake, making it easier for you to generate reports and insights from this data.
What if your computer-use agent could learn a new Command Line Interface (CLI)—and operate it safely without ever writing files or free-typ…
AWS Data Exports now enables customers to distinguish between Amazon Bedrock operation types in their cost reports for enhanced cost analys…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Someone asked on Hacker News if I had any tips for getting coding agents to write decent quality tests.
Amazon Bedrock now supports a 1-hour time-to-live (TTL) option for prompt caching for select Anthropic Claude models.
Release update (see link for changelog).
AWS is announcing flexible billing for Amazon WorkSpaces Core managed instances, adding monthly flat-rate pricing alongside existing hourly…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding , an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large nu…
We've been quiet — announcing our 2026 plans!
Release update (see link for changelog).
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe…
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i instances are available in the Europe (London) region.
Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in US West (N.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom Chrome browser extensions, enabling automation for complex workflows that standard bro…
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, anno…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Claude's new constitution Late last year Richard Weiss found something interesting while poking around with the just-released Claude Opus 4…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
The C++ template library CUB is a go-to for high-performance GPU primitive algorithms, but its traditional "two-phase" API, which separates…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides enhanced troubleshooting capabilities for lifecycle scripts, making it easier to identify and resolv…
Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces the expansion of the Reserved service tier designed for workloads requiring predictable performance and gu…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Electricity use of AI coding agents Previous work estimating the energy and water cost of LLMs has generally focused on the cost per prompt…
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports cross-Region subscriptions for comprehensive and flexible data access and governance.
AWS IoT Device Management now offers the managed integrations feature in the Middle East (UAE) region.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Today, Amazon announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO…
Building on our recent launch of customizable tables and pivot tables , Amazon Quick Sight now enables readers to add or remove fields, cha…
Release update (see link for changelog).
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Inside Brex’s $500M+ (ARR) AI-Fueled Comeback
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Today, Amazon Bedrock announces the expansion of the Reserved service tier designed for workloads requiring predictable performance and gua…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options.
D4RT: Unified, efficient 4D reconstruction and tracking up to 300x faster than prior methods.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Today, AWS Deadline Cloud announces integration with Foundry Nuke CopyCat, allowing you to run machine learning training jobs for visual ef…
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files Claude Cowork defaults to allowing outbound HTTP traffic to only a specific list of domains, to help protec…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
API keys for Amazon Bedrock are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, expanding a feature that simplifies authentication and accelera…
Our latest Veo update generates lively, dynamic clips that feel natural and engaging — and supports vertical video generation.
Amazon Connect Cases now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling you to model, provision, and manage case resources as infrastructure as code.
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple n…