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Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 was a “massive overreaction” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 China AI

The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-21 Trump AI Davos Climate

Europe Must Invest in Open Source AI or Cede To China, Schmidt Says (slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 China Europe AI Open Source

Ukraine To Share Wartime Combat Data With Allies To Help Train AI (slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 AI Ukraine

Ukraine says it plans to share nearly four years of combat data, including millions of hours of drone footage, with allies to help train AI models (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 AI Drone Ukraine

Energy Costs Will Decide Which Countries Win the AI Race, Microsoft's Nadella Says (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 Microsoft Energy AI

Legal AI startup Ivo, which aims to reduce hallucinations by breaking legal reviews into 400+ tasks, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $355M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 Startup AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is a blunder with “incredible national security implications”, calling it a “big mistake” and “crazy” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 China AI

Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build collaborative AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-21 Google AI Nvidia Jeff Bezos

China's real-life 'robocops': City deploys AI-powered humanoid police officer that barks orders at civilians and works 'around the clock' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-1-20 China AI

Trump trolls European leaders with AI image of them looking at map showing Greenland as US territory in the Oval Office as he flies to Davos (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-1-20 Trump Europe AI Davos

Sources: Baidu's Ernie Assistant passes 200M MAUs, as competition intensifies among Chinese tech giants in AI; Ernie is linked to apps like JD.com and Meituan (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-20 China AI

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China Korea AI

Sources: ByteDance boosted its cloud offering via more sales hires and lower prices; IDC: it had 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, behind Alibaba's 23% (t.co)
2026-1-20 China Alibaba AI

The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's “wait-and-see approach” to AI risks in the financial sector poses “serious harm” to the UK (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-20 AI

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files (simonwillison.net)
2026-1-20 AI Browser

What the Grok bans in Southeast Asia tell us about AI governance (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-1-20 Asia AI Southeast Asia

Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-20 AI

Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of its 2nd-gen RNGD chip and is eyeing a 2027 IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 IPO AI

Valve Has 'Significantly' Rewritten Steam's Rules For How Developers Must Disclose AI Use (games.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 AI

IMF Warns Global Economic Resilience at Risk if AI Falters (slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 AI IMF

a16z's Matt Bornstein and others talk adding $1.7B to its $1.25B AI infrastructure fund, focusing on early rounds; Ben Horowitz calls it “one of the best funds” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 AI

The IMF says the “surprisingly resilient” global economy is at risk of a sharp AI boom reversal, but the “levels of market frothiness” are below the dotcom bust (www.ft.com)
2026-1-19 AI IMF

Q&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-19 China AI Robot Drone

On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones (variety.com)
2026-1-19 AI Netflix

Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth? (slashdot.org)
2026-1-19 AI

Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-19 Retail AI New York

RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-19 AI

Retailers Rush to Implement AI-Assisted Shopping and Orders (slashdot.org)
2026-1-18 AI

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (fortune.com)
2026-1-18 AI

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