The 10 most important AI stories of January 6, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
xAI:xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding its $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training— xAI is rapidly accelerating its progress in building advanced AI. — xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round …
Grok is being used to digitally remove women's clothing - something victims describe as "dehumanising".
“Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on,” Senator Steve Padilla said. He just introduced a bill to ban AI chatbots in toys until safety regulations are developed.
Bloomberg:Sources: Discord has filed confidentially for an IPO, working with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase— Discord Inc. filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to a rapidly growing pipeline of venture capital-backed tech listings.
The fusion power frontrunner said that construction on its Sparc reactor was proceeding as planned. Meanwhile, it's building a digital twin to help dial it in.
Nvidia and Siemens announced plans to build an industrial AI operating system together. CEOs Jensen Huang and Roland Busch speak to Ed Ludlow about this partnership, the need for energy, Nvidia's new chips, China and Siemen's potential deals in the operations software space. They sit down at the Consumer Electronics Show. (Source: Bloomberg)
Takeover is largest-ever acquisition of a privately held UK artificial intelligence start-up
Two of China’s largest generative AI startups are set for back-to-back debuts in Hong Kong this week, testing investor appetite for an industry that blossomed in the post-ChatGPT era. Yet Zhipu and MiniMax — among the country’s earliest challengers to sector leaders including OpenAI — took very different routes to public markets.
New chips launch "this month," targeting high-end ultraportable PCs.
Users must manually disable the settings in multiple hidden locations to opt out—a process so complex that even security experts initially got it wrong.The postGoogle Faces Gmail Lawsuit Over Hidden AI Training Settingsappeared first onTechRepublic.
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