The 10 most important AI stories of January 15, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Cowork is a user-friendly version of Anthropic’s Claude Code AI-powered tool that’s built for file management and basic computing tasks. Here’s what it's like to use it.
A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erdős problem, but original research. Demonstrates AI generating novel math objects (Bellman functions for optimal control) quickly, linking to isoperimetric profiles and Takagi function ...Read more
China's artificial intelligence models may be just "months" behind U.S. and Western capabilities, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind told CNBC.
Higgsfield says it's on a $200 million annual revenue run rate. So it opened its previous Series A round back up and sold another $80 million in shares.
The practice of fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) has achieved state-of-the-art performance on specialized tasks, yet diagnosing why these models become brittle and fail to generalize remains a critical open problem. To address this, we introduce and apply a multi-layered diagnostic framework to a cross-architectural study. We fine-tune Llama 3.1 8B, Gemma 2 9B, and Mistral models on a high-stakes phishing detection task and use SHAP analysis and mechanistic interpretability to uncover th...
Wikimedia announced deals with several AI companies, including Amazon, Meta and Perplexity on Thursday. The deals allow partners access to Wikipedia's API for a fee.
Merge Labs is a "research lab" dedicated to "bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability." OpenAI wrote the largest check in Merge Labs' $250 million seed round at an $850 million valuation.
Taiwanese chipmaker beats own guidance on revenue and gross profit margin
The massive round was led by existing investor General Catalyst, with participation from other returning backers.
The U.S. struck a trade deal with Taiwan as the country looks to help boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
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