AI BRIEFING · 2026-01-26

AI Briefing — January 26, 2026

The 10 most important AI stories of January 26, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.

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Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others (Robert HartThe Verge)

TechMeme ↗

Robert Hart /The Verge:Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others— Anthropic's one step closer to having an everything app. … Anthropic's Claude got a bit livelier today thanks …

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What is Clawdbot? How a Local First Agent Stack Turns Chats into Real Automations

AI Research News ↗

Clawdbot is an open source personal AI assistant that you run on your own hardware. It connects large language models from providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI to real tools such as messaging apps, files, shell, browser and smart home devices, while keeping the orchestration layer under your control. The interesting part is not that […]The postWhat is Clawdbot? How a Local First Agent Stack Turns Chats into Real Automationsappeared first onMarkTechPost.

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Microsofts Latest AI Chip to Reduce Reliance on Nvidia

Bloomberg Technology ↗

Microsoft Corp. is rolling out its second-generation artificial intelligence chip, the centerpiece of the company’s push to power its services more efficiently and provide an alternative to Nvidia Corp. hardware.

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Nvidia Invests 2 Billion More in CoreWeave, Offers New Chip

Bloomberg Technology ↗

Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence chips, invested an additional $2 billion in the cloud computing firm and key customer CoreWeave Inc., marking the latest example of the circular financing deals that have lifted valuations of AI companies and fueled concerns about a bubble. Bloomberg's Anurag Rana joins to discuss on Bloomberg intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Inside OpenAI’s big play for science

MIT Tech Review ↗

In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, in schools—anywhere people have a browser open or a phone out, which is everywhere. Now OpenAI is making an explicit play for scientists. In October, the firm announced that it had launched a…

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AI Startup Baseten Doubles Valuation to $5B in Six Months

Bloomberg Technology ↗

AI inference startup Baseten Labs has raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation, doubling its value in just six months. Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava and one of its backers, Conviction founder Sarah Guo, join Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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