AI BRIEFING · 2026-01-27

AI Briefing — January 27, 2026

The 10 most important AI stories of January 27, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.

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Ai2 launches Open Coding Agents, starting with SERA, an open-source family that includes 32B and 8B parameter models designed to adapt to private codebases (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

TechMeme ↗

Kyt Dotson /SiliconANGLE:Ai2 launches Open Coding Agents, starting with SERA, an open-source family that includes 32B and 8B parameter models designed to adapt to private codebases— Artificial intelligence is moving swiftly, changing how developers craft, as code flows ever faster into repositories such as GitHub …

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Anthropic selected to build government AI assistant pilot

AI News ↗

Anthropic has been selected to build government AI assistant capabilities to modernise how citizens interact with complex state services. For both public and private sector technology leaders, the integration of LLMs into customer-facing platforms often stalls at the proof-of-concept stage. The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) aims to bypass this common hurdle […]The postAnthropic selected to build government AI assistant pilotappeared first onAI News.

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Airtable jumps into the AI agent game with Superagent

TechCrunch AI ↗

SuperAgent is Airtable's first stand-alone product in its 13-year history, and signals both the company's ambitions and the reality of the current AI moment: Every serious software player is racing to prove they can deliver on agents.

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