Tesla Completes AI5 Chip, Revives Dojo 3 with Intel Packaging Deal
techpowerup - Tesla has finalized the development of its AI5 automotive processor, allowing for production at TSMC and Samsung facilities. This advancement also revives the previously halted Dojo 3 supercomputer project. CEO Elon Musk announced that the AI5 chip will o…
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OpenAI Will Soon Test Ads On ChatGPT
barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) / seroundtable - OpenAI announced on Friday it will begin testing ads in the ChatGPT responses in the coming weeks. The ads will show on the free product and low-cost subscription tier, ChatGPT Go. The ads will show under the main response and not influence the answers Ch…
Editor: Let's be real here: this was as inevitable as it was risky. The big risk is what it does to consumer's perception of trustworthiness - how will OpenAI structure their ads product so that users don't feel like their ChatGPT responses are compromised or suspect? How do you accept a product recommendation when you're not sure whether the AI is incentivized to recommend a particular product?
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Hamburg-based one.five raises €14 million to solve the product-market-fit problem in packaging
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - one.five, a Hamburg-based company building AI-powered solutions for packaging product development, has raised €14 million in Series A funding to scale its proprietary AI platform and data foundation. The round was led by Dr Hans Riegel Holding (shareholde…
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Baidu’s Apollo Go Launches Largest Fully Driverless Commercial Robotaxi Operation in Abu Dhabi
pandaily - Apollo Go has officially launched its first overseas fully driverless robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi, aiming to build the city’s largest autonomous fleet by 2026.
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Micron (MU) Stock: Edges Lower on Warning of Prolonged HBM and DRAM Shortages
Newton Kitonga / parameter - TLDRs; Micron says AI-driven memory shortages could last well beyond 2026, pressuring near-term sentiment. High-bandwidth memory demand is crowding out supply for PCs, smartphones, and automakers. Massive US and Asia investments aim to rebalance DRAM and …
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U.S. govt says Musk's gas turbine generators for xAI aren’t exempt from permits — EPA ruling closes local loophole that allowed Musk to get power from temporary on-site power generators
tomshardware - The U.S. EPA now requires permits to operate gas turbine generators, even temporary ones, closing loopholes in some local ordinances that waived this requirement for deployments that lasted for less than 364 days.
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Back to Top / Sunday, January 18, 2026, 10:20 am / permalink 18143 / 16 stories in 6 wks
GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!
@gdb / x - GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!Neel Somani (@neelsomani)I've solved a second Erdos problem (#281) using only GPT 5.2 Pro - no prior solutions found.Terence Tao calls …
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Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away
Bradley Olson / wsj - Developers and hobbyists are comparing the viral moment for Anthropic’s Claude Code to the launch of generative AI.
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Security Flaw Resurfaces in Anthropic’s New Claude Cowork Tool Days After Launch
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic has launched Cowork with a known data exfiltration vulnerability that researchers reported in October 2025 but remained unpatched for the January 13 release.The post Security Flaw Resurfaces in Anthropic’s New Claude Cowork Tool Days After Launc…
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Black Forest Labs launches FLUX.2 klein AI models
Erin / testingcatalog - What's new? Black Forest Labs debuted FLUX.2 [Klein] 4B via Apache 2.0 and 9B via FLUX non commercial license with sub second inference on consumer GPUs;
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OpenAI considers Ads to support free ChatGPT amid growth
Alexey Shabanov / testingcatalog - OpenAI plans to explore ads to support free access to ChatGPT, promising separation from user interactions and no use of content for targeting.
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Cloudflare Wants to Build Napster for AI, Except This Time Everyone Gets Paid
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Cloudflare acquired Human Native, a startup that licenses web content to AI developers. A day later, they bought web framework Astro. The deals look unrelated until you see the pipeline: content creation to AI licensing, with Cloudflare taking a cut at ev…
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AI Attack Ad in Texas Senate Race Shows John Cornyn Dancing With Jasmine Crockett
Reid J. Epstein / nytimes - A video from Ken Paxton, a Republican primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, depicted A.I.-generated imagery of the senator twirling with Jasmine Crockett, a Democratic Senate candidate.
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California AG sends Musk’s xAI a cease-and-desist order over sexual deepfakes
Lucas Ropek / techcrunch - The flood of AI-generated sexual imagery has spurred concern from state and congressional officials alike.
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ClickHouse Raises $400 Million to Expand AI-Focused Data Infrastructure Platform
PYMNTS / pymnts - ClickHouse, a provider of data infrastructure for artificial intelligence systems, raised $400 million in a Series D funding round. The company will use the new capital to expand its offerings in real-time data analytics, data warehousing, observability, …
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TSMC Says AI Demand Is 'Endless' After Record Q4 Earnings
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported record fourth-quarter earnings and said it expects AI chip demand to continue for years. During an earnings call, CEO C.C. Wei t…
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EPA rules that xAI’s natural gas generators were illegally used
Tim De Chant / techcrunch - Elon Musk's AI company had installed and operated 35 natural gas turbines without permits, something the EPA now says was illegal.
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Anthropic opens up its Claude Cowork feature to anyone with a $20 subscription
Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - Claude Cowork, Anthropic's AI assistant for taking care of simple tasks on your computer, is now available for anyone with a $20 per month Pro subscription to try. Anthropic launched Cowork as an exclusive feature for its Max subscribers, who pay a minimu…
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ChatGPT Introduces Lower-Priced Subscription Tier With These Features
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - OpenAI today announced that its lower-priced ChatGPT Go subscription tier is now available worldwide, with U.S. pricing set at $8 per month.ChatGPT Go provides expanded access to ChatGPT's latest model, GPT‑5.2 Instant, with 10× more messages, file upload…
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ASML hits record high on AI boost — and analysts see plenty of room to run
cnbc - Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASML became just the third European company to his a valuation of over $500 billion on Thursday.
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