Britain's media regulator has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X over AI-generated sexual images of women and children. The platform restricted the feature to paying subscribers—turning abuse into a premium service.
San Francisco | January 12, 2026 Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare five days after OpenAI's competing launch. Same conference,
Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare five days after OpenAI's rival launch. Both entered a market that has already buried Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health. The question is whether AI models can succeed where human engineers kept failing
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OpenAI's nonprofit will control a $500B entity while owning $100B+ in equity—an unprecedented governance experiment. Microsoft formalizes partnership even as both companies hedge through diversification. Regulators hold the keys.
Oracle bets $300B on OpenAI's computing future, but the math is stark: OpenAI generates $10B annually while committing to $60B yearly. The deal either transforms Oracle into an AI infrastructure leader—or becomes a cautionary dot-com tale.
Oracle's stock exploded 40% after revealing a $455B AI contract backlog and projections for $144B cloud revenue by 2030. The surge made Larry Ellison briefly the world's richest person—but can the company turn massive bookings into sustainable margins?
Publishers like Reddit and Yahoo launched a new licensing standard to charge AI companies for training data. The Really Simple Licensing protocol lets sites demand payment per crawl or per AI response. No major AI company has agreed to comply yet.
Meta's $72B AI talent hunt is imploding. ChatGPT co-creator nearly quit within a week, forcing tripled compensation. Elite recruits defecting to rivals while existing employees demand parity. The secretive TBD Lab creates new corporate castes.
Arm challenges the smartphone industry's NPU rush with Lumex, betting CPU-based AI can deliver 5x performance gains across 3 billion devices by 2030. The platform's SME2 instructions target developer frustration with fragmented neural engines.
Anthropic's Claude now creates actual Excel files, PowerPoint decks, and PDFs directly from chat—no more copy-pasting. Enterprise customers get workflow automation, but there's a data security trade-off that could reshape AI adoption patterns.
AI has trapped job seekers and employers in a dysfunctional arms race. Workers mass-produce applications with ChatGPT; companies use AI to screen them. Result: record-low hiring confidence and a market that serves nobody well.
Judge Alsup torpedoed Anthropic's record $1.5B author settlement, calling it incomplete and warning writers might 'get the shaft.' September deadlines loom before a December trial that could cost the AI company over $10 trillion in damages.
Google told a judge the "open web is in rapid decline" while executives publicly claim it's thriving. The contradiction exposes the battle over internet architecture as AI Mode approaches default status.
OpenAI backs "Critterz," the first AI-animated feature targeting Cannes debut. Nine months production vs. industry-standard three years, $30M budget vs. $100M norm. Hollywood's IP lawsuits against AI companies provide tense backdrop for collaboration experiment.
ASML commits €1.3B to become Mistral AI's largest shareholder in Europe's bid to challenge US tech dominance through vertical integration rather than pure scale. The Dutch chip giant's board seat signals a new model for European sovereignty.
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