M5B Daily Recap: 2026-01-23
Daily AI Recap: Jan 23, 2026
Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.
🗞️ Top Stories
- Google Photos’ latest feature lets you meme yourselfhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/google-photos-latest-feature-lets-you-meme-yourself/: The new feature lets you insert yourself into a meme in Google Photos....
- Meta pauses teen access to AI characters ahead of new versionhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/meta-pauses-teen-access-to-ai-characters-ahead-of-new-version/: Meta will developed new versions of AI characters that will give age-appropriate responses....
- Meta pauses teen access to AI characters as it develops a specially tailored versionhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/meta-pauses-teen-access-to-ai-characters-as-it-develops-a-specially-tailored-version/: Meta will developed new versions of AI characters that will give age-appropriate responses...
- AI Quantum Intelligence & Pic of the week 2026&01&23https://aiquantumintelligence.com/ai-quantum-intelligence-pic-of-the-week-2026-01-23: Images generated by ChatGPT for January 23, 2026 depict or reflect an aspect of current news or popular discourse. Stylistically, open to whatever ChatGPT preferred in the provided theme/context. Toge...
- How to Become a Data Engineer in 2026?https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2026/01/data-engineer-roadmap/: Job descriptions of Data Engineering roles have changed drastically over the years. In 2026, these read less like data plumbing and more like production engineering. You are expected to ship pipelines...
- OpenAI chief Sam Altman plans India visit as AI leaders converge in New Delhi: sourceshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/openai-chief-sam-altman-plans-india-visit-as-ai-leaders-converge-in-new-delhi-sources/: Sam Altman is set for his first India visit in nearly a year....
- Integrating Rust and Python for Data Sciencehttps://www.kdnuggets.com/integrating-rust-and-python-for-data-science: Python remains at the forefront data science, it is still very popular and useful till date. But on the other hand strengthens the foundation underneath. It becomes necessary where performance, memory...
- Rocket Software Accelerates Data Modernization with Rocket® ContentEdge™https://ai-techpark.com/rocket-software-accelerates-data-modernization-with-rocket-contentedge/: Rocket ContentEdge launches to unlock the value of unstructured data with safety-first GenAI, automation, and analytics to deliver borderless information across hybrid environments. Rocket Software, a...
- NVIDIA GH200 GPU Guide: Use Cases, Architecture & Buying Tipshttps://www.clarifai.com/blog/nvidia-gh200-gpu-guide/: Explore NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper superchip—architecture, AI use cases, benchmarks, and a decision guide for large-scale LLMs, HPC, and enterprise AI....
- ExaGrid Announces All Flash/SSD Tiered Backup Storage Solutionhttps://ai-techpark.com/exagrid-announces-all-flash-ssd-tiered-backup-storage-solution/: ExaGrid’s new solution offers the fastest, most scalable, and most secure backups in the industry ExaGrid®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution with AI-Powered Retention Time-Lock RTL...
- The SRE Report 2026: Reliability Is Being Redefinedhttps://ai-techpark.com/the-sre-report-2026-reliability-is-being-redefined/: Catchpoint’s annual report shows why speed, user experience, and business impact now define reliability in the AI era LogicMonitor, the AI-first hybrid observability platform redefining how enterprise...
- Why the Sophistication of Your Prompt Correlates Almost Perfectly with the Sophistication of the Response, as Research by Anthropic Foundhttps://towardsdatascience.com/the-sophistication-of-your-prompt-correlates-almost-perfectly-with-the-sophistication-of-the-response-anthropic-study-found/: How prompt engineering has evolved, examined scientifically; and implications for the future of conversational AI tools
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- The Human Behind the Doorhttps://www.oreilly.com/radar/?p=17932: The following article originally appeared on Mike Amundsen’s Substack Signals from Our Futures Past and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s an old hotel on a windy corner i...
- From Transactions to Trends: Predict When a Customer Is About to Stop Buyinghttps://towardsdatascience.com/from-transactions-to-trends-predict-when-a-customer-is-about-to-stop-buying/: Customer churn is usually a gradual process, not a sudden event. In this post, we analyze monthly transaction trends and convert regression slopes into degrees to clearly identify declining purchase b...
- Percipience Achieves SOC 2 Type I Compliancehttps://ai-techpark.com/percipience-achieves-soc-2-type-i-compliance/: Milestone underscores data security, privacy, and enterprise-grade governance commitment Percipience, an insurtech data and analytics software provider, is pleased to announce the company has successf...
- CareCloud’s Wellsoft Ranked 1 EHR by Black Book 2026 for Emergency Medicinehttps://ai-techpark.com/careclouds-wellsoft-ranked-1-ehr-by-black-book-2026-for-emergency-medicine/: CareCloud, Inc. Nasdaq: CCLD, CCLDO “CareCloud” or the “Company”, a leader in healthcare technology and AI-powered solutions, today announced that Black Book Research has recognized the Company’s ...
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Pro GPU Guide: Use Cases, Benchmarks & Buying Tipshttps://www.clarifai.com/blog/nvidia-rtx-6000-pro-gpu/: An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies....
- RXNT Leads 2026 Gartner Digital Markets Across Five Categorieshttps://ai-techpark.com/rxnt-leads-2026-gartner-digital-markets-across-five-categories/: Gartner has named RXNT a 2026 best-in-class software provider, recognizing the company as a Shortlist and FrontRunner category leader in five areas. RXNT, a Maryland-based ambulatory healthcare techno...
- Stellar Cyber Appoints Eric van Sommeren as VP of EMEA for Regional Expansionhttps://ai-techpark.com/stellar-cyber-appoints-eric-van-sommeren-as-vp-of-emea-for-regional-expansion/: Former SentinelOne, Palo Alto Networks executive’s appointment reinforces commitment to partner-led growth, enterprise adoption Stellar Cyber, the leader in open and AI-native security operations, tod...
- America’s coming war over AI regulationhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/23/1131559/americas-coming-war-over-ai-regulation/: MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. In the final weeks of 2025, the...
- CrowdStrike Endpoint Security Delivers 273% ROI in Three Yearshttps://ai-techpark.com/crowdstrike-endpoint-security-delivers-273-roi-in-three-years/: Total Economic Impact study quantifies the ROI organizations achieve by modernizing endpoint security with CrowdStrike CrowdStrike NASDAQ: CRWD today announced the findings of a commissioned Total E...
- HHS Awards Electrosoft $38.9M to Strengthen Cyber Defense and Ops Resiliencehttps://ai-techpark.com/hhs-awards-electrosoft-38-9m-to-strengthen-cyber-defense-and-ops-resilience/: CORA and STIM prime contracts advance intelligence-driven protection of critical health systems Electrosoft Services, Inc., a highly respected cybersecurity and digital transformation firm, today anno...
- Northern.tech Expands in China’s Shanghai Jing’an Districthttps://ai-techpark.com/northern-tech-expands-in-chinas-shanghai-jingan-district/: Northern.tech China Co., Ltd., formalizes global presence and support, underscoring the importance of strategic end-to-end device management and secure over-the-air OTA updates across global marke...
- VirtuousAI: Mid-Market CEOs See AI Value but Stay in Pilot Modehttps://ai-techpark.com/virtuousai-mid-market-ceos-see-ai-value-but-stay-in-pilot-mode/: New report finds mid-market CEOs see AI’s value, while expertise and integration gaps slow execution Virtuous AI, in partnership with Chief Executive Group, released new findings from its whitepaper, ...
- You Need Better Attention Priorshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15380: arXiv:2601.15380v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We generalize the attention mechanism by viewing it through the lens of Entropic Optimal Transport, revealing that standard attention corresponds to a ...
- Improving MoE Compute Efficiency by Composing Weight and Data Sparsityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15370: arXiv:2601.15370v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts layers achieve compute efficiency through weight sparsity: each token activates only a subset of experts. Data sparsity, where each ...
- OpenAI is coming for those sweet enterprise dollars in 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/openai-is-coming-for-those-sweet-enterprise-dollars-in-2026/: OpenAI has reportedly appointed Barret Zoph to lead its push into enterprise just a week after Zoph rejoined the company....
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- Former Sequoia partner’s new startup uses AI to negotiate your calendar for youhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/former-sequoia-partners-new-startup-uses-ai-to-negotiate-your-calendar-for-you/: Blockit, an AI agent that communicates directly with other calendars, has raised $5 million in seed funding led by Sequoia....
- Empowering LLMs for Structure-Based Drug Design via Exploration-Augmented Latent Inferencehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15333: arXiv:2601.15333v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models LLMs possess strong representation and reasoning capabilities, but their appl...
- Language Models Entangle Language and Culturehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15337: arXiv:2601.15337v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Users should not be systemically disadvantaged by the language they use for interacting with LLMs; i....
- FedUMM: A General Framework for Federated Learning with Unified Multimodal Modelshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15390: arXiv:2601.15390v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Unified multimodal models UMMs are emerging as strong foundation models that can do both generation...
- Qwen Researchers Release Qwen3-TTS: an Open Multilingual TTS Suite with Real-Time Latency and Fine-Grained Voice Controlhttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/01/22/qwen-researchers-release-qwen3-tts-an-open-multilingual-tts-suite-with-real-time-latency-and-fine-grained-voice-control/: Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team has open-sourced Qwen3-TTS, a family of multilingual text-to-speech models that target three core tasks in one stack, voice ...
- Arcitecta to Showcase Research DMP at Supercomputing Asia 2026https://ai-techpark.com/arcitecta-to-showcase-research-dmp-at-supercomputing-asia-2026/: The company’s Mediaflux platform powers HPC-scale workloads and large scientific data sets, transforming data into dynamic assets that accelerate disc...
- Rapid Care Acquires DeepDoc to Expand AI-Powered Medical Record Intelligencehttps://ai-techpark.com/rapid-care-acquires-deepdoc-to-expand-ai-powered-medical-record-intelligence/: Acquisition strengthens Rapid Care’s AI roadmap and accelerates smarter, faster healthcare decision-making Rapid Care, an AI-driven healthcare technol...
- eHub Appoints Thomas Leishman as Chief AI Officerhttps://ai-techpark.com/ehub-appoints-thomas-leishman-as-chief-ai-officer/: eHub, the category leader in Carrier Orchestration and Fulfillment Intelligence, today announced the appointment of Thomas Leishman as Chief AI Office...
- Misuse of AI chatbots tops annual list of health technology hazardshttps://ai-techpark.com/misuse-of-ai-chatbots-tops-annual-list-of-health-technology-hazards/: Report also sounds the alarm on insufficient planning for systems outages, substandard medical products, missed recalls of home diabetes management de...
- WhaleFlux Signals Shift to Architecting Enterprise AI in 2026https://ai-techpark.com/whaleflux-signals-shift-to-architecting-enterprise-ai-in-2026/: As enterprise AI adoption moves beyond experimentation and into production, the industry is entering a new phase where system reliability, governance,...
- Furl Raises $10M Seed Round to Bring Agentic AI to Security Remediationhttps://ai-techpark.com/furl-raises-10m-seed-round-to-bring-agentic-ai-to-security-remediation/: Ten Eleven Ventures leads the round as Furl helps IT security teams close the gap between finding vulnerabilities and actually fixing them Furl, a sec...
- Omnilogy Launches i-Rays, First Observability Tool Built for IBM ihttps://ai-techpark.com/omnilogy-launches-i-rays-first-observability-tool-built-for-ibm-i/: Software empowers technology and business leaders to get deep insights and reduce risk Omnilogy, a global technology developer focused on the IBM i en...
- GLM-4.7 Flash: The AI Powerhouse Built for Developershttps://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2026/01/glm-4-7-flash/: The future of artificial intelligence is here and to the developers, it is in the form of new tools that transform the way we code, create and solve p...
- Cobalt Achieves CSA AI Trustworthy Pledgehttps://ai-techpark.com/cobalt-achieves-csa-ai-trustworthy-pledge/: Milestone reinforces Cobalt commitment to transparent cloud security practices and continuous pentesting that supports customer compliance and third-p...
- Dam Secure Raises $4M to Secure AI-Generated Code for Enterpriseshttps://ai-techpark.com/dam-secure-raises-4m-to-secure-ai-generated-code-for-enterprises/: AI security startup Dam Secure has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Washington, D.C.-based cyber and AI investor, Paladin Capital Grou...
- TriNetX Unveils Conversational AI Interface and Enhanced API Capabilitieshttps://ai-techpark.com/trinetx-unveils-conversational-ai-interface-and-enhanced-api-capabilities/: Success achieved in reducing trial costs and timelines drives 2026 platform enhancements designed to democratize clinical research analytics. TriNetX,...
- Boardwalktech Launches Verity, the Intelligent Controls Platformhttps://ai-techpark.com/boardwalktech-launches-verity-the-intelligent-controls-platform/: An AI‑Driven Platform for Continuous Controls Automation, Testing & Monitoring Across Financial Institutions and Large Enterprises TSXV: BWLK, OTCQB...
- New Relic Launches Observability Solution for Visibility into ChatGPT Appshttps://ai-techpark.com/new-relic-launches-observability-solution-for-visibility-into-chatgpt-apps/: Innovative engineering teams building ChatGPT apps can now eliminate the ‘black box’ of embedded AI to optimize this new sales channel and drive addit...
- Top 5 Self Hosting Platform Alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlifyhttps://www.kdnuggets.com/top-5-self-hosting-platform-alternative-to-vercel-heroku-netlify: The best self hosting platforms that help developers deploy, scale, and turn their projects into production ready applications while avoiding the comp...
- Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter launches Diploid Genomics, Inc.https://ai-techpark.com/genomics-pioneer-j-craig-venter-launches-diploid-genomics-inc/: Healthier Capital, a leading health-tech venture capital firm, joins as a co-founder and sole external investor in seed round Diploid Genomics, Inc. ...
- StuffThatWorks Appoints Julie A. Ross as CEO and Presidenthttps://ai-techpark.com/stuffthatworks-appoints-julie-a-ross-as-ceo-and-president/: StuffThatWorks today announced that Julie A. Ross, former CEO of global CRO Advanced Clinical, has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer and P...
- Achieving 5x Agentic Coding Performance with Few-Shot Promptinghttps://towardsdatascience.com/5x-agentic-coding-performance-with-few-shot-prompting/: Learn to leverage few-shot prompting to increase your LLMs performance
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- Reimagining UI/UX education for AI and neuroinclusionhttps://www.aiacceleratorinstitute.com/reimagining-ui-ux-education-for-ai-and-neuroinclusion/: Design education must evolve beyond polished screens toward neuroinclusive cognition, AI-as-infrastructure, and uncertainty-aware governance....
- AI CEOs transformed Davos into a tech conferencehttps://techcrunch.com/podcast/ai-ceos-transformed-davos-into-a-tech-conference/: The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the mai...
- Optimizing Data Transfer in Distributed AI/ML Training Workloadshttps://towardsdatascience.com/optimizing-data-transfer-in-distributed-ai-ml-training-workloads/: A deep dive on data transfer bottlenecks, their identification, and their resolution with the help of NVIDIA Nsight™ Systems – part 3
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- Unrolling the Codex agent loophttps://openai.com/index/unrolling-the-codex-agent-loop: A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API...
- How did Davos turn into a tech conference?https://techcrunch.com/video/how-did-davos-turn-into-a-tech-conference/: The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos felt different this year, and not just because Meta and Salesforce took over storefronts on the mai...
- How an AI Agent Chooses What to Do Under Tokens, Latency, and Tool-Call Budget Constraints?https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/01/23/how-an-ai-agent-chooses-what-to-do-under-tokens-latency-and-tool-call-budget-constraints/: In this tutorial, we build a cost-aware planning agent that deliberately balances output quality against real-world constraints such as token usage, l...
- GitHub Releases Copilot-SDK to Embed Its Agentic Runtime in Any Apphttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/01/23/github-releases-copilot-sdk-to-embed-its-agentic-runtime-in-any-app/: GitHub has opened up the internal agent runtime that powers GitHub Copilot CLI and exposed it as a programmable SDK. The GitHub Copilot-SDK, now in te...
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