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Daily AI Recap: Jan 22, 2026 Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments. 🗞️ Top Stories - Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuationhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/voice-ai-engine-and-openai-partner-livekit-hits-1b-valuation/: The five year-old-startup raised a $100 million round led by Index Ventures.... - Google now offers free SAT practice exams, powered by Geminihttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/google-now-offers-free-sat-practice-exams-powered-by-gemini/: Google now offers a way for college-bound students to take free SAT practice exams with the help of Gemini.... - Evaluating Multi-Step LLM-Generated Content: Why Customer Journeys Require Structural Metricshttps://towardsdatascience.com/evaluating-multi-step-llm-generated-content-why-customer-journeys-require-structural-metrics/: How to evaluate goal-oriented content designed to build engagement and deliver business results, and why structure matters. The post Evaluating Multi-Step LLM-Generated Content: Why Customer Journeys ... - Personal Intelligence in AI Mode in Search: Help that's uniquely yourshttps://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/personal-intelligence-ai-mode-search/: Screenshot of the AI Mode page with the text, "Hi Lukas what's on your mind?"... - Google reportedly snags up team behind AI voice startup Hume AIhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/google-reportedly-snags-up-team-behind-ai-voice-startup-hume-ai/: Google has hired the CEO and top top behind voice AI startup Hume AI, signaling that voice is increasingly becoming the preferred interface over screens.... - Why SaaS Product Management Is the Best Domain for Data-Driven Professionals in 2026https://towardsdatascience.com/why-saas-product-management-is-the-best-domain-for-data-driven-professionals-in-2026/: How I use analytics, automation, and AI to build better SaaS The post Why SaaS Product Management Is the Best Domain for Data-Driven Professionals in 2026 appeared first on Towards Data Science.... - Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test so you can’t cheat on it with Claudehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/anthropic-has-to-keep-revising-its-technical-interview-test-so-you-cant-cheat-on-it-with-claude/: Since 2024, Anthropic's performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff — but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change ... - How to Get Started With Visual Generative AI on NVIDIA RTX PCshttps://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-ai-garage-comfyui-tutorial/: AI-powered content generation is now embedded in everyday tools like Adobe and Canva, with a slew of agencies and studios incorporating the technology into their workflows. Image models now deliver ph... - Flight Controls Are Cleared for Takeoff on GeForce NOWhttps://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-flight-controls/: The wait is over, pilots. Flight control support — one of the most community-requested features for GeForce NOW — is live starting today, following its announcement at CES earlier this month. Virtual ... - Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.S. and Canadahttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/spotify-brings-ai-powered-prompted-playlists-to-the-u-s-and-canada/: Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.... - Stop Writing Messy Boolean Masks: 10 Elegant Ways to Filter Pandas DataFrameshttps://towardsdatascience.com/stop-writing-messy-boolean-masks-10-elegant-ways-to-filter-pandas-dataframes/: Master the art of readable, high-performance data selection using .query, .isin, and advanced vectorized logic. The post Stop Writing Messy Boolean Masks: 10 Elegant Ways to Filter Pandas DataFram... - XBOW Appoints WonLae Lee as General Manager, South Koreahttps://ai-techpark.com/xbow-appoints-wonlae-lee-as-general-manager-south-korea/: Former Samsung Leader to Spearhead Company’s Asia-Pacific Expansion as Global Demand for Autonomous Offensive Security Accelerates XBOW, the leading autonomous offensive security company, today announ... - Study: AI Confidence Surges While Readiness Lags on Data Integrityhttps://ai-techpark.com/study-ai-confidence-surges-while-readiness-lags-on-data-integrity/: New research from Precisely and the Center for Applied AI and Business Analytics at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business reveals gaps in operational maturity, data trust, and skills as organi... - NVIDIA B200 GPU Guide: Use Cases, Models, Benchmarks & AI Scalehttps://www.clarifai.com/blog/nvidia-b200-gpu-guide/: Learn how NVIDIA B200 powers frontier GenAI—FP4 inference, MoE models, benchmarks, and production deployment with Clarifai.... - AMD MI355X GPU Guide: Use Cases, Benchmarks & Buying Tipshttps://www.clarifai.com/blog/amd-mi355x-gpu-guide/: An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies.... - AI in the Officehttps://www.oreilly.com/radar/ai-in-the-office/: My father spent his career as an accountant for a major public utility. He didn’t talk about work much; when he engaged in shop talk, it was generally with other public utility accountants, and incomp... - What Other Industries Can Learn from Healthcare’s Knowledge Graphshttps://towardsdatascience.com/what-other-industries-can-learn-from-healthcares-knowledge-graphs/: How shared meaning, evidence, and standards create durable semantic infrastructure The post What Other Industries Can Learn from Healthcare’s Knowledge Graphs appeared first on Towards Data Science.... - Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT usershttps://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql: An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.... - New TierPoint Report Reveals Priorities Driving Mid-Market IT Through 2030https://ai-techpark.com/new-tierpoint-report-reveals-priorities-driving-mid-market-it-through-2030/: TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected IT platform solutions that power digital transformation initiatives, today announced the release of its annual IT leader survey results. The new rese... - Vibe Coding a Bridge-Ball Game with Emergent in Minuteshttps://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2026/01/vibe-coding-game-with-emergent-in-minutes/: In the past couple of years, we have seen vibe coding evolve from just an idea that sounded “fancy” to a full-time practice for many budding developers. What used to sound like a gimmick is now a must... - Ageneau Group Chooses Generix WMS to Boost Growthhttps://ai-techpark.com/ageneau-group-chooses-generix-wms-to-boost-growth/: Generix, a global business software company offering an expansive portfolio of SaaS solutions for supply chain, finance, commerce, and B2B integration, announces that Ageneau Group, a French transport... - Zilliz Announces General Availability of Milvus 2.6.x on Zilliz Cloudhttps://ai-techpark.com/zilliz-announces-general-availability-of-milvus-2-6-x-on-zilliz-cloud/: Zilliz, the company behind the leading open-source vector database Milvus, recently announced the General Availability GA of Milvus 2.6.x on Zilliz Cloud. This major update not only brings the archi... - Cyderes Appoints Industry Veteran Lana Knop as Chief Product Officerhttps://ai-techpark.com/cyderes-appoints-industry-veteran-lana-knop-as-chief-product-officer/: Former SentinelOne and Splunk Product Leader Brings Nearly 30 Years of Global Enterprise Security Experience to Managed Cybersecurity Services Organization Cyderes, a global managed cybersecurity serv... - Scalable Knee-Point Guided Activity Group Selection in Multi-Tree Genetic Programming for Dynamic Multi-Mode Project Schedulinghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14485: arXiv:2601.14485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The dynamic multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem is a challenging scheduling problem that requires making decisions on both the e... - Epistemic Constitutionalism Or: how to avoid coherence biashttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14295: arXiv:2601.14295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly function as artificial reasoners: they evaluate arguments, assign credibility, and express confidence. Yet their bel... - The Ontological Neutrality Theorem: Why Neutral Ontological Substrates Must Be Pre-Causal and Pre-Normativehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14271: arXiv:2601.14271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern data systems must support accountability across persistent legal, political, and analytic disagreement. This requirement imposes strict constrai... - Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearablehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/not-to-be-outdone-by-openai-apple-is-reportedly-developing-an-ai-wearable/: Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device.... 🛠️ Featured Tools - FlashLabs Researchers Release Chroma 1.0: A 4B Real Time Speech Dialogue Model With Personalized Voice Cloninghttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/01/21/flashlabs-researchers-release-chroma-1-0-a-4b-real-time-speech-dialogue-model-with-personalized-voice-cloning/: Chroma 1.0 is a real time speech to speech dialogue model that takes audio as input and returns audio as output while preserving the speaker identity ... - Call2Instruct: Automated Pipeline for Generating Q&A Datasets from Call Center Recordings for LLM Fine-Tuninghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14263: arXiv:2601.14263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The adaptation of Large-Scale Language Models LLMs to specific domains depends on high-quality fine... - GCG Attack On A Diffusion LLMhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14266: arXiv:2601.14266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While most LLMs are autoregressive, diffusion-based LLMs have recently emerged as an alternative meth... - Divide and Refine: Enhancing Multimodal Representation and Explainability for Emotion Recognition in Conversationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14274: arXiv:2601.14274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation MERC requires representations that effectively integ... - Quality or Quantity? Error-Informed Selective Online Learning with Gaussian Processes in Multi-Agent Systems: Extended Versionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14275: arXiv:2601.14275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective cooperation is pivotal in distributed learning for multi-agent systems, where the interplay... - Which Quantization Should I Use? A Unified Evaluation of llama.cpp Quantization on Llama-3.1-8B-Instructhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14277: arXiv:2601.14277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantization is a practical technique for making large language models easier to deploy by reducing t... - VisTIRA: Closing the Image-Text Modality Gap in Visual Math Reasoning via Structured Tool Integrationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14440: arXiv:2601.14440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models VLMs lag behind text-only language models on mathematical reasoning when the... - On the Generalization Gap in LLM Planning: Tests and Verifier-Reward RLhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14456: arXiv:2601.14456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work shows that fine-tuned Large Language Models LLMs can achieve high valid plan rates on P... - Ping Identity Advances Universal Services to Counter AI-Driven Fraudhttps://ai-techpark.com/ping-identity-advances-universal-services-to-counter-ai-driven-fraud/: A new model for continuous, verified trust across every identity, every interaction, and every environment Ping Identity, a leader in securing digital... - Vectra AI Launches Next-Gen Platform for Preemptive AI Securityhttps://ai-techpark.com/vectra-ai-launches-next-gen-platform-for-preemptive-ai-security/: New platform enhancements prevent and stop AI-powered cyberattacks at machine speed Vectra AI, the cybersecurity AI leader in protecting modern networ... - C5i Launches Enterprise-Grade Platform Agent5i to Scale Business Valuehttps://ai-techpark.com/c5i-launches-enterprise-grade-platform-agent5i-to-scale-business-value/: The new enterprise-grade platform establishes a governance-first foundation, empowering businesses to integrate autonomous agents and confidently scal... - Elissa Baker, BSN, RN, Joins Nesa as President & Chief Clinical Officerhttps://ai-techpark.com/elissa-baker-bsn-rn-joins-nesa-as-president-chief-clinical-officer/: Epic Toolbox 2026 Vendor for Inpatient Virtual Care Adds Seasoned Operator and Clinician to Lead Scaled Clinical and Enterprise Operations Nesa, the i... - Strike48 Launches First Agentic Log Intelligence Platformhttps://ai-techpark.com/strike48-launches-first-agentic-log-intelligence-platform/: New platform delivers 100% log visibility and autonomous AI agents that execute end-to-end security and IT operations workflows Strike48 today announc... - Greenway Health® Launches Agentic AI Factory to Redefine Future of Healthtechhttps://ai-techpark.com/greenway-health-launches-agentic-ai-factory-to-redefine-future-of-healthtech/: Establishing the new standard for modern, secure, and scalable AI innovation and powering a new generation of human-centered healthcare Greenway Healt... - Runpod AI Cloud Surpasses $120M in ARRhttps://ai-techpark.com/runpod-ai-cloud-surpasses-120m-in-arr/: Platform now serves 500K developers, demonstrating soaring demand for flexible AI infrastructure that reduces compute costs by as much as 90% Runpod, ... - 10Bridge Interoperability Uniquely Ready for CMS’ Launch of its RHT Programhttps://ai-techpark.com/10bridge-interoperability-uniquely-ready-for-cms-launch-of-its-rht-program/: Healthcare focused, cloud-native interoperability platform and embedded service supports CMS RHT’s IT modernization goals across diverse, hard-to-conn... - Balena Secures Growth Investment to Boost Edge AI and IoT Fleet Managementhttps://ai-techpark.com/balena-secures-growth-investment-to-boost-edge-ai-and-iot-fleet-management/: New partnership fuels product innovation and reinforces Balena’s position as the leading hardware-agnostic platform dedicated to the security and long... - Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language modelshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1131661/yann-lecuns-new-venture-ami-labs/: Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world. He believes that the indus... - Former Google trio is building an interactive AI-powered learning app for kidshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/former-google-trio-is-building-an-interactive-ai-powered-learning-app-for-kids/: Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to ... - TDengine Achieves 100% Growth and Key Product Milestones in 2025https://ai-techpark.com/tdengine-achieves-100-growth-and-key-product-milestones-in-2025/: TDengine today announced steady growth across key markets in 2025, closing a year defined by product expansion, ecosystem development, and continued a... - CureMD Launches Rural Health Accelerator Packagehttps://ai-techpark.com/curemd-launches-rural-health-accelerator-package/: Integrated EHR, Telehealth, Revenue Cycle Management, and AI Clinical Automation Addresses All Five RHT Goals: Technology Innovation, Sustainable Acce... - VectorCare Launches SoFaaS™ SMART on FHIR as a Servicehttps://ai-techpark.com/vectorcare-launches-sofaas-smart-on-fhir-as-a-service/: Patient logistics and care coordination tech company VectorCare has announced the launch of SoFaaS™ SMART on FHIR as a Service, a new infrastructure... - Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying offhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/quadric-rides-the-shift-from-cloud-ai-to-on-device-inference-and-its-paying-off/: Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.... - The 2026 Time Series Toolkit: 5 Foundation Models for Autonomous Forecastinghttps://machinelearningmastery.com/the-2026-time-series-toolkit-5-foundation-models-for-autonomous-forecasting/: Most forecasting work involves building custom models for each dataset — fit an ARIMA here, tune an LSTM there, wrestle with <a href="https://facebook... - Inside Praktika's conversational approach to language learninghttps://openai.com/index/praktika: How Praktika uses GPT-4.1 and GPT-5.2 to build adaptive AI tutors that personalize lessons, track progress, and help learners achieve real-world langu... - OpenEvidence Raises $250 Mn to Build Medical Superintelligence for Doctorshttps://ai-techpark.com/openevidence-raises-250-mn-to-build-medical-superintelligence-for-doctors/: OpenEvidence, the most widely-used AI platform by doctors in America, announced today that it closed a Series D round of funding, valuing the company ... - 2025 Marks Major Advancements in Auvik’s IT Management Platformhttps://ai-techpark.com/2025-marks-major-advancements-in-auviks-it-management-platform/: Auvik Supports 6,000+ Customers Across 110,000+ Networks With Advanced Visibility and Smarter IT Workflows Auvik, an award-winning IT management softw... - ZeroPoint Technologies Appoints Brett Cline as Chief Executive Officerhttps://ai-techpark.com/zeropoint-technologies-appoints-brett-cline-as-chief-executive-officer/: ZeroPoint Technologies today announced the appointment of Brett Cline as the company’s CEO. Brett brings more than two decades of executive and go-to-... - Improving Model Accuracy with Retrieval-Augmented Generationhttps://ai-techpark.com/improving-model-accuracy-retrieval-augmented-generation/: Boost AI reliability in 2026. Learn 5 strategic steps to improve model accuracy using RAG, semantic chunking, and the RAG evaluation framework. The wo... - 5 Breakthroughs in Graph Neural Networks to Watch in 2026https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-breakthroughs-in-graph-neural-networks-to-watch-in-2026: This article outlines 5 recent breakthroughs in GNNs that are worth watching in the year ahead: from integration with LLMs to interdisciplinary scient... - Airbyte Joins the Agentic AI Foundation as a Silver Memberhttps://ai-techpark.com/airbyte-joins-the-agentic-ai-foundation-as-a-silver-member/: Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, today announced it has joined the Linux Foundation’s newly formed Agentic AI Foundation AAIF as... - AiStrike Raises $7M to Accelerate AI-Native, Preemptive Cyber Defensehttps://ai-techpark.com/aistrike-raises-7m-to-accelerate-ai-native-preemptive-cyber-defense/: Funding led by Blumberg Capital to accelerate the shift to AI-native, preemptive cyber defense operations The era of purely reactive security operatio... - Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructurehttps://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/railway-secures-usd100-million-to-challenge-aws-with-ai-native-cloud: Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursd... - From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencinghttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/from-invisibility-cloaks-to-ai-chips-neurophos-raises-110m-to-build-tiny-optical-processors-for-inferencing/: Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math r... - Open Notebook: A True Open Source Private NotebookLM Alternative?https://www.kdnuggets.com/open-notebook-a-true-open-source-private-notebooklm-alternative: Open Notebook is an open-source, AI-powered platform designed to help users take, organize, and interact with notes while keeping full control over th... - Google’s AI Mode can now tap into your Gmail and Photos to provide tailored responseshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/googles-ai-mode-can-now-tap-into-your-gmail-and-photos-to-provide-tailored-responses/: The company notes that AI Mode doesn’t train directly on your Gmail inbox or Google Photos library. Instead, it trains on specific prompts and the mod... - From Pilot to Profit: Survey Reveals the Financial Services Industry Is Doubling Down on AI Investment and Open Sourcehttps://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-in-financial-services-survey-2026/: AI has taken center stage in financial services, automating the research and execution behind algorithmic trading and helping banks more accurately de... - “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better?https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1131692/dr-google-had-its-issues-can-chatgpt-health-do-better/: For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online. The practice w... - Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove ithttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/humans-thinks-coordination-is-the-next-frontier-for-ai-and-theyre-building-a-model-to-prove-it/: Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundation models fo... - NVIDIA DRIVE AV Raises the Bar for Vehicle Safety as Mercedes-Benz CLA Earns Top Euro NCAP Awardhttps://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/drive-av-mercedes-benz-cla-euro-ncap-safety-award/: AI-powered driver assistance technologies are becoming standard equipment, fundamentally changing how vehicle safety is assessed and validated. The re... - Google DeepMind CEO is ‘surprised’ OpenAI is rushing forward with ads in ChatGPThttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/google-deepmind-ceo-is-surprised-openai-is-rushing-forward-with-ads-in-chatgpt/: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says the tech giant isn't pressuring him to insert ads into the AI chatbot experience.... - Microsoft Releases VibeVoice-ASR: A Unified Speech-to-Text Model Designed to Handle 60-Minute Long-Form Audio in a Single Passhttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/01/22/microsoft-releases-vibevoice-asr-a-unified-speech-to-text-model-designed-to-handle-60-minute-long-form-audio-in-a-single-pass/: Microsoft has released VibeVoice-ASR as part of the VibeVoice family of open source frontier voice AI models. VibeVoice-ASR is described as a unified ... - Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts.https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/are-ai-agents-ready-for-the-workplace-a-new-benchmark-raises-doubts/: New research looks at how leading AI models hold up doing actual white-collar work tasks, drawn from consulting, investment banking, and law. 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