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Daily AI Recap: Jan 20, 2026 Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments. 🗞️ Top Stories - In an effort to protect young users, ChatGPT will now predict how old you arehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/in-an-effort-to-protect-young-users-chatgpt-will-now-predict-how-old-you-are/: The feature is designed to stop problematic content from being delivered to users under the age of 18.... - Why it’s critical to move beyond overly aggregated machine-learning metricshttps://news.mit.edu/2026/why-its-critical-to-move-beyond-overly-aggregated-machine-learning-metrics-0120: New research detects hidden evidence of mistaken correlations — and provides a method to improve accuracy.... - AI Writes Python Code, But Maintaining It Is Still Your Jobhttps://www.kdnuggets.com/ai-writes-python-code-but-maintaining-it-is-still-your-job: AI can whip up Python code in no time. The challenge, however, is keeping the code clean, readable, and maintainable.... - Does Calendar-Based Time-Intelligence Change Custom Logic?https://towardsdatascience.com/does-calendar-based-time-intelligence-change-custom-logic/: Let's look at calculating the moving average over time The post Does Calendar-Based Time-Intelligence Change Custom Logic? appeared first on Towards Data Science.... - Humans&, a ‘human-centric’ AI startup founded by Anthropic, xAI, Google alums, raised $480M seed roundhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/humans-a-human-centric-ai-startup-founded-by-anthropic-xai-google-alums-raised-480m-seed-round/: Humans&, a startup that believes AI should empower people, not replace them, has reportedly raised a $480 million seed round at a $4.48 billion valuation.... - RiseLink Convenes the Physical AI Ecosystem at CES 2026https://ai-techpark.com/riselink-convenes-the-physical-ai-ecosystem-at-ces-2026/: RiseLink Technologies, a provider of edge intelligence and ultra-low-power connectivity solutions for AI-native devices, brought together leaders across AI, hardware, and connected products at CES 202... - We Tuned 4 Classifiers on the Same Dataset: None Actually Improvedhttps://www.kdnuggets.com/we-tuned-4-classifiers-on-the-same-dataset-none-actually-improved: We tuned four classifiers on student performance data with proper nested cross-validation and statistical testing. The result? Tuning changed nothing.... - How to Perform Large Code Refactors in Cursorhttps://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-perform-large-code-refactors-in-cursor/: Learn how to perform code refactoring with LLMs The post How to Perform Large Code Refactors in Cursor appeared first on Towards Data Science.... - DuckDB vs. SQLite: A Comprehensive Comparisonhttps://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2026/01/duckdb-vs-sqlite/: AI and ML developers often work with local datasets while preprocessing data. Engineering features, and building prototypes make this easy without the overhead of a full server. The most common compar... - Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent raises $70M at $300M valuation from SoftBank, Khosla Ventureshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/indian-vibe-coding-startup-emergent-raises-70m-at-300m-valuation-from-softbank-khosla-ventures/: The funding comes as the startup claims it has scaled ARR to $50 million, and is targeting $100 million by April 2026.... - You Probably Don’t Need a Vector Database for Your RAG — Yethttps://towardsdatascience.com/you-probably-dont-need-a-vector-database-for-your-rag-yet/: Numpy or SciKit-Learn might meet all your retrieval needs The post You Probably Don’t Need a Vector Database for Your RAG — Yet appeared first on Towards Data Science.... - 10 GitHub Repositories to Ace Any Tech Interviewhttps://www.kdnuggets.com/10-github-repositories-to-ace-any-tech-interview: The most trusted GitHub repositories to help you master coding interviews, system design, backend engineering, scalability, data structures and algorithms, and machine learning interviews with confide... - AITech Interview with David Norris, Chief Marketing Officer at Boost.AIhttps://ai-techpark.com/aitech-interview-with-david-norris/: From Agencies to AI Trust: How Boost.ai’s CMO on Storytelling, Innovation, and Building Customer Trust in Regulated Industries with Conversational AI David, you bring two decades of experience across ... - Why Package Installs Are Slow And How to Fix Ithttps://towardsdatascience.com/why-package-installs-are-slow-and-how-to-fix-it/: How sharded indexing patterns solve a scaling problem in package management The post Why Package Installs Are Slow And How to Fix It appeared first on Towards Data Science.... - Freenome Expands AI and Deep Learning Initiatives Accelerated by NVIDIAhttps://ai-techpark.com/freenome-expands-ai-and-deep-learning-initiatives-accelerated-by-nvidia/: Collaboration is designed to improve analytical speed and accuracy of Freenome’s blood-based cancer screening tests Freenome today announced an initiative to advance its blood-based early cancer scree... - Keepit Unifies Global Channel Leadership with Partner-First Teamhttps://ai-techpark.com/keepit-unifies-global-channel-leadership-with-partner-first-team/: Ambition for the hyperscaler-independent data protection provider is to be “the most partner-friendly organization in the world” Keepit, the only independent, cloud-native data protection and recovery... - The Machine Learning Practitioner’s Guide to Model Deployment with FastAPIhttps://machinelearningmastery.com/the-machine-learning-practitioners-guide-to-model-deployment-with-fastapi/: If you’ve trained a machine learning model, a common question comes up: “How do we actually use it?” This is where many machine learning practitioners get stuck.... - RISA Labs Closes $11.1M Series A to Scale AI OS for Oncology Nationwidehttps://ai-techpark.com/risa-labs-closes-11-1m-series-a-to-scale-ai-os-for-oncology-nationwide/: RISA Labs, a company pioneering an AI operating system for oncology, today announced the closing of an $11.1 million Series A funding round. The financing was co-led by Cencora Ventures and Optum Vent... - Rubrik Introduces CXO Visionarieshttps://ai-techpark.com/rubrik-introduces-cxo-visionaries/: The exclusive community brings together fortune 500 and enterprise 2000 CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs to secure and accelerate the world’s AI transformation Rubrik NYSE: RBRK, the Security and AI Operations... - GIGABYTE Unveils X870E AERO X3D WOOD at CES 2026https://ai-techpark.com/gigabyte-unveils-x870e-aero-x3d-wood-at-ces-2026/: GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading global manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, today unveiled the X870E AERO X3D WOOD at CES 2026. This new category of premium mot... - HPE Boosts Retail CX with Secure, Reliable Networking and AI Insightshttps://ai-techpark.com/hpe-boosts-retail-cx-with-secure-reliable-networking-and-ai-insights/: New self-driving features in HPE Aruba Networking CX switch, expanded AI-native retail analytics, and HPE Nonstop Compute capabilities strengthen infrastructure for critical retail transactions HPE N... - IBM Study: AI Poised to Drive Smarter Business Growth Through 2030https://ai-techpark.com/ibm-study-ai-poised-to-drive-smarter-business-growth-through-2030/: New research from the IBM NYSE: IBM Institute for Business Value reveals that nearly eight in ten 79% surveyed executives expect AI will significantly contribute to their revenue by 2030 – up from... - How to Design a Fully Streaming Voice Agent with End-to-End Latency Budgets, Incremental ASR, LLM Streaming, and Real-Time TTShttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/01/19/how-to-design-a-fully-streaming-voice-agent-with-end-to-end-latency-budgets-incremental-asr-llm-streaming-and-real-time-tts/: In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end streaming voice agent that mirrors how modern low-latency conversational systems operate in real time. We simulate the complete pipeline, from chunked audio in... - Differential Transformer V2https://huggingface.co/blog/microsoft/diff-attn-v2: ... - When Should SMB Data Teams Bring in Professional Security Expertise? Sponsoredhttps://bit.ly/4jOFnEB: Cyber threats aren’t slowing down, and data teams are now some of the most attractive targets in the small business world.... - Our approach to age predictionhttps://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-age-prediction: ChatGPT is rolling out age prediction to estimate if accounts are under or over 18, applying safeguards for teens and refining accuracy over time.... - Introducing Waypoint-1: Real-time interactive video diffusion from Overworldhttps://huggingface.co/blog/waypoint-1: ... 🛠️ Featured Tools - Microsoft Research Releases OptiMind: A 20B Parameter Model that Turns Natural Language into Solver Ready Optimization Modelshttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/01/19/microsoft-research-releases-optimind-a-20b-parameter-model-that-turns-natural-language-into-solver-ready-optimization-models/: Microsoft Research has released OptiMind, an AI based system that converts natural language descriptions of complex decision problems into mathematica... - What are Recursive Language Models RLM?https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2026/01/what-are-recursive-language-models-rlm/: Large language models are great. We all can agree to that. They’ve been a cornerstone of modern industry and are increasingly impacting more and more ... - Vaximm Appoints Sébastien Wieckowski, PhD, as CSOhttps://ai-techpark.com/vaximm-appoints-sebastien-wieckowski-phd-as-cso/: Vaximm AG, a subsidiary of OSR Holdings, Inc. and a pioneer in oral T-cell immunotherapies for cancer, today announced the appointment of Sébastien Wi... - Rapid7, ARMO Help Organizations Stop Cloud Attacks Earlierhttps://ai-techpark.com/rapid7-armo-help-organizations-stop-cloud-attacks-earlier/: New runtime security capabilities reduce cloud risk faster and help security teams respond to active threats with confidence Rapid7, Inc. NASDAQ: RPD... - Hexaware Partners with AccuKnox for Cloud Security Serviceshttps://ai-techpark.com/hexaware-partners-with-accuknox-for-cloud-security-services/: AccuKnox has entered into a partnership with Hexaware Technologies to expand its Zero Trust cloud security platform into enterprise accounts managing ... - GitLab Announces the General Availability of GitLab Duo Agent Platformhttps://ai-techpark.com/gitlab-announces-the-general-availability-of-gitlab-duo-agent-platform/: All Remote – GitLab Inc., the most comprehensive, intelligent DevSecOps platform, today announced the general availability of GitLab Duo Agent Platfor... - Veradigm and Meperia Launch Industry-First 8-Way Match EDI Platformhttps://ai-techpark.com/veradigm-and-meperia-launch-industry-first-8-way-match-edi-platform/: A next-generation, hospital-first EDI platform delivering transparency, accuracy, and data governance to healthcare supply chains Veradigm® OTCMKTS: ... - AI News Weekly - Issue 460: - Jan 20th 2026https://aiweekly.co/issues/460: Welcome 2026 the year of Action? 2026 marks the end of the "Hype Phase" and the start of the "Physical Phase." The narrative ha... - GoodDay Software Raises $7M to Build AI-Native ERP for Shopifyhttps://ai-techpark.com/goodday-software-raises-7m-to-build-ai-native-erp-for-shopify/: GoodDay Software, the company building a modern ERP alternative for inventory-driven Shopify brands, today announced it has raised an additional $7 mi... - MediKarma Launches Healthcare’s First “Agentic AI” Licensing Modelhttps://ai-techpark.com/medikarma-launches-healthcares-first-agentic-ai-licensing-model/: MediKarma is the “Intel Inside” of the healthcare economy. Payers and platforms can now license specific AI Agents – longevity, prevention and chronic... - ServiceNow powers actionable enterprise AI with OpenAIhttps://openai.com/index/servicenow-powers-actionable-enterprise-ai-with-openai: ServiceNow expands access to OpenAI frontier models to power AI-driven enterprise workflows, summarization, search, and voice across the ServiceNow Pl... - The UK government is backing AI scientists that can run their own experimentshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/20/1131462/the-uk-government-is-backing-ai-scientists-that-can-run-their-own-experiments/: A number of startups and universities that are building AI scientists to design and run experiments in the lab, including robot biologists and chemist... - Stanford HAI’s AI Index Welcomes Six New Steering Committee Membershttps://hai.stanford.edu/news/stanford-hais-ai-index-welcomes-six-new-steering-committee-members: Renowned leaders in AI, medicine, and ethics join interdisciplinary committee guiding the world’s leading resource on AI trends.... - The era of agentic chaos and how data will save ushttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/20/1130911/the-era-of-agentic-chaos-and-how-data-will-save-us/: AI agents are moving beyond coding assistants and customer service chatbots into the operational core of the enterprise. The ROI is promising, but aut... - Ellipsis Health expands access to Sage via Salesforce AppExchangehttps://ai-techpark.com/ellipsis-health-expands-access-to-sage-via-salesforce-appexchange/: Agentforce Health users can now automate patient assessments, risk evaluations, and follow-up using Sage, an autonomous, empathetic AI care manager El... - Densify Announced its Rebranding to Kubexhttps://ai-techpark.com/densify-announced-its-rebranding-to-kubex/: Product brand becomes company name as Kubernetes, AI-first platform gains market momentum  Densify, the pioneer in automated resource optimization, re... - Unframe Launches Unframe Unlimited to Accelerate Enterprise ROI on AIhttps://ai-techpark.com/unframe-launches-unframe-unlimited-to-accelerate-enterprise-roi-on-ai/: New partner program will empower organizations to deliver tailored, production-ready AI solutions and unlock new revenue opportunities Today, Unframe,... - Evernote Releases v11, Marking a New Chapter in AI-Powered Productivityhttps://ai-techpark.com/evernote-releases-v11-marking-a-new-chapter-in-ai-powered-productivity/: Evernote today announced the release of v11, its first major product update in five years. The new version includes three powerful AI features—AI Assi... - Semarchy Closes 2025 with Global Growth and Momentumhttps://ai-techpark.com/semarchy-closes-2025-with-global-growth-and-momentum/: Semarchy today announced a year of major global growth driven by continued customer expansion, new strategic partnerships, and the successful launch o... - Unbreakable? Researchers warn quantum computers have serious security flawshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260120000330.htm: Quantum computers could revolutionize everything from drug discovery to business analytics—but their incredible power also makes them surprisingly vul... - Multimodal reinforcement learning with agentic verifier for AI agentshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/multimodal-reinforcement-learning-with-agentic-verifier-for-ai-agents/: Argos improves multimodal RL by evaluating whether an agent’s reasoning aligns with what it observes over time. The approach reduces visual hallucinat... - From Traces to Insights: Understanding Agent Behavior at Scalehttps://www.blog.langchain.com/from-traces-to-insights-understanding-agent-behavior-at-scale/: Visibility is the easiest piece. The hard part is analyzing and understanding what you’re observing. I’ve spoken to teams recording 100k+ traces every... - Cisco and OpenAI redefine enterprise engineering with AI agentshttps://openai.com/index/cisco: Cisco and OpenAI redefine enterprise engineering with Codex, an AI software agent embedded in workflows to speed builds, automate defect fixes, and en... - Zhipu AI Releases GLM-4.7-Flash: A 30B-A3B MoE Model for Efficient Local Coding and Agentshttps://www.marktechpost.com/2026/01/20/zhipu-ai-releases-glm-4-7-flash-a-30b-a3b-moe-model-for-efficient-local-coding-and-agents/: GLM-4.7-Flash is a new member of the GLM 4.7 family and targets developers who want strong coding and reasoning performance in a model that is practic... - Building a community-led future for AI in film with Sundance Institutehttps://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/google-org/sundance-institute-ai-education/: Illustration of a cinematographer filming with a professional video camera mounted on a tripod, positioned next to a studio light and a film clapboard... - Elon Musk says Tesla’s restarted Dojo3 will be for ‘space-based AI compute’https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/elon-musk-says-teslas-restarted-dojo3-will-be-for-space-based-ai-compute/: Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, its previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. 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