Daily AI Recap: Jan 04, 2026

Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.

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DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI: DoorDash seems to have confirmed a viral story about a driver using an AI-generated photo to lie about making a delivery....
French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes: France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors....
Plaud launches a new AI pin and a desktop meeting notetaker: Plaud is going after the likes of Granola to launch a desktop app that records online meetings...
Prompt Engineering vs RAG for Editing Resumes: Running a code-free comparison in Azure The post Prompt Engineering vs RAG for Editing Resumes appeared first on Towards Data Science....
How to Filter for Dates, Including or Excluding Future Dates, in Semantic Models: It is common to have either planning data or the previous year's data displayed beyond today's date. But future data can be confusing. How can I add a Slicer to show or hide future data? Let’s see how...
How to Structure Your Data Science Project (With Frameworks & Best Practices): Ever felt lost in messy folders, so many scripts, and unorganized code? That chaos only slows you down and hardens the data science journey. Organized workflows and project structures are not just nic...

DeepSeek Researchers Apply a 1967 Matrix Normalization Algorithm to Fix Instability in Hyper Connections: DeepSeek researchers are trying to solve a precise issue in large language model training. Residual connections made very deep networks trainable, hyp...
Subtle releases ear buds with its noise cancelation models: Subtle's new $199 earbuds will also let you dictate in any app on desktop or phone...