Daily AI Recap: Jan 07, 2026

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OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, says 230 million users ask about health each week: The feature, which is expected to roll out in the coming weeks, will offer a dedicated space for conversations with ChatGPT about health....
Where VCs think AI startups can win, even with OpenAI in the game: Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI. Larco, who’s been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we’re about to...
Anthropic reportedly raising $10B at $350B valuation: Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $10 billion at a $350 billion valuation, marking its third mega-round in a year....
VC predicts the consumer AI products OpenAI ‘won’t want to kill’: Vanessa Larco, partner at Premise and former partner at NEA, thinks 2026 will finally be the year of consumer AI. Larco, who’s been investing in consumer and prosumer for years, thinks we’re about to...
Skylight debuts Calendar 2 to keep your family organized: Skylight, known for its digital picture frame, has a new digital product that puts software and AI at the center....
HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows: How approximate vector search silently degrades Recall—and what to do about It The post HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows appeared first on Towards Data Scienc...
Win 2026! 9 AI Prompts to Enter Beast Mode This New Year: The beginning of a new year brings about a new sense of energy in most. One may argue that it is all psychological, as nothing changes other than the date. Agreed, to a point. Though it is psychologic...
NetDocuments Names Carahsoft 2025 Government Partner of the Year at Inspire: Company Honored for Driving Public Sector Innovation and Impact Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider®, today announced that it has been named Government Partner of ...
Why Supply Chain is the Best Domain for Data Scientists in 2026 (And How to Learn It): My take after 10 years in Supply Chain on why this can be an excellent playground for data scientists who want to see their skills valued. The post Why Supply Chain is the Best Domain for Data Scienti...
Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation: Articul8's valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A....
TruBridge and THMA Launch the Rural Health Collaborative: Aligned with the goals of the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), the collaboration will advance best practices that reinforce hospital sustainability and support high-quality care and financi...
Clearwater Ranked #36 on MSSP Alert’s 2025 Top Global MSSPs List: Significant rise in annual rankings reflects strong growth in adoption of company’s managed security services and continued excellence in protecting healthcare organizations and defense contractors Cl...
Ford, Powell & Carson Modernizes Operations and Growth Strategy with Unanet: Legendary Texas AEC leader selects unified solutions to drive growth and efficiency Unanet, the leader in AI-first ERP and growth software for project-based businesses, today announced that Ford, Powe...
EMQ announced the release of EMQX Enterprise v6.1.0: New release adds durable, replayable MQTT streaming, native Parquet support for analytics pipelines, and enhanced multi-tenancy to support event-driven IoT and data workloads at scale EMQ, a global le...
How Tolan builds voice-first AI with GPT-5.1: Tolan built a voice-first AI companion with GPT-5.1, combining low-latency responses, real-time context reconstruction, and memory-driven personalities for natural conversations....
NXP and GE HealthCare Accelerate AI Innovation in Acute Care: Collaboration focuses on the development of two advanced edge AI concepts in anesthesiology and neonatal care designed to help improve patient care. NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) and GE Healt...
CommScope Launches Secure Boot Solution for TI Arm-Based AM6x: CommScope PRiSM, with hardware-backed signing and automated workflows, reduces development effort and accelerates compliance with the EU Cyber Resilience Act CommScope (NASDAQ: COMM), a global leader ...
Ridge Security Achieves ISO/IEC 27001 Certification: Milestone Reflects Company’s Readiness to Support Security, Data Protection, and High Compliance Standards for Large Enterprise Organizations Ridge Security, leader in AI-powered offensive security fo...
Infortrend Launches Its Most Advanced U.2 NVMe SSD for AI Workloads: Infortrend Technology, Inc. (TWSE: 2495), a leading provider of enterprise storage and AI solutions, today announced the launch of EonStor GS 5024U, its highest-performing storage system to date. It d...
An Empirical Study of On-Device Translation for Real-Time Live-Stream Chat on Mobile Devices: arXiv:2601.02641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite its efficiency, there has been little research on the practical aspects required for real-world deployment of on-device AI models, such as the ...
mHC-GNN: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections for Graph Neural Networks: arXiv:2601.02451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) suffer from over-smoothing in deep architectures and expressiveness bounded by the 1-Weisfeiler-Leman (1-WL) test. We adap...
Meta’s Manus news is getting different receptions in Washington and Beijing: Chinese officials are reportedly reviewing whether the Meta deal violates technology export controls, potentially giving Beijing leverage it wasn't initially perceived as having....
Why 'Zero-Shot' Clinical Predictions Are Risky: These models generate plausible timelines from historical patterns; without calibration and auditing, their “probabilities” may not reflect reality....
Introducing ChatGPT Health: ChatGPT Health is a dedicated experience that securely connects your health data and apps, with privacy protections and a physician-informed design....

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McKinsey and General Catalyst execs say the era of ‘learn once, work forever’ is over: Calacanis, General Catalyst's Taneja, and McKinsey's Sternfels discussed how AI is reshaping technology and the labor force....
NVIDIA AI Released Nemotron Speech ASR: A New Open Source Transcription Model Designed from the Ground Up for Low-Latency Use Cases like Voice Agents: NVIDIA has just released its new streaming English transcription model (Nemotron Speech ASR) built specifically for low latency voice agents and live ...
Implementing Softmax From Scratch: Avoiding the Numerical Stability Trap: In deep learning, classification models don’t just need to make predictions—they need to express confidence. That’s where the Softmax activation funct...
Physical Transformer: arXiv:2601.02433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital AI systems spanning large language models, vision models, and generative architectures that o...
WebGym: Scaling Training Environments for Visual Web Agents with Realistic Tasks: arXiv:2601.02439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present WebGym, the largest-to-date open-source environment for training realistic visual web agen...
Polynomial Convergence of Riemannian Diffusion Models: arXiv:2601.02499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable empirical success in the recent years and are considere...
GEM-Style Constraints for PEFT with Dual Gradient Projection in LoRA: arXiv:2601.02500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) is computationally costly, motivating Continual Lear...

Daily AI Recap: January 7, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Jan 07, 2026

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