Daily AI Recap: Jan 08, 2026
Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.
🗞️ Top Stories
- CES 2026: Follow live for the best, weirdest, and most interesting tech as physical AI and robots dominate the event: CES 2026, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. And lucky for you, we have TechCrunch editors and reporters on the ground to cover the news, scout out the interesting, weird,...
- Nvidia’s reportedly asking Chinese customers to pay upfront for its H200 AI chips: Nvidia is now requiring its customers in China to pay upfront in full for its H200 AI chips even as approval Stateside and from Beijing remains uncertain....
- NVIDIA H100 vs. GH200: Choosing the Right GPU for Your AI Workloads: Detailed comparison of NVIDIA H100 vs GH200, covering architecture, memory design, performance trade-offs, and best use cases for AI and HPC workloads....
- Top 10 Open-source Reasoning Models in 2026: Discover the top 10 open-source reasoning LLMs of 2026: DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3, Kimi K2, GPT-OSS-120B & more. Complete guide with benchmarks, specs...
- 10 RAG Projects That Actually Teach You Retrieval: Most RAG demos stop at “upload a PDF and ask a question.” That proves the pipeline works. It doesn’t prove you understand it. These projects are designed to break in interesting ways. They surface bia...
- Why this VC thinks 2026 will be ‘the year of the consumer’: AI adoption in enterprise is stalling as companies don't know where to start. Vanessa Larco of Premise VC thinks 2026 will be the year of the consumer....
- AI that drives change: Wayve rewrites self-driving playbook with deep learning in Azure: The post AI that drives change: Wayve rewrites self-driving playbook with deep learning in Azure appeared first on Source....
- Envoc Appoints James (Jim) DuBos as President and Chief Operating Officer: Envoc, a leading provider of custom software development and SaaS Product solutions, today announced the appointment of James (Jim) DuBos as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this role, ...
- Arcfra, Netfos Partner to Advance Cloud and AI Innovation in Taiwan: Arcfra, a leading provider of full-stack enterprise cloud infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with Netfos, one of Taiwan’s most trusted value-added distributors. This collaboration...
- DryRun Security Gains Momentum With AI-Native Code Intelligence: DryRun Security, the industry’s first AI-native, code security intelligence company, has completed its first year out of stealth with strong corporate momentum. Over the past twelve months, the compan...
- How to Improve the Performance of Visual Anomaly Detection Models: Apply the best methods from academia to get the most out of practical applications The post How to Improve the Performance of Visual Anomaly Detection Models appeared first on Towards Data Science....
- iScribeHealth Selected as AI Scribing Partner for Lifepoint Health Physicians: iScribeHealth, a leading healthcare technology company specializing in ambient AI and mobile-first documentation solutions, today announced a partnership with Lifepoint Health to provide AI scribing s...
- AI Modernization: Making Intelligence Accessible, Secure, and Scalable: AI Modernization enables secure, scalable intelligence by integrating analytics, vector search, and self-service access across enterprise data. Artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed the hype thresh...
- Former Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla’s startup triples to $100M valuation: Spangle has raised $15 million in a Series A round to expand its AI-generated shopping experiences....
- Gmail debuts a personalized AI Inbox, AI Overviews in search, and more: Gmail is also bringing several AI features that were previously available only to paid users to all users....
- InfoWorld Names Prophecy Winner in 2025 List of Technology of the Year: Prophecy recognized for leadership and innovation in the “Data management: pipelines” space Foundry’s InfoWorld (https://www.infoworld.com/) announces Prophecy as a 2025 Technology of the Year winner ...
- The End of the Sync Script: Infrastructure as Intent: There’s an open secret in the world of DevOps: Nobody trusts the CMDB. The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is supposed to be the “source of truth”—the central map of every server, service, an...
- FaceTec Onboards Digital Identity Veteran for Global Strategic Partnerships: Cameron D’Ambrosi named Head of Strategic Partnerships for NA and EU FaceTec, the global leader in 3D Face Verification software, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Cameron D’Ambrosi as Head o...
- Top 10 Code Generation Model APIs for IDEs & AI Agents: Running AI models on your machine unlocks privacy, customization, and independence. In this in‑depth guide, you’ll learn why local AI is important, the tools and models you need, how to overcome chall...
- What Is Cloud Scalability? Types, Benefits & AI-Era Strategies: Learn why Clarifai is moving to Pay-As-You-Go credits, what’s changing, and how prepaid billing brings more predictability, flexibility, and control....
- SolarWinds Named Sterling’s 2025 Software Partner of the Year: SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, and secure IT management and observability software, today announced it has been named Sterling’s Software Partner of the Year at the 2025 Sterling ...
- eInfochips Earns IoT Development Service Provider of the Year: eInfochips, an Arrow Electronics company and a leading provider of engineering research and development services, today announced that it has been awarded “IoT Development Service Provider of the Year...
- Truepic Welcomes Kerry Whorton Cooper to its Board of Advisors: Cooper brings extensive board leadership and executive experience to help advance Truepic’s mission of scaling authenticity across digital ecosystems Truepic, the enterprise leader of Visual Risk Inte...
- MUFJ Bank Adopts Private AI: High-precision anonymization of unstructured data promotes data utilization within the bank MUFG Bank (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Junichi Hanzawa; hereinafter, “the Bank”) has...
- Why LLMs Aren't Scientists Yet: Lessons from Four Autonomous Research Attempts: arXiv:2601.03315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We report a case study of four end-to-end attempts to autonomously generate ML research papers using a pipeline of six LLM agents mapped to stages of t...
- HEEGNet: Hyperbolic Embeddings for EEG: arXiv:2601.03322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces facilitate direct communication with a computer, enabling promising applications in human-...
- Aligning Findings with Diagnosis: A Self-Consistent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Trustworthy Radiology Reporting: arXiv:2601.03321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for radiology report generation, yet their clinical translation is hindered by arc...
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- Ford has an AI assistant and new hands-free BlueCruise tech on the way: Ford says the new generation of BlueCruise will be 30% cheaper to build than the current technology....
- Google and Character.AI negotiate first major settlements in teen chatbot death cases: The settlements are among the first tied to lawsuits accusing AI companies of harming users....
- Lightweight Transformer Architectures for Edge Devices in Real-Time Applications: arXiv:2601.03290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of transformer-based models on resource-constrained edge devices represents a critical...
- Ratio-Variance Regularized Policy Optimization for Efficient LLM Fine-tuning: arXiv:2601.03320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy reinforcement learning (RL), particularly Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Group Rela...
- Less than a trillionth of a second: Ultrafast UV light could transform communications and imaging: Researchers have built a new platform that produces ultrashort UV-C laser pulses and detects them at room temperature using atom-thin materials. The l...
- HawkSoft and Sonant Integrate Voice AI for Independent Insurance Agencies: Partnership delivers conversational AI that logs calls and creates tasks directly in HawkSoft HawkSoft, a leading agency management system provider fo...
- Skylight Health Acquires Stellation Care: Skylight Health, a mission-driven healthcare company committed to Making Specialty Care Better for All, today announced the acquisition of Stellation ...
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