Daily AI Recap: Jan 11, 2026

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

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Google removes AI Overviews for certain medical queries: This follows an investigation by the Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to some health-related queries....
A Coding Guide to Demonstrate Targeted Data Poisoning Attacks in Deep Learning by Label Flipping on CIFAR-10 with PyTorch: In this tutorial, we demonstrate a realistic data poisoning attack by manipulating labels in the CIFAR-10 dataset and observing its impact on model behavior. We construct a clean and a poisoned traini...
How to Leverage Slash Commands to Code Effectively: Learn how I utilize slash commands to be a more efficient engineer The post How to Leverage Slash Commands to Code Effectively appeared first on Towards Data Science....

10 Hackathons You Can Join in 2026: Hackathons are different!. The good ones pull you in, stretch your thinking, and leave you with something real—regardless of the outcome. The problem ...
Automatic Prompt Optimization for Multimodal Vision Agents: A Self-Driving Car Example: Walkthrough using open-source prompt optimization algorithms in Python to improve the accuracy of an autonomous vehicle car safety agent running on Op...
Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes: Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok....
Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents: Google said that merchants can now offer discounts to users directly in AI mode results...
Meet SETA: Open Source Training Reinforcement Learning Environments for Terminal Agents with 400 Tasks and CAMEL Toolkit: What does an end to end stack for terminal agents look like when you combine structured toolkits, synthetic RL environments, and benchmark aligned eva...
MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer: Unified multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) that can both understand and generate visual content hold immense potential. However, existing open-so...