Daily AI Recap: Jan 12, 2026

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Why Amazon bought Bee, an AI wearable: Amazon explains where its wearable Bee fits in and whether it will merge with Alexa....
Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare following OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health reveal: Anthropic's Claude for Healthcare is unveiled about a week after OpenAI announced its ChatGPT Health product....
Amazon says 97% of its devices can support Alexa+: Amazon is counting on its Alexa footprint to help it gain traction in the consumer AI race....
How to Integrate Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) with AI Agents?: Agentic browsing is quickly becoming mainstream. People don’t just want AI agents to research products anymore. They want agents to actually buy things for them: compare options, place orders, handle ...
How to make AI that’s good for people: If we want AI to play a positive role in tomorrow’s world, it must be guided by human concerns....
What our quantum computing milestone means: This moment represents a distinct milestone in our effort to harness the principles of quantum mechanics to solve computational problems....
The Check Up with Google: At The Check Up 2025, we shared more about the potential of AI in health and our latest health AI research, partnership and product updates....
CES showed me why Chinese tech companies feel so optimistic: This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I decided to go to CES kind of at the last minute. Over the ho...
We Tried 5 Missing Data Imputation Methods: The Simplest Method Won (Sort Of): We tested five imputation methods with proper cross-validation and statistical testing. Mean imputation won for prediction but destroyed feature relationships....
How to Self-Host n8n on Docker in 5 Simple Steps: This tutorial will guide you through the complete process of self-hosting n8n on Docker in just 5 simple steps, with detailed explanations and code samples, regardless of your technical background....
Why 90% Accuracy in Text-to-SQL is 100% Useless: The eternal promise of self-service analytics The post Why 90% Accuracy in Text-to-SQL is 100% Useless appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Harmattan AI raises $200M Series B led by Dassault Aviation, becomes defense unicorn: French defense tech company Harmattan AI is now valued at $1.4 billion after raising a $200 million Series B round led by Dassault Aviation, which is best known for making the Rafale fighter jet....
Study: Just 1% Fully Adopt JIT Privileged Access as AI IDs Rise: CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in identity security, today announced findings from new research revealing a significant gap between organizations’ confidence in their privileged access pro...
When Does Adding Fancy RAG Features Work?: Looking at the performance of different pipelines The post When Does Adding Fancy RAG Features Work? appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Brado, Santé Ventures Partner to Transform Patient Navigation and Engagement: Investment spurs creation of Brado AI, a dedicated technology entity focused on extending provider reach through conversational AI Brado, a healthcare engagement and technology company, today announce...
Webroot Recognized for Lightweight Protection by Expert Consumers: Expert Consumers has recognized Webroot for its lightweight approach to antivirus protection, highlighting the software’s ability to deliver essential security features while maintaining minimal impac...
What is Model Collapse? Examples, Causes and Fixes: AI systems feel smarter than ever. They answer quickly, confidently, and with polish. But beneath that surface, something subtle is going wrong. Outputs are getting safer. Ideas are getting narrower. ...
10 Ways to Use Embeddings for Tabular ML Tasks: Embeddings — vector-based numerical representations of typically unstructured data like text — have been primarily popularized in the field of natural language processing (NLP)....
Performive Rebrands as CloudFirst: A Unified Brand Reflecting Combined Strength as a Differentiated Managed Services Leader CloudFirst, a leading cloud hosting and IT solutions provider, today announced that Performive will officially ...
Yuwell Medical Makes Its Debut at CES 2026: From January 6 to 9, CES 2026, held in Las Vegas—brought together 4,112 leading enterprises from around the world. As a leading Chinese medical device company, Yuwell Medical made its debut at CES. At...
Paul Chua Joins Health-ISAC® as Asia Pacific Operations Director: Chua will spearhead Health-ISAC’s expansion into the APAC region, enhancing cybersecurity and resilience in the global health sector Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) is ple...

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Motional puts AI at center of robotaxi reboot as it targets 2026 for driverless service: Motional says it will launch a driverless robotaxi service in Las Vegas before the end of 2026....
MoEBlaze: Breaking the Memory Wall for Efficient MoE Training on Modern GPUs: arXiv:2601.05296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The pervasive "memory wall" bottleneck is significantly amplified in modern large-scale Mixture-of-Ex...
TIME: Temporally Intelligent Meta-reasoning Engine for Context Triggered Explicit Reasoning: arXiv:2601.05300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning oriented large language models often expose explicit "thinking" as long, turn-global traces...
Ontology Neural Networks for Topologically Conditioned Constraint Satisfaction: arXiv:2601.05304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neuro-symbolic reasoning systems face fundamental challenges in maintaining semantic coherence while ...
When the Server Steps In: Calibrated Updates for Fair Federated Learning: arXiv:2601.05352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a transformative distributed learning paradigm, enabling multi...
GlyRAG: Context-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Blood Glucose Forecasting: arXiv:2601.05353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate forecasting of blood glucose from CGM is essential for preventing dysglycemic events, thus e...
Naiad: Novel Agentic Intelligent Autonomous System for Inland Water Monitoring: arXiv:2601.05256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inland water monitoring is vital for safeguarding public health and ecosystems, enabling timely inter...

Daily AI Recap: January 12, 2026

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