Daily AI Recap: Jan 20, 2026

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

• In an effort to protect young users, ChatGPT will now predict how old you are: The feature is designed to stop problematic content from being delivered to users under the age of 18....
• Why it’s critical to move beyond overly aggregated machine-learning metrics: New research detects hidden evidence of mistaken correlations — and provides a method to improve accuracy....
• AI Writes Python Code, But Maintaining It Is Still Your Job: AI can whip up Python code in no time. The challenge, however, is keeping the code clean, readable, and maintainable....
• Does Calendar-Based Time-Intelligence Change Custom Logic?: Let's look at calculating the moving average over time The post Does Calendar-Based Time-Intelligence Change Custom Logic? appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• Humans&, a ‘human-centric’ AI startup founded by Anthropic, xAI, Google alums, raised $480M seed round: Humans&, a startup that believes AI should empower people, not replace them, has reportedly raised a $480 million seed round at a $4.48 billion valuation....
• RiseLink Convenes the Physical AI Ecosystem at CES 2026: RiseLink Technologies, a provider of edge intelligence and ultra-low-power connectivity solutions for AI-native devices, brought together leaders across AI, hardware, and connected products at CES 202...
• We Tuned 4 Classifiers on the Same Dataset: None Actually Improved: We tuned four classifiers on student performance data with proper nested cross-validation and statistical testing. The result? Tuning changed nothing....
• How to Perform Large Code Refactors in Cursor: Learn how to perform code refactoring with LLMs The post How to Perform Large Code Refactors in Cursor appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• DuckDB vs. SQLite: A Comprehensive Comparison: AI and ML developers often work with local datasets while preprocessing data. Engineering features, and building prototypes make this easy without the overhead of a full server. The most common compar...
• Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent raises $70M at $300M valuation from SoftBank, Khosla Ventures: The funding comes as the startup claims it has scaled ARR to $50 million, and is targeting $100 million by April 2026....
• You Probably Don’t Need a Vector Database for Your RAG — Yet: Numpy or SciKit-Learn might meet all your retrieval needs The post You Probably Don’t Need a Vector Database for Your RAG — Yet appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• 10 GitHub Repositories to Ace Any Tech Interview: The most trusted GitHub repositories to help you master coding interviews, system design, backend engineering, scalability, data structures and algorithms, and machine learning interviews with confide...
• AITech Interview with David Norris, Chief Marketing Officer at Boost.AI: From Agencies to AI Trust: How Boost.ai’s CMO on Storytelling, Innovation, and Building Customer Trust in Regulated Industries with Conversational AI David, you bring two decades of experience across ...
• Why Package Installs Are Slow (And How to Fix It): How sharded indexing patterns solve a scaling problem in package management The post Why Package Installs Are Slow (And How to Fix It) appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• Freenome Expands AI and Deep Learning Initiatives Accelerated by NVIDIA: Collaboration is designed to improve analytical speed and accuracy of Freenome’s blood-based cancer screening tests Freenome today announced an initiative to advance its blood-based early cancer scree...
• Keepit Unifies Global Channel Leadership with Partner-First Team: Ambition for the hyperscaler-independent data protection provider is to be “the most partner-friendly organization in the world” Keepit, the only independent, cloud-native data protection and recovery...
• The Machine Learning Practitioner’s Guide to Model Deployment with FastAPI: If you’ve trained a machine learning model, a common question comes up: “How do we actually use it?” This is where many machine learning practitioners get stuck....
• RISA Labs Closes $11.1M Series A to Scale AI OS for Oncology Nationwide: RISA Labs, a company pioneering an AI operating system for oncology, today announced the closing of an $11.1 million Series A funding round. The financing was co-led by Cencora Ventures and Optum Vent...
• Rubrik Introduces CXO Visionaries: The exclusive community brings together fortune 500 and enterprise 2000 CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs to secure and accelerate the world’s AI transformation Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK), the Security and AI Operations...
• GIGABYTE Unveils X870E AERO X3D WOOD at CES 2026: GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading global manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, today unveiled the X870E AERO X3D WOOD at CES 2026. This new category of premium mot...
• HPE Boosts Retail CX with Secure, Reliable Networking and AI Insights: New self-driving features in HPE Aruba Networking CX switch, expanded AI-native retail analytics, and HPE Nonstop Compute capabilities strengthen infrastructure for critical retail transactions HPE (N...
• IBM Study: AI Poised to Drive Smarter Business Growth Through 2030: New research from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value reveals that nearly eight in ten (79%) surveyed executives expect AI will significantly contribute to their revenue by 2030 – up from...
• How to Design a Fully Streaming Voice Agent with End-to-End Latency Budgets, Incremental ASR, LLM Streaming, and Real-Time TTS: In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end streaming voice agent that mirrors how modern low-latency conversational systems operate in real time. We simulate the complete pipeline, from chunked audio in...
• Differential Transformer V2: ...
• When Should SMB Data Teams Bring in Professional Security Expertise? (Sponsored): Cyber threats aren’t slowing down, and data teams are now some of the most attractive targets in the small business world....
• Our approach to age prediction: ChatGPT is rolling out age prediction to estimate if accounts are under or over 18, applying safeguards for teens and refining accuracy over time....
• Introducing Waypoint-1: Real-time interactive video diffusion from Overworld: ...

• Microsoft Research Releases OptiMind: A 20B Parameter Model that Turns Natural Language into Solver Ready Optimization Models: Microsoft Research has released OptiMind, an AI based system that converts natural language descriptions of complex decision problems into mathematica...

• What are Recursive Language Models (RLM)?: Large language models are great. We all can agree to that. They’ve been a cornerstone of modern industry and are increasingly impacting more and more ...

• Vaximm Appoints Sébastien Wieckowski, PhD, as CSO: Vaximm AG, a subsidiary of OSR Holdings, Inc. and a pioneer in oral T-cell immunotherapies for cancer, today announced the appointment of Sébastien Wi...

• Rapid7, ARMO Help Organizations Stop Cloud Attacks Earlier: New runtime security capabilities reduce cloud risk faster and help security teams respond to active threats with confidence Rapid7, Inc. (NASDAQ: RPD...

• Hexaware Partners with AccuKnox for Cloud Security Services: AccuKnox has entered into a partnership with Hexaware Technologies to expand its Zero Trust cloud security platform into enterprise accounts managing ...

• GitLab Announces the General Availability of GitLab Duo Agent Platform: All Remote – GitLab Inc., the most comprehensive, intelligent DevSecOps platform, today announced the general availability of GitLab Duo Agent Platfor...

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