Daily AI Recap: Jan 21, 2026

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A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025: From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot happened last year....
Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI: The feature, now public, lets you create to-do's and action items by speaking naturally to the app's AI....
Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says: Siri could look more like ChatGPT than its current state as an integrated feature across Apple products....
Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference: Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop....
50+ Machine Learning Resources for Self Study in 2026: Are you following the trend or genuinely interested in Machine Learning? Either way, you will need the right resources to TRUST, LEARN and SUCCEED. If you are unable to find the right Machine Learning...

AI News Weekly - Issue #461: - Jan 21st 2026: Welcome

  AI is Hype : Highlights from Davos
  Check out this interesting video of Ken Griffith talking about how no one has any idea yet on how these massive investments in infrast...

7 Statistical Concepts Every Data Scientist Should Master (and Why): Understanding data starts with statistics. These 7 statistics concepts give you the foundation to analyze and interpret with confidence....
Google Trends is Misleading You: How to Do Machine Learning with Google Trends Data: Google Trends is one of the most widely used tools for analysing human behaviour at scale. Journalists use it. Data scientists use it. Entire papers are built on it. But there is a fundamental propert...
Exploring what AI means for education and the next generation: The post Exploring what AI means for education and the next generation appeared first on Source....
YouTube will soon let creators make Shorts with their own AI likeness: YouTube Shorts viewers might soon see AI versions of their favorite creators when scrolling through their feeds....
OpenAI aims to ship its first device in 2026, and it could be earbuds: The AI startup is on track to announce its first hardware device in the second half of this year, OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane said during an interview Davos....
Navigating AI Entrepreneurship: Insights From The Application Layer: Through the lens of a serial entrepreneur, this article explores how the AI revolution is shifting from infrastructure to the application layer, where the greatest opportunities lie in solving special...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates all year: TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets are officially on sale. Save up to $680 on your ticket and be among the first 500 registrants to score a +1 pass at 50% off. Don't miss 10,000 tech leaders, founders, a...
If You Want to Become a Data Scientist in 2026, Do This: Learn from my mistakes and fast track your data science career The post If You Want to Become a Data Scientist in 2026, Do This appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Zanskar thinks 1 TW of geothermal power is being overlooked: Zanskar has raised $115 million to find about a dozen geothermal resources that could help power the grid throughout the U.S. West....
Elastic Supercharges Performance for Serverless Offering on AWS: New virtual compute units deliver up to 50% higher indexing throughput and 37% lower latency — powering search, observability and security applications at no extra cost Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Searc...
Language learning marketplace Preply’s unicorn status embodies Ukrainian resilience: Language learning marketplace Preply is now valued at $1.2 billion after raising a $150 million that marks a new chapter for the 14-year-old company....
A Case for the T-statistic: And how it compares to the run-of-the-mill z-score The post A Case for the T-statistic appeared first on Towards Data Science....
5 Alternatives to Google Colab for Long-Running Tasks: These five options make long-running jobs easier, faster, and less frustrating than Colab....
Consumers spent more on mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption: Consumers spent more money in mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption....
ADLINK Launches First COM Express Module with Intel Core Ultra 3: Featuring new Intel Arc GPU with up to 12 Xe cores and up to 120 TOPS, NPU 5 with up to 50 TOPS, and Advanced CPU Architecture for Edge AI and General Embedded Systems — Industrial-Temperature SKUs Ex...
Everything You Need to Know About How Python Manages Memory: In languages like C, you manually allocate and free memory....
Q/C Technologies Appoints AI Systems Leader Chelsea Voss to BOD: Q/C Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: QCLS) (“Q/C Technologies” or “the Company”), a pioneer of quantum-class computing at the speed of light, today announced the appointment of Chelsea Voss to its Board of...
How Higgsfield turns simple ideas into cinematic social videos: Discover how Higgsfield gives creators cinematic, social-first video output from simple inputs using OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-5, and Sora 2....
MCPToolbox for Databases: A Practical Guide to Bridging LLMs and Your Data: Talking to software feels natural now, until you need real business data. That’s where things usually break. MCPToolbox to Databases fixes this by giving AI agents safe, reliable access to production ...
One Identity Unveils Major Upgrade to Identity Manager: One Identity, a trusted leader in identity security, today announces a major upgrade to One Identity Manager, a top-rated IGA solution, strengthening identity governance as a critical security control...
KNIME Appoints Trevor Kaufman as CEO as it enters next growth phase: Today KNIME announced that Michael Berthold, Founder and CEO, is stepping down from the role. Trevor Kaufman, a seasoned CEO with a proven track record in scaling high-growth SaaS businesses, has been...
A Mind Cannot Be Smeared Across Time: arXiv:2601.11620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether machines can be conscious depends not only on what they compute, but \emph{when} they compute it. Most deployed artificial systems realise thei...
PRISM: Learning Design Knowledge from Data for Stylistic Design Improvement: arXiv:2601.11747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphic design often involves exploring different stylistic directions, which can be time-consuming for non-experts. We address this problem of stylist...
A Coding Guide to Anemoi-Style Semi-Centralized Agentic Systems Using Peer-to-Peer Critic Loops in LangGraph: In this tutorial, we demonstrate how a semi-centralized Anemoi-style multi-agent system works by letting two peer agents negotiate directly without a manager or supervisor. We show how a Drafter and a...
How countries can end the capability overhang: Our latest report reveals stark differences in advanced AI adoption across countries and outlines new initiatives to help nations capture productivity gains from AI....

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Anthropic’s CEO stuns Davos with Nvidia criticism: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unloaded on both the administration and U.S. chip companies over plans to sell to China. The criticism was particularly not...
Bolna nabs $6.3M from General Catalyst for its India-focused voice orchestration platform: Bolna said that 75% of its revenue is coming from self-serve customers....
What are Context Graphs?: Knowledge Graphs and their limitations With the rapid growth of AI applications, Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have emerged as a foundational structure for r...
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking: a 1.2B Parameter Reasoning Model That Fits Under 1 GB On-Device: Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, a 1.2 billion parameter reasoning model that runs fully on device and fits in about 900 MB on a modern ph...
CSyMR: Benchmarking Compositional Symbolic Muisc Reasoning With MIR Tool Integration: arXiv:2601.11556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are leveraged in symbolic music reasoning, yet existing benchmarks empha...
AdaFRUGAL: Adaptive Memory-Efficient Training with Dynamic Control: arXiv:2601.11568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training Large Language Models (LLMs) is highly memory-intensive due to optimizer state overhead. The...
Discrete Semantic States and Hamiltonian Dynamics in LLM Embedding Spaces: arXiv:2601.11572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate the structure of Large Language Model (LLM) embedding spaces using mathematical concep...

Daily AI Recap: January 21, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Jan 21, 2026

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