Daily AI Recap: Jan 22, 2026

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Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation: The five year-old-startup raised a $100 million round led by Index Ventures....
Google now offers free SAT practice exams, powered by Gemini: Google now offers a way for college-bound students to take free SAT practice exams with the help of Gemini....
Evaluating Multi-Step LLM-Generated Content: Why Customer Journeys Require Structural Metrics: How to evaluate goal-oriented content designed to build engagement and deliver business results, and why structure matters. The post Evaluating Multi-Step LLM-Generated Content: Why Customer Journeys ...
Personal Intelligence in AI Mode in Search: Help that's uniquely yours: Screenshot of the AI Mode page with the text, "Hi Lukas what's on your mind?"...
Google reportedly snags up team behind AI voice startup Hume AI: Google has hired the CEO and top top behind voice AI startup Hume AI, signaling that voice is increasingly becoming the preferred interface over screens....
Why SaaS Product Management Is the Best Domain for Data-Driven Professionals in 2026: How I use analytics, automation, and AI to build better SaaS The post Why SaaS Product Management Is the Best Domain for Data-Driven Professionals in 2026 appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test so you can’t cheat on it with Claude: Since 2024, Anthropic's performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff — but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change ...
How to Get Started With Visual Generative AI on NVIDIA RTX PCs: AI-powered content generation is now embedded in everyday tools like Adobe and Canva, with a slew of agencies and studios incorporating the technology into their workflows. Image models now deliver ph...
Flight Controls Are Cleared for Takeoff on GeForce NOW: The wait is over, pilots. Flight control support — one of the most community-requested features for GeForce NOW — is live starting today, following its announcement at CES earlier this month. Virtual ...
Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.S. and Canada: Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands....
Stop Writing Messy Boolean Masks: 10 Elegant Ways to Filter Pandas DataFrames: Master the art of readable, high-performance data selection using .query(), .isin(), and advanced vectorized logic. The post Stop Writing Messy Boolean Masks: 10 Elegant Ways to Filter Pandas DataFram...
XBOW Appoints WonLae Lee as General Manager, South Korea: Former Samsung Leader to Spearhead Company’s Asia-Pacific Expansion as Global Demand for Autonomous Offensive Security Accelerates XBOW, the leading autonomous offensive security company, today announ...
Study: AI Confidence Surges While Readiness Lags on Data Integrity: New research from Precisely and the Center for Applied AI and Business Analytics at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business reveals gaps in operational maturity, data trust, and skills as organi...
NVIDIA B200 GPU Guide: Use Cases, Models, Benchmarks & AI Scale: Learn how NVIDIA B200 powers frontier GenAI—FP4 inference, MoE models, benchmarks, and production deployment with Clarifai....
AMD MI355X GPU Guide: Use Cases, Benchmarks & Buying Tips: An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies....
AI in the Office: My father spent his career as an accountant for a major public utility. He didn’t talk about work much; when he engaged in shop talk, it was generally with other public utility accountants, and incomp...
What Other Industries Can Learn from Healthcare’s Knowledge Graphs: How shared meaning, evidence, and standards create durable semantic infrastructure The post What Other Industries Can Learn from Healthcare’s Knowledge Graphs appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users: An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation....
New TierPoint Report Reveals Priorities Driving Mid-Market IT Through 2030: TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected IT platform solutions that power digital transformation initiatives, today announced the release of its annual IT leader survey results. The new rese...
Vibe Coding a Bridge-Ball Game with Emergent in Minutes: In the past couple of years, we have seen vibe coding evolve from just an idea that sounded “fancy” to a full-time practice for many budding developers. What used to sound like a gimmick is now a must...
Ageneau Group Chooses Generix WMS to Boost Growth: Generix, a global business software company offering an expansive portfolio of SaaS solutions for supply chain, finance, commerce, and B2B integration, announces that Ageneau Group, a French transport...
Zilliz Announces General Availability of Milvus 2.6.x on Zilliz Cloud: Zilliz, the company behind the leading open-source vector database Milvus, recently announced the General Availability (GA) of Milvus 2.6.x on Zilliz Cloud. This major update not only brings the archi...
Cyderes Appoints Industry Veteran Lana Knop as Chief Product Officer: Former SentinelOne and Splunk Product Leader Brings Nearly 30 Years of Global Enterprise Security Experience to Managed Cybersecurity Services Organization Cyderes, a global managed cybersecurity serv...
Scalable Knee-Point Guided Activity Group Selection in Multi-Tree Genetic Programming for Dynamic Multi-Mode Project Scheduling: arXiv:2601.14485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The dynamic multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem is a challenging scheduling problem that requires making decisions on both the e...
Epistemic Constitutionalism Or: how to avoid coherence bias: arXiv:2601.14295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly function as artificial reasoners: they evaluate arguments, assign credibility, and express confidence. Yet their bel...
The Ontological Neutrality Theorem: Why Neutral Ontological Substrates Must Be Pre-Causal and Pre-Normative: arXiv:2601.14271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern data systems must support accountability across persistent legal, political, and analytic disagreement. This requirement imposes strict constrai...
Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable: Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, according to a report on the device....

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FlashLabs Researchers Release Chroma 1.0: A 4B Real Time Speech Dialogue Model With Personalized Voice Cloning: Chroma 1.0 is a real time speech to speech dialogue model that takes audio as input and returns audio as output while preserving the speaker identity ...
Call2Instruct: Automated Pipeline for Generating Q&A Datasets from Call Center Recordings for LLM Fine-Tuning: arXiv:2601.14263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The adaptation of Large-Scale Language Models (LLMs) to specific domains depends on high-quality fine...
GCG Attack On A Diffusion LLM: arXiv:2601.14266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While most LLMs are autoregressive, diffusion-based LLMs have recently emerged as an alternative meth...
Divide and Refine: Enhancing Multimodal Representation and Explainability for Emotion Recognition in Conversation: arXiv:2601.14274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal emotion recognition in conversation (MERC) requires representations that effectively integ...
Quality or Quantity? Error-Informed Selective Online Learning with Gaussian Processes in Multi-Agent Systems: Extended Version: arXiv:2601.14275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective cooperation is pivotal in distributed learning for multi-agent systems, where the interplay...
Which Quantization Should I Use? A Unified Evaluation of llama.cpp Quantization on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct: arXiv:2601.14277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantization is a practical technique for making large language models easier to deploy by reducing t...
VisTIRA: Closing the Image-Text Modality Gap in Visual Math Reasoning via Structured Tool Integration: arXiv:2601.14440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) lag behind text-only language models on mathematical reasoning when the...

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