Daily AI Recap: Jan 25, 2026

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

🗞️ Top Stories

This founder cracked firefighting — now he’s creating an AI gold mine: The nozzle is just the beginning – what company founder Sunny Sethi calls "the muscle on the ground.”...
ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI is beginning to appear in answers from ChatGPT....
Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI: Some of the major players in science fiction and pop culture are taking firmer stances against generative AI....
Apple will reportedly unveil its Gemini-powered Siri assistant in February: We’re about to get our first real look at the results of the recently announced AI partnership between Apple and Google....
SAM 3 vs. Specialist Models — A Performance Benchmark: Why specialized models still hold the 30x speed advantage in production environments The post SAM 3 vs. Specialist Models — A Performance Benchmark appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Azure ML vs. AWS SageMaker: A Deep Dive into Model Training — Part 1: Compare Azure ML and AWS SageMaker for scalable model training, focusing on project setup, permission management, and data storage patterns, to align platform choices with existing cloud ecosystem and...

How UX Research Methods Reveal Hidden AI Orchestration Failures in Enterprise Collaboration Agents: I have spent the last several years watching enterprise collaboration tools get smarter. Join a video call today, and there’s a good chance five or si...
Researchers tested AI against 100,000 humans on creativity: A massive new study comparing more than 100,000 people with today’s most advanced AI systems delivers a surprising result: generative AI can now beat ...
Quiet Revolutions in AI: Unsung Innovators Building Practical, Local Solutions Beyond Silicon Valley: Small teams, community labs, and regionally focused platforms are quietly building practical, deployable AI that solves everyday problems—health scree...
A Coding Implementation to Automating LLM Quality Assurance with DeepEval, Custom Retrievers, and LLM-as-a-Judge Metrics: We initiate this tutorial by configuring a high-performance evaluation environment, specifically focused on integrating the DeepEval framework to brin...
StepFun AI Introduce Step-DeepResearch: A Cost-Effective Deep Research Agent Model Built Around Atomic Capabilities: StepFun has introduced Step-DeepResearch, a 32B parameter end to end deep research agent that aims to turn web search into actual research workflows w...