Daily AI Recap: Jan 27, 2026

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Nemotron-Personas-Singapore: Co-Designed Data for Sovereign AI: ...
Anduril has invented a wild new drone flying contest where jobs are the prize: This is a race series for software programmers and the brainchild of founder Palmer Luckey, he tells TechCrunch....
Anthropic reportedly upped its latest raise to $20B: Anthropic looks to raise $20 billion at more than $300 billion valuation, according to reports....
Is Kimi K2.5 the BEST Open-source Model of 2026?: My favourite open-source AI model just got a major upgrade..Kimi K2.5 is here! LLMs excel at answering questions and writing code, but real work spans messy documents, images, incomplete data, and lon...
How Tree-KG Enables Hierarchical Knowledge Graphs for Contextual Navigation and Explainable Multi-Hop Reasoning Beyond Traditional RAG: In this tutorial, we implement Tree-KG, an advanced hierarchical knowledge graph system that goes beyond traditional retrieval-augmented generation by combining semantic embeddings with explicit graph...
Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump: Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one addressing concerns publicly and the other in an internal message....
Google AI Plus is now available everywhere our AI plans are available, including the U.S.: We’re launching Google AI Plus in 35 new countries and territories including the US, making it available everywhere Google AI plans are available....
OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists: OpenAI has launched a new scientific workspace program called Prism, which integrates AI into existing standards for composing research papers....
How AI Voice Cloning is Revolutionizing Content Creation in 2026: Generative Voice AI is transforming digital interaction in 2026, from emotional prosody and real‑time streaming to ethical voice cloning and democratized audio creation....
The Multimodal AI Guide: Vision, Voice, Text, and Beyond: AI systems now see images, hear speech, and process video, understanding information in its native form....
Just ask anything: a seamless new Search experience: A centered, elongated oval shape resembling a search bar with the text "Ask anything" inside it....
UniRG: Scaling medical imaging report generation with multimodal reinforcement learning: AI can help generate medical image reports, but today’s models struggle with varying reporting schemes. Learn how UniRG uses reinforcement learning to boost performance of medical vision-language mode...
The 3 Invisible Risks Every LLM App Faces (And How to Guard Against Them): Building a chatbot prototype takes hours....
Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use: Designed to autonomously resolve help desk tickets, Risotto has raised $10 million in seed funding in a round led by Bonfire Ventures....
3 Ways to Anonymize and Protect User Data in Your ML Pipeline: In this article, you will learn three practical ways to protect user data in real-world ML pipelines, with techniques that data scientists can implement directly in their workflows....
Data Science as Engineering: Foundations, Education, and Professional Identity: Recognize data science as an engineering practice and structure education accordingly. The post Data Science as Engineering: Foundations, Education, and Professional Identity appeared first on Towards...
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’: “We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch....
7 Under-the-Radar Python Libraries for Scalable Feature Engineering: This article lists 7 under-the-radar Python libraries that push the boundaries of feature engineering processes at scale....
From Connections to Meaning: Why Heterogeneous Graph Transformers (HGT) Change Demand Forecasting: How relationship-aware graphs turn connected forecasts into operational insight The post From Connections to Meaning: Why Heterogeneous Graph Transformers (HGT) Change Demand Forecasting appeared firs...
AITech Interview with Jeronimo De Leon, Senior Product Manager of AI, Backblaze: How real-time content velocity and modern storage reshape intent quality, AI scalability, governance, and performance across the data lifecycle. Jeronimo, you’ve built a career at the intersection of ...
ECS Ranked #4 on Top 250 MSSP List for 2025: AI driven expertise leads to Company’s recognition as a top MSSP provider for sixth year in a row ECS, a provider of advanced technology solutions in data and AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise transfo...
Cloud Security Unicorn Upwind Secures $250 Million Series B: Funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners follows 900% revenue growth and 200% logo growth year-over-year as enterprises adopt runtime-powered cloud security Upwind, the runtime-first cloud security le...
‘Among the worst we’ve seen’: report slams xAI’s Grok over child safety failures: “We assess a lot of AI chatbots at Common Sense Media, and they all have risks, but Grok is among the worst we’ve seen,” Robbie Torney of Common Sense Media said....
EaseUS Disk Copy 7.0.0 Moves Beyond Disk-to-Disk Cloning with Imaging Tech: EaseUS announced the official release of EaseUS Disk Copy 7.0.0 on Jan. 7, 2026, representing a fundamental shift in how disk cloning and backup workflows are handled on Windows. The update introduces...
KELYN Technologies Named First MSP for Commvault GovCloud: First-mover MSP designation expands public-sector data protection capabilities and enhances KELYN’s datastor.io managed backup and recovery solutions KELYN Technologies today announced that it has bee...
10 AI Benchmarks Every Developer Should Know in 2026: As the days go by, there are more benchmarks than ever. It is hard to keep track of every HellaSwag or DS-1000 that comes out. Also, what are they even for? Bunch of cool looking names slapped on top ...
Hitachi Vantara Names Adrian Johnson as Its New Chief Revenue Officer: Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced that Adrian Johnson, formerly the senior vice president and gener...
FADEL Unveils FADEL AIVA™: FADEL®, a global leader in AI-driven brand compliance and licensing software, today announced FADEL AIVA™, its AI technology designed to transform how organizations manage end-to-end licensing and mar...
Cymulate Joins the Wiz Integration Network (WIN): Technology partnership enables mutual customers to reduce cloud risk by validating and optimizing cloud security. Cymulate, a leader in threat exposure management, today announces its partnership with...
New Global Report Finds Enterprises Hitting Agentic AI Inflection Point: Research shows enterprises increasing investment while scaling cautiously until reliability can be proven in production Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, today relea...
Africa & Middle East Reinforce $1.5T AI Ambitions at Egypt Summit: Egypt is once again at the center of Africa’s AI momentum as international technology experts, influential policymakers and startups prepare to convene at Ai Everything MEA Egypt 2026, the world’s fir...
PVH reimagines the future of fashion with OpenAI: PVH Corp., parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, is adopting ChatGPT Enterprise to bring AI into fashion design, supply chain, and consumer engagement....
Implementing Tensor Logic: Unifying Datalog and Neural Reasoning via Tensor Contraction: arXiv:2601.17188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The unification of symbolic reasoning and neural networks remains a central challenge in artificial intelligence. Symbolic systems offer reliability an...
Online parameter estimation for the Crazyflie quadcopter through an EM algorithm: arXiv:2601.17009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drones are becoming more and more popular nowadays. They are small in size, low in cost, and reliable in operation. They contain a variety of sensors a...
Analysis of voice recordings features for Classification of Parkinson's Disease: arXiv:2601.17007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease. Early diagnosis is essential to mitigate the progressive deterioration of patients' qu...
A Dataset of Dengue Hospitalizations in Brazil (1999 to 2021) with Weekly Disaggregation from Monthly Counts: arXiv:2601.16994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This data paper describes and publicly releases this dataset (v1.0.0), published on Zenodo under DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18189192. Motivated by the need to ...
How a Haystack-Powered Multi-Agent System Detects Incidents, Investigates Metrics and Logs, and Produces Production-Grade Incident Reviews End-to-End: In this tutorial, we design this implementation to demonstrate how Haystack enables building advanced, agentic AI systems that go far beyond toy examples while remaining fully runnable. We focus on a ...
We are not your parents’ (and grandparents’) Database: Why vector databases are here to stay....

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Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale on-device contract AI with valuation doubling toward $400M: SpotDraft now processes over 1 million contracts annually using its AI tool, with contract volumes up 173% year-over-year....
Unlocking Agentic RL Training for GPT-OSS: A Practical Retrospective: ...
TelcoAI: Advancing 3GPP Technical Specification Search through Agentic Multi-Modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation: arXiv:2601.16984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) produces complex technical specifications essential to ...
Sparsity-Aware Low-Rank Representation for Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models: arXiv:2601.16991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting large pre-trained language models to downstream tasks often entails fine-tuning millions of ...
MathMixup: Boosting LLM Mathematical Reasoning with Difficulty-Controllable Data Synthesis and Curriculum Learning: arXiv:2601.17006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In mathematical reasoning tasks, the advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) relies heavily on hi...
Interpreting Agentic Systems: Beyond Model Explanations to System-Level Accountability: arXiv:2601.17168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems have transformed how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be leveraged to create autonomo...
High-Fidelity Longitudinal Patient Simulation Using Real-World Data: arXiv:2601.17310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation is a powerful tool for exploring uncertainty. Its potential in clinical medicine is transf...

Daily AI Recap: January 27, 2026

Daily AI Recap: Jan 27, 2026

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