Daily AI Recap: Jan 28, 2026

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

• DeepSeek OCR 2: AI That Reads Documents Like Humans: If you’ve worked with DeepSeek OCR, you already know it was efficient at extracting text and compressing documents. Where it often fell short was reading order and layout-heavy pages, multi-column PDF...
• Mark Zuckerberg says a future without smart glasses is ‘hard to imagine’: Take Zuckerberg's outlook with a grain of salt. After all, he thought we'd all be hanging out in the metaverse by now....
• Tesla invested $2B in Elon Musk’s xAI: Elon Musk's AI company xAI disclosed earlier this month it had raised $20 billion....
• Elon Musk teases a new image-labeling system for X…we think?: Elon Musk says X will begin identifying "manipulated media" but doesn't share details....
• Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama: 30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a US company....
• Yumchat AI Chatbot Review: Key Features & Pricing: The conversational design of Yumchat AI emphasizes continuity over short, isolated responses. Users are able to maintain context across multiple messages, which supports deeper discussions, narrative-...
• South Korea Just Drew the World’s Sharpest Line on AI – And Startups Are Already Sweating: South Korea on Tuesday became the first country to implement a fully fledged 5G network, a milestone that highlights the intense competitive race by Western powers and their Asian rivals led by China ...
• SweetAI Chatbot Review: Pricing Options and Functional Scope: SweetAI is presented as a chatbot designed for users seeking interaction that does not feel overly constrained or formulaic. Its focus on responsiveness and conversational flexibility makes it suitabl...
• SoftBank Plans Another Giant Bet on OpenAI – Up to $30 Billion on the Table: SoftBank is said to be in discussions to invest an additional $30 billion in OpenAI, a deal that would rewrite the competitive balance for artificial intelligence around the world. The talks were earl...
• EU vs X: Grok’s Explicit-Image Mess Has Officially Crossed the Line: The EU has now singled X out – and this time it’s not political, misinformation based or some nebulous free speech argument. It has to do with porn: Specifically, there’s this question of the sexually...
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Plus-one passes are almost gone and only 3 days remain: The TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 plus-one passes at 50% off are almost sold out, and this deal ends in 3 days. Register here before this deal ends on Friday, January 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT....
• The AI infrastructure boom shows no sign of slowing down: ASML’s record orders show chipmakers are still betting big on AI data centers....
• Machine Learning in Production? What This Really Means: From notebooks to real-world systems The post Machine Learning in Production? What This Really Means appeared first on Towards Data Science....
• The conference where founders scale: TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 tickets are now live at the lowest prices: TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 unites 1,100 founders and investors in Boston on June 23 for a day focused on real-world scaling insights and networking that pushes the needle. Save up to $300 on your ...
• Anthropic, Apple, 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....
• Hyve Solutions Announces Leadership Transition: Jerry Kagele Named President; Steve Ichinaga Transitions to Advisory Role After 15 Years Leading Hyperscale Infrastructure Pioneer Hyve Solutions Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of TD SYNNEX Co...
• Kipu Health Survey: AI Becomes Essential in Behavioral Health: Providers turn to AI amidst staffing shortages, burnout, and rising regulatory pressure Artificial intelligence has crossed a tipping point in behavioral health, moving from experimentation to expecta...
• Global CDO Report: Data Governance, AI Literacy Drive Adoption: Informatica “CDO Insights 2026” study highlights a trust paradox as organizations accelerate AI initiatives, emphasizing the urgent need to improve data management and upskill workforces Informatica f...
• KIOXIA Introduces QLC UFS 4.1 Embedded Flash Memory for Mobile Storage: 8th Generation BiCS FLASH Technology Delivers Performance, Efficiency Gains KIOXIA America, Inc. today announced that it has begun sampling1 new Universal Flash Storage2 (UFS) Ver. 4.1 embedded memory...
• The ‘AI is cheating’ debate: Reinvention has always been at the heart of marketing: The AI is cheating debate shows why reinvention has always been at the heart of marketing as technology reshapes creative standards. It’s been more than 65 years since American inventor Charles Ketter...
• Sentry Adds Local Development and Code Review Debugging to Seer: AI agent now supports earlier bug detection under a single flat pricing model Sentry today announced new capabilities for Seer, its AI-powered debugging agent, extending debugging support to local dev...
• Top 10 Python Libraries for AI and Machine Learning: Python dominates AI and machine learning for one simple reason: its ecosystem is amazing. Most projects are built on a small set of libraries that handle everything from data loading to deep learning ...
• Afiniti Introduces Outcome Orchestration: Afiniti, a leader and expert in driving AI-powered measurable outcomes for contact centers, today announced Outcome Orchestration, a new category of enterprise AI. Outcome Orchestration addresses cont...
• Evals Are NOT All You Need: Evals are having their moment. It’s become one of the most talked-about concepts in AI product development. People argue about it for hours, write thread after thread, and treat it as the answer to ev...
• Kingston IronKey Keypad 200 Series is NIST FIPS 140-3 Level 3 Certified: Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, announces today its award-winning Kingston IronKey ...
• symplr Launches symplifier Community: New initiative elevates healthcare operations professionals with shared learning, collaboration, and resources to simplify complex systems and improve patient outcomes symplr®, a leading provider of e...
• Fortinet Announced New Enhancements to FortiCNAPP Cloud Risk Management: New enhancements integrate network security posture, native Data Security Posture Management, and runtime validation to help security teams prioritize real-world cloud risk Fortinet®, the global cyber...
• DataGuard Appoints Arie Teter as Chief Product & Technology Officer: DataGuard strengthens its executive team and advances product innovation with the appointment of seasoned SaaS leader Arie Teter as Chief Product & Technology Officer. DataGuard, a leading SaaS securi...
• Google pitches Gemini to students studying for India’s most competitive college entrance exam: Google's launch of practice tests for JEE follows its recent move to offer full-length SAT practice tests in Gemini....
• 11:11 Systems Announces 2025 Partner Awards for North America: Inaugural program celebrates partners driving cloud, security and digital transformation outcomes for customers across the region 11:11 Systems (“11:11”), a leading managed infrastructure solutions pr...
• Sevaro Health Expands Leadership Team with Key Appointments: Sevaro Health, the company transforming neurological and specialty care through advanced technology, today announced the appointments of Carl Dugart as Chief Technology Officer and Vineet Agrawal as H...
• AI that talks to itself learns faster and smarter: AI may learn better when it’s allowed to talk to itself. Researchers showed that internal “mumbling,” combined with short-term memory, helps AI adapt to new tasks, switch goals, and handle complex cha...
• Bolster AI Report: Scammers Shift to Sophisticated Impersonation Systems: New research shows phishing and fraud are shifting away from obvious impersonation toward search results, paid ads, business workflows, and marketplaces Bolster AI, a leading brand protection platform...
• Opportify Gains Early Adoption for Email Insights to Stop Sign-Up Fraud: Opportify has announced early adoption of its new “Email Insights” product, launched two months ago to help businesses detect and prevent fake sign-ups, reduce email-driven fraud, and protect delivera...
• Cycore Hits Record-Breaking Year with 4X Revenue Growth in 2025: Miami-based cybersecurity services firm explodes in growth, quadrupling revenue in one year, expanding team, and investing in the Miami AI space. Cycore, a leading AI-powered cybersecurity and complia...
• VAE with Hyperspherical Coordinates: Improving Anomaly Detection from Hypervolume-Compressed Latent Space: arXiv:2601.18823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variational autoencoders (VAE) encode data into lower-dimensional latent vectors before decoding those vectors back to data. Once trained, one can hope...
• Latent Structural Similarity Networks for Unsupervised Discovery in Multivariate Time Series: arXiv:2601.18803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a task-agnostic discovery layer for multivariate time series that constructs a relational hypothesis graph over entities without as...
• NavFormer: IGRF Forecasting in Moving Coordinate Frames: arXiv:2601.18800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Triad magnetometer components change with sensor attitude even when the IGRF total intensity target stays invariant. NavFormer forecasts this invariant...
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• The Architecture of Control: Lessons from Foster Care for AI Governance: By Velora Rowan SteelContinue reading on Medium »...
• Databricks for Beginners-Part 3: Databricks ML Coding Interview QuestionsContinue reading on GoPenAI »...
• The next chapter for AI in the EU: OpenAI launches the EU Economic Blueprint 2.0 with new data, partnerships, and initiatives to accelerate AI adoption, skills, and growth across Europe....
• EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant: Apply for the EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant, a €500,000 program funding NGOs and researchers advancing youth safety and wellbeing in the age of AI....
• Nemotron-Personas-Brazil: Co-Designed Data for Sovereign AI: ...
• What Davos Said About AI This Year: World leaders focused on ROI over hype this year, discussing sovereign AI, open ecosystems, and workplace change....

• Everything you need to know about viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot): Personal AI assistant Moltbot —formerly Clawdbot — has gone viral in a matter of weeks. But there’s more you should know before jumping on the bandwag...
• The Five Most Expensive Mistakes in Predictive Marketing: Three months into a customer propensity modeling project, the data scientist presented results to the marketing team. The model had 94%…Continue readi...
• Variational Quantum Circuit-Based Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Portfolio Optimization: arXiv:2601.18811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) solution to the dynamic portfolio optimiza...
• IPBC: An Interactive Projection-Based Framework for Human-in-the-Loop Semi-Supervised Clustering of High-Dimensional Data: arXiv:2601.18828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-dimensional datasets are increasingly common across scientific and industrial domains, yet they ...
• Agentic Business Process Management Systems: arXiv:2601.18833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Since the early 90s, the evolution of the Business Process Management (BPM) discipline has been punct...
• LLM Driven Design of Continuous Optimization Problems with Controllable High-level Properties: arXiv:2601.18846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarking in continuous black-box optimisation is hindered by the limited structural diversity of ...
• Explainable Uncertainty Quantification for Wastewater Treatment Energy Prediction via Interval Type-2 Neuro-Fuzzy System: arXiv:2601.18897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wastewater treatment plants consume 1-3% of global electricity, making accurate energy forecasting cr...

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