Daily AI Recap: Jan 29, 2026

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

• Guys, I don’t think Tim Cook knows how to monetize AI: One intrepid Morgan Stanley analyst dared to ask how Apple will make money on its AI investments. The answer will not shock you....

• Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI in talks to merge, according to reports: This merger would bring the Grok chatbot, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation....

• Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50 billion in OpenAI: If a deal materializes, it would mean Amazon is backing competing startups in the race for AI supremacy....

• Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI in talks to merge, report says: This merger would bring the Grok chatbot, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation....

• Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as the AI race heats up: Q.ai is an Israeli startup specializing in imaging and machine learning, particularly technologies that enable devices to interpret whispered speech and enhance audio in noisy environments....

• Opening digital markets so AI can shop — and negotiate — for you: The post Opening digital markets so AI can shop — and negotiate — for you appeared first on Source....

• Why AI-Native Startups Fail: Data, Compute & Scaling Mistakes: An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies....

• Why GPU Costs Explode as AI Products Scale | Real Drivers Explained: An enterprise-ready AMD MI355X guide covering AI inference, LLM training, memory scaling, performance trade-offs, and deployment strategies....

• AI News Weekly - Issue #462: Is AI spending crashing ? Where is the ROI? - Jan 29th 2026: In the News

    The AI bubble explodes ? CapEx Crash
    The market is punishing "Blind Spending" today. Microsoft stock crashed 12% after revealing a staggering $37.5B quarterly AI spe...
  

• Managing Secrets and API Keys in Python Projects (.env Guide): If you use API keys in Python, you need a safe way to store them. This guide explains seven beginner-friendly techniques for managing secrets using .env files....

• Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds: Text reads Introducing Project Genie...

• OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch: Sora's mobile app downloads fell 45% in January, and consumer spending dropped....

• Optimizing Vector Search: Why You Should Flatten Structured Data: An analysis of how flattening structured data can boost precision and recall by up to 20% The post Optimizing Vector Search: Why You Should Flatten Structured Data  appeared first on Towards Data Scie...

• Flapping Airplanes and the promise of research-driven AI: A new AI lab called Flapping Airplanes launched yesterday, and a Sequoia partner has an interesting take on why they stand out....

• How to Use Hugging Face Spaces to Host Your Portfolio for Free: Hugging Face Spaces is a free way to host a portfolio with live demos, and this article walks through setting one up step by step....

• Atos Named Best-in-Class for IT/OT Cybersecurity by PAC France: Atos Recognized as Best In Class in IT/OT Cybersecurity Services in 2025 by PAC Innovation Radar France Atos, a global leader of AI-powered digital transformation, today announces its recognition as a...

• Check Point: Global Cyberattacks Hit Record Highs as AI Fuels Threats: Organizations face nearly 2,000 cyber attacks per week as attackers combine automation, AI, and social engineering across multiple channels Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pio...

• GeForce NOW Brings GeForce RTX Gaming to Linux PCs: Get ready to game — the native GeForce NOW app for Linux PCs is now available in beta, letting Linux desktops tap directly into GeForce RTX performance from the cloud. Alongside the expansion comes te...

• The Unbearable Lightness of Coding: Confessions of a vibe coder The post The Unbearable Lightness of Coding appeared first on Towards Data Science....

• Auto-Reviewing Claude’s Code: This post first appeared on Nick Tune’s Weird Ideas and is being republished here with the author’s permission. A well-crafted system prompt will increase the quality of code produced by your coding a...

• Randomization Works in Experiments, Even Without Balance: Randomization usually balances confounders in experiments, but what happens when it doesn't? The post Randomization Works in Experiments, Even Without Balance appeared first on Towards Data Science....

• Abstract Security and Netskope Turn Security Data into Real-Time Action: Abstract Security, the leader in streaming-first security data operations, today announced a partnership with Netskope to provide joint customers the ability to bring detection directly into the data ...

• Onapsis Strengthens GTM Leadership for Global Growth, Partner-Led Expansion: Onapsis, the global leader in SAP cybersecurity and compliance, today announced the expansion of its go-to-market leadership team with three key executive appointments: Mark Francetic as Global Head o...

• 16 NotebookLM Prompts Every Teacher Should Be Using in 2026: Late last year, Google came up with a comprehensive plan to fix the current educational system for the better. How? Majorly with the help of Artificial Intelligence, or AI, in education. We had covere...

• VaynerX Standardizes Credential Security at Global Scale With Keeper Security: The leading modern media company strengthened access control and improved visibility using Keeper Enterprise Password Manager Keeper Security, the leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge pri...

• SK hynix to establish U.S. arm specialized in AI solutions: –  ‘AI Company,’ aims to become a key partner in the AI data center ecosystem–  As the hub for SK Group’s AI strategies, AI Co. will help accelerate AI advancement in global markets, including US and ...

• NeuroAI and Beyond: arXiv:2601.19955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made significant progress in the past few years but have only been loosely inter-connected. Based on...

• How to Design Self-Reflective Dual-Agent Governance Systems with Constitutional AI for Secure and Compliant Financial Operations: In this tutorial, we implement a dual-agent governance system that applies Constitutional AI principles to financial operations. We demonstrate how we separate execution and oversight by pairing a Wor...

• Introducing Daggr: Chain apps programmatically, inspect visually: ...

• Taisei Corporation shapes the next generation of talent with ChatGPT: Taisei Corporation uses ChatGPT Enterprise to support HR-led talent development and scale generative AI across its global construction business....

• Alibaba Introduces Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a Test Time Scaled Reasoning Model with Native Tool Use Powering Agentic Workloads: Qwen3-Max-Thinking is Alibaba’s new flagship reasoning model. It does not only scale parameters, it also changes how inference is done, with explicit ...
• Gap-K%: Measuring Top-1 Prediction Gap for Detecting Pretraining Data: arXiv:2601.19936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The opacity of massive pretraining corpora in Large Language Models (LLMs) raises significant privacy...
• DecHW: Heterogeneous Decentralized Federated Learning Exploiting Second-Order Information: arXiv:2601.19938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) is a serverless collaborative machine learning paradigm where ...
• oculomix: Hierarchical Sampling for Retinal-Based Systemic Disease Prediction: arXiv:2601.19939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Oculomics - the concept of predicting systemic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and dementia,...
• Continuous-Flow Data-Rate-Aware CNN Inference on FPGA: arXiv:2601.19940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Among hardware accelerators for deep-learning inference, data flow implementations offer low latency ...
• Latent Object Permanence: Topological Phase Transitions, Free-Energy Principles, and Renormalization Group Flows in Deep Transformer Manifolds: arXiv:2601.19942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the emergence of multi-step reasoning in deep Transformer language models through a geometri...
• Teaching LLMs to Ask: Self-Querying Category-Theoretic Planning for Under-Specified Reasoning: arXiv:2601.20014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time planning with large language models frequently breaks under partial observability: whe...

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