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Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: India AI Impact Summit pledges $240B AI investment
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 announced a historic $240 billion AI investment pledge. Reliance committed $110 billion for AI infrastructure over seven years, Adani pledged $100 billion through 2035, and Google disclosed a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam.
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By the numbers: OpenAI raises $110B in corporate funding
News•Jan 8, 2026
Microsoft and Stripe Bring Shopping Checkout Directly Into Copilot Chat for US Users
Microsoft and Stripe have announced Copilot Checkout, allowing US users to purchase items directly within Microsoft’s AI‑powered Copilot chat. The feature, built on Stripe’s open Agentic Commerce Protocol, launches with retailers such as Etsy, Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie. By integrating checkout into the conversational interface, Microsoft aims to turn Copilot into a native shopping channel. The move aligns with similar efforts by OpenAI and Google to embed payments in AI agents.
By THE DECODER
Social•Jan 8, 2026
AI-Powered Goal Setting: Mood Boards to Yearly Word
The old way of setting goals is changing. You have a 24/7 brainstorm partner with the brain of a PhD in your pocket. Here are ways to use it. 👉 Step 1: Build a mood board Open ChatGPT or Gemini....
By Allie Miller
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Back From Break, Diving Into CES and OpenAI Health
We're back from our holiday hiatus starting tomorrow morning. WE'RE BACK BABY. @gavinpurcell & @Attack dive in on all the robots and more from CES + OpenAI's Health + Ralph Wiggum Claude Code Opus ETC. PS, warm up those algorithms so...
By AI for Humans
News•Jan 8, 2026
Software Tackling Deepfakes to Be Piloted for Scottish and Welsh Elections
The UK Electoral Commission and Home Office are piloting AI‑driven software to detect deep‑fake videos and images ahead of the Scottish and Welsh elections scheduled for March 2026. The system will flag suspect content, alert police and candidates, and request...
By The Guardian AI
Social•Jan 8, 2026
AI Speeds Site Building, but Can't Replace Strategic Judgment
Building a website with AI is faster than it has ever been. That speed exposes a problem most people miss. The reasons websites fail are rarely technical, and AI does not fix the underlying ones. At Crazy Egg, we built a site...
By Hiten Shah
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Day 2 Showcases AI, Autonomous Vehicles, Digital Health Innovations
Day 2 of #CES2026 was incredible. CES Foundry opened at Fontainebleau, @CaterpillarInc delivered an inspiring keynote, @CNET revealed the Best of @CES 2026 winners on the @CTATech Stage, and the show floor buzzed with innovation, from autonomous vehicles and digital health...
By Harold Sinnott
News•Jan 8, 2026
Forget Fitness Trackers — External Brains Are the Hot New Wearables at CES This Year
At CES 2024, AI‑powered wearables marketed as "second brains" stole the spotlight from traditional fitness trackers. Devices like Pebble's Index O1 smart ring, SwitchBot's AI MindClip lapel pin, and Lenovo's Qira pendant let users capture voice notes, transcribe conversations, and...
By TechRadar
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Nvidia's 13 Open Models Signal AI's Move to Platforms
At #CES2026, @nvidia unveiled 13 new open models spanning autonomous driving, robotics, healthcare, and agentic AI, a clear signal that AI is moving from models to systems and platforms. In this video, @Sam_Witteveen breaks it down: ✅ The NVIDIA Rubin Platform ✅...
By Harold Sinnott
News•Jan 8, 2026
SwitchBot's New Gadget Clips to Your Collar and Records Your Conversations, so You'll Never Have to Pay Attention Ever Again
SwitchBot unveiled the AI MindClip at CES 2026, a lightweight collar‑mounted gadget that continuously records conversations and stores them in an encrypted, searchable database. The device offers a cloud‑based subscription that uses AI to generate summaries, to‑do lists, and multilingual transcription in...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 8, 2026
AI Steps Out of the Screen at CES. These 5 Things Stopped Me in My Tracks
CES 2026 showcased a dramatic shift as artificial intelligence moved from screen‑based software to tangible hardware. The four‑day show spanned 2.6 million square feet, hosted 3,500+ exhibitors, and attracted roughly 142,000 attendees. Among the highlights were AI‑powered robots, smart wearables, and...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 8, 2026
5 Things the Ad Industry Can’t Stop Talking About at CES 2026
At CES 2026, ad‑tech leaders focused on five hot topics: the infrastructure needed for agentic advertising, the persistent draw of live‑sports inventory, accelerating agency consolidation, AI‑driven search eroding publisher revenue, and the evolving role of AI in creative production and media...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 8, 2026
People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good
Online users rapidly circulated AI‑manipulated images claiming to reveal the face of the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. The Department of Homeland Security later identified the shooter as an ICE agent but did not release...
By WIRED AI
Social•Jan 8, 2026
7 Banking and Fintech Trends Defining 2026
The 7 Banking and Fintech Trends That Will Define 2026 Banking and fintech are evolving fast — from digital payments to AI-driven financial services — these trends will shape how we handle money in 2026. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eSVhcE5y #Fintech...
By Bernard Marr
News•Jan 8, 2026
Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Will Face a Jury in March
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI has been cleared for a jury trial in March after a federal judge found evidence that the company’s leaders may have promised to keep its original nonprofit structure. Musk, an early backer who invested roughly...
By TechCrunch AI
Social•Jan 8, 2026
OpenAI Health Aims to Ease Patient Journey
This is an important step toward responsible AI in healthcare. OpenAI Health isn’t about replacing clinicians — it’s about helping people better navigate care, with context grounded in their own data. If done right, this could meaningfully reduce friction, confusion, and information...
By Harold Sinnott
News•Jan 8, 2026
Sayd Agzamkhodjaev: “Users Don’t Trust that the System Never Makes Mistakes; They Trust that It Can Safely Recover.”
In 2025 enterprises are rapidly scaling generative AI, with 72 % planning higher investment. Sayd Agzamkhodjaev, founding engineer at Treater, built a multi‑layer LLM evaluation pipeline that reduced errors by roughly 40 % through deterministic checks, an LLM‑as‑a‑Judge, and user‑feedback loops. He...
By AI Time Journal
News•Jan 8, 2026
Stanford Researchers Build SleepFM Clinical: A Multimodal Sleep Foundation AI Model for 130+ Disease Prediction
Stanford Medicine researchers unveiled SleepFM Clinical, a multimodal foundation model trained on 585,000 hours of polysomnography from about 65,000 individuals. The model learns a unified representation of brain, heart, and respiratory signals and can predict long‑term risk for more than...
By MarkTechPost
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Measure Category Health, Not Just Internal ROI
As you take on 2026, many will be looking at their full prior year of performance metrics to answer "what worked best that we can lean more into?" I think there's a critical view to add, and it's a highly...
By Liam Moroney
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Wellbeing Design Must Prioritize Planet and Diverse Cultures
For anyone working in areas of "human flourishing" or "wellbeing" (as I have been since around 2010, please keep in mind the following: - Where any valuation of these terms doesn't involve the explicit measure of nature or the environment...
By John C. Havens
News•Jan 8, 2026
Snowflake Announces Intent to Acquire Observe to Deliver AI-Powered Observability at Enterprise Scale
Snowflake announced a definitive agreement to acquire Observe, a leader in AI‑powered observability. The deal will embed Observe’s platform directly into Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, allowing enterprises to ingest, store and analyze 100% of telemetry data at lower cost. Combined...
By AiThority
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Adopt a Ready Position: Business Fundamentals Over Chasing Trends
My daughters play competitive club volleyball 🏐. I love watching the sport. It’s fast, technical, and powerful. One thing their coach talks about constantly is 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. Not a play. Not a trick. Just a stance. Feet set. Weight forward....
By Ian Barkin
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Jensen Huang Forecasts AI, Robotics, and 2026 Trends
Kicking off year w wide ranging conversation w Jensen Huang, CEO @nvidia * AI surprises of 2025 * Importance of OSS * Solving Labor Shortages with Robotics * Myth of “God AI” * Doomers * Predictions for 2026 https://t.co/pQRLLejfbR
By Elad Gil
News•Jan 8, 2026
Google Cloud Joins Forces with Ivault to Scale the First Decentralized Marketplace for Real World Assets
Google Cloud has entered a strategic partnership with ivault, the blockchain‑based marketplace that turns everyday items into tokenized, income‑generating assets. The collaboration grants ivault access to Google’s robust cloud infrastructure, Vertex AI, and a sizable package of cloud and advertising...
By AiThority
Social•Jan 8, 2026
AI Taillight Eliminates Rider Blind Spots, Boosts Safety
LIVALL introduces an AI visual taillight eradicating rider blind spots with autonomous-grade safety. #AI #CES2026 @CES https://t.co/mxWjrMdLzx #AI #CES2026 @CES https://t.co/V8qtRkgXoK
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Humanoid Robots Will Build Their Own Successors
The Self-Manufacturing Future: Humanoid #Robots Building Robots by @Robo_Tuo #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/unO5zzSe1b
By Ronald van Loon
News•Jan 8, 2026
Why This VC Thinks 2026 Will Be ‘the Year of the Consumer’
Venture partner Vanessa Larco predicts 2026 will be a breakout year for consumer‑tech startups, driven by AI‑powered products that deliver immediate, measurable value to users. She argues that consumer adoption cycles are faster than enterprise, allowing startups to validate product‑market fit...
By TechCrunch AI
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Pausing AI Avatar Test, Baking Bread for Balance
I’ve been working on embedding an LLM into an autonomously moving 3D avatar for several days and now I have to sit and let it run a few hours uninterrupted to see if it worked Disconnecting for a bit felt weird...
By Claire Silver
Social•Jan 8, 2026
2000 Hours of L
This guy literally spent 2,000 hours coding with LLMs in 2025 and shared advanced Claude Code usage patterns that actually work. download link to his free 17-page Google doc below 🧵↓ https://t.co/TQWSQNufRa
By Data Chaz
News•Jan 8, 2026
Lambda Appoints Leonard Speiser as Chief Operating Officer
Lambda, the Superintelligence Cloud provider, announced Leonard Speiser as its new chief operating officer. Speiser, a former co‑founder and CEO of Clover, helped build a point‑of‑sale platform that now processes over $300 billion in annual transactions. He also brings experience from...
By AiThority
Social•Jan 8, 2026
AI Eliminates Execution Costs; Build 10 Projects in 90 Days
AI is taking the cost of execution to zero, and the value of ideas up (not down), because you will be able to build everything without constraints of execution. The best way to prepare for this shift, is to build 10...
By Paul Yacoubian
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Users Demand Voice Cloning and Granular Editing Features
Feature requests for Suno (@MikeyShulman) Would love an ElevenLabs clone of my voice as an option. Would also love Descript style word by word editting or regeneration to keep the best phrases in.
By Paul Yacoubian
News•Jan 8, 2026
Addtronics Announces Key Leadership Promotions at Operating Companies Bow Robotics and Addtronics Custom Automation
Addtronics announced internal promotions, elevating Angie Keener to President of Bow Robotics and David Hopkins to President of Addtronics Custom Automation (ACA). Both leaders bring nearly a decade and two decades of domain expertise, respectively, to steer growth, operations, and...
By AiThority
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Doosan Robotics Debuts Award-Winning AI Robot at CES 2026
Doosan Robotics unveils an award-winning AI robot solution, marking a new path at CES 2026. #AI #CES2026 @CES https://t.co/EgFq3opaId
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 8, 2026
AI Dashboards Transform Finance From Maintenance to Decision‑Making
AI dashboards > spreadsheets 📊🤖 Describe the question AI builds the dashboard You tweak logic & visuals Insights arrive in the meeting Finance shifts from maintenance → decisions. #AI #FPandA #Dashboards #GenAI #Analytics https://t.co/F6j5I7rAAH
By Giuliano Liguori
News•Jan 8, 2026
ChatGPT Falls to New Data-Pilfering Attack as a Vicious Cycle in AI Continues
Researchers at Radware uncovered ZombieAgent, a refined prompt‑injection exploit that revives the earlier ShadowLeak vulnerability in ChatGPT. The attack exfiltrates user data one character at a time via pre‑crafted URLs and stores malicious logic in the model’s long‑term memory for...
By Ars Technica
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Edge AI Enables Real-Time Rehab Robotics Without Cloud
This is edge AI in action. At #CES2026 , Oversonic Robotics is powering a rehab robot for neurological conditions using #IntelCoreUltra Series 3, running vision, motion, and reasoning fully on-device. No cloud. No latency. No power-hungry GPUs. Just efficient, real-time AI. @intel #AI #EdgeAI...
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Adobe Tools Now Built Into ChatGPT for All Tasks
Adobe @Photoshop, @AdobeExpress, and @Acrobat are now inside ChatGPT, collapsing what used to require a bunch of apps into a single chat. Whether you’re merging complex PDF proposals, designing social assets, or editing a headshot, you can do it...
By Bilawal Sidhu
News•Jan 8, 2026
Arcfra, Netfos Partner to Advance Cloud and AI Innovation in Taiwan
Arcfra announced a strategic partnership with Netfos to launch its Enterprise Cloud Platform in Taiwan, marking the Singapore‑based firm’s entry into the island’s market after expansions across Asia‑Pacific. The AECP offers a full‑stack, software‑defined infrastructure that unifies VMs and containers...
By AI-TechPark
Social•Jan 8, 2026
AI‑Era PCs Prioritize Efficient, Always‑On Performance
AI-era PCs are no longer about raw specs, they’re about efficient performance at scale. Intel Core Ultra Series 3 signals where compute is heading: better battery life, smarter performance across workloads, and devices built for always-on AI experiences. #CES2026
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 8, 2026
AI Evolves Into Core Infrastructure Like Electricity
AI is crossing the threshold from tool to infrastructure, on par with electricity and the internet. Jensen Huang breaks down why infrastructure + energy now matter as much as models, and how open ecosystems will shape global AI adoption at scale....
By Harold Sinnott
News•Jan 8, 2026
Arm Holdings Establishes New Business Unit for Robotics and Automotive
Arm Holdings announced a restructuring that creates a new business unit called Physical AI, aimed at the robotics and automotive sectors. The company will operate three divisions—Cloud and AI, Edge, and Physical AI—under a unified strategy. Drew Henry has been appointed...
By THE DECODER
Social•Jan 8, 2026
LiDAR Robot Maps Environment and Conquers Obstacles
LiDAR-Powered #Robot Sees, Maps, and Overcomes Obstacles via @WevolverApp #AI #Robotics #RPA #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/l5g3YDR7yT
By Ronald van Loon
Social•Jan 8, 2026
AI Drone Defense and Green Space Launch Unveiled at CES
David Hall returns to CES with breakthrough AI-powered drone defense and sustainable space launch technologies. #AI #CES2026 @CES https://t.co/URuPf4fEXZ
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Industrial AI Enters No‑Failure Zone, Like Aviation
“There’s no room for mistakes at 30,000 feet.” That quote from an airline engineer stuck with me. Because it perfectly captures where industrial AI stands today: We’ve entered the No-Failure Zone. Here’s how AI is becoming mission-critical in the physical world. ⬇️ #IFSpartner #IFS
By Ronald van Loon
Social•Jan 8, 2026
COOs Should Ask Five Key AI Risk Questions
Assessing #AI Risk: 5 Questions Every COO Should Ask by David Gucker @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/vqh8YMvg78 #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML #Technology https://t.co/SXV60KJOfp
By Ronald van Loon
Social•Jan 8, 2026
CAMA™ Unveils World’s First Adaptive Sleep System
CAMA™, the world’s first adaptive sleep system, debuts at CES 2026. #AI #CES2026 @CES https://t.co/1nJu1sba4T
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 8, 2026
IAI Smart Launches Offline Voice-Controlled SmartVoice at CES
IAI Smart unveils SmartVoice™, a revolutionary offline voice-controlled smart home appliance line at CES 2026. #AI #CES2026 @CES https://t.co/vdcQTiRpDn
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Cosmo's Explorer Clip Tackles School Phone Bans
Cosmo debuts the Explorer Clip, delivering a smart solution to nationwide school phone bans. #AI #CES2026 @CES https://t.co/h4PmGdvngM
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 8, 2026
AI-Driven Spatial Computing Debuts at CES 2026
Play For Dream Spatial computing is stepping into the spotlight. Play For Dream returns to @CES 2026 with its latest prototype making a first public appearance, signaling how immersive, AI-powered experiences are evolving beyond screens. #AI #CES2026 https://t.co/4ITjvp8LXH https://t.co/aOP6tk4rYC
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Jan 8, 2026
Luya Launches AI-Driven Microgreens Nutrition System at CES
Luya unveils the world’s first AI-powered microgreens nutrition system at CES 2026. #AI #CES2026 @CES https://t.co/fRwFYXbk15
By Harold Sinnott