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Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: India AI Summit sparks $240B investment pledge led by Reliance, Adani and Google
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 along with new subsea cable routes. The Indian government also added 20,000 GPUs to its AI arsenal.
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By the numbers: OpenAI raises $110B in corporate funding
News•Jan 26, 2026
AI Is Rewriting the Economics of Merchant Acquiring
Merchant acquiring, long seen as a low‑margin commodity, is poised for a strategic revival as artificial intelligence reshapes its economics. Capgemini’s World Payments Report highlights that global acquiring revenues could double from $25 bn to $50 bn within a decade, driven not just by volume but by AI‑derived merchant insights. Banks can leverage their data, infrastructure, and trust to offer pricing optimization, inventory planning, and automated decisioning, while PayTechs already dominate SME volumes. Failure to adopt AI‑enabled orchestration may lead to margin erosion and loss of relevance.
By Payments Cards & Mobile
Blog•Jan 26, 2026
Quantum Projective Learning Achieves Parity with 60 Qubit Experiments for Antibiotics
Researchers evaluated Quantum Projective Learning (QPL) on 60‑qubit IBM processors to predict urinary‑tract infection antibiotic resistance. While QPL did not uniformly beat classical baselines, it matched or exceeded them for nitrofurantoin and specific data splits. A multivariate data‑complexity signature—combining Shannon...
By Quantum Zeitgeist
News•Jan 26, 2026
The Major Trends Shaping the Future of Know Your Customer Compliance
The KYC sector is undergoing rapid change as AI‑driven agents enable true straight‑through processing (STP), eliminating manual breakpoints in onboarding. Muinmos showcases how collective AI agents, combined with client lifecycle management (CLM) platforms, can automate decision‑making, regulatory checks, and document...
By Fintech Global
Social•Jan 26, 2026
Prioritize AI by Decision Bottlenecks, Not Feature Lists
🧠 The ABC of AI use cases is useful—but incomplete. Lists like this help name opportunities. Leaders need help prioritizing and sequencing them. Here’s the strategic reframe: 🔹 Most use cases collapse into 4 enterprise intents 1. Predict (risk, demand, churn, downtime) 2. Optimize (costs, workflows,...
By Giuliano Liguori
News•Jan 26, 2026
ADWEEK to Debut the Super Bowl AI Influence Index
ADWEEK is partnering with AI‑search startup Emberos to debut the first Real‑Time AI Influence Index on Super Bowl 60 day, displaying the top seven advertisers based on their visibility in generative search engines. The index, embedded on ADWEEK.com’s sidebar, updates live...
By Adweek AI
Social•Jan 26, 2026
AI Must Learn When to Pause, Not Just Answer
AI is getting better at answers. The next step is knowing when not to rush one. New research argues for artificial metacognition: giving AI systems the ability to reflect on their own thinking, detect uncertainty, spot conflicts, and slow down when...
By Spiros Margaris
Social•Jan 26, 2026
Beware: Clawdbot Could Unleash Unaligned AI Risks
Rahul warns us about Clawdbot. I'm not too worried about the nerds here who load it, but it got so popular over the weekend that non-techies will get drawn in. And that's where the trouble starts. I don't know how...
By Robert Scoble
News•Jan 26, 2026
AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find
A new study published in *Patterns* shows that when a text‑to‑image model is coupled with an image‑to‑text system and allowed to iterate autonomously, it quickly collapses into generic, “visual elevator music” images. The homogenization occurs without any additional training data,...
By Futurism AI
News•Jan 26, 2026
Here Are the Winners and Losers (so Far) in Bitcoin Mining From Nvidia's $2B CoreWeave Investment
Nvidia’s $2 billion investment in cloud‑AI specialist CoreWeave has intensified competition for GPU resources, prompting a sharp sell‑off in several bitcoin miners that are pivoting to AI infrastructure. Shares of Cipher Mining, CleanSpark, IREN and TeraWulf dropped 5‑9% as investors fear...
By CoinDesk
News•Jan 26, 2026
Microsoft Announces Powerful New Chip for AI Inference
Microsoft unveiled the Maia 200, its next‑generation AI inference chip, featuring over 100 billion transistors and delivering more than 10 petaflops in 4‑bit precision and roughly 5 petaflops in 8‑bit mode. The processor is positioned as a workhorse for running large language models with...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Jan 26, 2026
What FIS Has Planned After the Global Payment Deals
FIS closed a strategic swap with Global Payments, acquiring the card‑issuing technology unit while off‑loading its merchant‑technology division. The move sharpens FIS’s focus on bank clients amid rising fintech competition. In parallel, FIS announced a bank‑centric suite of agentic AI...
By American Banker Technology
Podcast•Jan 26, 2026•49 min
Fairness in PCA-Based Recommenders
In this episode, David Liu, an assistant research professor at Cornell, discusses how standard recommender techniques like PCA and collaborative filtering can unintentionally disadvantage minority and niche user groups. He introduces the notion of "power niche users"—highly active users with...
By Data Skeptic
News•Jan 26, 2026
ThoughtSpot CEO - ‘Most AI Agents Are Confident Idiots’
ThoughtSpot CEO Ketan Karkhanis warned that most AI agents are "confident idiots" because they operate without a solid analytics foundation. He emphasized the need for a deterministic intelligence layer—its semantic layer that translates natural language into SQL—to avoid hallucinations. The...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 26, 2026
Hackers Are Using LLMs to Build the Next Generation of Phishing Attacks - Here's What to Look Out For
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have demonstrated a proof‑of‑concept where generative AI models produce on‑the‑fly JavaScript that creates personalized phishing pages. The technique sends prompts to a legitimate LLM API, receives unique code for each visitor, and executes...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 26, 2026
Expereo: Enterprise Connectivity Amid AI Surge with ‘Visibility at the Speed of Life’
Expereo’s chief digital officer Julian Skeels warns that AI workloads turn networking into a system‑of‑record, requiring deterministic, observable, and resilient connectivity. Enterprises are tangled in hybrid clouds and multiple providers, leading to “connectivity everywhere but visibility nowhere.” The company’s expereoOne...
By Artificial Intelligence News
Social•Jan 26, 2026
AI Assistants Boost Output, Spark New Micro‑anxiety
As @jasonlk said a few days ago, it won’t be long until most of us have at least one agent working for us almost 24/7. More and more, I give an agent (usually coding or research) a task before jumping on...
By Christoph Janz
News•Jan 26, 2026
Tradespace Raises $15M Series A Led by AVP
Tradespace announced a $15 million Series A round led by AVP, with participation from existing backers Eniac Ventures, Amplo VC, and Scrum Ventures. The funding will accelerate its AI‑native intellectual property platform that aims to halve external legal spend and...
By Just AI News
News•Jan 26, 2026
NVIDIA and CoreWeave Strengthen Collaboration to Accelerate Buildout of AI Factories
NVIDIA announced a $2 billion investment in CoreWeave to accelerate the construction of more than 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030. The partnership deepens alignment across infrastructure, software, and platform layers, with CoreWeave adopting NVIDIA’s upcoming Rubin GPUs, Vera CPUs, and...
By The AI Insider
News•Jan 26, 2026
More Data Isn’t Always Better for AI Decisions
MIT researchers challenge the assumption that more data always improves AI decisions. They propose a framework that identifies the minimal dataset needed to guarantee an optimal decision under uncertainty, and an algorithm that tests whether additional data could change the...
By PYMNTS
News•Jan 26, 2026
**NVIDIA Earth-2 Open Models Span the Whole Weather Stack**
NVIDIA announced three new open‑source models—StormScope, Atlas, and HealDA—under its Earth‑2 portfolio, covering nowcasting, medium‑range, and data assimilation. StormScope delivers kilometer‑scale, zero‑to‑six‑hour storm forecasts that outperform traditional physics models, while Atlas provides high‑accuracy 15‑day global predictions across more than 70...
By Hugging Face
Social•Jan 26, 2026
Phone‑First AI: Simpler Text Access Over Complex Setup
I’m gonna be honest about Clawdbot. I’ve seen dozens of tweets on it, watched tons of videos, read whatever docs and guides I could find, and I’m with @omooretweets on this one. I’m glad tinkerers are loving it. I’m glad...
By Allie Miller
News•Jan 26, 2026
Former Google DeepMind Scientists Raise $300M for AI Chip Startup
Ricursive Intelligence, founded by former Google DeepMind scientists behind AlphaChip, closed a $300 million Series A round at a $4 billion post‑money valuation. The funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and backed by NVentures, Sequoia and others, will expand its research team and...
By Just AI News
News•Jan 26, 2026
Upwind Secures $250 Million to Expand Runtime-First Cloud Security for AI Workloads
Upwind announced a $250 million Series B round, bringing total capital to $430 million. The funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital, will accelerate the company’s runtime‑first cloud security platform aimed at AI‑driven workloads. Upwind claims...
By Help Net Security
Social•Jan 26, 2026
LLMs Are Untapped Lego Bricks for Endless Value
Clawdbot just goes to show that LLMs are magical alien technologies we’ve conjured up from a distillation of the internet. Even if AI progress completely stalls (it won’t); we still have years worth of value to derive from what we...
By Bilawal Sidhu
News•Jan 26, 2026
How Formula E Uses Google Cloud AI to Meet Net Zero Targets
Formula E has deepened its multi‑year partnership with Google Cloud, embedding Gemini generative‑AI models across logistics, back‑office workflows, and live‑broadcast analytics. The AI‑driven digital twins enable virtual site planning, slashing physical travel and cutting Scope 3 emissions. Integrated Gemini tools in Google...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Jan 26, 2026
Retail’s Risky AI Commerce Bet
Retailers are increasingly embedding their product catalogs into external AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Google Bard to capture shoppers where they spend time. This shift promises instant, conversational commerce but forces brands to hand over transaction data and customer...
By Retail Dive
News•Jan 26, 2026
Wells Fargo Hires Faraz Shafiq as Head of AI
Wells Fargo announced Faraz Shafiq as Head of AI Products and Solutions, effective Feb. 9. Shafiq will report to AI Co‑CEO Saul Van Beurden and operate from San Francisco. He brings more than 15 years of leadership at Amazon Web Services, Google, Verizon and...
By Finextra
News•Jan 26, 2026
Booz Allen’s Vellox Reverser Accelerates Malware Analysis and Threat Intelligence
Booz Allen Hamilton has launched the general availability of Vellox Reverser, an AI‑driven malware reverse‑engineering platform. The solution leverages a resilient agentic AI architecture on AWS Lambda, Bedrock, and Step Functions to automate deep analysis of complex threats. New features...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 26, 2026
Lianhe Sowell International Group Ltd Announces $200M Plan for Industry Robotics Headquarters in the UAE
Lianhe Sowell International Group (Nasdaq:LHSW) announced a $200 million plan to build a specialized industry robotics headquarters in the United Arab Emirates. The facility will combine R&D, manufacturing and global sales, targeting applications such as automotive spray‑painting, hazardous environments, underwater operations...
By The AI Insider
News•Jan 26, 2026
Nvidia’s New AI Weather Models Probably Saw This Storm Coming Weeks Ago
Nvidia unveiled its Earth‑2 suite of AI weather models at the American Meteorological Society meeting, highlighting a Medium Range model that outperforms Google DeepMind’s GenCast on more than 70 variables. The new models—Medium Range, Nowcasting, and Global Data Assimilation—run on...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Jan 26, 2026
We Need a ‘Planetary Neural Network’ for AI-Enabled Space Infrastructure Protection
The orbital environment now hosts over 11,000 active satellites and could swell to 30,000‑60,000 by 2030, creating a collision‑risk crisis known as Kessler syndrome. Traditional radar and optical tracking struggle to detect sub‑centimeter debris, prompting calls for AI‑driven space situational...
By SpaceNews
News•Jan 26, 2026
Wiz Found It. Swimlane Fixed It. The Cloud Security Power Play
Cloud security teams face alert fatigue, drowning in critical notifications that outpace manual response. Wiz, a cloud risk visibility leader, has partnered with Swimlane’s Turbine agentic‑AI to turn detection into automated remediation. The integration pulls Wiz telemetry, enriches it with...
By Security Boulevard
Blog•Jan 26, 2026
Article Intro - AI in Surgery
A systematic review of 188 studies examined artificial intelligence for surgical scene understanding (SSU) in minimally invasive abdominal procedures. The analysis found that most research relies on small, single‑center datasets, with 59% concentrating on laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Validation practices are weak—only...
By SurgRob
News•Jan 26, 2026
You No Longer Have to Choose Between Insight and Impact
The article argues that the traditional split between qualitative insight and quantitative impact is becoming obsolete thanks to AI and advanced analytics. By applying generative LLMs and Bayesian methods, marketers can now achieve deep, nuanced understanding at massive scale. The...
By MarTech
News•Jan 26, 2026
Stellar Cyber Expands Autonomous SOC Capabilities with Agentic AI
Stellar Cyber unveiled version 6.3, embedding agentic AI to push its Autonomous SOC vision forward. The update automates threat detection, investigation, triage and response across identity, network, endpoint, email and cloud layers, slashing alert fatigue and mean‑time‑to‑respond. New Model Context Protocol...
By Help Net Security
News•Jan 26, 2026
Ensembling AI Models to Improve Compliance Risk Detection
Financial services firms are turning to ensemble AI to strengthen compliance risk detection across multimodal communications. Theta Lake reports that combining lexicon‑based rules, fuzzy matching, and multiple machine learning models yields higher accuracy and fewer false positives than single‑model approaches....
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 26, 2026
Emergency Meetings and Failed Billion-Dollar Talks Reveal the Chaos Behind Apple's Pivot to Google Gemini
The episode unpacks Apple’s turbulent shift from building its own AI models to partnering with Google’s Gemini, sparked by a Bloomberg leak that prompted an emergency meeting where Siri chief Mike Rockwell dismissed the report as "bullshit." Internal strife, talent...
By THE DECODER
News•Jan 26, 2026
Oakley Meta Readies Super Bowl Debut to Sell AI Glasses to Athletes
Oakley Meta is making its Super Bowl debut with a high‑profile commercial that showcases its AI‑powered performance glasses. The ad, created by Mother LA, features Spike Lee, streamer iShowSpeed, NFL star Marshawn Lynch and several Olympians, highlighting how the eyewear...
By Adweek AI
Social•Jan 26, 2026
FeNNix-Bio1 Delivers Quantum‑Accurate MD, Open for Academia
#compchem #compbio 🚀 𝐅𝐞𝐍𝐍𝐢𝐱-𝐁𝐢𝐨1 enables to perform extremely fast molecular dynamics simulations at hashtag#quantum accuracy under various #GPU-accelerated frameworks. 🚀 As some people asked me, the 𝐅𝐞𝐍𝐍𝐢𝐱-𝐁𝐢𝐨1 #machinelearning foundation model is fully available for academic groups (ASL licence) at various places: - 👉...
By Jean-Philip Piquemal
Social•Jan 26, 2026
Human SDRs Mastering AI Can Earn $250K
"The top leaders in AI+B2B are hiring tons of sales execs. Tons. But it's not enough to offset the shrinking hiring of mature tech companies. Jobs won't be growing in sales overall. But the silver lining? The Human SDR that owns the...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Jan 26, 2026
Rainbow Weather Raises $5.5M Seed to Build Real-Time Environmental Intelligence for a Climate-Volatile World
Rainbow Weather, a climate‑tech startup, announced a $5.5 million seed round to scale its AI‑driven, hyper‑local weather intelligence platform. The platform fuses satellite imagery, radar, ground stations and smartphone barometer data to deliver minute‑by‑minute precipitation forecasts with 1 km resolution, updating every...
By Tech.eu
Social•Jan 26, 2026
AI's Adolescence Threatens Security, Economy, Democracy—Defend Now
The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: https://t.co/0phIiJjrmz
By Dario Amodei
Social•Jan 26, 2026
New AI Tool Attracts 1,400+ Companies, Challenges Claude
Developers: fresh meat. Added to my AI developer tools list. Now more than 1,400 companies. My friends say this one is a good one, will it get you to change off of Claude?
By Robert Scoble
News•Jan 26, 2026
Winning Against AI-Based Attacks Requires a Combined Defensive Approach
Offensive AI is reshaping cyber attacks, with large language models generating and morphing malware in real time. Recent incidents such as Anthropic’s AI‑orchestrated espionage campaign and ClickFix steganography attacks show adversaries bypassing traditional endpoint detection (EDR). Network Detection and Response...
By The Hacker News
Social•Jan 26, 2026
AI Fashion Tools Must Cut Returns, Not Just Show Off
NRF is drowning in “AI for fashion” demos, from styling assistants like Ask Ralph to one-click shopping via Copilot/Gemini/ChatGPT. Do customers want this… or is it just retail tech cosplay? If AI doesn’t reduce returns or improve trust, it’s innovation theater. https://t.co/Lym3BLrso4
By Armando Roggio
News•Jan 26, 2026
Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—And More Dangerous
Deep‑fake “nudify” services now turn a single photo into realistic, eight‑second explicit videos, offering dozens of sexual scenarios for a small fee. Platforms ranging from web sites to Telegram bots automate image‑to‑video generation, with AI models capable of adding audio...
By WIRED AI
News•Jan 26, 2026
EXCLUSIVE: YouTube Overtakes Reddit as Go-To Citation Source on AI Search
Recent analysis shows YouTube has become the most cited social platform in AI-generated answers, surpassing Reddit. Over the past six months, large language models referenced YouTube in 16% of responses versus 10% for Reddit. The shift stems from YouTube’s rich...
By Adweek AI
News•Jan 26, 2026
Quantexa Launches Claims AI Accelerator on Guidewire
Quantexa has launched a Decision Intelligence accelerator for Guidewire ClaimCenter, enabling insurers to embed real‑time analytics into their claims workflows. The accelerator, now listed on the Guidewire Marketplace, provides instant claims segmentation, fraud detection and contextual analytics across the entire...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 26, 2026
Axos Bank’s Kevin Hearn Simplifies, Trains and Embraces AI
Axos Bank’s SVP Kevin Hearn has overhauled the bank’s technology stack, retiring legacy tools like SharePoint and K2 in favor of the OutSystems low‑code platform. The shift has accelerated application delivery to eight‑week cycles, delivering a 60% productivity boost and...
By Diginomica
Podcast•Jan 26, 2026•30 min
Inside $3M GPU Racks: Powering Modern AI with Bryan Oliver | Ep. 16
In this episode, Adi Polak interviews Bryan Oliver of Thoughtworks about his journey from building swimming pools to engineering massive GPU racks for AI workloads. Oliver explains the technical and operational challenges of running $3M GPU data centers, focusing on...
By Streaming Audio (Kafka / Confluent)