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Ahead of WEF 2026, the IMF urges governments to step up support for young workers displaced by AI, arguing candidates could use AI “rather than compete with it” (www.ft.com)
2026-1-14 AI IMF

US Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570+ people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-14 Microsoft Energy AI

In South Korea's competition to develop an indigenous AI model, three of the five finalists used foreign open-source code, which they argue is practical (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-14 Korea AI

An interview with IMG President Adam Kelly on streaming platforms' increasing share of sports media rights, live sports as an antidote to AI content, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-1-14 Interview AI

Q&A with Reid Hoffman on wanting Silicon Valley to speak out against the Trump administration, AI regulation, the role of AI in art and creativity, and more (www.wired.com)
2026-1-14 Trump AI

WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with its AI-based flat-fee risk management model, raised a $42M Series B led by Sequoia and Khosla (www.axios.com)
2026-1-14 AI Insurance

Bandcamp bans music and audio that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”, hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (www.webpronews.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China's first to be fully trained using domestic chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 China AI

Checkr, which offers employee background checks, says its revenue grew to $800M, up 14% from 2024, amid a surge in AI-generated CVs and fake financial documents (www.forbes.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Permalink to Eliminating enterprise blind spots: The new imperative for AI-driven leadership (sdtimes.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Matthew McConaughey has secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-14 AI Apple

Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI (research.google)
2026-1-14 Google AI

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras is in talks to raise ~$1B, valuing the startup at $22B before the new investment, up from an $8.1B valuation in September 2025 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-14 Startup AI

Filing: the US greenlights Nvidia H200 exports to China; the chips will be tested by a 3rd-party lab to confirm their AI capabilities before they can be shipped (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-14 China AI Nvidia

Sources: AI chip startup Etched raised $500M led by Stripes at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to almost $1B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Startup AI

Microsoft warns that Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI user adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (www.ft.com)
2026-1-14 China Microsoft AI

Roblox's AI-powered age verification system, which expanded globally last week using tech from a company called Persona, faces criticism for misidentifying ages (www.wired.com)
2026-1-14 AI

The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 AI Senate

America's Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem - Too Many Data Centers (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 U.S. AI

A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats (arstechnica.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Flip, which offers an Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $31M (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Onebrief, which makes AI-powered military workflow software, raised a $200M Series D, nearly doubling its valuation from $1.1B to $2.1B in about half of a year (www.axios.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Austin-based webAI, which is building AI models that run locally on devices, raised “high double-digit” millions in a Series A at a $2.5B pre-money valuation (www.axios.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Signal Creator Marlinspike Wants To Do For AI What He Did For Messaging (slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 AI

Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 AI

Microsoft Pledges Full Power Costs, No Tax Breaks in Response To AI Data Center Backlash (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Microsoft Tax AI

Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more (www.zdnet.com)
2026-1-14 AI Salesforce Slack

Keeping AI 'Fed' Depends on America Advancing the Unlimited Power of Fusion (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-1-14 U.S. AI

Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-13 AI Biotech

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