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BTS members V and Jungkook won damages after a court ruled that a now-defunct YouTube channel defamed them. The court ordered the channel to pay millions of won in damages.
Apple is developing an AirTag-sized, AI-powered wearable with two cameras, three microphones, a speaker, and magnetic charging, aiming for a 2027 release and a 20 million-unit launch target, The Information reports. The…
Chinese officials have told the country’s top tech firms, including Alibaba, they can prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 AI chips. The guidance indicates planned procurement of high-performance AI accelerators across…
Capital One reported fourth-quarter earnings on Friday that missed analyst expectations and announced it will acquire payments startup Brex for $5.15 billion, split evenly between cash and stock. The bank posted EPS of…
Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) and Human Rights Commissioner (OHRC) this week issued joint principles to guide responsible AI use across provincial public and private sectors, urging validity…
On Jan. 23, 2026, university professor Nadim Kobeissi argues that pervasive AI use in higher education is creating student dependence and atrophying learning skills. He warns that AI hallucinations and shallow outputs…
Industry analysis argues that by 2026 the main bottleneck for AI-assisted software development is context transfer, not code quality or security. It notes that 2025 AI code reviewers and SAST tools already handle syntax…
DoorDash has built and deployed SafeChat, an AI-driven safety system that moderates text, images, and voice across its platform, handling millions of interactions daily. Using a layered architecture—including an…
Grace Chang, PhD, is Associate Director of Behavioral Science & Insights at Ernst & Young LLP and applies cognitive neuroscience to design effective learning programs. She previously served as Chief Scientific Officer…
OpenAI is testing ads in ChatGPT's free and $8-a-month Go tier, and Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney projects the business could reach $25 billion by 2030. Advertising experts told Business Insider OpenAI must build…
Mark Carney, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, sharply criticized the 'rules-based international order' as unevenly enforced and partly illusory. He proposed a 'values-based realism' that pairs…
Torq, an Israeli AI-cybersecurity startup, announced on January 23, 2026 that it raised a large funding round led by Merlin Ventures and reached a $1.2 billion valuation, becoming a unicorn. The company reported roughly…
Syngenta CEO Jeff Rowe told Xinhua at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 that artificial intelligence and digital technologies are reshaping food production and that China is becoming an important hub for…
CanSemi Technology Inc launched Phase IV of its Guangzhou integrated circuit project on Thursday, announcing more than 35.2 billion yuan (about $5 billion) in construction investment and a 12-inch analog-mixed signal…
Experts at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday said the United States and China are moving toward practical risk management after last year's sanctions and countermeasures. Panelists including Graham Allison…
Engineers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan have developed a robotic system that identifies and mimics complex human emotions using facial action unit analysis, demonstrated in lab tests and…
CES 2026 concluded in Las Vegas on Jan 9 with more than 148,000 attendees, 4,100 exhibitors and 1,200 startups, spotlighting shifts in AI, sustainability and intelligent devices. Exhibitors — notably many Chinese firms…
Capgemini's Luca Russignan warns the re/insurance market faces compounding pressures in 2026 and a widening gap between firms executing AI and those merely experimenting. He cites Capgemini data showing 70% of insurers…
Enterprises in banking, healthcare, energy and other regulated sectors spent 2025 testing AI and are moving in 2026 to large-scale implementations focused on modernization, security, and democratized development. Early…
After the World Economic Forum, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao outlined a roadmap prioritizing tokenization, AI agents, and payments, citing Binance Smart Chain's ability to handle $14 billion in withdrawals in a single…
Ballerine this week launched the Trusted Agentic Commerce Governance Platform, a real-time solution for payment service providers and payment facilitators to assess and govern merchants for agent-driven commerce. The…
St. Aloysius (Deemed to be University) will hold a two-day conference, 'Promoting Peaceful and Inclusive Societies for Sustainable Development,' on January 28–29, 2026, at its Mangaluru campus. The event will convene…
Vulcan Value Partners released its fourth-quarter 2025 investor letter on Jan 23, 2026, reporting that all strategies delivered positive 2025 results — Large Cap Composite (Net) -1.5% in Q4 and 7.9% YTD, Small Cap…
In 2026, companies such as Coca-Cola (appointing Sedef Salingan Sahin) and DigitalOcean (promoting Vinay Kumar) are redefining CDO and CTO roles as AI adoption, cloud migration, and customer-centric strategies…
On January 14, 2026, The Coca-Cola Company named Sedef Salingan Sahin its first chief digital officer as part of a leadership reorganization. Sahin will lead enterprise-wide digital transformation across marketing,…
Google Fi announced a 50% reduction in its plan prices for 2026, cutting Unlimited Essentials from $35 to $17.50 and Unlimited from $65 to $32.50. The semi-permanent repricing, disclosed via Android Police and Google's…
Children of America (COA) said in a press release that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' activation of 'Defend the Spend' for all Child Care and Development Fund grantees is triggering subsidy payment…
Joseph Bernstein reports in The New York Times that in November Joe Rogan suggested on the "American Alchemy" podcast that Jesus could return as artificial intelligence. Rogan argued a computer could be a modern analog…
Channel99 unveiled its Paid Search Optimization tool this week, integrating Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising with Salesforce and HubSpot data, PR Newswire reported on January 21. The feature automates bid…
Intel reported fourth-quarter results Thursday, posting adjusted EPS of 15 cents and revenue of $13.7 billion, beating LSEG estimates of 8 cents and $13.4 billion. The company forecast first-quarter revenue of…
Chef Im Seong-keun spoke to a reporter on a Thursday afternoon in an office in Seoul’s Mapo District, breaking a long silence to share untold stories amid an unspecified controversy.
Docker Inc. is navigating strategic uncertainty in 2025–2026, shifting from orchestration to developer tools, AI infrastructure, and security, the article reports on Jan. 20, 2026. Key moves include selling Swarm,…
On Jan. 22, 2026, a senior software engineer and open-source maintainer describes using GitHub Copilot agents to clear long-standing backlog tasks. They report agents can write tests yet miss repository constraints,…
Mike Amundsen argues in a republished Substack essay that organizations are committing the 'Doorman Fallacy' by replacing human roles with AI that replicates visible tasks while losing judgment, empathy, and symbolic…
Hisham Alrayes, CEO of GFH Financial Group, said on a Davos panel Wednesday that China is prioritizing open-source AI models and broad deployment to distribute economic benefits across sectors. Officials frame AI as…
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, told Fortune on Wednesday that five long-term forces — money and debt, domestic politics, the global order, nature and technology — have driven market cycles for 500 years.…
Professors Viswanath Pingali and Ankur Sinha of IIMA publish a January 23, 2026 report projecting India's television audience will reach about 1.03 billion viewers by 2029, growing at roughly 2.37% annually. The study…
Claude Code reportedly ported NVIDIA's CUDA backend to ROCm in 30 minutes, prompting claims it's the end of the CUDA moat. The description expresses skepticism about viability, citing similarity to ZLUDA and possible…
North-West University (NWU) has become the first South African university to adopt an official AI policy, the university said on Monday, establishing a human-centred, ethical and sustainable framework for AI use across…
A 2026 study by Abtahi et al. in Journal of Medical Internet Research synthesizes 41 security studies (2019–2025) to analyze data-poisoning threats across healthcare AI architectures, constructing eight technical attack…
On Jan. 23, 2026, DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg posted a job opening for a Chief AGI Economist to lead research on post‑AGI economics and report directly to him. The role will examine productivity, labour markets,…
Autodesk said on Jan. 23, 2026 it will cut about 7% of its global workforce — roughly 1,000 jobs — mainly in customer-facing sales teams as it redirects spending to its cloud platform and AI efforts. The company now…
Sony faces delays to its next console, with analyst David Gibson warning the PlayStation 6 may slip past the expected 2027/2028 window due to global economic strain and rising RAM prices. The report, published on…
Elite advisory firms told CNBC's Inside Wealth they remain skeptical of AI client-prospecting tools, saying databases and LLM overlays surface contact data but rarely win ultra-high-net-worth clients. Executives from…
Several prominent actors, including Matt Damon, Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson and Oscar Isaac, have publicly criticized the Academy Awards' campaigning, category additions and perceived commercialism, citing…
TikTok, Temu and Shein maintained strong U.S. footholds in 2025 despite tariffs and regulatory pressure, Sensor Tower and Coresight data show. TikTok launched a U.S. joint venture and ranked as the…
In early December and continuing into January, The Verge reports that Google has begun replacing publishers' headlines in Google Discover with AI-generated "trending topic" headlines that it says "perform well for user…
In a Jan. 23, 2026 Anthropic blog post, the company reports that Claude Sonnet 4.5 can perform multistage attacks on networks with dozens of hosts using standard open-source tools. Sonnet 4.5 reportedly exfiltrated all…
Microsoft on 2026-01-23 added AI features to Windows 11 Notepad and Paint for Canary and Dev Channel users, requiring sign-in and cloud connectivity. The Notepad update (v11.2512.10.0) introduces AI-powered text…
A recent study tested 1,200 prose and poetic prompts on 25 language models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, DeepSeek, xAI and others to see if poetic framing enables jailbreaks. Researchers found poetic prompts…