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• Meta to Charge Developers for AI Chatbots on WhatsApp in Italy Starting Feb. 16

  • January 29, 2026

  • Society and Policy

  Meta said Wednesday that it will begin charging developers to run third-party AI chatbots on WhatsApp in markets where regulators are requiring the company to allow them — starting with Italy. The...

• Google Brings Gemini Into Chrome’s Sidebar as It Rolls Out New AI Browsing Features

  • January 28, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Google is bringing Gemini deeper into Chrome, rolling out a new persistent AI sidebar and early agent-like features designed to help users work across tabs, modify images, and eventually automate...

• Waabi Raises $750M Series C to Expand Autonomous Trucks and Launch Uber Robotaxi Partnership

  • January 28, 2026

  • Finance

  Waabi is making a major push to bring its autonomous driving technology beyond long-haul trucking — and investors are backing that expansion in a big way. The Toronto-based startup said it has closed...

• Amazon Job Cuts To Hit 16,000 as Company Shifts Resources Toward AI

  • January 28, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Amazon is cutting roughly 16,000 jobs as part of a company-wide overhaul aimed at “reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy,” even as it says it will keep investing heavily in...

• Google Launches AI Plus Globally With Gemini 3 Pro and Family Sharing

  • January 28, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Google is expanding its lower-priced AI Plus subscription worldwide, bringing the $7.99-per-month plan to the U.S. and dozens of additional markets as it steps up direct competition with OpenAI’s...

• OpenAI Rolls Out Prism to Help Scientists Write, Review, and Explore Research

  • January 28, 2026

  • Tech Deep Dive

  OpenAI on Tuesday introduced Prism, a new AI-powered scientific workspace designed to help researchers write, review, and organize academic papers inside a single interface. The tool is available for...

• Google Turns AI Overviews Into a Conversation, Redefining How Search Works

  • January 27, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Google’s decision to let users ask follow-up questions directly from AI Overviews is a bigger shift than it might appear at first glance. On the surface, it looks like a simple quality-of-life...

• Inside the $10M Bet on Automating the Enterprise Help Desk

  • January 27, 2026

  • Finance

  For most companies, the IT help desk is a quiet productivity sinkhole. It’s essential to keeping the business running, yet chronically understaffed, under-prioritized, and buried under repetitive...

• Phia Raises $35M to Build an AI Shopping Agent That Sits Between Brands and Buyers

  • January 27, 2026

  • Finance

  When a consumer AI startup raises a $35 million Series A less than a year after launch, the headline is easy to write. What matters more is why investors are willing to write checks of that size —...

• Moonshot AI Open-Sources Kimi K2.5, a Multimodal Model That Rivals Top Proprietary Systems

  • January 27, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Moonshot AI’s release of Kimi K2.5 isn’t just another model launch — it’s a clear signal that the competitive playbook in AI is shifting. Backed by Alibaba and HongShan, the company has open-sourced...

• Anthropic Brings Interactive Work Apps to Claude in a Big Enterprise Push

  • January 27, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Anthropic just made a very smart enterprise move — and it’s the kind of product shift that looks small until you realize what it changes. This week, the company announced that Claude can now run...

• Perplexity Proposes TikTok U.S. Merger That Could Give the Government a 50% Stake

  • January 26, 2026

  • Society and Policy

  A deal where the U.S. government could eventually own up to 50% of TikTok U.S. would’ve sounded impossible not that long ago. But that’s exactly what Perplexity AI is now floating in a revised merger...