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• Adobe Expands Acrobat AI Features With Podcast Summaries and Slide Deck Creation

  • January 21, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Adobe’s latest Acrobat update is a good example of where AI is headed in everyday work software: it’s no longer a shiny bonus feature — it’s quickly becoming something people just expect to be there.

• Geothermal Startup Zanskar Lands $115M Series C for AI-Driven Exploration

  • January 21, 2026

  • Energy

  A $115 million raise for a geothermal startup doesn’t sound like the kind of thing that should matter to the AI boom. It’s not a flashy model launch or a new chip announcement. But Zanskar’s latest...

• Tesla Restarts Dojo3 AI Supercomputer Project as AI5 Chip Design Nears Completion

  • January 20, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Tesla hitting “restart” on its Dojo supercomputer project isn’t just a random engineering update — it’s another sign that Elon Musk still wants Tesla to own as much of its AI stack as possible, even...

• ServiceNow Expands OpenAI Partnership to Bring AI Directly Into Enterprise Workflows

  • January 20, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  ServiceNow and OpenAI are taking their partnership a step further — and it’s a sign of where enterprise AI is heading next. Instead of treating AI like a separate add-on or a side experiment,...

• Emergent’s $70M Round Highlights India’s Growing Role in the Global AI Boom

  • January 20, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  India’s role in the AI boom is starting to look a lot bigger than “cheap engineering talent” or “the next outsourcing hub.” The momentum is shifting toward something more serious: India building real...

• South Korea Launches “AI Squid Game” Competition to Build Homegrown Foundation Models

  • January 19, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  South Korea is turning its AI ambitions into a full-blown public competition — and it’s not playing around. Late last year, more than a thousand people packed into a convention center in Seoul to...

• ChatGPT to Start Showing Sponsored Ads as OpenAI Expands Its Revenue Strategy

  • January 19, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  OpenAI is about to cross a line it’s spent years acting allergic to: putting ads inside ChatGPT. Starting in the next few weeks, the company says it will begin testing ads with a limited group of...

• Alibaba-Backed Moonshot AI Nears $4.8B Valuation in New Funding Round

  • January 19, 2026

  • Finance

  Moonshot AI — the Alibaba-backed startup behind China’s fast-rising Kimi chatbot — is climbing the funding ladder again, and it’s doing it fast. According to two people familiar with the deal,...

• Elon Musk Seeks Up to $134 Billion in Damages From OpenAI and Microsoft

  • January 19, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  When Elon Musk says he wants up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, it’s hard not to do a double take — not just because the number is absurdly large, but because of what it implies about how...

• Trump Administration Pushes PJM to Add $15B in Power Capacity as Data Center Demand Surges

  • January 16, 2026

  • Energy

  The Trump administration is pushing for a major expansion of the country’s largest electricity grid — and it wants Big Tech to help foot the bill, even if the companies don’t end up needing the extra...

• News Corp Partners With Symbolic.ai to Bring AI Deeper Into Its Newsrooms

  • January 16, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  News Corp just made one of the clearest statements yet that AI in journalism is moving out of the “experiment” phase and into the “this is how the work gets done” phase. The company has signed a deal...

• OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s Brain-Computer Interface Startup Merge Labs

  • January 15, 2026

  • Finance

  For years, brain-computer interfaces have sat in that weird category of “fascinating future tech” that always feels a little too far away to matter right now. But OpenAI’s latest move makes it clear...