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Court filings: Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 AI chatbot Zuckerberg

Sources: Anthropic is set to raise about $20B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue, double the amount it had targeted, at a $350B valuation (t.co)
2026-1-28 Singapore

Cloudflare stock surged 9.2% on Monday and 14% on Tuesday as users of Moltbot, previously Clawdbot, adopt the free Cloudflare Tunnel to secure their connections (www.barrons.com)
2026-1-28

France To Ditch US Platforms Microsoft Teams, Zoom For 'Sovereign Platform' Amid Security Concerns (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 France Microsoft

An interview with Mozilla president Mark Surman about plans to deploy its ~$1.4B in reserves to fund an AI “rebel alliance” to challenge companies like OpenAI (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 Interview AI Mozilla

Google expands its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries and territories, including the US at $7.99/month, with “enhanced access” to Gemini 3 Pro and more (9to5google.com)
2026-1-28 Google AI

OpenAI for Science launches Prism, a free LaTeX-based text editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-1-28

Resilience in a conditional trade order: ASEAN's 2026 challenge (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-1-28

DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (www.scmp.com)
2026-1-28 Alibaba

Microsoft Was Routing Example-Domain Traffic To a Japanese Cable Company for Five Years (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Japan Microsoft

NATO developing AI-powered ‘hot zone' along Russia border – official (www.rt.com)
2026-1-28 Russia AI

TikTok, Meta, and YouTube sued in first-ever child addiction trial (www.rt.com)
2026-1-28 YouTube

India's energy sector offers $500 billion opportunity – Modi (www.rt.com)
2026-1-28 India Energy

Post-START world looms as Dmitry Medvedev predicts new nuclear powers (www.rt.com)
2026-1-28

EU member to sue bloc over ‘suicidal' ban on Russian gas (www.rt.com)
2026-1-28 Russia Europe Ban

Doomsday Clock Ticks To 85 Seconds Before Midnight, Its Closest Ever (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 YouTube California

Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions “seamlessly” via AI Mode (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-28 Google AI

France plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with French-made and Outscale-hosted Visio by 2027, as part of a push to drop US software vendors in government (www.euronews.com)
2026-1-28 France Microsoft

Google expands Android's anti-theft suite, including a dedicated toggle for its Failed Authentication Lock feature on devices running Android 16 or later (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 Android Google

Critical sandbox escape flaw discovered in popular vm2 NodeJS library (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

Nike investigates data breach after extortion gang leaks files (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

The UK government says it recruited a team of AI specialists to build AI tools to improve transport, public safety and defense, backed by Meta's funding (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Clawdbot creator Peter Steinberger says he is changing the name of the viral AI agent to Moltbot after he “was forced to rename the account by Anthropic” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Amazon To Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores (slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Amazon

US charges 31 more suspects linked to ATM malware attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

Flora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 AI Asset

Ai2 launches Open Coding Agents, starting with SERA, an open-source family that includes 32B and 8B parameter models designed to adapt to private codebases (siliconangle.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Sonos announces the Amp Multi, a large digital amplifier and its first new device in over a year, ending a pause in hardware releases as it focused on software (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-28

OpenAI's Science Chief Says LLMs Aren't Ready For Novel Discoveries and That's Fine (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

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