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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

Summize, which uses AI to let in-house legal teams manage contract workflows within apps like Slack, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $65M (www.axios.com)
2026-1-28 AI Slack

Crypto payments network Mesh raised a $75M Series C led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-28

Pinterest Cuts Up To 15% Jobs To Redirect Resources To AI (slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 AI

Perceiving AI as a 'job killer' negatively influences attitudes towards democracy (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-1-28 AI

Misleading text in the physical world can hijack AI-enabled robots (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-1-28 AI Robot

SwRI scientist uses anime for STEM outreach (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-1-28

Gout medication can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, finds new study (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-1-28

A fish that grows old in months reveals how kidneys age—and how a common drug protects them (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-1-28

Shrubs curb carbon emissions in China's largest desert (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-1-28 China

A new Johns Hopkins Medicine study suggests that certain sex hormones could play an important role in understanding long-term heart health — especially for men living with type 2 diabetes (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-1-28

WhatsApp launches Strict Account Settings, a high-security mode to protect high-risk users like journalists and public figures from sophisticated cyberattacks (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 WhatsApp

Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (www.axios.com)
2026-1-28 Microsoft Mobile AI Yahoo

Top Russian university reveals fees for new AI faculty (www.rt.com)
2026-1-28 Russia AI

Israeli startup Memcyco, which offers real-time phishing and account takeover protection, raised a $37M Series A led by NAventures and others (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-1-28 Israel Startup

Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods (www.geekwire.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon Retail

UPS plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs this year as part of winding down its partnership with Amazon; it expects $3B in savings related to the Amazon unwind (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon

Pornhub parent Aylo says it will restrict UK users from February 2, after six months of complying with the UK's OSA; users who verified their ages can login (www.404media.co)
2026-1-28

Level up your skills with this $49.99 CompTIA training bundle deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

Over 6,000 SmarterMail servers exposed to automated hijacking attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

From Cipher to Fear: The psychology behind modern ransomware extortion (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

Amazon agrees to pay a $309M settlement and return $600M to users in a US class action lawsuit over allegedly incorrectly denied refunds since September 2017 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon

EU moves to cut off Russian gas – who will pay the price? (www.rt.com)
2026-1-28 Russia Europe

Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think, a new model it says is capable of advanced reasoning, as part of the UAE's push into “sovereign” AI (www.ft.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Will Cost $2,900 in the US (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Samsung

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (betakit.com)
2026-1-28 AI Manufacturing

How Anthropic Built Claude: Buy Books, Slice Spines, Scan Pages, Recycle the Remains (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

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