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Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in November as the head of its safety research team, joins Anthropic's alignment team (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-16

Wikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M+ articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-15

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get “tuned” API access; Google is already a member (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-15 Google Amazon Microsoft

YouTube now lets parents set time limits on their kids' YouTube Shorts feed, ranging from 15 minutes to two hours, with an option for zero minutes coming soon (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-15 YouTube

UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-15 Intelligence

As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-14 VR

Anthropic shakes up its C-suite; chief product officer Mike Krieger will become the co-lead of its Labs incubator; head of product Ami Vora will become CPO (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-14

Mercedes pauses the rollout of Drive Pilot, a Level 3 “eyes off” driving feature available in Europe and the US, citing low demand and high production costs (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-14 Europe

Google makes improvements to Veo 3.1's Ingredients to Video feature to make videos more expressive, and adds native vertical video generation and 4K upscaling (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-14 Google

IDC: in Q4 2025, global PC shipments rose nearly 10% YoY to 76.4M units, helped by Windows 10 end-of-support and OEMs pulling forward inventory amid tariffs (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-14 4Q

Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-12 Instagram

X is restricting Grok's image capabilities via the @grok reply command, but free users can still create sexual deepfakes through the standalone Grok app or site (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-10

Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail, showing users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US “trusted testers” (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-9 Google AI

Ford plans to launch an AI voice assistant on its apps this year before expanding to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to debut Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-8 AI Ford

Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-8 Android IOS Spotify

Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-7 Australia New Zealand Netherlands

Meta unveils teleprompter and EMG handwriting features for Meta Ray-Ban Display and expands Pedestrian Navigation for the glasses to four new US cities (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-7 Ban

American Airlines partners with AT&T to add free, high-speed satellite-based Wi-Fi across its entire fleet, with a target spring 2026 completion date (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-7 U.S. AT&T

HP unveils the Eliteboard G1a, a compact desktop PC in the form of a keyboard, powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series chip, set for March launch; pricing is TBC (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6 AI AMD

Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV sticks, available in early 2026 (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6 Linux Amazon Nvidia

Nvidia unveils DLSS 4.5 with a new 6x Multi Frame Generation for the RTX 50 series, and a second-generation Super Resolution transformer model for all RTX GPUs (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6 Nvidia

AMD unveils two Ryzen AI Max+ chips, the 392 with 12 cores and the 388 with 8 cores, both offering 40 graphics compute units and 60 teraflops of performance (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6 AI AMD

Xreal partners with Asus to unveil ROG Xreal R1 gaming glasses with 1080p micro-OLED displays and a 240Hz refresh rate, launching in H1 2026 (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6

A look at Nvidia's Level 2 driving system, set to roll out to more carmakers in 2026, after a ~40-minute drive around San Francisco in a Mercedes-Benz CLA sedan (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6 Nvidia San Francisco

Nvidia launches the Vera Rubin platform, saying it will offer dramatic reductions in inference and training costs compared to Blackwell, across six new chips (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6 Nvidia

A viral Reddit post by a purported developer alleging that a “major food delivery app” exploits drivers is likely AI-generated; Uber, DoorDash deny the claims (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6 Uber AI Reddit

Amazon launches Alexa+ in early access for all users via a new web interface at Alexa.com and now lets users upload documents, emails, and images (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6 Amazon

TCL unveils the €339 70 Pro phone, with a 6.9" NXTPaper 4.0 display and a paper-like textured finish, and the $549 Note A1 NXTPaper, an 11.5" Remarkable rival (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6

Google plans to integrate Nano Banana and Veo support into Gemini on Google TV, letting users generate AI videos and modify family photos, first on TCL TVs (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-6 Google AI

Samsung upgrades its Family Hub refrigerators with AI features, such as voice control to open and close the door and Gemini-powered AI Vision to track inventory (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-5 Samsung AI

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