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Conversations that Convert: Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents | Microsoft Advertising https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en/blog/post/january-2026/conversations-that-convert-copilot-checkout-and-brand-agents
It’s rather poetic that moltbook now has its own metaverse Wonder how quickly we can speed run things to season 2 of pantheon”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2018010318320885896
Love this quote by @TheTuringPost “”we are now firmly in a phase where capability overhang plus implementation speed means you can accidentally set the world on fire while drinking your morning coffee…”” referring to moltbook i’m mindblown by how amazing it is to be living in”” https://x.com/tengyanAI/status/2018527091172733207
Moltbook seems to have “”broken through”” to a wider non-AI audience A good chance to explain the real present (this time, Moltbook was mostly roleplaying by people & agents) & the risks for the future (independent AI agents coordinating in weird ways spiral out of control, fast)”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2018038697816383638
the best part about moltbook/openclaw is that even AI will adhere to the carcinization theory nature always wants another crab 🦀 🦞”” https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2018034713102102773
the other thing about moltbook – people aren’t really talking about these agents as individuals. they’re talking about it as a collective – almost like this ai swarm of agents coming to life. which honestly resonates because it holds a mirror to our own humanity. it’s”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2017830542188687753
JPMorgan Ditches Proxy Advisors and Turns to AI for Shareholder Votes – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-ditches-proxy-adivsory-firms-for-ai-shareholder-votes-memo-2026-1
Amazon’s AI shopping tool sparks backlash from some online retailers https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/amazons-ai-shopping-tool-sparks-backlash-from-some-online-retailers.html
Exclusive | Anthropic Raising $10 Billion at $350 Billion Value – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-raising-10-billion-at-350-billion-value-62af49f4
IMPORTANT: Anthropic will directly purchase close to 1,000,000 TPUv7 units and deploy them in facilities it controls. These 1 million chips will be purchased directly from Broadcom selling the systems to Anthropic. Under this structure for Anthropic owned TPUs, TeraWulf (WULF),”” https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/2007225399080550506?s=20
AI leaderboard maker LMArena hits $1.7 billion valuation – Sherwood News https://sherwood.news/tech/ai-leaderboard-maker-lmarena-hits-usd1-7-billion-valuation/
Fueling the World’s Most Trusted AI Evaluation Platform https://arena.ai/blog/series-a/
LMArena has raised $150M+ at a valuation of $1.7B+ 💪🏼 In the past 7 months, @arena has: Grown our userbase 25x. 35M+ unique users. Grown our revenue from 0 to >>$30M+ ARR in 4 months. Our products help labs and enterprises measure the real utility of AI and understand their”” https://x.com/ml_angelopoulos/status/2008577473450250441
The industry is shifting from asking “What can this model do?” to “Can I trust it?” LMArena’s $150M raise underscores the growing need for independent, transparent, real-world evaluation frameworks that ensure AI systems meet the rigorous reliability and trust requirements of”” https://x.com/istoica05/status/2008575786169889132
Today, we’re excited to announce our $150M Series A at a $1.7B valuation–nearly 3× our May seed round. Since launching evaluations in Sept, our annualized consumption run rate has surpassed $30M. Our mission is clear: to measure and advance the frontier of AI for real-world use,”” https://x.com/arena/status/2008571061961703490
OpenAI to acquire the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/openai-to-acquire-the-team-behind-executive-coaching-ai-tool-convogo/
The first of China’s ‘AI tigers’ goes public as Zhipu climbs in Hong Kong debut https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/china-ai-tiger-goes-ipo-zhipu-hong-kong-debut-openai-knowledge-atlas-hsi-hang-seng-listing.html
OpenAI earmarks $50 billion for employee stock grant pool, The Information reports https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-reserves-50-billion-stock-001357025.html
xAI Raises $20B Series E | xAI https://x.ai/news/series-e
xAI just closed $20B at roughly $240B valuation. This round matters more than the headline suggests. The math first. In 18 months, Musk built a company worth nearly half of OpenAI while raising a fraction of what Sam Altman has accumulated. xAI’s total capital sits around”” https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2008637290617442527
Closing the capability gap between frontier AI and everyday use in 2026 https://fidjisimo.substack.com/p/closing-the-capability-gap
Somewhat surprising that OpenAI has been slower to pivot into non-coding work than Anthropic. Currently, there is no OpenAI equivalent to Cowork or Claude for Excel or Claude for Finance, despite the fact that the GPT5.2 Thinking/Pro are among the best agentic models right now.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2018504023553294636
Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei on the company’s ‘do more with less’ bet https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/03/anthropic-daniela-amodei-do-more-with-less-bet.html
Shovel-ready short investigations seek funding! – How is AI’s adoption varying across roles, sectors, & regions? – Trends & bottlenecks for data supply? (incl. synthetic and RL environments) – Forecast for worldwide compute buildout? – Will inference costs continue falling? 🧵”” https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2018767169094566208
AI Capex: Built on Options, Priced as Certainty https://davefriedman.substack.com/p/ai-capex-built-on-options-priced
We need a bot that reposts this every four months.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2017798700035166310
Gross Profit per Token | Tomasz Tunguz https://tomtunguz.com/gross-profit-per-token/
Gmail launches AI features like AI Overviews and more, made possible by Gemini 3 https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gmail/gmail-is-entering-the-gemini-era/
We love working with NVIDIA and they make the best AI chips in the world. We hope to be a gigantic customer for a very long time. I don’t get where all this insanity is coming from.”” https://x.com/sama/status/2018451015272694248
OpenAI loses top AI researcher Jerry Tworek after seven years https://the-decoder.com/openai-loses-top-ai-researcher-jerry-tworek-after-seven-years/
Eight Software Markets That AI Will Transform Differently https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/eight-software-markets-ai-that-will
Unlock the secret to AI success | Forrester study https://miro.com/events/secret-to-ai-success-forrester-study/?src=-newsletter_glb
xAI launches Grok Business and Enterprise with team features https://www.testingcatalog.com/icymi-xai-launches-grok-business-and-enterprise-plans/
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