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Introducing Cowork | Claude https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview
McKinsey Now Has 60,000 Employees: 25,000 of Them Are AI Agents – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/mckinsey-workforce-ai-agents-consulting-industry-bob-sternfels-2026-1
Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic primitives \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-january-2026-report
Microsoft’s Spending on Anthropic AI Is on Pace to Hit $500 Million — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-spending-anthropic-ai-pace-hit-500-million
We’re proud to announce our partnership with @deutschetelekom to bring ElevenLabs’ AI voice agents to the customer service of Europe’s largest Telco (via app and phone). Deutsche Telekom customers will soon experience realistic AI voice agents – available 24/7 and without any”” https://x.com/elevenlabsio/status/2011439275175256077?s=20
OpenAI acquires health-care technology startup Torch https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/open-ai-torch-health-care-technology.html
We’ve acquired Torch, a healthcare startup that unifies lab results, medications, and visit recordings. Bringing this together with ChatGPT Health opens up a new way to understand and manage your health. We’re excited to welcome the Torch team to OpenAI @IlyaAbyzov, @elh_online,”” https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2010813780671021106?s=20
Introducing OpenAI for Healthcare | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/openai-for-healthcare/
New tech and tools for retailers to succeed in an agentic shopping era https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/agentic-commerce-ai-tools-protocol-retailers-platforms/
Adobe @Photoshop, @AdobeExpress, and @Acrobat are now inside ChatGPT, collapsing what used to require a bunch of apps into a single chat. Whether you’re merging complex PDF proposals, designing social assets, or editing a headshot, you can do it all with Adobe apps in @ChatGPT”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2009313863708164405
Skild AI is laying its cards on the table (partially, anyway). Teleoperation data lacks diversity and is limited by a 1:1 human operator time-scale. To address this, Skild pre-trained its model using internet-scale video data (already widely available in the form of”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2010967800119210369
Skild AI is now worth $14B!! – about 3 times the $4.5B valuation from the last funding round reported to have closed six months ago The company has just announced raising $1.4B in Series C funding at a $14B valuation led by SoftBank, with participation from NVIDIA, Macquarie”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2011509889667846609
Higgsfield is officially the fastest-scaling GenAI company in history, doubling from $100M to $200M in just 2 months. $200M annual run rate in under 9 months. We have raised a $130M in Series A at a $1.3B valuation, backed by Accel, AI Capital Partners (Alpha Intelligence”” https://x.com/higgsfield_ai/status/2011866396784017848?s=20
The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition? https://post.substack.com/p/the-ai-revolution-is-here-will-the
There’s now a great narration of this blog post on the Substack. If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, I recommend giving it a listen! Also, we’ve really appreciated the engagement and footnoted some caveats and correction.”” https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2011198699591135557
We have parted ways with Barret Zoph. Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines. He is a brilliant and seasoned leader who has made important contributions to the AI field for over a decade, and he’s been a major contributor to our team. We could not be more”” https://x.com/miramurati/status/2011577319295692801?s=20
Airbnb announces Ahmad Al-Dahle as Chief Technology Officer https://news.airbnb.com/airbnb-announces-ahmad-al-dahle-as-chief-technology-officer/
Airbnb poaches former Meta GenAI leader to be new technology chief https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/airbnb-tech-chief-meta-ai.html
Delighted to see Ahmad join Airbnb! Airbnb is a rare combination of world-class design and engineering, and I am excited to see what Brian and Ahmad build together. Companies that are the furthest from AI–like travel and experiences–are quite interesting in a world with lots of”” https://x.com/sama/status/2011490615985414382
Most companies treat an IPO as proof of success. In China’s AI market, it often means survival. @MiniMax_AI went public in Hong Kong on January 9, 2026. Its shares surged 109% on the first trading day – the strongest Hong Kong tech IPO performance in four years. It also became”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2010846924086313100
Dina Powell McCormick Joins Meta as President and Vice Chairman https://about.fb.com/news/2026/01/dina-powell-mccormick-joins-meta-as-president-and-vice-chairman/
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