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• ServiceNow Expands OpenAI Partnership to Bring AI Directly Into Enterprise Workflows

  • January 20, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  ServiceNow and OpenAI are taking their partnership a step further — and it’s a sign of where enterprise AI is heading next. Instead of treating AI like a separate add-on or a side experiment,...

• Emergent’s $70M Round Highlights India’s Growing Role in the Global AI Boom

  • January 20, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  India’s role in the AI boom is starting to look a lot bigger than “cheap engineering talent” or “the next outsourcing hub.” The momentum is shifting toward something more serious: India building real...

• South Korea Launches “AI Squid Game” Competition to Build Homegrown Foundation Models

  • January 19, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  South Korea is turning its AI ambitions into a full-blown public competition — and it’s not playing around. Late last year, more than a thousand people packed into a convention center in Seoul to...

• ChatGPT to Start Showing Sponsored Ads as OpenAI Expands Its Revenue Strategy

  • January 19, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  OpenAI is about to cross a line it’s spent years acting allergic to: putting ads inside ChatGPT. Starting in the next few weeks, the company says it will begin testing ads with a limited group of...

• Alibaba-Backed Moonshot AI Nears $4.8B Valuation in New Funding Round

  • January 19, 2026

  • Finance

  Moonshot AI — the Alibaba-backed startup behind China’s fast-rising Kimi chatbot — is climbing the funding ladder again, and it’s doing it fast. According to two people familiar with the deal,...

• Elon Musk Seeks Up to $134 Billion in Damages From OpenAI and Microsoft

  • January 19, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  When Elon Musk says he wants up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, it’s hard not to do a double take — not just because the number is absurdly large, but because of what it implies about how...

• Trump Administration Pushes PJM to Add $15B in Power Capacity as Data Center Demand Surges

  • January 16, 2026

  • Energy and Sustainability

  The Trump administration is pushing for a major expansion of the country’s largest electricity grid — and it wants Big Tech to help foot the bill, even if the companies don’t end up needing the extra...

• News Corp Partners With Symbolic.ai to Bring AI Deeper Into Its Newsrooms

  • January 16, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  News Corp just made one of the clearest statements yet that AI in journalism is moving out of the “experiment” phase and into the “this is how the work gets done” phase. The company has signed a deal...

• OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s Brain-Computer Interface Startup Merge Labs

  • January 15, 2026

  • Finance

  For years, brain-computer interfaces have sat in that weird category of “fascinating future tech” that always feels a little too far away to matter right now. But OpenAI’s latest move makes it clear...

• ETSI Releases New European Standard to Strengthen AI Cybersecurity

  • January 15, 2026

  • Society and Policy

  Europe just took a big step toward getting serious about AI security. In December, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) published an updated standard called “Securing Artificial...

• Wikipedia's Licensing Pivot Signals the End of AI's Free Lunch Era

  • January 15, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  For most of its life, Wikipedia has run on a simple, almost idealistic idea: knowledge should be free, and anyone should be able to access it. That model held up for nearly 30 years, powered by...

• WhatsApp’s New AI Bot Rules Won’t Apply to Brazil—for Now

  • January 15, 2026

  • Society and Policy

  WhatsApp is quietly doing something that a lot of big tech platforms are going to be forced to do more and more often: it’s running different AI rules in different countries, even when the product is...