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• 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

  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...

• Airbnb Taps Ex-Meta AI Executive to Lead Its Next Tech Chapter

  • January 15, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Airbnb hiring Ahmad Al-Dahle — a longtime Apple veteran who most recently ran major generative AI efforts at Meta — isn’t just a standard “new CTO” headline. It’s a pretty loud signal that Airbnb...

• OpenAI Strikes $10B Deal With Cerebras, Signaling a Shift Beyond GPUs

  • January 15, 2026

  • Finance

  Cerebras’ newly announced partnership with OpenAI is a big deal, and not just because of the price tag. The agreement — worth more than $10 billion and running through 2028 — gives OpenAI access to...

• Gemini’s New “Personal Intelligence” Lets AI Reason Across Your Google Life

  • January 14, 2026

  • Tech Deep Dive

  AI assistants are starting to evolve past the “ask a question, get an answer” phase — and Google just gave us a pretty clear look at what comes next. This week, Google announced a new beta experience...

• Salesforce Relaunches Slackbot as a Personal AI Agent for Work

  • January 14, 2026

  • Core News and Trends

  Salesforce just gave Slackbot a major promotion — and it’s a sign of where workplace AI is really headed. For years, “AI at work” mostly meant scattered features: a chatbot that answers basic...

• Microsoft Unveils ‘Community-First’ Plan for New AI Data Centers

  • January 14, 2026

  • Energy

  Microsoft’s latest data center announcement is being framed as a friendly, responsible move — but it also doubles as a clear signal of how intense the AI infrastructure race has become. On Tuesday,...