At the time, the ChatGPT-maker expected the deal negotiations to be completed in the coming weeks, people familiar with the plans said. But the talks haven’t progressed beyond the early stages, some of the people said. Now, the two sides are rethinking the future of their partnership, some of the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will nominate former Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Fed, a pick likely to result in sharp changes to the powerful agency that could bring it closer to the White House and reduce its longtime independence…

Chat & Ask AI, one of the most popular AI apps on the Google Play and Apple App stores that claims more than 50 million users, left hundreds of millions of those users’ private messages with the app’s chatbot exposed, according to an independent security researcher and emails viewed by 404 Media.…

Jan 29th 2026|4 min read Listen to this story AI Narrated Solving fiendish maths problems, making complex medical diagnoses, conjuring up new software in moments: the feats of generative AI get more impressive by the day. But anxiety about its social consequences is mounting, too. Kristalina…

This blog is written in collaboration by Amy Chang, Vineeth Sai Narajala, and Idan Habler Over the past few weeks, Clawdbot (now renamed Moltbot) has achieved virality as an open source, self-hosted personal AI assistant agent that runs locally and executes actions on the user’s behalf. The bot’s…

NEW YORK (AP) — The worst day for Microsoft in years is yanking the U.S. stock market away from its record heights on Thursday. The fever in the gold and metals markets may be breaking, meanwhile, as prices pull back following their jaw-dropping runs. The S&P 500 dropped 1.1% after flirting with its…

In this article MSFT-58.29 (-12.10%)IGV-5.77 (-5.94%)NOW-15.14 (-11.68%) ServiceNow Inc. signage during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, March 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Software stocks on Thursday slid deeper into an ongoing intense sell-off this year as…

NEW YORK (AP) — As layoffs pile up, workers are feeling increasingly anxious about the job market. In the U.S., economists have said that businesses are largely at a “no-hire, no fire” standstill, leading many to limit new work, if not pause openings entirely amid economic uncertainty. Hiring has…

Logo text Could the next great fantasy screen franchise be here? Apple TV believes so. The streaming giant has closed what has been described as an unprecedented deal to land the rights to the Cosmere books, the fictional literary universe by fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. The first titles being…

Robert Lemos, Contributing WriterJanuary 21, 2026 5 Min Read Source: CoreRock via Shutterstock Browser security is far from perfect, but technologists and cybersecurity researchers have built a security model that, for the most part, works. However, artificial intelligence (AI) agents could be…

The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform. In tests done by the Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response…

Listen•8 minutes 00:00/07:48 The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking about AI agents, and kicking the can for that transformational moment to 2026 or maybe later. But what if the answer to the question “When will our…

When I published AI’s $600B question a year ago, the question was whether AI could ever generate enough revenue to justify the money being put in the ground. Now, with talk of 100 GW or even 250 GW of energy buildouts for AI data centers, we’ve reached a new high water mark. AI’s $600B question…

Will the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty – or will it end in a 2008-style bust? Trillions of dollars rest on the answer. The figures are staggering: an estimated $2.9tn (£2.2tn) being spent on datacentres, the central nervous systems of AI tools;…

A recent MIT Media Lab study reported that “excessive reliance on AI-driven solutions” may contribute” to “cognitive atrophy” and shrinking of critical thinking abilities. The study is small and is not peer-reviewed, and yet it delivers a warning that even artificial intelligence assistants are…

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Artificial intelligence will be a “tsunami hitting the labour market”, with young people worst affected, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned the World Economic Forum on Friday. Kristalina Georgieva told delegates in Davos that the IMF’s own research suggested there would be a big…

In other words, the bridge is about to be raised for those chasing the American dream. And everyone is worried about being left on the wrong side. It’s the kind of FOMO that on first blush seems to require a huge suspension of disbelief. But the idea’s mere existence helps explain some of the…

Microsoft says it will provide encryption keys for Windows PC data protected by BitLocker where it has access to them and it's received a valid warrant. getty Early last year, the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant, asking it to provide recovery keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three…

It’s the moment software engineers, executives and investors turn their work over to Anthropic’s Claude AI—and then witness a thinking machine of shocking capability, even in an age awash in powerful artificial-intelligence tools. Many coders spent their holiday breaks on a “Claude bender,” testing…

unlimited software 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before. Benj Edwards – Jan 19, 2026 7:00 AM | 67 Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Story text Size…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in security tools to analyze applications, suggest exploits, and identify potential vulnerabilities. In many cases, they surface useful leads faster than traditional approaches. But teams trying to operationalize LLM-driven security quickly hit a…

In 2026 cybersecurity is entering a period of instability that many security leaders can feel, but few have fully named, Last year, I described this moment as the Chaos Phase, a period where AI-driven threats begin to outpace human-speed security models. At the time, that shift was emerging. Today,…

X has continued to allow users to post highly sexualised videos of women in bikinis generated by its AI tool Grok, despite the company’s claim to have cracked down on misuse. The Guardian was able to create short videos of people stripping to bikinis from photographs of fully clothed, real women. It…

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, the central bank said Sunday, tied to the renovation of the Fed’s headquarters along the National Mall. Powell accused the Justice Department of using the threat of criminal prosecution to…

Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes. The parent company of Facebook on Friday announced agreements with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra for nuclear power for its Prometheus AI data…

The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for new roles in the…

The global economy proved to be more resilient in 2025 than had been feared, despite severe headwinds that ranged from Donald Trump’s trade war to geopolitical tensions and the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Entering the new year, the hope is that the worst of the recent inflation shock…

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said. It was also the first time that the three-year temperature average broke through the threshold set in the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7…

Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user…

5 minutes ago5 minutes agoMaduro faces 'narco-terrorism conspiracy' charges - US Attorney General Bondi Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Saturday, hours after US President…

Key Points Gold’s 70% surge is biggest since 1979.A tough Fed then stamped out inflation, and gold’s rally.For 2026, gold investors are pricing a different scenario. You know something big is happening in the world when the price of gold is not only at record highs but is also on track to have its…

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