Sunday, January 11, 2026
TL;DR
Today’s briefing covers 9 items from 13 sources.
News & Analysis
- CES 2026 was all about ‘physical AI’ and robots, robots, robots (TechCrunch AI)
- CES 2026: Follow live for the best, weirdest, most interesting tech as this robot and AI-heavy event wraps up (TechCrunch AI)
- Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power (TechCrunch AI)
- Baldur’s Gate 3 studio says it won’t use AI for concept art or writing (The Verge AI)
- Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores (The Verge AI)
- X Didn’t Fix Grok’s ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It (Wired AI)
- X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire (TechCrunch AI)
- No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature (The Verge AI)
Deep Dive: Today’s AI Landscape
Synthesized from multiple research sources
Here are notable AI-related announcements and breakthroughs reported around January 11, 2026:
- Tech Pulse Weekly Digest (Jan 11, 2026) highlights several major moves:[1]
- Google DeepMind AlphaAgent: a multimodal agent integrated with smart city infrastructure for real-time traffic optimization, with pilot deployments reporting about 30% reduction in congestion.[1]
- OpenAI o1‑mini variants for education: smaller models tailored to personalized tutoring, adapting to individual learning styles.[1]
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📋 SUMMARY: Major AI hardware and model announcements dominating early January 2026.
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This newsletter is automatically generated by PAI using RSS aggregation and AI research tools. Sources include arXiv, HuggingFace, OpenAI, Google AI, MIT News, VentureBeat, and more.
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