Thursday, January 15, 2026
TL;DR
Today’s briefing covers 500 items from 13 sources. Top stories include: OpenAI partners with Cerebras; Announcing the winner of the Global AI Film Award; India’s Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can’t replace.
Top Stories
OpenAI partners with Cerebras
OpenAI
OpenAI partners with Cerebras to add 750MW of high-speed AI compute, reducing inference latency and making ChatGPT faster for real-time AI workloads.
Announcing the winner of the Global AI Film Award
Google AI
Over the past year, we’ve witnessed how creators globally have been using our AI models and tools to share their stories with the world. That’s why we launched the AI Fi…
India’s Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can’t replace
TechCrunch AI
Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India.
Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe
TechCrunch AI
The California attorney general has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI after its chatbot Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real women and even children.
The multibillion-dollar AI security problem enterprises can’t ignore
TechCrunch AI
AI agents are supposed to make work easier. But they’re also creating a whole new category of security nightmares. As companies deploy AI-powered chatbots, agents, and copilots across their operations, they’re facing a new risk: How do you let employees and AI agents use powerful AI
Research Corner
Industry Updates
- Introducing Community Benchmarks on Kaggle - Google AI
News & Analysis
- Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI (TechCrunch AI)
- X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t (The Verge AI)
- Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI (Wired AI)
- OpenAI signs deal, worth $10B, for compute from Cerebras (TechCrunch AI)
- A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot (Ars Technica AI)
- Generative AI tool helps 3D print personal items that sustain daily use (MIT AI News)
- AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’ (Wired AI)
- X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK (The Verge AI)
Deep Dive: Today’s AI Landscape
Synthesized from multiple research sources
Key AI breakthroughs and launches announced around January 2026 include NVIDIA’s Alpamayo platform for autonomous driving, TII’s Falcon-H1R 7B reasoning model, and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot deployment in manufacturing. These advancements emphasize agentic AI, physical AI, and efficient compact models, shifting focus from larger models to smarter, interoperable systems.[1][2][3]
Major Launches and Breakthroughs
- NVIDIA Alpamayo (January 2026): A 10-billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model using chain-of-thought reasoning for complex autonomous driving scenarios. Announced at CES 2026 as part of “Physical AI” tools, including free robot-specific chips and models like Nemotron Speech ASR for real-time speech recognition. Applicable to manufacturing and ve
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