Monday, February 2, 2026
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Research Corner
News & Analysis
- AI layoffs or ‘AI-washing’? (TechCrunch AI)
- Why Tether’s CEO is everywhere right now (TechCrunch AI)
- Shedding light on Iran’s longest internet blackout (The Verge AI)
- Indonesia ‘conditionally’ lifts ban on Grok (TechCrunch AI)
- India offers zero taxes through 2047 to lure global AI workloads (TechCrunch AI)
- Bye-bye corporate conglomerates. Hello personal conglomerates. (TechCrunch AI)
Deep Dive: Today’s AI Landscape
Synthesized from multiple research sources
Key AI announcements and breakthroughs as of early 2026 focus on agentic AI systems, advanced hardware from NVIDIA, quantum-AI hybrids, and specialized medical applications, with CES 2026 highlighting major launches.[1][2][5]
Major Hardware and Infrastructure Launches
NVIDIA unveiled its Vera Rubin platform at CES 2026, succeeding Blackwell with enhanced processing power, memory bandwidth for trillion-parameter models, new H300 GPUs, and an AI foundry for custom silicon; full production is slated for later in 2026.[1][2][4]
- Additional NVIDIA releases include Alpamayo, a 10B-parameter vision-language-action model for autonomous driving with chain-of-thought reasoning, AlpaSim simulator reducing validation variance by 83%, and LG CLOiD, a Jetson Thor-powered ho
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