AI Startup Faces Staff Exodus 6 Months After $2 Billion Funding Round www.inc.com/ava-levinson...

NEW POLL: Whopping 71% Say Trump Knew About Jeffrey Epstein Crimes — And 49% Say Trump ‘Was Involved’ www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...

OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain-Tech Startup Merge Labs Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.| WIRED www.wired.com/story/openai...

Stephen Miller Leads ‘Woke’ Backlash Against New ‘Star Trek’ Series www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking | WIRED - www.wired.com/story/google...

Trump's Tariffs Just Opened the Door for Chinese EVs in Canada gizmodo.com/trumps-tarif...

The Trump Phone Is Still (Checks Notes) a Deflating Vortex of BS gizmodo.com/the-trump-ph...

Inspired by Asthma Attack, New Delhi Teens Recycle 2 Million Pounds of Waste Across 14 Indian Cities www.goodnewsnetwork.org/inspired-by-...

A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/security/202...

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/information-...

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/b...

Plants Are Constantly Communicating, and Biodiversity Shapes the Message | Discover Magazine www.discovermagazine.com/plants-are-c...

Walking Sharks Are Breaking the Rules of Evolution and Reproduction | Discover Magazine www.discovermagazine.com/walking-shar...

How Trump Is Using Violent Tragedies to Divide America www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/01/17/m...

The rise of 'micro' apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/t...

Lawmaker criticizes Trump's ICE tactics, compares them to Nazi raids and slave patrols kutv.com/news/nation-...

How a hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/h...

Trump administration wants tech companies to buy $15B of power plants they may not use | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/t...

Supreme Court hacker posted stolen government data on Instagram | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/s...

California AG sends Musk's xAI a cease-and-desist order over sexual deepfakes | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/c...

The Companies Behind ICE readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Man to plead guilty to hacking US Supreme Court filing system | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/m...

Physical AI is the next frontier - and it's already all around you | ZDNET www.zdnet.com/article/what...

Meet the AI-powered robotic dog ready to help with emergency response https://robohub.org/meet-the-ai-powered-robotic-dog-ready-to-help-with-emergency-response/

Brain Blends Fast and Slow Signals to Shape Human Thought https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-signals-thought-30082/

The 6-7 Craze Offered A Brief Window Into The Hidden World Of Children https://studyfinds.org/6-7-craze-a-brief-window-into-world-of-children/

New Telescope Spots Record-Breaking Asteroid Spinning So Fast It Should Fly Apart https://studyfinds.org/rubin-observatory-telescope-record-breaking-asteroid/

Youngest Person to Be Diagnosed With Dementia in Britain Dies at 24 https://www.sciencealert.com/youngest-person-to-be-diagnosed-with-dementia-in-britain-dies-at-24

Scientists Made This Lung-on-a-Chip Breathe. Then They Gave It TB. https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-made-this-lung-on-a-chip-breathe-then-they-gave-it-tb

Immune Signal Ratio May Predict Progressive Multiple Sclerosis https://neurosciencenews.com/immune-signal-multiple-sclerosis-30080/

Your Bank Account Shapes Your Democratic Values Better Than Your Political Identity https://studyfinds.org/bank-account-shapes-democratic-values-better-than-political-identity/

40-Year-Old Iceberg Turns Vivid Blue as It Approaches Total Disintegration https://www.sciencealert.com/40-year-old-iceberg-turns-vivid-blue-as-it-approaches-total-disintegration

The Pigment in Red Hair Has a Secret Superpower We Never Knew About https://www.sciencealert.com/the-pigment-in-red-hair-has-a-secret-superpower-we-never-knew-about

Chimps Reveal Why Teenagers Are Notorious For Risky Behaviors https://www.sciencealert.com/chimps-reveal-why-teenagers-are-notorious-for-risky-behaviors

Drunk From Pizza? Rare ‘Auto-Brewery Syndrome’ Turns Carbs Into Alcohol https://studyfinds.org/gut-bacteria-auto-brewery-syndrome-intoxication/

Why AIC is the only path to certifiable robotics https://www.therobotreport.com/why-aic-is-the-only-path-to-certifiable-robotics/

Wing is bringing drone delivery to 150 more Walmart stores https://www.therobotreport.com/wing-brings-drone-delivery-to-150-more-walmart-stores/

Google removes some AI summaries after users’ health put at risk www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Did You Get an Instagram Password Reset Email Recently? This Might Be the Very Unpleasant Reason Your info might be for sale on the dark web. gizmodo.com/did-you-get-...

More than 1,000 events planned in US after ICE shootings in Minneapolis and Portland | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

SpaceX gets FCC approval to launch 7,500 more Starlink satellites | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/01/10/s...

Machado offers peace prize to Trump; Nobel committee says it cannot be ‘revoked, shared or transferred’ www.moneycontrol.com/world/machad... Committee: “A Nobel Prize can neither be revoked, shared, nor transferred to others. Once the announcement has been made, the decision stands for all time.”

‘Highly problematic’: Trump admin faces internal doubts over ICE shooting response Even supporters of the Republican president fear that the administration’s approach risks undermining public confidence in the ongoing investigation. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood | WIRED www.wired.com/story/securi...

French Tax Agent Allegedly Sold Personal Data of Crypto Users to Criminals gizmodo.com/french-tax-a...

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality www.quantamagazine.org/distinct-ai-... Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular “Platonic” way to represent the world.

Why AI Doesn’t Care About You | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hot-...

GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets Linux Servers - Infosecurity Magazine www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/gobrute...

How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/01/09/h...