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29 Jan 2026

Airtel Adobe Partnership Brings Free Adobe Express Premium to 360 Million Indian Users

Bharti Airtel has partnered with Adobe to offer free one-year access to Adobe Express Premium, worth Rs 4,000, to its 360 million customers. The global-first partnership aims to democratize AI-powered creative tools across India, enabling students, small businesses, and content creators to produce professional-quality designs without prior experience or credit card requirements.

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Google accidentally leaks Aluminium OS, showing Gemini AI at the center of its new desktop vision

Google's upcoming Aluminium OS appeared in a leaked bug report, offering the first real glimpse of how the company plans to merge Android and ChromeOS. The footage reveals a desktop-style interface with Gemini AI positioned as a central feature, Google Play Store access, and improved app updates—all tested on existing Chromebook hardware.

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Dynatrace Intelligence Fuses Agentic AI with Determinism for Autonomous Operations

Dynatrace unveiled Dynatrace Intelligence at Perform 2026, combining deterministic AI with agentic AI to address a critical flaw in current implementations. When chaining multiple LLM calls, accuracy drops from 95% to 60%, but Dynatrace's approach achieves 12x higher success rates through three deterministic agents that establish factual grounding before generative AI enters the workflow.

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YouTube Deletes 16 AI Slop Channels Totaling 4.7 Billion Views and 35 Million Subscribers

YouTube has removed 16 major AI slop channels that collectively generated over 4.7 billion views and 35 million subscribers, earning approximately $10 million annually. The crackdown targets low-quality AI-generated content featuring Dragon Ball videos, religious quizzes, and talking cats. CEO Neal Mohan pledged to reduce AI brainrot while the platform continues rolling out new AI creation tools.

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Big Tech AI spending faces investor demand test as Meta soars and Microsoft stumbles

Meta's stock jumped 9% after reporting 24% revenue growth fueled by AI-enhanced ad targeting, while Microsoft dropped 10% despite massive AI investments. The contrasting market reactions reveal a critical shift: investors will tolerate record AI spending only when companies deliver strong financial returns, marking a turning point in Wall Street's patience three years after ChatGPT's launch.

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28 Jan 2026

ServiceNow Anthropic partnership makes Claude AI default for enterprise workflow platform

ServiceNow announced a multi-year deal with Anthropic, positioning Claude AI as the preferred model across its AI-driven products. The partnership makes Claude the default for ServiceNow Build Agent, enabling developers to create applications using natural language. The deal extends Claude access to 29,000 ServiceNow employees and follows a similar OpenAI partnership announced just one week earlier.

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Circle to Search set to default to AI Mode as Google pushes conversational search experience

Google is preparing to shift Circle to Search toward AI Mode as its default output, replacing traditional search results with conversational AI answers. The change was discovered in beta version of the Google app and reflects the company's broader strategy of integrating AI into search tools, though users can still switch back to standard web results.

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Google Chrome AI launches Auto Browse agent to handle tedious web tasks autonomously

Google rolled out Chrome Auto Browse, an AI agent that navigates websites and completes tasks on your behalf. The feature uses Gemini 3 models and includes a redesigned sidebar for tighter Gemini integration. Available now to AI Pro subscribers with 20 daily tasks and AI Ultra subscribers with 200, the autonomous browsing tool can shop, fill forms, and schedule appointments while requiring user approval for sensitive actions.

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Napster relaunches as AI music platform, letting users co-create with AI artists instead of streaming

The once-notorious music piracy site Napster has returned as an AI-first platform focused on music creation rather than streaming. Users can now generate tracks with AI collaborators across multiple genres, while the company faces a $9.2 million lawsuit from Sony Music over unpaid royalties and declares that major labels are obsolete in the new era of music.

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AI coding tools deliver speed but create 1.7 times more bugs, raising code quality concerns

Software developers confirm AI coding tools work remarkably well, with some reporting 10x speed improvements. But research reveals AI-generated code produces 1.7 times more bugs than human-written code, with logic errors up 75%. As coding agents go mainstream, the industry grapples with balancing developer productivity against mounting code quality and security concerns.

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Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome AI tackles the 98% of human genome that doesn't code for proteins

Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaGenome, a deep-learning AI model that predicts how mutations in non-coding DNA affect gene expression across sequences up to one million base pairs long. The tool outperforms existing models in 25 out of 26 tasks and is already being used by nearly 3,000 scientists worldwide to investigate rare diseases, cancer mutations, and design new gene therapies.

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LinkedIn launches AI skills verification as employers shift focus from degrees to capabilities

LinkedIn introduced verified AI skills certification based on actual tool usage rather than self-reported claims. The Microsoft-owned platform partnered with Replit, Lovable, Descript, and Relay.app to assess proficiency through AI, with credentials appearing directly on LinkedIn profiles. The move addresses growing demand for AI skills as U.S. job postings mentioning AI-related keywords reached 4.2% by late 2025.

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OPPO Reno 15 Series debuts ColorOS 16 with AI Mind Space and 6-year software support

OPPO introduces ColorOS 16 with its Reno 15 series, bringing AI-driven features like Mind Space for content organization and Google Gemini integration. The update focuses on system fluidity through the Luminous Rendering Engine and Trinity Engine, while committing to five major OS updates and six years of security patches, backed by internal testing for long-term performance.

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Palladyne AI stock surges 25% after securing Air Force contract for multi-domain swarming tech

Palladyne AI shares jumped 25% following news of an Air Force Research Laboratory contract to develop advanced swarming capabilities. The HANGTIME project will use the company's SwarmOS platform to connect autonomous systems across space, air, maritime, and land domains, marking the first time its technology will integrate satellites.

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Apple launches Creator Studio at $12.99/month, positioning AI as creative assistant not replacement

Apple launched Creator Studio, a subscription bundle uniting Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, and iWork apps for $12.99 monthly. The service introduces AI-powered features like transcript search and chord identification while keeping AI as a tool that aids rather than replaces human creativity, marking Apple's challenge to Adobe Creative Cloud dominance.

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