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27 Jan 2026

Moltbot: How Peter Steinberger's AI Assistant Went Viral and Sparked a Digital Identity Crisis

Peter Steinberger's open-source AI assistant, formerly known as Clawdbot, has been renamed Moltbot after a trademark dispute with Anthropic. The viral personal AI assistant has attracted over 100,000 GitHub stars in just two months, promising to automate computer tasks through everyday chat apps. But the rapid growth has exposed security vulnerabilities and attracted crypto scammers.

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Humanoid Robots Achieve Only Half of Human Productivity in Factory Deployments

Humanoid robots are operating at just 30-50% of human productivity in early factory deployments, according to UBTech, the world's third-largest maker. Despite shipping 16,000 units globally in 2025, these machines struggle with battery life, adaptation, and physical execution. Companies continue investing to avoid competitive disadvantage, but experts warn most deployments remain experimental.

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26 Jan 2026

Google Photos adds text prompts to photo to video tool, giving users control over AI animations

Google Photos is expanding its AI capabilities with text prompts for video generation. Users can now describe specific movements, styles, and effects when transforming images into video, moving beyond the previous preset options. The update also includes audio by default in generated clips, making them ready to share immediately.

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Mine Raises $14M Series A Funding to Launch AI Money Agent Targeting Gen Z Financial Wellness

Mine, formerly known as Fizz, has secured $14 million in Series A funding led by 359 Capital to launch MoneyGPT, an AI-powered personal finance agent designed specifically for Gen Z. The financial wellness platform aims to help young adults manage finances and build wealth through personalized insights tailored to their spending habits and goals.

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Claude App Integrations Bring Slack, Figma, and Canva Inside Chat with MCP Extension

Anthropic's Claude chatbot now supports interactive app integrations, allowing users to work with Slack, Asana, Figma, Canva, and other workplace productivity applications directly within the chat interface. Powered by the Model Context Protocol (MCP) extension, this capability transforms Claude from a simple AI assistant into a cross-application interface layer.

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Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than medical sites for health advice, study reveals

A large-scale study analyzing over 50,000 health searches found YouTube is the most-cited source in Google AI Overviews, appearing in 4.43% of citations—more than any hospital, health authority, or medical reference site. The findings raise questions about whether visibility and popularity are outweighing medical reliability in AI-generated health information.

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OpenAI launches dedicated team to position AI as scientific collaborator across research fields

OpenAI has established a new AI for Science team led by Kevin Weil to help scientists accelerate research across mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology. The company reports that 1.3 million weekly users now send 8.4 million messages on advanced science topics, representing 47% growth over the past year. GPT-5.2 achieves 92% accuracy on graduate-level benchmarks, though questions remain about long-term validation.

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Malicious VS Code Extensions With 1.5 Million Installs Steal Developer Source Code

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered two malicious VS Code extensions disguised as AI-powered coding assistants that secretly exfiltrated developer source code to China-based servers. ChatGPT - 中文版 and ChatMoss, with 1.5 million combined installs, remain available on the Visual Studio Marketplace despite actively stealing files and tracking user behavior through hidden mechanisms.

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Microsoft deploys Maia 200 AI chip but won't stop buying from Nvidia, Nadella confirms

Microsoft has begun deploying its second-generation Maia 200 AI chip in Azure data centers, claiming 30% better performance per dollar and superior specs compared to Amazon and Google's custom silicon. Despite this milestone, CEO Satya Nadella confirmed the company will continue purchasing AI hardware from Nvidia and AMD, emphasizing the value of multi-vendor partnerships in the rapidly evolving AI infrastructure landscape.

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Nvidia's Vera CPU enters data center battle as standalone chip to challenge Intel and AMD

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the company will sell its Vera CPU as a standalone infrastructure product for the first time, directly competing with AMD and Intel in the data center market. CoreWeave will be the first to deploy Vera CPUs following a $2 billion strategic investment from Nvidia, marking a major shift in the company's strategy from GPU-only supplier to full-system silicon provider.

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Nvidia launches open AI weather models that beat Google DeepMind on 70+ forecast variables

Nvidia unveiled its Earth-2 suite of open-source AI weather models at the American Meteorological Society meeting in Houston. The flagship Earth-2 Medium Range model outperforms Google DeepMind's GenCast on more than 70 weather variables, delivering 15-day forecasts in minutes instead of hours. The release aims to democratize weather forecasting for governments, startups, and enterprises worldwide.

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ChatGPT's Temporary Chat feature gets upgrade to retain personalization without saving history

OpenAI is testing a significant upgrade to ChatGPT's Temporary Chat feature that allows users to maintain personalized preferences while keeping conversations private. The hidden setting, discovered by AI engineer Tibor Blaho, enables memory, chat history, and style preferences in temporary sessions without affecting your account or being saved permanently.

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Samsung HBM4 nears Nvidia approval as rivalry with SK Hynix intensifies for Rubin AI platform

Samsung is close to securing Nvidia certification for its HBM4 AI memory chips, entering final qualification phases after supplying initial samples in September. The company prepares for mass production in February, aiming to debut alongside Nvidia's Rubin AI platform at GTC 2026. Meanwhile, SK Hynix reports significant progress in its own HBM4 tests, setting up an intense competition between South Korean rivals.

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25 Jan 2026

Meta Ray-Ban Display impresses with features but restrictive software ecosystem holds it back

Meta's $800 Ray-Ban Display smart glasses showcase advanced Neural Band gesture controls and heads-up navigation, but reviewers highlight significant software limitations. The wearables lock users into Meta's ecosystem, blocking third-party push notifications and calendar integration while offering limited translation options compared to competitors.

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ChatGPT and AI chatbots now cite Grokipedia, raising concerns about AI misinformation spread

ChatGPT is increasingly citing Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated encyclopedia, as a source in its responses. Data shows over 263,000 ChatGPT responses from 13.6 million prompts referenced Grokipedia pages. Google's AI tools, Gemini, and other chatbots are following suit, sparking concerns about information integrity and the recursive loop of AI systems training on AI-generated content.

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