AI Daily Brief — 16 January 2026
A Stanford team shows Claude 3.7 Sonnet reproduces 95.8% of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' nearly verbatim — Claude, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok…
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Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed…
Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval
The Batch AI News and Insights: Many people are fighting the growth of data centers because they could increase CO2 emissions, electricity prices, and water use.
AI Models on Realistic Cyber Ranges
In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks with dozens of hosts using only…
Claude Code with Anthropic API compatibility
Ollama is now compatible with the Anthropic Messages API, making it possible to use tools like Claude Code with open models.
AI Daily Brief — 15 January 2026
Wikimedia Foundation licenses Wikipedia data to Microsoft and Meta for LLM training. OpenAI retires the legacy macOS Voice experience. Capgemini's 2026 AI strategy report finds enterprise…
Slonk: Slurm on Kubernetes for ML Research at Character.ai
Today we’re sharing a snapshot of Slonk (Slurm on Kubernetes), the system we use internally to run GPU research clusters at Character.ai. Although this is not…
How the Cohere Labs open research community turns early-career researchers into global leaders
Cohere Labs' open research community empowers early-career researchers like Ram Kadiyala and Jebish Purbey to become global leaders in AI research through mentorship, collaboration, and inclusive…
I’ve been telling people this a lot today: I enjoy so much working with people who care about what they are building and craftsmanship. It is a privi…
I’ve been telling people this a lot today: I enjoy so much working with people who care about what they are building and craftsmanship. It is…
Announcing the Weaviate C# Client
The Weaviate C# client is now generally available! This release brings a modern and intuitive API for .NET developers, making it easier than ever to build…
OpenAI Codex with Ollama
Open models can be used with OpenAI's Codex CLI through Ollama. Codex can read, modify, and execute code in your working directory using models such as…
AI Daily Brief — 14 January 2026
Bloomberg Intelligence projects the AI accelerator market will exceed $600B by 2033. White House defers AI framework specifics in House testimony. Reports surface that Etched is…
We have parted ways with Barret Zoph. Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines. He is a brilliant and seasoned leader who has made im…
We have parted ways with Barret Zoph. Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines. He is a brilliant and seasoned leader who has…
GPT-5.2-Codex is now available in Windsurf!
GPT-5.2-Codex is now available in Windsurf with multiple reasoning effort levels. For a limited time, enjoy discounts on credit usage.
Blues Makes Every Thing Smarter
Ray Ozzie and his team built a low-cost, easy-to-use solution to connect any device to the cloud.
The Future of AI Isn't Just Bigger; It’s Specialized and Hybrid | Liquid AI
For the last few years, the AI narrative has been dominated by a 'bigger is better' philosophy. We’ve watched parameters balloon into hundreds of billions or…
Finding Bugs with Claude and Property-based Testing
Ensuring that programs are bug-free is one of the most challenging aspects of software engineering. We developed an agent that can efficiently identify bugs in large…
AI Daily Brief — 13 January 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Cowork in research preview — its first agentic product aimed at general knowledge workers rather than developers. Built in ~1.5 weeks, largely using…
Technical Deep Dive: How DigitalOcean and AMD Delivered a 2x Production Inference Performance Increase for Character.ai
In the post below, our partners at DigitalOcean and AMD break down how we worked across all three teams to achieve 2x production inference performance. Through…
Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as…
AI Daily Brief — 12 January 2026
NVIDIA × Eli Lilly stand up a five-year, $1B AI drug-discovery lab on BioNeMo + Vera Rubin. Torq closes a $140M Series D at $1.2B. Hippocratic…
Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and…
AI Daily Brief — 11 January 2026
At NRF 2026 Sundar Pichai unveils Google's Universal Commerce Protocol — an open standard for AI-agent shopping with Shopify, Etsy, Walmart, Target and Wayfair as initial…
AI Daily Brief — 10 January 2026
OpenAI cuts Standard and Light thinking durations in ChatGPT after observing users prefer faster responses; GPT-5.2 Extended is inadvertently reduced and will be restored on 4…