AI Daily Brief — 17 January 2026

A genuinely quiet Saturday for first-party launches. The week’s shaping stories — Google’s Veo 3.1 update on 13 January (native vertical 9:16, 4K at 60 fps), Anthropic’s Labs reorg on 14 January (Krieger → Labs co-lead with Mann; Vora → Head of Product), and Friday’s Stanford copyrighted-books study — keep trending into weekend digests.

Quiet corners

No first-party model shipping from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, xAI, Microsoft AI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, Zhipu, MiniMax or Thinking Machines Lab.

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from publicly reported announcements on 17 January 2026.