January 2026

Alexa.com is Amazon’s move to free Alexa from Echo devices and apps and plant it directly in the browser, where AI battles are actually being fought. Early Access brings Alexa+ as a full‑fledged, Anthropic‑powered, LLM‑grade assistant for research, writing, planning, and everyday work, not just as a voice helper. This is the old Alexa re-architected […]

Yann LeCun’s departure signals an identity crisis within one of the world’s largest tech companies. The icon of modern AI, LeCun has been at Meta since its earliest AI research days, the mission being scientific exploration, not product hype. His resignation and a sharp critique of Meta’s leadership — underscores a widening gap between scientific

Undeniably, we are living in the most transformative times the world has ever seen.Elon Musk’s company Neuralink wants to start making its brain chips in large numbers and use mostly automated surgery to put them into people’s heads this year. The idea is to move from a rare, experimental treatment to something that could be

DeepSeek has done it again. The AI world is once again abuzz with DeepSeek’s latest research paper introducing a novel training technique called mHC, or multi-head coordination. This innovation promises better training stability and performance in large-scale models—without the usual spikes in computing cost. Is AI efficiency being defined again? The paper’s presence on arXiv,

The AI Age has already transformed the world beyond recognition, we are incapable of accepting it. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri warns that we can no longer trust what we see online. As AI-generated photos and videos blur the line between truth and fabrication, our brains — wired to believe our eyes — struggle to adapt.

In 2025 AI transitioned from being a future promise and became the central nervous system of global tech, finance, and media. China’s DeepSeek R1 “reasoning” model triggered a genuine geopolitical‑tech shock, wiping an estimated hundreds of billions off Nvidia’s market cap in a single trading session. US monopoly stood severely challenged. From that moment, AI

Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI-agent startup Manus marks a bold leap in Zuckerberg’s renewed AI drive. Founded in Beijing and now based in Singapore, Manus hit $100 million in annual revenue within eight months, offering autonomous research and coding agents that top real-world performance benchmarks. For Meta, long seeking a monetizable AI success beyond