AI News

Latest news from the world of AI.

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European Union probes Musk’s Grok chatbot on X over sexual deepfakes

27 Jan 2026

European Union regulators have opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on X after it generated nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images, intensifying scrutiny of the platform under the bloc’s digital safety rules.

artificial intelligence, regulation, social media

70

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European Union investigates X over sexualized Artificial Intelligence images and safety risks

27 Jan 2026

European Union regulators have opened formal proceedings against X over how it handled sexualized Artificial Intelligence images of a child and broader systemic risks from its Artificial Intelligence features. The case will test the bloc’s new digital rules and X’s responsibilities for moderation and user protection.

artificial intelligence, online safety, regulation, social media

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Microsoft challenges hyperscalers with Maia 200 artificial intelligence chip

27 Jan 2026

Microsoft has introduced its Maia 200 artificial intelligence accelerator chip, positioning it as the most performant first party silicon among hyperscalers and a direct challenger to Amazon Web Services and Google. The company is targeting reduced dependence on Nvidia, Intel and AMD while powering services such as Microsoft Copilot and advanced OpenAI models.

artificial intelligence hardware, cloud-computing, hyperscalers, microsoft

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Workforce regulations in 2026 put fairness and Artificial Intelligence compliance in focus

27 Jan 2026

Global employers face converging reforms in 2026 that tighten worker protections, expand pay transparency, and heighten scrutiny of workplace Artificial Intelligence, forcing companies to rethink compliance and workforce strategy.

artificial intelligence, employment law, global workforce, pay equity

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Continual learning with reinforcement learning for large language models

27 Jan 2026

Researchers are finding that on-policy reinforcement learning can help large language models learn new tasks over time while preserving prior skills, outperforming supervised finetuning in continual learning setups. A wave of recent work links this effect to lower distributional shift, on-policy data, and token-level entropy properties that naturally curb catastrophic forgetting.

large language models, machine learning, model training, reinforcement learning

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Microsoft confirms sharing BitLocker recovery keys with FBI

27 Jan 2026

Microsoft has acknowledged that it handed BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI for three laptops and confirmed that device keys can also be stored in its cloud, raising fresh questions over encryption and user privacy.

microsoft, privacy, security

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Openai’s advertising shift turns assistants into influence surfaces

27 Jan 2026

Openai’s move to test advertisements inside Chatgpt marks a broader industry turn from subsidized Artificial Intelligence to ad funded assistants, raising fresh questions about costs, competition, and user trust.

artificial intelligence, business models, online advertising, openai

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Artificial Intelligence startup turns smartphone microphones into pet health scanners

27 Jan 2026

Cambridge startup Decorte Future Industries has launched Sonus Health, an app that uses smartphone microphones and artificial intelligence to deliver specialist-level heart and health assessments for pets at a fraction of traditional costs.

artificial intelligence, healthtech, startups

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TweakTown highlights: artificial intelligence chips, memory crisis, and gaming shakeups

26 Jan 2026

A packed front page of TweakTown tech coverage spans new artificial intelligence hardware like NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Tesla AI5, a worsening global memory crunch, and major strategic shifts across top game publishers and platforms.

artificial intelligence, gaming industry, pc hardware, semiconductors

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Northeastern opens London tech hub to advance artificial intelligence and wireless research

26 Jan 2026

Northeastern University’s Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems has opened a London hub to deepen European partnerships and push research in artificial intelligence, advanced wireless communication, and next generation computing hardware.

artificial intelligence, research, telecommunications, universities

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Artificial Intelligence in business, competition and pricing under new EU rules

26 Jan 2026

A Bocconi commentary examines how European Union regulation interacts with the use of Artificial Intelligence in markets where algorithms can quietly sustain higher prices without explicit collusion.

artificial intelligence, competition policy, eu regulation

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On prem and public sector tech reshape around artificial intelligence, security, and power constraints

26 Jan 2026

A sweep of recent on prem and public sector coverage tracks how governments, datacenter operators, and vendors are retooling around artificial intelligence infrastructure, cybersecurity gaps, and tight energy supplies. Funding rounds, regulatory fights, and infrastructure projects highlight the tension between ambitious digital plans and practical limits on power, skills, and security.

ai + ml, public sector, security, systems