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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg under fire for Library Genesis use in Artificial Intelligence training

5 Jan 2026

An opinion piece argues that Mark Zuckerberg’s long history of skating along the edge of legality continues with Meta’s use of pirated book and research archives to train its Artificial Intelligence models, raising fresh questions about tech’s dependence on unpaid creative labour.

artificial intelligence, copyright, ethics, meta

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Artificial intelligence reshapes Asia’s tech, markets, and policy debates

5 Jan 2026

Nikkei Asia's artificial intelligence news stream shows how the technology is rippling through Asian equity markets, chip investments, data center buildouts, and political scrutiny ahead of 2026.

artificial intelligence, infrastructure, markets, semiconductors

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Heber City police test Artificial Intelligence tools after frog report glitch

5 Jan 2026

Heber City police are piloting Artificial Intelligence tools to generate body camera based reports after one system mistakenly claimed an officer turned into a frog during a call.

artificial intelligence, law enforcement, policing, technology

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Deepseek proposes new architecture for more efficient artificial intelligence models

5 Jan 2026

Chamath Palihapitiya highlights DeepSeek's Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections, a new architecture designed to move more information through large artificial intelligence models without causing instability, and explains recent year-end spikes in key federal reserve facilities.

artificial intelligence, financial markets, macroeconomics, model architectures

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Intel’s struggle to stay relevant in the artificial intelligence era

5 Jan 2026

Years of strategic missteps, missed technology shifts, and failed bets on artificial intelligence and manufacturing have pushed Intel from industry dominance to a fight for survival.

artificial intelligence, business, semiconductors, technology

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Chinese photonic chips claim 100x speed gains over Nvidia in specialized generative artificial intelligence tasks

4 Jan 2026

Chinese researchers are reporting photonic artificial intelligence accelerators that can run narrowly defined generative workloads up to 100x faster than Nvidia GPUs, highlighting the potential of light-based computation for task-specific performance and efficiency. The experimental chips, ACCEL and LightGen, target vision and generative imaging rather than general-purpose artificial intelligence training or inference.

artificial intelligence, china, hardware, research

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Global regulations for artificial intelligence generated content

4 Jan 2026

Governments are converging on transparency and accountability rules for artificial intelligence generated content, favoring disclosure and platform duties over outright bans. Yet uneven enforcement tools and fragmented national approaches are creating a complex compliance landscape for creators, platforms, and developers.

artificial intelligence, internet governance, policy, regulation

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Keeping model context protocol tools effective in agentic pipelines

4 Jan 2026

The article examines how inconsistent and overly detailed model context protocol tool descriptions can bias large language models in agentic pipelines, and introduces a proxy server called Master MCP to standardize and control these tools. Experimental results show that tweaking tool descriptions alone can significantly shift model behavior and accuracy.

agentic ai, large language models, research, tools and infrastructure

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Alaska court system’s Artificial Intelligence probate chatbot exposes limits of government tech

4 Jan 2026

Alaska’s courts spent more than a year building an Artificial Intelligence chatbot to guide people through probate, only to find that hallucinations, tone issues, and testing burdens made deployment far harder than expected.

access to justice, artificial intelligence, government technology, legal tech

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How artificial intelligence is reshaping real estate work and sales

4 Jan 2026

Real estate agents and property managers are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence tools to target buyers, automate marketing, and streamline operations, with some reporting significant gains in sales and efficiency.

artificial intelligence, business, real estate, technology

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Google’s quantum processor Sycamore X pushes toward commercial computing

4 Jan 2026

Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence team claims its new Sycamore X processor can perform specific tasks at speeds far beyond current supercomputers, signaling a shift from experimental quantum prototypes to potential enterprise use.

artificial intelligence, future of work, google, quantum-computing

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Xi Jinping hails 2025 Artificial Intelligence and chip breakthroughs as China sets new tech goals

3 Jan 2026

In his 2026 New Year address, Xi Jinping framed 2025 as a turning point for Chinese artificial intelligence and semiconductor firms, highlighting domestic model launches and chip advances amid tension with the United States. Beijing is now tying those gains into a new five-year plan that prioritises future industries and large-scale tech investment.

artificial intelligence, china, geopolitics, semiconductors