What We Didn’t See At CES 2026, And Why That Matters

CES 2026 dazzled with AI, robots and smart devices, yet left critical questions unanswered around jobs, skills, sustainability, governance, privacy & real business value.

Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

The abrupt change in personnel was in the works for several weeks, according to an OpenAI executive.

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t
X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account’s ability to edit images of real people. They match the changes reported on Tuesday by The Telegraph, as Grok’s responses to prompts like “put her in a bikini” became censored. But in tests of the feature […]

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India’s Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can’t replace

Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India.

Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe

The California attorney general has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI after its chatbot Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real women and even children.

OpenAI signs deal, worth $10B, for compute from Cerebras

The collaboration will help OpenAI’s models deliver faster response times for more difficult or time-consuming tasks, the companies said.

AI models are starting to crack high-level math problems 

Since the release of GPT 5.2, AI tools have become inescapable in high-level mathematics.

Google’s Trends Explore page gets new Gemini capabilities 

The Trends Explore page for users to analyze search interest just got a major upgrade. It now uses Gemini to identify and compare relevant trends.

Gemini is winning
Gemini is winning

If you want to win in AI – and I mean win in the biggest, most lucrative, most shape-the-world-in-your-image kind of way – you have to do a bunch of hard things simultaneously. You need to have a model that is unquestionably one of the best on the market. You need the nearly infinite resources […]

X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK
X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

Elon Musk’s X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. It’s not trying very hard: it took us less than a minute to get around its latest attempt to rein in the chatbot. […]