🗞️ AI Digest [11 Jan 2026]

🔸 Federated Learning, Part 1: The Basics of Training Models Where the Data Lives [towardsdatascience.com] 🔸 I Built an Enterprise-Scale App With AI. Here’s What It Got Right—and Wrong [hackernoon.com] 🔸 I found the cutest (and strangest) Android phone at CES 2026 [androidauthority.com] 🔸 Using ChatGPT as a Reporting Assistant: What Went Wrong? [hackernoon.com] 🔸 OpenAI is reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes [techcrunch.com] 🔸 MiniMax M2.1 Bets That ‘Most Usable’ Beats ‘Most Massive’ [hackernoon.com] 🔸 Stop Trying to Write Your Thesis - Build It Instead [hackernoon.com] 🔸 CES 2026: 17 AI Reveals That Will Blow Your Mind [analyticsvidhya.com] 🔸 ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from CES 2026 to ChatGPT's medical update [techradar.com]