🗞️ AI Digest [29 Jan 2026]

🔸 Waabi raises $1B and expands into robotaxis with Uber [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Rewarding the Rare: How Uniqueness-Aware RL Fixes Exploration Collapse [hackernoon.com] 🔸 Chrome’s latest feature lets you put your web browsing on autopilot [androidauthority.com] 🔸 The Hidden Reason Smart Homes Keep Making Dumb Energy Decisions [hackernoon.com] 🔸 Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints [slashdot.org] 🔸 Microsoft gained $7.6B from OpenAI last quarter [techcrunch.com] 🔸 ServiceNow inks another AI partnership, this time with Anthropic [techcrunch.com] 🔸 WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Presentation: Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned [infoq.com] 🔸 Everything you need to know about viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot) [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Tesla to invest $2B in Elon Musk’s xAI [techcrunch.com] 🔸 DeepSeek OCR 2: AI That Reads Documents Like Humans [analyticsvidhya.com] 🔸 New Yahoo Scout AI Search Delivers The Classic Search Flavor People Miss [searchenginejournal.com] 🔸 Google and Apple hosted dozens of AI “nudify” apps despite platform policies [androidauthority.com] 🔸 Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Moltbot (Formerly Clawdbot) Already Has a Malware Problem [lifehacker.com] 🔸 Generalizing Kuramoto Models: Collective Motion on Lie Groups and Spheres in Machine Learning [hackernoon.com] 🔸 CleanRoll AI [producthunt.com] 🔸 Mark Zuckerberg says a future without smart glasses is ‘hard to imagine’ [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Top 10 Python Libraries for AI and Machine Learning [analyticsvidhya.com] 🔸 'We’re still early, but it’s clear that AI will play a meaningful role in how science advances': OpenAI launches free Prism app for scientific research [techradar.com] 🔸 Google Introduces TranslateGemma Open Models for Multilingual Translation [infoq.com] 🔸 Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘screwed up’ the writing quality on ChatGPT 5.2 – and promises future versions won’t ‘neglect’ it [techradar.com] 🔸 With Apple’s new Creator Studio Pro, AI is a tool to aid creation, not replace it [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Google BigQuery Adds SQL-Native Managed Inference for Hugging Face Models [infoq.com] 🔸 Chrome Can Now Use AI to Browse the Internet for You [lifehacker.com] 🔸 Nano Banana just hit the wall and landed in E Ink [androidauthority.com] 🔸 AI-Powered DevSecOps: Automating Security with Machine Learning Tools [dzone.com] 🔸 AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisition target of multiple others [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Why We Can’t Let AI Take the Wheel of Cyber Defense [securityweek.com] 🔸 Google May Let Sites Opt Out Of AI Search Features [searchenginejournal.com] 🔸 Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI rollout in 2026 [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Trump’s acting cybersecurity chief uploaded sensitive government docs to ChatGPT [techcrunch.com]