🗞️ AI Digest [30 Jan 2026]

🔸 Introducing Conversational Analytics in BigQuery [google.com] 🔸 LLMs Hijacked, Monetized in ‘Operation Bizarre Bazaar’ [securityweek.com] 🔸 Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50B in OpenAI [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Guys, I don’t think Tim Cook knows how to monetize AI [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Google Maps now lets you access Gemini while walking and cycling [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Make PPTs, PDFs, and Excel Sheets in Seconds With Kimi K2.5 [analyticsvidhya.com] 🔸 ChatGPT’s new age-detection feature is misfiring — and adult users are getting stuck in teen mode [techradar.com] 🔸 Google DeepMind Introduces ATLAS Scaling Laws for Multilingual Language Models [infoq.com] 🔸 Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as the AI race heats up [techcrunch.com] 🔸 India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale [techcrunch.com] 🔸 RAG is a Data Problem Pretending to Be AI [hackernoon.com] 🔸 Introducing Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis [cloudflare.com] 🔸 'We are pushing the frontier across our entire AI stack': Microsoft's latest results show new cloud and AI returns - but reliance on OpenAI causes concerns [techradar.com] 🔸 Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI in talks to merge, according to reports [techcrunch.com] 🔸 OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch [techcrunch.com] 🔸 US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report [dexerto.com] 🔸 PwC and Google Cloud Ink $400 Million Deal to Scale AI-Powered Defense [securityweek.com] 🔸 Microsoft won’t stop buying AI chips from Nvidia, AMD, even after launching its own, Nadella says [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Chrome Updated With 3 AI Features Including Nano Banana [searchenginejournal.com] 🔸 Humanity's Last Game Of Musical Chairs Has Begun [hackernoon.com] 🔸 HERMES Rewrites the Rules of Streaming Video for Multimodal AI [hackernoon.com] 🔸 DHS is using Google and Adobe AI to make videos [technologyreview.com] 🔸 OpenAI has a new program to help SMEs get the most out of AI [techradar.com] 🔸 16 NotebookLM Prompts Every Teacher Should Be Using in 2026 [analyticsvidhya.com] 🔸 The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job [technologyreview.com] 🔸 How YouTube Is Fighting Back Against AI Slop [lifehacker.com] 🔸 Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot [techcrunch.com] 🔸 I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI world generator [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds [blog.google] 🔸 Flapping Airplanes and the promise of research-driven AI [techcrunch.com] 🔸 Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic [cnbc.com] 🔸 The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI Is Lowering the Entrance Fee to Imagination (1/29/2026) [hackernoon.com] 🔸 Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3B over ‘flagrant piracy’ of 20,000 works [techcrunch.com]