Personal Intelligence, launched today, lets Gemini and, later, AI Mode, draw information from Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube and Search history to give you a more «personalized» experience.
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The H200 was cleared by Commerce for export to China in December and got finally approved this week.
They are much more powerful than anything on the Chinese market, and Nvidia received so many orders, they ran out.
Though the sources from Reuters say officials have not given any reason for this ban, it is likely in order to protect their domestic chip industry.
They do say that chips can be bought «when necessary» or for research and development programs with Chinese universities.
Read the full scoop at Reuters.
The AI, created by Doctronic, matched physicians’ prescription plans 99.2% of the time in a test shared by the company.
— The AI is actually better than doctors at doing this, said Dr. Adam Oskowitz, Doctronic co-founder and an associate professor of surgery at the University of California San Francisco, to Politico. — When you go see a doctor, it’s not going to do all the checks that the AI is doing.
The program will be limited to a 190-200 item list of common, non-controlled medications — and will not be writing out new ones. That means the AI won’t be prescribing things like opioids or ADHD drugs.
The American Medical Association says that while AI «has limitless opportunity to transform medicine for the better,» it warns of «serious risk» to patients without a physician in the loop.
Prescription renewals account for 80% of medication activity in Utah, notes The Utah Department of Commerce.
Read more: Press release from The Utah Department of Commerce. Writeups on Politico, Ars Technica, The Washington Post.
The LLM will supposedly function like any other, and be better at things such as scanning your Calendar app for upcoming events and your Contacts for sending messages. It should also be better at providing «emotional support» through «conversational responses» according to a report from paywalled The Information, seen by 9to5Mac.
The Google model will not be in a glass house over at Googleplex, but rather sit on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute servers, and, according to The Information, Apple can choose to ask Google to implement improvements to it, or tinker with the model themselves — thereby evolving it to their particular needs.
Timewise, «some features» will launch already this spring, but others — like remembering past conversations, or things like warning of the weather ahead of an Apple Calendar event, won’t be launching until the WWDC in June, apparently.
Read more: The Information (paywalled), 9to5Mac, AppleInsider — and some choice speculation from The Verge.
Introducing Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work.
Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code. pic.twitter.com/EqckycvFH3
— Claude (@claudeai) January 12, 2026
Available as a research preview for Max users on macOS, the agent can both handle your files and create new ones.
Based on Claude Code users surprising their developers, using the tool to manipulate local files — Anthropic is now launching an app that does just that.
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He also said they will expand to «hundreds of gigawatts,» «over time.»
— How we engineer, invest, and partner to build this infrastructure will become a strategic advantage, Zuckerberg continues.
There are lots of obstacles to build global infrastructure like this, and challenges in «operating our global datacenter fleet and network,» Zuckerberg says.
The team will be headed up by Meta’s head of global infrastructure Santosh Janardhan and Daniel Gross, in close collaboration with newly hired Dina Powell McCormick.
Meta hasn’t released a frontier model since the Llama series in April, 2025, which saw lots of controversies. They have since formed a Superintelligence Lab from across the industry to develop the next generation of models. There is no timeline for when they’ll be ready, but the ambition is real, Zuckerberg says:
— [we want to] deliver personal superintelligence to billions of people around the world, he closes his message.
Read more: Zuck’s threads message, Reuters, TechCrunch, Business Insider.
All of Google/Apple’s models will continue to run on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, ensuring industry leading safety and privacy for queries and prompts.
Unpacking the statement reveals a lot. Firstly that Apple is not limiting Google to make a long awaited smarter Siri assistant, but will be using it as a foundation for «innovative new experiences» for all Apple users.
The deal was tentatively agreed in November, and the reason for such a late statement could be that Apple has decided to expand the scope.
This means Google will be delivering AI services to Android and iOS, cornering the smartphone market, and to Chrome, which basically has a browser monopoly — spurring antitrust ideas for many, including from Elon Musk.
Apple has been rumored to announce a revamped Siri assistant in March or April this year, writes MacRumors
Read more: statement from Apple and Google, CNBC, MacRumors, Engadget.
Together, they are offering up to six gigawatts of power from established nuclear reactors to more experimental small modular reactors.
The deals are a result of a request for proposals from Meta in December 2024, TechCrunch writes, and they have now selected Vistra (2.1 GW) for their existing nuclear plants, and Oklo (1.2 GW) and TerraPower (up to 2.1 GW) for their modular reactors.
TerraPower was co-founded by Bill Gates, while Sam Altman is the biggest investor in Oklo.
TerraPower and Oklo are still in the startup phase, with capacity for TerraPower expected to come online in 2032, while Oklo’s «nuclear technology campus» won’t be coming online until 2030, CNBC writes.
No financial details of the deals have been made public, but Meta has committed to spending $600 billion on infrastructure over the next three years.
Read more: Writeups on TechCrunch, CNBC.
Pro and Max users can now upload their medical records and connect to services like Apple/Android Health and get help to understand their medical histories.
At the same time, they are launching a HIPAA compliant service for clinics and clinicians, promising connections to several public health databases, quicker and more competent diagnosis — and more time for patient care.
Anthropic also says Claude can make insurance appeals much more efficient, and doctors won’t have to spend hours or days on them when they tune into their AI.
— These tools can be used to speed up prior authorization requests so that patients can get life saving care more quickly, can help with patient care coordination to reduce the pressures on clinicians’ time, Anthropic opines on their launch page.
Read more: their launch page, writeups on Business Insider and Fierce Healthcare.
The system was co-developed with the likes of Walmart, Target, Shopify, Etsy and Wayfair — many of whom also worked on similar efforts with OpenAI’s checkout and apps earlier.
It’s a «new open standard for agents and systems to talk to each other across every step of the shopping journey,» Sundar Pichai says on x.com.
One feature is the Business Agent, that will answer product questions in the «brand’s voice,» Engadget writes. This agent will also let advertisers «present exclusive offers» to shoppers who are ready to buy.
Tobi Lutke, CEO of Shopify says the platform can transact with any merchant, and that agents can now handle anything from discovery to fulfillment, and deal with everything from discounts, subscriptions and loyalty programs.
Read more: Engadget, Axios and TechCrunch.
The response seems to be related to the much maligned «undressing» feature of the bot, supressing use via the @Grok prompt, but letting people use it on the edit-button on all images uploaded to x.com, The Verge reports.
Continue reading “After uproar, Grok «limits» image generations to paying subscribers on x.com”
ChatGPT for healthcare can instantly draw upon millions of peer-reviewed research studies, health guidance and clinical guidelines, and can help clinicians reason through cases with greater confidence, OpenAI says.
We also know from the earlier days of ChatGPT that it can have an uncanny ability to compare millions of medical images to support a diagnosis — by doctors, not patients.
Continue reading “OpenAI announces ChatGPT for healthcare, clinicians and institutions”
Email volume is at an all-time high, Google says, and «managing your inbox and the flow of information has become as important as the emails themselves.»
Continue reading “Gemini is coming to Gmail: Google is rolling out new AI features”
The leading financiers are Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and Coatue Management, which are forking out $10 billion to the AI lab’s coffers.
Recently, Anthropic started testing the IPO market in what would be the strongest market debut for quite some time.
They also got a $30 billion investment from Microsoft and Nvidia in late November, and started this funding round in December.
It works out to a respectable middle ground for Anthropic, valuing the company between xAI’s recent $230 billion and OpenAI’s well documented worth of $500 billion.
The court documents contain no actual monetary payouts to the victim’s families, as this seems still to be negotiated.
These are not the only cases of this kind, and may signal a shift in strategy for the entire AI business, as Meta and OpenAI are also facing similar lawsuits.
Character.ai was accused by parents of encouraging their children to cut their arms, suggesting murdering their parents, writing sexually explicit messages and of not discouraging suicide, Axios writes.
They have since banned under 18s from using their service.
Read more: Writeups on Axios, TechCrunch.