This Week’s News

  1. Tech sector corporations announce a 650 billion USD capital expenditure for AI in 2026. [Link]

  2. Driverless car company Waymo announces its Waymo world model to allow for simulations of driving edge cases. [Link]

  3. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman pitches Reddit as ‘The most human place on the internet’ amid plans to verify human content. [Link]

  4. NVidia Corporation has been given the go-ahead from the US Government to sell their AI chips into the Chinese market. [Link]

  5. Anthropic has released its latest version of its frontier model Opus. [Link]

  6. OpenAI announced it will retire older GPT 4 models by February 13th, sparking a backlash from users. [Link]

  7. New York state passes AI framework and safety legislation bill into law. [Link]

  8. Dubai based Masar group invests 1.6 billion USD into African located AI centers. [Link]

  9. Goldman Sachs is testing autonomous AI agents for process intensive workflows. [Link]

  10. New York lawmakers propose a three year ban on new AI Datacenters in the state. [Link]

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