Posted on January 21, 2026Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.Read More
Posted on January 21, 2026Blue Origin’s satellite internet network TeraWave will move data at 6Tbps The network will be designed for enterprise, data center, and government customers and could offer an alternative to SpaceX’s Starlink service.Read More
Posted on January 21, 2026Zipline charts drone delivery expansion with $600M in new funding The startup plans to expand to at least four new U.S. states in 2026.Read More
Posted on January 21, 2026OpenEvidence hits $12B valuation, with new round led by Thrive, DST The medical info database has doubled in valuation since last raise in October, despite encroachment from model makers.Read More
Posted on January 21, 2026Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.Read More
Posted on January 21, 2026YouTube TV’s multiview is getting a huge upgrade, letting viewers mix and match channels Soon, YouTube TV will allow viewers to customize the multiview feature to watch any four channels they want side by side.Read More
Posted on January 21, 2026We’re not nostalgic for 2016 — we’re nostalgic for the internet before all the slop At the time, people felt like 2016 was cursed — but at least we did not yet have a word for “doomscrolling.”Read More
Posted on January 21, 2026OpenAI’s former sales leader joins VC firm Acrew: OpenAI taught her where startups can build a ‘moat’ Aliisa Rosenthal has found a new career as a VC. She knows what startups can do to protect themselves from the model makers eating their markets.Read More
Posted on January 21, 2026Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries Adobe is adding AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts.Read More
Posted on January 21, 2026YouTube will soon let creators make Shorts with their own AI likeness YouTube Shorts viewers might soon see AI versions of their favorite creators when scrolling through their feeds.Read More