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Apple acquires secretive Q․ai startup for $2 billion
Apple has acquired an Israeli-based AI startup called Q.ai, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The report...
Jan 29, 202620VC x SaaStr This Week: The $5 Billion Exit That Felt Weird, Why Inference Costs Are the Final Nail for Mid Growth SaaS, and Andreessen’s 2/3 AI Domination
The latest from the 20VC x SaaStr collaboration with Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O’Driscoll The TL;DR Brex sold for $5.15 billion—a heroic outcome by any rational standard, yet th…
Jan 29, 2026New OpenAI tool renews fears that “AI slop” will overwhelm scientific research
New "Prism" workspace launches just as studies show AI-assisted papers are flooding journals with diminished quality.
Jan 29, 2026Napster’s back — and its new AI-first app wants you to help create the music, not just listen to it
Just don’t tell Metallica
Jan 29, 2026😺 🎙️ We’re live NOW w/ Microsoft testing open models
Talking Fara-7B & hosting your own AI w/ Ece Kamar
Jan 29, 2026Which AI Stack Is Right For Customer Success Teams
Build a customer success AI stack that connects data, playbooks, agents, and workflows—so teams act faster, cut sprawl, and improve retention.
Jan 29, 2026Google drops Chrome auto browse for AI Pro and Ultra users
What's new? Chrome auto browse uses Gemini 3 for multi-step online tasks like vacation planning and shopping; opt in feature remembers past topics and gives full app control.
Jan 29, 2026Google prepares Jules to become always-on AI SWE Agent
Google Jules introduces a CI fixer and new integrations, including Stitch and Linear, aiming to automate deployment and improve development team collaboration.
Jan 29, 2026With ‘Auto Browse’ on Google Chrome, Gemini Can Search the Internet for You
Paid Google AI subscribers can ask Gemini to complete tasks, like shopping for party supplies or making an appointment.
Jan 29, 2026Apple buys Israeli start-up Q.AI as it races Meta and Google on AI devices
Deal worth close to $2bn for secretive group that creates technology that analyses facial expressions
Jan 29, 2026Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on industry heavyweights OpenAI, Anthropic
Mozilla is looking to deploy its roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to support "mission driven" companies and nonprofits, and is particularly focused on AI.
Jan 29, 2026Google’s AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs
Here we go.
Jan 29, 2026An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account
AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had had with the company's stuffed animals.
Jan 29, 2026Into the Omniverse: Physical AI Open Models and Frameworks Advance Robots and Autonomous Systems
By providing access to critical infrastructure — from simulation frameworks to AI models — NVIDIA is enabling collaborative development that accelerates the path to safer, more capable autonomous systems.
Jan 29, 2026Labour’s gamble to turn AI threat into opportunity
Also in this week’s newsletter: Mahmood’s far-reaching police reforms
Jan 29, 2026Moltbot is a security nightmare: 5 reasons to avoid using the viral AI agent right now
Handing your computing tasks over to a cute AI crustacean might be tempting - but before you join the latest viral AI trend, consider these security risks.
Jan 29, 2026Nvidia’s Campaign to Sell AI Chips to China Finally Pays Off
Beijing reportedly approved the sale of hundreds of thousands of Nvidia H200 chips to Chinese AI companies—the culmination of a dramatic shift in US tech policy.
Jan 29, 2026Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login?
A lot of vendors pitch AI SRE. We tested 14 models across 11 programming languages; even the best ones struggle with instrumenting code with the leading open-source standard, OpenTelemetry.
Jan 29, 2026ServiceNow’s AI Strategy Fuels Strong Q4 Earnings As Enterprise Adoption Accelerates
ServiceNow beat Q4 earnings expectations as subscription revenue climbed 21%, intensifying its fight with Microsoft and Salesforce for control of enterprise workflows.
Jan 29, 2026What is Nick Shirley?
Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated
Jan 29, 2026Deezer opens its AI music detection tool to other platforms
Deezer is helping other platforms find AI-generated music.
Jan 29, 2026Factify Raises $73M to Build a New Intelligent Document Standard
Factify, creators of the post-PDF document standard, today announced a $73M seed round to build a new foundation for documents. The round was led by Valley Capital Partners, with participation from technology and business leaders including John Giannandrea, former Head of AI at Google and SVP of AI at Apple, Ken Moelis, Founder of investment bank Moelis & Co., and Peter Brown, CEO of renowned quantitative hedge fund Renaissance Technologies.
Jan 29, 2026‘Not an auto company’: Elon Musk is pivoting to AI and robots. Wall Street analysts have their doubts
Wall Street analysts called Tesla's pivot toward AI and robotics and away from automobiles the most important takeaway from its latest earnings report.
Jan 29, 2026Software stocks enter bear market on AI disruption fear with ServiceNow plunging 11% Thursday
The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF is on pace for its biggest one-day decline since April 4 during the tariff-triggered downturn.