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🤔 Is China quietly winning the AI race?
🦾Plus: ️🏝️ A Tiny Island’s $70M AI Jackpot
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January 26, 2026
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🏝️ A Tiny Island’s $70M AI Jackpot
▶️ Google AI Overviews is using YouTube for health answers
📊 Anthropic expands Claude for Excel access
💼 Gallup: Half of U.S. workers never use AI on the job
💡 AI Tutorial:Learn any subject with NotebookLM podcasts
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Chinese AI models are gaining significant traction among US tech giants, with companies like Pinterest and Airbnb relying on open-source technology from developers including Alibaba's Qwen and DeepSeek to power key features, raising questions about whether China is pulling ahead in the global AI competition.
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A German study reviewing more than 50,000 health queries found Google’s AI Overviews cite YouTube more often than any health publisher, even though the feature surfaces on over eight out of ten health searches.
Anthropic just expanded access to its Claude for Excel integration, making the AI spreadsheet assistant available to Pro-tier customers after a three-month beta period that was limited to Max and Enterprise plans. Claude for Excel initially launched in October in research preview, bringing the assistant directly into a text sidebar of Microsoft’s spreadsheet platform.
Gallup published its ‘AI in the Workplace’ report for Q4 2025, showing that workplace AI adoption is starting to plateau, with nearly half of American workers saying they never touch AI tools, even as frequent users are deepening their habits. Tech workers lead adoption with 60% using AI frequently, though growth has begun to stall after surging between 2024 and 2025.
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Step-by-step:
Go to notebooklm.google.com and create a new notebook. Add sources such as YouTube links, PDFs, or website links
You can manage what sources go into the AI’s brain by checking and unchecking them in the left sidebar
Under “Studio” on the right, click “Audio Overview” to start generating a podcast. It will take 5-10 minutes to generate and will show up on the right
Once generated, click the three dots to download the mp3 to your phone or listen directly via the browser or NotebookLM mobile app
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
📷 Google Photos rolling out AI-powered ‘Me Meme’ generator
📉 Intel CEO ‘disappointed’ as 13% share drop indicates AI data centre struggle
🤖 GitHub Releases Copilot-SDK to Embed Its Agentic Runtime in Any App
🏆 ‘The Silicon Gaze’: ChatGPT rankings skew toward rich Western nations, research shows
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