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🧠 OpenAI invests in Altman’s Neuralink rival
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January 16, 2026
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🚨 Thinking Machines loses co-founders to OpenAI
🧐 US imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia's H200 AI chips
🤝 Wikimedia formalizes AI partnerships to offset costs
🦻 ChatGPT Translate just dropped
💡 AI Tutorial:How to use Claude Cowork to perform non-technical tasks
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab just parted ways with co-founder and CTO Barret Zoph amid misconduct allegations (H/T to Kylie Robison for breaking the news), with Zoph and several other former staffers returning to OAI just hours later. Murati announced the split at an all-hands meeting and on X, with Zoph reportedly accused of sharing proprietary information with competitors.
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OpenAI announced a new seed investment into Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup co-founded by Sam Altman that emerged from stealth alongside its $252M raise, with the AI giant becoming the company’s largest backer. Merge is aiming to boost BCI bandwidth using ultrasound and engineered proteins, skipping the surgical brain implants required by rivals like Neuralink.
President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a 25% tariff on advanced AI semiconductors, including Nvidia's H200 chips, that are produced outside the US and pass through the country before being exported to customers in China.
Wikimedia has announced enterprise partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others as part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary. The deals give these companies streamlined, high-throughput API approach to Wikipedia's 65M articles in exchange for commercial fees that help offset rising infrastructure amounts.
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Open Claude Cowork on your laptop
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