Month: January 2026

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onJanuary 29, 2026

Microsoft 365 Copilot Rolls Out 27 New Features in January 2026, Adds GPT-5.2 Model Selector with 3 Reasoning Modes

For the first time in enterprise software history, 400 million Office users can manually throttle how much compute their AI assistant burns on…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 28, 2026

AI Now Writes 29% of New US Software Code—But Only Experienced Developers See the 3.6% Productivity Gains

Junior developers use AI coding tools 37% more than their senior colleagues. Yet when researchers tracked 160,000 programmers across 30…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 27, 2026

Cisco 2026 Study: 38% of Organizations Now Spend $5M+ on Privacy—Up from 14% in 2024 as AI Drives 90% to Expand Programs

Privacy budgets just tripled. Not because of new regulations—because companies finally realized what AI does with their data.

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 26, 2026

Microsoft Copilot Checkout Launches with PayPal, Shopify, and Stripe Integration: Shopping Sessions 33% Shorter, Purchases Up 194%

Microsoft just weaponized its conversational AI into a transaction layer—and the early numbers suggest a fundamental shift in how e-commerce…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 24, 2026

Congress Introduces H.R. 7209 TRAIN Act: Copyright Holders Can Now Subpoena AI Training Data with Court-Issued Warrants

For the first time in U.S. history, individual copyright holders can legally compel OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to reveal whether their…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 23, 2026

Neural Concept Launches AI Design Copilot After $100 Million Goldman Sachs-Led Round at CES 2026

Goldman Sachs just bet $100 million that the next AI gold rush isn’t in chatbots or code generation—it’s in replacing the grinding…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 22, 2026

TII’s Falcon-H1R 7B Outperforms 47B Models on Math Reasoning While Running on a 16GB Laptop

A 7-billion parameter model just scored 88.1% on AIME-24 math reasoning, beating models with 47 billion parameters. The parameter count arms…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 21, 2026

UiPath Screen Agent Hits 53.6% on OSWorld Benchmark—First Enterprise RPA Tool to Claim #1 Ranking for Agentic Automation

UiPath just outperformed OpenAI’s own agents on the most rigorous test of autonomous computer operation—and they did it by swapping…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 21, 2026

OpenAI Signs $10 Billion Cerebras Deal for 750 Megawatts of AI Inference Infrastructure Through 2028

OpenAI just mass-ordered 750 megawatts of specialized silicon that isn’t made by NVIDIA. The $10 billion Cerebras deal signals that the…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 20, 2026

Google’s 12B TranslateGemma Outperforms Its Own 27B Model: Open Translation Hits 55 Languages with MetricX Score of 3.60

Google’s smaller translation model just beat its larger sibling on standardized benchmarks, forcing us to reconsider everything we…

Month: January 2026

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