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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 19, 2026

Sequoia Backs Anthropic’s $25B Round at $350B Valuation—While Still Funding OpenAI and xAI

Sequoia just broke Silicon Valley’s oldest rule: never fund your portfolio’s competitors. Their bet on Anthropic—while backing…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 18, 2026

xAI Raises $20 Billion at $230 Billion Valuation, Plans 50 Million H100-Equivalent GPU Deployment by 2030

xAI just raised more in one round than most AI companies are worth—and plans to deploy 50× more compute than it has today. The math is…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 17, 2026

Google Launches Universal Commerce Protocol: Open Standard Backed by Shopify, Walmart, Visa, and Mastercard Enables AI Agents to Execute Purchases Across Any Retailer Without Custom Integrations

Six days ago, Google announced the infrastructure layer that makes AI-powered shopping actually work at scale—and they convinced Visa,…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 16, 2026

Illumina Launches 1 Billion Cell Atlas: 20 Petabytes of CRISPR Data Built with AstraZeneca, Merck, and Lilly to Train Next-Gen Drug Discovery AI

Illumina just gave AI drug discovery something it’s never had: ground truth data for what happens when you toggle every human gene on…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 14, 2026

Meta Announces $600 Billion AI Infrastructure Spend Through 2028, Creating ‘Meta Compute’ Division to Build Tens of Gigawatts of Data Center Capacity

Meta just committed more capital to AI infrastructure than the entire GDP of Finland, Belgium, or Thailand combined—and they hired a former…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 12, 2026

The Home Depot Deploys Thousands of Agentic AI Agents Across Stores in Days—Not Months—As Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Turns Retail Workflow Automation Into a Race Against Obsolescence

The Home Depot just compressed an 18-month enterprise AI rollout into days. On January 11, 2026, the company deployed autonomous AI agents to…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 7, 2026

Calibrated Confidence Prompting: The Silent Shift from Asking Better to Trusting Smarter

Everyone’s arguing prompt engineering is dead. Meanwhile, engineers who actually ship LLMs to production discovered something more…

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Artur Markus

onJanuary 6, 2026

The Arena Manipulation Economy: How Meta’s Llama 4 Scandal Exposed the $10B Industry Built on Leaderboard Gaming—And Why Your Model Selection Strategy Is Broken

Your enterprise just bet millions on a leaderboard ranking that was deliberately engineered to deceive you. The model you evaluated…

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