AI News for Jan 22, 2026
An episode of the The Automated Daily - AI News Edition podcast, hosted by TrendTeller, titled "AI News for Jan 22, 2026" was published on January 22, 2026 and runs 10 minutes.
January 22, 2026 ·10m · The Automated Daily - AI News Edition
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Welcome to 'The Automated Daily', your ultimate source for a streamlined and insightful daily news experience. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Invest Like the Pros with StockMVP - https://www.stock-mvp.com/?via=ron - Build Any Form, Without Code with Fillout. 50% extra signup credits - https://try.fillout.com/the_automated_daily Support The Automated Daily directly: Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theautomateddaily Today's topics: -ChatGPT ads vs Gemini -Browser agents and Skills -AI productivity and real impact -Mega seed rounds in AI -Export controls and chip politics -Agentic commerce meets pushback -New Transformer architecture tweaks -Long-context fixes with RePo -Realtime voice and cloning -Sandboxing AI coding agents -MCP tooling goes production -Interactive video world models -Education and cognitive debt -Moderate view on AI jobs - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/google-says-gemini-wont-have-ads-as-chatgpt-prepares-to-add-them/ - https://weightythoughts.com/p/ai-gains-starting-to-show-in-the - https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-startup-humans-raises-480-million-45-billion-valuation-seed-round-2026-01-20/ - https://huggingface.co/blog/microsoft/diff-attn-v2 - https://inworld.ai/tts - https://www.jlowin.dev/blog/fastmcp-3 - https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-bans-ai-agents-updates-arbitration-user-agreement-feb-2026/ - https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/elon-musk-says-teslas-restarted-dojo3-will-be-for-space-based-ai-compute/ - https://chromeunboxed.com/gemini-in-chrome-is-getting-skills-as-it-moves-toward-becoming-a-full-ai-agent/ - https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/ - https://github.com/borenstein/yolo-cage - https://x.com/Zai_org/status/2013261304060866758 - https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/anthropic_nvidia_china/ - https://inworld.ai/tts - https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that-we-must-do-something-useful-with-ai-or-theyll-lose-social-permission-to-burn-electricity-on-it/ - https://inworld.ai/blog/introducing-inworld-tts-1-5 - https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/what-if-ai-is-both-really-good-and - https://huggingface.co/blog/waypoint-1 - https://pub.sakana.ai/repo/ - https://advertise.tldr.tech/) - https://thezvi.substack.com/p/chatgpt-self-portrait - https://pages.awscloud.com/awsmp-gim-qmj2-adhoc-aim-agentic-applications-agentic-ai-ebook.html Subscribe to edition specific feeds: - Space news * Apple Podcast English Spanish (coming soon) French (coming soon) * Spotify English Spanish (coming soon) French (coming soon) * RSS English Spanish (coming soon) French (coming soon) - Top news * Apple Podcast English Spanish French * Spotify English Spanish French * RSS English Spanish French - Tech news * Apple Podcast English Spanish French * Spotify English Spanish Spanish * RSS English Spanish French - Hacker news * Apple Podcast English Spanish French * Spotify English Spanish French * RSS English Spanish French - AI news * Apple Podcast English Spanish French * Spotify English Spanish French * RSS English Spanish French Visit our website at https://theautomateddaily.com/ Send feedback to [email protected] Youtube LinkedIn X (Twitter)