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01/15/2026

OpenAI’s Torch acquisition could accelerate plans for a personalized ChatGPT health assistant.

OpenAI has agreed to buy Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app, for about $100 million in equity, according to a person with direct knowledge of the acquisition. Torch enables customers to view and analyze their health data from health systems such as...

01/15/2026

Multimodal AI is heating up: Former Google and Apple researchers are seeking $50M to build models that see, hear and understand at once.

Andrew Dai, a veteran AI researcher who recently left Google DeepMind after 14 years, is launching a new startup focused on AI models that understand and process text, images, video and audio simultan...

01/15/2026

Applied AI: Anthropic’s Cowork product looks set to compete with Microsoft’s Copilot—even as the companies cozy up to each other.

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The AI business continues to create and shift alliances between almost every leading tech firm. Companies may be incentivized to work together to fill each other’s AI or capital needs even as they com...

01/15/2026

True Value: With U.S. uncertainty around TikTok largely resolved, ByteDance could command a higher valuation as it considers a potential IPO in the coming years.

In the group of highly valued tech companies that have remained private, SpaceX and China’s ByteDance may be the biggest. But SpaceX has already signaled it will go public this year. And now that Byte...

01/15/2026

As Coinbase pushes into stocks and Robinhood expands deeper into crypto, the gap in market performance is widening.

Robinhood and Coinbase are two of the most popular trading apps, historically concentrating on equities and crypto, respectively. But more and more, they’re competing head to head. Coinbase is launchi...

01/15/2026

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01/15/2026

Google is flipping OpenAI’s AI shopping model: ads, not transaction cuts.

Google’s latest AI pitch to retailers is simple: Google isn’t planning to take a cut of purchases made through its Gemini AI chatbot and search results. Instead, it plans to make money from its AI sho...

01/15/2026

Today on TITV:

-Thinking Machines co-founders rejoin OpenAI | Stephanie Palazzolo, AI Reporter

-TSMC announces record capex up to $56B | Qianer Liu, The Information

-Where do Meta and Zuckerberg go from here? | Gil Luria, D.A. Davidson

-Why ByteDance’s Stock Should Rise After TikTok Deal Closes | Anita Ramaswamy, Financial Analysis Columnist

-AI helps ServiceNow keep hiring young engineers | Rocket Drew, The Information

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01/15/2026

Motive’s AI relies on 400 full-time data annotators paid about $125 a month to validate safety alerts.

Last summer, a manager at startup Motive Technologies sent an urgent Slack message to 400 employees based in Pakistan. “WE HAVE A PROBLEM,” it said in all caps. Motive sells AI-powered dashcams that a...

01/15/2026

Cerebras Systems is seeking roughly $1B in new funding as it prepares to go public.

AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is in talks to raise about $1 billion, valuing the company at $22 billion before the new investment, as the chipmaker prepares to go public this year, according to peo...

01/15/2026

Beijing is narrowing the conditions under which Chinese firms can buy Nvidia’s advanced AI chips.

The Chinese government this week told some tech companies it would only approve their purchases of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips under special circumstances, such as for university research and development l...

01/15/2026

AI Agenda: Thinking Machines’ Personnel Shake-Up; ServiceNow Is Still Hiring Young Engineers, in Part Thanks to AI

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We had more drama in AI land on Wednesday night, as several people exited Thinking Machines Lab, the high-profile startup cofounded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, for OpenAI.De...