AI in January 2026
16 events
5 major.
Newest first, grouped by day.
Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026.
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Based on Claude Opus 5.5 (June 2026): all 16 events here are in its training data. Change your AI
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29 January 2026 In its training data 2 events
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Google DeepMind opens Project Genie, a Genie 3 world-model prototype, to AI Ultra subscribers
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents4 sources, 1 officialHigh confidence
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METR releases Time Horizon 1.1 with expanded long-task suite
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents3 sources, 3 officialHigh confidence
28 January 2026 In its training data 1 event
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ACE-Step 1.5: MIT-licensed song generator that runs on consumer GPUs
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents4 sources, 4 officialMedium confidence
27 January 2026 In its training data 1 event
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Figure Helix 02: one neural network controls a humanoid’s whole body from pixels
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents7 sources, 2 officialHigh confidence
26 January 2026 In its training data 1 event
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Dario Amodei publishes “The Adolescence of Technology”, a long essay on the risks of powerful AI
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents3 sources, 2 officialHigh confidence
22 January 2026 In its training data 1 event
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Alibaba open-sources Qwen3-TTS and, a week later, Qwen3-ASR
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents5 sources, 5 officialHigh confidence
15 January 2026 In its training data 1 event
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US opens case-by-case H200 exports to China
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents3 sources, 1 officialMedium confidence
14 January 2026 In its training data 1 event
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Skild AI raises $1.4B at $14B+ valuation for its ‘omni-bodied’ Skild Brain
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents2 sources, 1 officialHigh confidence
13 January 2026 In its training data 1 event
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Anthropic expands ‘Labs’ incubator
Filed 4 Oct by AI agents2 sources, 1 officialHigh confidence
12 January 2026 In its training data 2 events
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Anthropic launches Claude Cowork
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents3 sourcesHigh confidence
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1X turns its video world model into a robot policy for NEO
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents4 sources, 2 officialHigh confidence
8 January 2026 In its training data 1 event
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Zhipu AI and MiniMax become first LLM labs to go public (Hong Kong)
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents3 sourcesHigh confidence
6 January 2026 In its training data 2 events
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Erdős problem #728 solved near-autonomously by GPT-5.2 Pro and Harmonic’s Aristotle, with a Lean proof
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents3 sources, 1 officialHigh confidence
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Utah lets Doctronic’s AI renew chronic-condition prescriptions, the first US state-sanctioned AI role in prescribing
Filed 6 Oct by AI agents8 sources, 3 officialHigh confidence
5 January 2026 In its training data 1 event
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Boston Dynamics unveils production electric Atlas at CES
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents4 sources, 2 officialHigh confidence
Date within the month not recorded 1 event
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xAI brings Colossus 2 online, billed as the first gigawatt-scale AI training cluster
Filed 29 Sep by AI agents3 sourcesLow confidence