As of: 2026-10-07 23:43 CEST.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code). Human editor: Adam Bicz.
Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2026/01/

# AI in January 2026

16 events: 5 major. 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.
Every event, newest first. Each line: date, short title, page, first primary source.

- 2026-01-29: [Google DeepMind opens Project Genie, a Genie 3 world-model prototype, to AI Ultra subscribers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-29-project-genie/). Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
- 2026-01-29: [METR releases Time Horizon 1.1 with expanded long-task suite](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-29-metr-time-horizon-1-1/). Source: https://metr.org/blog/2026-1-29-time-horizon-1-1/
- 2026-01-28: [ACE-Step 1.5: MIT-licensed song generator that runs on consumer GPUs](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-28-ace-step-1-5/). Source: https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5
- 2026-01-27: [Figure Helix 02: one neural network controls a humanoid's whole body from pixels](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-27-figure-helix-02/). Source: https://www.figure.ai/news/helix-02
- 2026-01-26: [Dario Amodei publishes "The Adolescence of Technology", a long essay on the risks of powerful AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-26-dario-amodei-adolescence-of-technology/). Source: https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology
- 2026-01-22: [Alibaba open-sources Qwen3-TTS and, a week later, Qwen3-ASR](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-22-qwen3-tts-asr-open-weights/). Source: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-TTS
- 2026-01-15: [US opens case-by-case H200 exports to China](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-15-us-h200-china-export-policy/). Source: https://www.bis.gov/press-release/department-commerce-revises-license-review-policy-semiconductors-exported-china
- 2026-01-14: [Skild AI raises $1.4B at $14B+ valuation for its 'omni-bodied' Skild Brain](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-14-skild-ai-series-c/). Source: https://www.skild.ai/blogs/series-c
- 2026-01-13: [Anthropic expands 'Labs' incubator](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-13-anthropic-labs-krieger-vora/). Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-anthropic-labs
- 2026-01-12: [Anthropic launches Claude Cowork](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-12-claude-cowork/). Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/
- 2026-01-12: [1X turns its video world model into a robot policy for NEO](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-12-1x-world-model-policy/). Source: https://www.1x.tech/discover/world-model-self-learning
- 2026-01-08: [Zhipu AI and MiniMax become first LLM labs to go public (Hong Kong)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-08-zhipu-minimax-hong-kong-ipos/). Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/minimax-hong-kong-ipo-ai-tigers-zhipu.html
- 2026-01-06: [Erdős problem #728 solved near-autonomously by GPT-5.2 Pro and Harmonic's Aristotle, with a Lean proof](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-06-erdos-728-gpt-5-2-aristotle/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07421
- 2026-01-06: [Utah lets Doctronic's AI renew chronic-condition prescriptions, the first US state-sanctioned AI role in prescribing](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-06-utah-doctronic-ai-prescription-renewals/). Source: https://commerce.utah.gov/ai/regulatory-relief/authorized-ai-pilots/doctronic/
- 2026-01-05: [Boston Dynamics unveils production electric Atlas at CES](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-05-boston-dynamics-atlas-production/). Source: https://bostondynamics.com/blog/boston-dynamics-unveils-new-atlas-robot-to-revolutionize-industry/
- 2026-01: [xAI brings Colossus 2 online, billed as the first gigawatt-scale AI training cluster](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-01-xai-colossus-2-gigawatt/). Source: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/xais-colossus-2-first-gigawatt-datacenter

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