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Hi there, this is your daily ☕️ Techpresso.
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In today's Techpresso:
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💥 Chrome gets its biggest upgrade in years 📱 Zuckerberg plans major AI rollout for 2026 🚗 Tesla is killing off the Model S and Model X 💸 Tesla invests 2 billion dollars in Musk's xAI 👁️ OpenAI develops social network with biometric verification to block bots 🧹 YouTube removes over 4.7 billion AI brainrot views 🎁 + 18 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 4 trending tools 📚 + 4 trending papers & reports
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💥 Chrome gets its biggest upgrade in years
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- Google has released its largest Chrome update in years, adding new Gemini AI features including Auto Browse, an autonomous browsing agent that can handle tedious tasks for you automatically.
- The Gemini button now opens a split-screen Sidepanel view by default, giving the AI more room to work while connecting to Gmail, Calendar, YouTube, Maps, Google Shopping, and Google Flights.
- Gemini in Chrome can now access and edit images directly with Nano Banana, letting users make changes without downloading and re-uploading files, with both Pro and standard model options available.
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📱 Zuckerberg plans major AI rollout for 2026
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- Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will begin releasing new AI models and products over the coming months, with the company expecting to push forward throughout 2026 after rebuilding its AI program foundations.
- Meta is focusing on AI-driven commerce with new agentic shopping tools that help users find products from businesses, betting that its access to personal data will give it an edge over competitors.
- The company plans to spend between $115 billion and $135 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, up from $72 billion in 2025, to support its Meta Superintelligence Labs and core business.
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🚗 Tesla is killing off the Model S and Model X
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- Tesla will stop making the Model S sedan and Model X SUV, with final versions of both electric vehicles coming next quarter, CEO Elon Musk announced during the company's quarterly earnings call on Wednesday.
- Musk said Tesla is shifting toward a future based on autonomy, and the Fremont factory space currently used for Model S and Model X production will instead be used to build Optimus robots.
- The Model S launched in 2012 and became the first car to make electric vehicles widely appealing, but sales of both models have flatlined in recent years despite interior and exterior refreshes.
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💸 Tesla invests 2 billion dollars in Musk's xAI
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- Tesla confirmed it invested $2 billion in Elon Musk's AI company xAI on January 16, buying shares of Series E Preferred Stock as part of a larger fundraising round on the same terms as other investors.
- The company announced the deal in its Q4 2025 Shareholder Deck and said Tesla and xAI also signed a framework agreement to explore potential AI collaborations between the two companies going forward.
- Tesla stated the investment supports its Master Plan Part IV, which focuses on bringing AI into the physical world through products like its Full Self-Driving software and Optimus robots.
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👁️ OpenAI develops social network with biometric verification to block bots
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- OpenAI is building a social network that may require biometric identity verification, like Apple's Face ID or the World Orb iris scanner, to prove users are real humans and keep bots off the platform.
- A team of fewer than 10 people is working on the project, which has no launch timeline and could change significantly before release, with users potentially able to create AI-generated content like videos or images.
- CEO Sam Altman has publicly complained about bots on X, citing dead internet theory, though OpenAI would face tough competition from Threads, Bluesky, Instagram, and TikTok if the social network launches.
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🧹 YouTube removes over 4.7 billion AI brainrot views
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- YouTube has removed 16 of the top 100 AI slop channels since CEO Neal Mohan's annual letter, wiping out over 4.7 billion combined lifetime views and nearly $10 million in collective annual earnings.
- The largest removed channel, CuentosFacianantes, had nearly 6 million subscribers and earned an estimated $2,657,500 per year, while Imperiodejesus and Super Cat League also lost millions of followers.
- YouTube is using its existing spam and clickbait-combatting systems to catch slop, aiming to stop low-quality videos with distorted voices and nonsensical scripts while still allowing legitimate AI-created content.
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Elon Musk reportedly wants a June SpaceX IPO to align with his birthday, the planets
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Microsoft gained $7.6 billion from OpenAI last quarter
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Report: China approves import of high-end Nvidia AI chips after weeks of uncertainty
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Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon in talks to invest up to $60 billion in OpenAI, The Information reports
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Windows 11 hits one billion users in less time than Windows 10
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Google dismantled IPIDEA, the world’s largest residential proxy network
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Deezer makes it easier for rival platforms to take a stance against AI-generated music
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Google DeepMind unleashes new AI AlphaGenome to investigate DNA’s ‘dark matter’
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SK Hynix overtakes Samsung in annual profit for the first time as AI reshapes rivalry
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Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
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China plans space‑based AI data centres, challenging Musk's SpaceX ambitions
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Costco removes RAM from its display PCs to prevent tech-savvy shoplifters, customers claim
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DeepSeek AI search is the clearest sign it wants Google’s turf
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A backdoor was the "most downloaded" skill for viral Clawdbot/Moltbot - and why that matters
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🧰 Trending tools
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Shor Labs: an open-source platform for deploying and hosting web applications, providing an alternative to commercial hosting services.
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Pandada AI: analyzes documents and spreadsheets to generate business insights and intelligence, helping teams extract actionable findings from their existing data files.
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TravelAnimator: converts Google Maps URLs into animated map videos for travel content creators who need to visualize routes and journeys without manual editing.
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Meet-Ting: an AI calendar assistant that automatically schedules meetings, suggests optimal time slots based on your patterns, and helps prevent calendar overload.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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The habits of high-performing mobile teams: The Bitrise Mobile Insights Report breaks it down using real customer data, showing what drives app development success and what sets high-performing teams apart. Get the full report.
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Team of Rivals: multi-agent framework where AI agents with opposing viewpoints debate and collaborate to produce more coherent, well-reasoned outputs than single-agent systems.
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ARM Memory Tagging slows programs 5 to 15%: the hardware security feature catches memory bugs by tagging pointers, but real world tests show meaningful performance costs.
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Mapping AI reasoning paths reveals structure: researchers use topology to visualize how language models connect concepts, showing reasoning follows predictable geometric patterns rather than random associations.
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Transformers work without attention mechanisms: researchers replaced attention layers with simple averaging operations, achieving comparable performance while showing attention may be less essential than believed.
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