• OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists

    January 28, 2026

    OpenAI launched on Tuesday a new scientific workspace program called Prism that is available for free to anyone with a ChatGPT account. Designed as an AI-enhanced word processor and research tool for scientific papers, Prism is deeply integrated with GPT-5.2, which can be used to assess claims, revise prose, or search for prior research. Prism isn’t designed to conduct research on its own and without human guidance. Executives believe it will accelerate the work being done by human scientists, and compared Prism to coding interfaces like Cursor and Windsurf. “I think 2026 will be for AI and science what 2025…

  • OpenAI releases Prism, a Claude Code-like app for scientific research

    January 28, 2026

    OpenAI is releasing a new app called Prism today, and it hopes it does for science what coding agents like Claude Code and its own Codex platform have done for programming. Prism builds on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company is announcing it acquired today. For the uninitiated, LaTeX is a typesetting system for formatting scientific documents and journals. Nearly the entire scientific community relies on LaTeX, but it can make some tasks, such as drawing diagrams through TikZ commands, time-consuming to do. Beyond that, LaTeX is just one of the software tools a scientist might turn to when…

  • India’s Shadowfax slips on listing, as client concentration spooks investors

    January 28, 2026

    Shadowfax stumbled in its market debut, with shares falling as investors weighed concerns about the logistics firm’s heavy reliance on a handful of large e-commerce clients. The company raised about ₹19.07 billion (about $208.24 million) in its initial public offering. The shares fell about 9% from the offer price of ₹124 to ₹112.60 on Wednesday, valuing the Bengaluru-based logistics firm at roughly ₹64.7 billion (about $706.58 million) on debut, roughly matching its last private valuation of close to ₹60 billion (roughly $655.01 million) in early 2025. The offering, priced in a band of ₹118–124 per share, combined a fresh issue…

  • Tencent Hunyuan Releases HPC-Ops: A High Performance LLM Inference Operator Library

    January 28, 2026

    Tencent Hunyuan has open sourced HPC-Ops, a production grade operator library for large language model inference architecture devices. HPC-Ops focuses on low level CUDA kernels for core operators such as Attention, Grouped GEMM, and Fused MoE, and exposes them through a compact-C and Python API for integration into existing inference stacks. HPC-Ops runs in large scale internal services. In those deployments it delivers about 30 percent queries per minute improvement for Tencent-HY models and about 17 percent improvement for DeepSeek models on mainstream inference cards. These gains are reported at the service level, so they reflect the cumulative effect of…

  • Amazon Go and Fresh stores are closing as Amazon focuses on grocery delivery and Whole Foods

    January 28, 2026

    Amazon is rethinking its grocery business, and as part of that, it will shut down all of its remaining Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores. The company will convert some locations into Whole Foods Market stores. “While we’ve seen encouraging signals in our Amazon-branded physical grocery stores, we haven’t yet created a truly distinctive customer experience with the right economic model needed for large-scale expansion,” the company wrote in a blog post. Amazon added that it would help workers at Go and Fresh stores to find positions elsewhere within the company. For now, Amazon is focusing its grocery efforts…

  • Google Photos brings its prompt-based editing feature to India, Australia and Japan

    January 28, 2026

    Google is bringing AI-powered photo editing to more users around the world, making it easier to fix your photos with simple text commands instead of complicated editing tools. The company announced Tuesday that it’s expanding natural language-based editing in Google Photos to additional countries, including Australia, India, and Japan. The feature, which Google first launched for Pixel 10 users in the U.S. last August, lets people describe the changes they want to make to their photos rather than manually adjusting sliders or learning complex editing software. Users in these newly supported countries will now see a “Help me Edit” box…

  • Australian autonomous vehicle startup led by ex-Holden engineer secures government backing

    January 28, 2026

    Australian-based startup Applied Electric Vehicles (Applied EV) has received a $30.7 million investment from the federal government for its Suzuki Jimny-based ‘Blanc Robot’ autonomous vehicle project – funding that could eventually see the vehicles operating on public roads. The funding comes from the government’s $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC), which has so far invested $1.19 billion in Australian companies. “We are proud to be investing in a company that commercialises Australian innovation, builds the country’s manufacturing capabilities, and creates highly skilled jobs,” NRFC CEO David Gall said in a statement. “By focusing on autonomous electric vehicles for industrial…

  • TikTok settles to avoid major social media addiction lawsuit

    January 28, 2026

    TikTok has reached a settlement in a closely-watched lawsuit over social media addiction, narrowly avoiding a trial that’s scheduled to begin jury selection Tuesday. Terms of the deal, which was reported by The New York Times, weren’t disclosed. TikTok’s settlement comes about one week after Snap reached a settlement in the same case. The trial is expected to move forward in Los Angeles with Meta and YouTube as the only defendants. Mark Lanier, a lawyer for the plaintiff, said in a statement to NYT that they were “pleased” with the settlement and that it was “a good resolution.” TikTok didn’t…

  • Google’s more affordable AI Plus plan rolls out to all markets, including the US

    January 28, 2026

    Google on Tuesday announced its more affordable Google AI Plus plan is now available in all markets where its AI plans are available. This includes the U.S, where it will cost $7.99 per month. The expansion brings the lower-cost plan to 35 new countries and territories, after earlier launches in dozens of global markets, which began with Indonesia last September. The plan includes access to Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro in the Gemini app, Flow’s AI filmmaking tools, research and writing assistance in NotebookLM, and more. It also offers 200GB of storage and the ability to share your…

  • Ferrari PHEV owners not keen on plugging in

    January 28, 2026

    The new Ferrari 849 Testarossa replaces the SF90 Stradale at the top of the Italian brand’s road car range, continuing with the same plug-in hybrid (PHEV) powertrain format comprising a mid/rear-mounted twin‑turbo V8 paired with three electric motors. However, with Ferrari’s application of hybrid technology used primarily to enhance performance rather than reduce emissions, the company’s admission that most owners don’t plug their vehicles in to charge comes as no surprise. During the global launch of the new 849 Testarossa in Spain this month, Ferrari told CarExpert the key difference between the model’s four eManettino positions is not whether maximum…