• Salesforce AI Introduces FOFPred: A Language-Driven Future Optical Flow Prediction Framework that Enables Improved Robot Control and Video Generation

    January 21, 2026

    Salesforce AI research team present FOFPred, a language driven future optical flow prediction framework that connects large vision language models with diffusion transformers for dense motion forecasting in control and video generation settings. FOFPred takes one or more images and a natural language instruction such as ‘moving the bottle from right to left’ and predicts 4 future optical flow frames that describe how every pixel is expected to move over time. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10781 Future optical flow as a motion representation Optical flow is the apparent per pixel displacement between two frames. FOFPred focuses on future optical flow, which means predicting dense…

  • Amagi slides in India debut, as cloud TV software firm tests investor appetite

    January 21, 2026

    Amagi Media Labs, a Bengaluru-headquartered company that sells cloud software used to run and monetize TV and streaming channels, saw its shares slide in its India market debut after raising ₹17.89 billion (about $196 million) in an IPO — a deal that stands out in a market still dominated by consumer companies going public. Shares opened at ₹318 on Wednesday, a 12% discount to the ₹361 issue price, before climbing to ₹356.95 and later trading around ₹348.85, valuing Amagi at ₹75.44 billion (around $825.81 million), according to the National Stock Exchange. Amagi was last valued at $1.4 billion in a…

  • Car factory with only robots building cars could open by 2030 – report

    January 21, 2026

    A ‘dark factory’, where new cars are produced entirely by robots without human involvement, is set to open as soon as 2030 and revolutionise vehicle manufacturing, according to analysts. In what may be the biggest shake-up since Ford’s adoption of the moving assembly line to manufacture the Model T in 1913 – cutting production times and costs while lowering showroom prices – the ‘dark factory’ will have serious implications beyond the factory floor. According to Automotive News, the move could reshape vehicle design principles, workforce training and the economics of car manufacturing through faster model changeovers. It cites a study…

  • Snap reaches settlement in social media addiction lawsuit

    January 21, 2026

    Days ahead of a scheduled trial, social media company Snap has settled a lawsuit accusing the platform of causing social media addiction, according to reports from multiple outlets. According to the New York Times, the settlement was announced Tuesday in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles County. The lawsuit against Snap was brought by a 19-year-old known in court documents as K.G.M., accusing the social media app of designing algorithms and features that caused addiction and mental health issues. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The lawsuit also names other platforms, including Meta, YouTube, and TikTok. No…

  • 2026 Subaru Impreza price and specs: Small car lineup cut down, prices raised

    January 21, 2026

    The Subaru Impreza has shrunk further for 2026, while prices have been hiked across the small hatchback range. There’s new standard equipment, however, with the surviving Impreza AWD 2.0L and AWD 2.0S variants gaining Subaru’s Emergency Driving Stop System. Should the driver become unresponsive while driving, EDSS will bring the vehicle “to a controlled stop while alerting other road users” provided the lane-centring function is active. A seat memory function is also now standard in the AWD 2.0S. CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. “After careful review, the MY26 Impreza…

  • Luminar founder Austin Russell agrees to accept subpoena in bankruptcy case

    January 21, 2026

    Luminar founder and former CEO Austin Russell has agreed to accept an electronic subpoena for information on his phone related to the company, as part of the lidar maker’s ongoing bankruptcy proceeding, per a new filing Tuesday. Russell now has seven days to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or object to it — otherwise he has 14 days to comply, according to the filing. The agreement comes two weeks after Luminar’s lawyers accused Russell of avoiding the subpoena by turning away process servers at the gate to his Florida mansion. Russell had argued he was unwilling to turn…

  • A Coding Guide to Anemoi-Style Semi-Centralized Agentic Systems Using Peer-to-Peer Critic Loops in LangGraph

    January 21, 2026

    In this tutorial, we demonstrate how a semi-centralized Anemoi-style multi-agent system works by letting two peer agents negotiate directly without a manager or supervisor. We show how a Drafter and a Critic iteratively refine an output through peer-to-peer feedback, reducing coordination overhead while preserving quality. We implement this pattern end-to-end in Colab using LangGraph, focusing on clarity, control flow, and practical execution rather than abstract orchestration theory. Check out the FULL CODES here. !pip -q install -U langgraph langchain-openai langchain-core import os import json from getpass import getpass from typing import TypedDict from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI from langgraph.graph import StateGraph, END…

  • 2026 Subaru Crosstrek gets more tech, new colours for more money

    January 21, 2026

    Subaru Australia has confirmed running changes for the model year 2026 Subaru Crosstrek range, which is on sale now from $36,490 before on-road costs. Prices are up by between $500 and $1500 depending on variant, with all models adding a new Emergency Driving Stop System as standard equipment, while 2.0R. 2.0S and Hybrid S models add a driver’s seat memory function as standard. Further, new Sand Dune Pearl and Citron Yellow Pearl exterior paints are available as options, while Offshore Blue, Sun Blaze Pearl, Oasis Blue and Horizon Blue have been discontinued. CarExpert can save you thousands on a new…

  • X open sources its algorithm while facing a transparency fine and Grok controversies

    January 21, 2026

    In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk had only recently acquired the platform, and he claimed to be on a mission to restructure the social media platform to make it more transparent. However, the algorithm’s code release was swiftly critiqued for being “transparency theater,” with critics noting that it was “incomplete,” and that it didn’t reveal much about the inner workings of the organization, or why the code worked the way that it did. Now the site (rebranded as X) has open sourced…

  • Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking: a 1.2B Parameter Reasoning Model That Fits Under 1 GB On-Device

    January 21, 2026

    Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, a 1.2 billion parameter reasoning model that runs fully on device and fits in about 900 MB on a modern phone. What needed a data center 2 years ago can now run offline on consumer hardware, with a focus on structured reasoning traces, tool use, and math, rather than general chat. Position in the LFM2.5 family and core specs LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking is part of the LFM2.5 family of Liquid Foundation Models, which extends the earlier LFM2 architecture with more pre-training and multi stage reinforcement learning for edge deployment. The model is text only and general purpose…