• OpenEvidence hits $12B valuation, with new round led by Thrive, DST  

    January 22, 2026

    VCs who have backed OpenEvidence are apparently not worried about new health information products from OpenAI and Anthropic.  On Wednesday, the startup announced that it raised an additional $250 million in Series D funding at a $12 billion valuation, co-led by Thrive Capital and DST.   That’s double the valuation from its last raise in October: $200 million at $6 billion, led by GV. It has now raised a total of $700 million, the company says, from backers including Sequoia, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, Blackstone, Bond, Craft Ventures, Mayo Clinic, and others.  OpenEvidence is an AI-powered medical information platform, similar to what…

  • 2027 Mercedes-Benz C-Class EV spied with retro grille but modern body

    January 22, 2026

    The electric Mercedes-Benz C-Class has been spied ahead of its expected unveiling later this year as a rival to the upcoming BMW i3, with a claimed range of up to 800km. The C-Class electric vehicle (EV) will be officially named ‘C-Class with EQ Technology’, following the naming strategy used for the electric GLC with EQ Technology SUV revealed at the Munich motor show in 2025. Set to enter production during the second quarter (April to June) of 2026, the electric sedan will share its 800-volt MB.EA electric underpinnings with the BMW iX3-rivalling GLC EV. Like the electric SUV, it shares…

  • Elon Musk is reportedly trying to take SpaceX public

    January 22, 2026

    Elon Musk is reportedly looking to finally take SpaceX public after years of resistance, according to sources who spoke to . The company has long said it wouldn’t choose an IPO until it had established a presence on Mars. That isn’t . So why now? Company insiders have suggested it’s because Musk wants to build AI data centers in space. Google recently announced it was looking into , with test launches scheduled for 2027. Musk reportedly wants to beat his rival to the punch, but SpaceX would need the billions of dollars in capital that an IPO would deliver. Putting…

  • Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference

    January 22, 2026

    AI detection startup GPTZero scanned all 4,841 papers accepted by the prestigious Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), which took place last month in San Diego. The company found 100 hallucinated citations across 51 papers that it confirmed as fake, the company tells TechCrunch.  Having a paper accepted by NeurIPS is a résumé-worthy achievement in the world of AI. Given that these are the leading minds of AI research, one might assume they would use LLMs for the catastrophically boring task of writing citations. So caveats abound with this finding: 100 confirmed hallucinated citations across 51 papers is not…

  • Lamborghini sets global sales record for fifth consecutive year

    January 22, 2026

    Lamborghini has posted all-time record global sales in 2025, with 10,747 vehicles delivered worldwide, eclipsing the brand’s previous high set in 2024 by 60 units. It marks the fifth consecutive year Lamborghini has set a new annual sales record, having done so every year since 2021, and the third straight year it has sold more than 10,000 vehicles globally, following the milestone first achieved in 2023. Among its key rivals, Ferrari has said it will announce its full-year 2025 sales result on February 10, 2026. The Italian brand reported deliveries of 10,488 vehicles in the first nine months of last…

  • The Sands of Time remake among six games canceled by Ubisoft

    January 22, 2026

    Two high-profile upcoming Ubisoft games have been starting to look more and more like vaporware with each passing year. One of them is Beyond Good & Evil 2, which we were assured is still in development last year. The other is the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, which is now officially canceled, along with five other games on Ubisoft’s release slate. The news came in a media briefing attended virtually by VGC, in which the French company also announced delays to seven other games as part of a major restructuring. As reported by VGC, the only canceled…

  • Anthropic revises Claude’s ‘Constitution,’ and hints at chatbot consciousness

    January 22, 2026

    On Wednesday, Anthropic released a revised version of Claude’s Constitution, a living document that provides a “holistic” explanation of the “context in which Claude operates and the kind of entity we would like Claude to be.” The document was released in conjunction with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. For years, Anthropic has sought to distinguish itself from its competitors via what it calls “Constitutional AI,” a system whereby its chatbot, Claude, is trained using a specific set of ethical principles rather than human feedback. Anthropic first published those principles — Claude’s Constitution —…

  • X is also launching Bluesky-like starter packs

    January 22, 2026

    X is rolling out a new feature called “Starterpacks” to all users in the coming weeks, the company’s head of product has announced. It’s made up of compilations of accounts new users can follow based on their interests. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Bluesky launched a very similar feature that’s also called “starter packs” back in 2024. Bluesky allows ordinary users to curate their own packs as long as each one doesn’t exceed 50 accounts. They can then share those lists broadly on the platform or directly with new users via QR code. X, on the other hand, compiled…

  • Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says

    January 22, 2026

    Apple’s long-awaited Siri revamp could turn the smart assistant into a chatbot more akin to ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. His sources say that the Siri chatbot, which would be integrated into iOS 27, could be the focal point of Apple’s WWDC presentation in June. The Siri chatbot, internally codenamed “Campos,” will work with both voice and text inputs. Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi had previously stated that he didn’t want Siri to be a chatbot, and rather, that he wanted Apple’s AI options to be “integrated so it’s there within reach whenever you need…

  • 2026 Fiat Scudo price and specs: Italian brand back to take on Toyota HiAce again

    January 22, 2026

    Fiat gets by in Australia with just two models – three if you count leftover stock of the now-axed petrol-powered 500 – but now it’s finally getting another vehicle. Sitting under the Fiat Professional banner and slotting in below the full-size Ducato van, the 2026 Fiat Scudo is a mid-size van aimed directly at the top-selling Toyota HiAce, as well as the Hyundai Staria Load and Ford Transit Custom. It’s due in local showrooms from February, priced from $48,490 before on-road costs. And if it looks familiar, that’s because it is: the ‘new’ Fiat Scudo is a Peugeot Expert by…