• Amazon is adding AI-powered assistant to One Medical

    January 22, 2026

    Amazon an AI-powered assistant to One Medical, the tech-forward primary care provider it . Dubbed ‘Health AI,’ Amazon says the tool “provides 24/7 personalized health guidance based on your medical records.” The company says Health AI can explain lab results, help manage medications, and book appointments for patients. Amazon also says it can “analyze images” but doesn’t specify whether this means medical imaging or user uploaded photos. While the company specifically says the tool “complements, but does not replace,” a patient’s healthcare provider, it also vaguely says the AI can “answer general and complex health questions” while “considering your unique…

  • Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI

    January 22, 2026

    Maybe you don’t need an AI smart ring to keep up with your to-dos. Doist, the company behind Todoist, a popular to-do list app that works across multiple devices, is launching its new AI-powered, “voice-to-tasks” feature: Todoist Ramble. The feature allows you to describe your tasks using natural language. True to its name, Ramble can take your meandering, unstructured speech and turn it into organized tasks. The app will also capture other details you mention, like project deadlines, priorities, duration, and assignees. Image Credits:Todoist The idea is that people often think of things they need to do while on the…

  • Chery C5: GWM Haval Jolion, Hyundai Kona rival getting hybrid option in Australia

    January 22, 2026

    The hybrid Chery C5 SHS-H small crossover SUV has been launched overseas as a competitor to the GWM Haval Jolion, and it’s headed to Australia. While the hybrid SUV has been introduced in the UK as the Omoda 5, Chery Australia has said it will be sold here as part of parent company Chery’s model lineup instead, arriving in mid-2026. Officially badged SHS-H – for Super Hybrid System Hybrid – it will sit alongside petrol-powered C5 models sold in Australia, which are currently offered in two grades priced at $29,990 drive-away and $34,990 drive-away respectively. Petrol models use a 108kW/210Nm…

  • For All Mankind returns on March 27 for a fifth season

    January 22, 2026

    Apple TV+ has become one of the best streaming services for sci-fi, with hits like Pluribus, Severance, Foundation and many more. There are so many shows that it’s easy to forget the one that started it all. For All Mankind was the platform’s very first attempt at sci-fi and it’s finally coming back after two years for season five on March 27. The next season will run for ten episodes on a weekly basis. It concludes on May 29, with new installments dropping each Friday. What follows are some slight spoilers for the show, so read with caution. The streamer…

  • X copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ feature that helps you find who to follow

    January 22, 2026

    Bluesky’s “Starter Packs,” the curated lists of suggested users to follow, have proven a popular way to help people connect with others on the social network — so popular, in fact, that X is now copying the feature. On Wednesday, X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, announced in a post that the Elon Musk-owned app will soon introduce its own version of these lists, which it’s calling “Starterpacks.” (How original!) The idea behind the new feature is to help users find accounts that match their interests across a range of categories, including News, Politics, Fashion, Technology, Business & Finance, Health…

  • Meta is expanding Threads ads to all users globally

    January 22, 2026

    Threads has grown enough for Meta to fully integrate it into its advertising machine. On Wednesday, the company said that, with the platform now hosting 400 million monthly active users, ads are expanding globally to all users. The inevitable move follows a test in 30 countries early last year. Ads on Threads are powered by Meta’s AI-powered advertising system. They’ll use the “same level of personalization” (i.e., tracking and profiling) as Facebook and Instagram. Image, video and carousel ad formats will all appear natively in Threads feeds. Meta said the ad expansion will begin next week, but the full rollout…

  • Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable

    January 22, 2026

    Apple may be developing its own AI wearable, according to a report published Wednesday by The Information. The device will be a pin that users can wear on their clothing, and that comes equipped with two cameras and three microphones, the report says. Should the rumored device come to market, it would mark another sign that the AI hardware market is heating up. This news follows comments made Monday by OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane, who told a Davos crowd that his company will likely announce its highly anticipated first AI hardware device in the second half of…

  • Apple is reportedly developing a wearable AI pin

    January 22, 2026

    Apple will reportedly try to succeed where Humane failed (miserably). On Wednesday, The Information reported that the iPhone maker is working on an AI pin. The wearable is said to resemble a slightly thicker AirTag and include multiple cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging. The report coincides with another from Bloomberg that claims that Apple will revamp Siri as a ChatGPT-style chatbot. When combined with the recent announcement that Google’s Gemini will power Siri AI, it looks like the company is finally making a more defined play for a piece of the generative AI pie. On the other hand,…

  • Sources: Project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes

    January 22, 2026

    Some of the team responsible for maintaining SGLang, a popular open source tool used by companies like xAI and Cursor to accelerate AI model training, has transitioned to its recently launched commercial startup. That company, called RadixArk, was announced last August. RadixArk, which originated as SGLang in 2023 inside the UC Berkeley lab of Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica, was recently valued at about $400 million in a round led by Accel, according to two people familiar with the matter. TechCrunch could not confirm the size of the funding. The startup previously raised angel capital from investors, including Intel CEO Lip-Bu…

  • Apple is reportedly overhauling Siri to be an AI chatbot

    January 21, 2026

    Apple has been spinning its wheels for many months over its approach to artificial intelligence, but a strategy finally appears to be emerging for the company. Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reported today that Apple’s long-awaited Siri overhaul will allegedly involve transforming the voice assistant into an AI chatbot, internally called Campos. Sources have reportedly told Gurman that Apple chatbot will completely replace the current Siri interface in favor of a more interactive model similar to those used by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. He also cited sources who claimed that while Apple has been testing a standalone Campos app, the company…