AI News for January 19, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] xAI's Colossus 2 goes live as world's first gigawatt-scale AI supercomputer: Elon Musk announced xAI's Colossus 2 supercomputer—powering Grok—is now operational, marking the world's first gigawatt-scale computing cluster for AI training and inference.
[NEWS] Razer commits $600M to AI, debuts Grok-powered anime hologram companion Project Ava at CES: Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan revealed a $600 million AI investment plan and debuted Project Ava—a Grok-powered anime hologram companion device—at CES 2026.
[RESEARCH] Mathematicians prove new theorem using Gemini in 'iterative human/AI interaction' with DeepMind: Researchers from UBC, UNSW, Stanford, and Google DeepMind published a mathematical proof developed through "iterative human/AI interaction" using Gemini, DeepThink, and an unpublished system called FullProof.
[NEWS] Europe accelerates sovereign AI push to build DeepSeek-like capabilities independent of US tech giants: European nations are intensifying AI development independent from US tech giants, driven by weakening transatlantic alliances and desire for technological sovereignty.
[NEWS] Wikipedia signs AI training deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and Mistral for 65M+ articles: The Wikimedia Foundation announced enterprise AI partnerships enabling Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and Mistral to train models on Wikipedia's 65 million+ articles through official licensing agreements.
[NEWS] DeepMind CEO Hassabis: Chinese AI models 'may be only months behind' US frontier labs: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Chinese AI models "may be only a matter of months behind" US labs, though they haven't demonstrated innovation surpassing the frontier.
[NEWS] UK West Midlands police chief resigns after AI hallucination incident: The West Midlands police chief resigned following an incident involving AI-generated content that contained hallucinated information.
[NEWS] China blocks US-approved Nvidia H200 chips in retaliatory move: China blocked imports of Nvidia H200 AI chips that the US government cleared for export—an apparent retaliatory measure in the escalating tech conflict.
[TOOLS] Black Forest Labs releases FLUX.2[klein], speed-optimized image editing model: Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2[klein], a speed-optimized variant of its AI image editing model designed for faster generation while maintaining quality.
[NEWS] VCs pour money into AI security startups as 'shadow AI' and rogue agents threaten enterprises: Venture capital is flooding AI security startups like Witness AI, which detects unauthorized AI tool use, blocks attacks, and enforces compliance.

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