AI News for January 21, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI rolls out age prediction to apply automatic teen safeguards in ChatGPT: OpenAI has deployed age prediction features across ChatGPT to identify and protect underage users.
[NEWS] Humans& raises $480M seed round at $4.48B valuation for 'human-centric' AI: A new AI startup called Humans&, founded by researchers from Anthropic, xAI, and Google, has raised $480 million in seed funding at a $4.48 billion valuation.
[NEWS] AI inference startup Baseten raises $300M at $5B valuation with major Nvidia backing: Baseten Labs, an AI inference startup, has raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation, with half the investment coming from Nvidia.
[NEWS] OpenEvidence 'ChatGPT for doctors' doubles valuation to $12 billion in new funding round: OpenEvidence, a Miami-based healthcare AI startup, has topped a $12 billion valuation in a funding round led by Thrive and DST.
[NEWS] OpenAI begins selling ChatGPT ads to dozens of advertisers, charging by views instead of clicks: OpenAI has started offering ad placements in ChatGPT to dozens of advertisers.
[NEWS] Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei criticizes US chip sales to China at Davos, likens it to 'selling nuclear weapons': Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei delivered sharp criticism of the Trump administration's policy allowing AI chip sales to China at the World Economic Forum, comparing it to 'selling nuclear weapons to North Korea.' The comments were notable given that Nvidia, one of those chipmakers, is a major Anthropic partner and investor.
[NEWS] YouTube CEO declares battling AI slop top priority for 2026, announces creator AI likeness tools: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan published his annual letter outlining major AI initiatives for 2026.
[NEWS] Nvidia accused of attempting to pay Anna's Archive for high-speed access to pirated books for LLM training: Nvidia has been accused of offering to pay for 'high-speed access' to Anna's Archive, a notorious shadow library containing copyright-infringing materials, allegedly to train its AI language models.
[NEWS] Cursor's agent swarm builds working web browser in nearly a week, tackling one of software's hardest problems: Cursor set hundreds of autonomously working AI agents to build a web browser from scratch - considered one of the most complex software projects imaginable.
[NEWS] Upscale AI reaches $1 billion valuation with $200M raise to challenge Cisco and Broadcom: AI networking startup Upscale AI has topped a $1 billion valuation after raising $200 million, just four months after its previous funding round.

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