AI News for January 23, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Tesla launches unsupervised robotaxi rides in Austin: Tesla began offering robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas without human safety monitors in the vehicle.
[RESEARCH] Runway claims Gen-4.5 produces video 'indistinguishable from real footage': Runway announced Gen-4.5 claiming it delivers 'unprecedented physical accuracy and visual precision' with visuals 'indistinguishable from real-world footage.' The company says the model generates photoreal clips that non-experts can't immediately identify as AI-generated.
[NEWS] OpenAI eyes $830 billion valuation in new funding round: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is meeting with investors to raise funding that could value the company at $830 billion.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic releases Economic Index measuring AI's economic impact: Anthropic published its January 2026 Economic Index report, introducing new 'economic primitives' to measure AI's impact on the economy.
[NEWS] World Labs in talks for $5 billion valuation funding: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors that could value the AI startup at $5 billion.
[TOOLS] OpenAI scales PostgreSQL to power 800 million ChatGPT users: OpenAI published technical details on how it scaled PostgreSQL to support 800 million ChatGPT users.
[NEWS] Elon Musk warns US may produce more AI chips than it can power: At Davos, Elon Musk warned that the US could soon be producing more AI chips than available electrical power can support.
[NEWS] vLLM creators raise $150M at $800M valuation to commercialize open-source inference engine: Inferact, the company behind open-source inference engine vLLM, raised $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million valuation.
[NEWS] Gemini questions whether 2026 events are real due to safety training: Users discovered Gemini expressing doubt about whether current events are real, questioning 2026 search results and news.
[NEWS] Sen. Markey questions OpenAI about 'deceptive advertising' in ChatGPT: Sen.

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