AI News for January 26, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] EU launches formal investigation into X over Grok's AI-generated sexual imagery: The European Commission opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X over concerns that Grok is generating and spreading illegal sexual imagery, including potential child sexual abuse material.
[NEWS] Nvidia invests additional $2B in CoreWeave to accelerate AI data center expansion: Nvidia has invested an additional $2 billion in CoreWeave to help the AI cloud provider add more than 5 gigawatts of computing capacity by 2030.
[NEWS] Synthesia raises $200M at $4B valuation, plans interactive AI avatar agents: British AI video startup Synthesia has raised $200 million in a Series E round led by Google Ventures, doubling its valuation to $4 billion in just one year.
[NEWS] Nvidia set to surpass Apple as TSMC's largest customer: Nvidia is on track to supplant Apple as TSMC's top customer, marking a fundamental shift in the semiconductor industry driven by the AI infrastructure buildout.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic's philosopher says we still don't know if AI can feel: Amanda Askell, Anthropic's in-house philosopher who shapes Claude's behavior, said the debate over AI consciousness remains genuinely difficult.
[NEWS] Samsung nears Nvidia approval for HBM4 AI memory chips: Samsung Electronics is entering the final qualification phase with Nvidia for its latest HBM4 AI memory chips, making progress in narrowing the gap with rival SK Hynix.
[NEWS] SoftBank halts talks to acquire data center firm Switch for $50B: SoftBank has halted talks to acquire US data center operator Switch for around $50 billion, a setback to Masayoshi Son's Stargate AI infrastructure ambitions.
[TOOLS] Tech world embraces Claude Code as the hot new AI coding tool: Anthropic's Claude Code can read entire codebases, plan complex changes, and autonomously write, debug, and execute code for hours without intervention.
[TOOLS] Clawdbot launches as open-source personal AI assistant with multi-channel support: Clawdbot, an open-source personal AI assistant, has launched with support for WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal, iMessage, and other messaging platforms.
[OPINION] Intent-First architecture solves conversational AI's 72% query failure rate: A Coveo study found 72% of enterprise search queries fail to deliver meaningful results on first attempt.

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