AI News for January 27, 2026 — 7min.ai

[TOOLS] Clawdbot goes viral as open-source AI agent drives Mac Mini sales surge: Clawdbot, an open-source AI agent with a lobster mascot, is going viral among techies.
[RESEARCH] Qwen3-Max-Thinking beats GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro on Humanity's Last Exam benchmark: Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a proprietary reasoning model that scores 49.8 on Humanity's Last Exam with web search, outperforming both Gemini 3 Pro (45.8) and GPT-5.2-Thinking (45.5).
[TOOLS] Anthropic embeds Slack, Figma and Asana inside Claude chat with MCP Apps: Anthropic launched MCP Apps, allowing users to interact with Amplitude, Asana, Box, Canva, Clay, Figma, Hex, Monday.com, and Slack directly inside Claude's chat interface.
[NEWS] Sam Altman says OpenAI will 'dramatically slow down' hiring pace: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company plans to "dramatically slow down" hiring because AI enables more productivity with fewer people.
[OPINION] Dario Amodei's 19,000-word essay calls AI a 'serious civilizational challenge': Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "The Adolescence of Technology," a sprawling essay arguing AI development can't be stopped but poses existential risks from bioweapons to loss of autonomy.
[NEWS] MCP security flaws leave 1,862 servers exposed without authentication: Knostic's internet scan found 1,862 MCP servers exposed with zero authentication.
[NEWS] Micron invests $24 billion in Singapore to expand AI memory chip production: Micron announced a $24 billion investment in Singapore over the next decade to build a new NAND facility amid AI-induced memory chip shortages.
[TOOLS] Claude Code's Tasks update enables persistent state and multi-session agent coordination: Anthropic released Tasks for Claude Code, replacing ephemeral to-dos with persistent task management stored on the local filesystem.
[TOOLS] ChatGPT Containers now supports Bash, pip/npm installs, and file downloads: OpenAI quietly upgraded ChatGPT's code execution to support Bash commands directly, Node.js, and 10 additional languages including Ruby, Go, and Swift.
[NEWS] AI startup Baseten doubles valuation to $5B in six months with $300M raise: Baseten, an AI inference infrastructure startup, raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation, double its valuation from six months prior.

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