AI News for January 28, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Google Search adds follow-up questions to AI Overviews, makes Gemini 3 the default model: Google is blurring the line between search and chatbot by letting mobile users ask follow-up questions to AI Overviews, seamlessly transitioning into AI Mode conversations.
[NEWS] Pinterest cuts 15% of workforce to reallocate resources toward AI roles and products: Pinterest announced layoffs affecting less than 15% of its workforce (approximately 700 employees) to fund its AI transformation.
[TOOLS] Moonshot AI debuts Kimi K2.5 with built-in agent swarm orchestration: Chinese company Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, an open-source model that can coordinate up to 100 sub-agents executing 1,500 parallel tool calls.
[TOOLS] Mistral launches Vibe 2.0, its bid to challenge GitHub Copilot in enterprise coding: French AI company Mistral AI released Vibe 2.0, a terminal-based coding agent with custom subagents, multi-choice clarifications, and slash-command workflows.
[TOOLS] Contextual AI launches Agent Composer for enterprise RAG-to-production workflows: Contextual AI, backed by Bezos Expeditions and Bain Capital, released Agent Composer, a platform for building AI agents in technically demanding fields like aerospace and semiconductors.
[NEWS] Anthropic forces viral Clawdbot AI agent to rebrand as Moltbot over trademark concerns: Creator Peter Steinberger renamed his popular open-source AI agent from Clawdbot to Moltbot after Anthropic reached out about trademark similarities to Claude.
[NEWS] Citigroup mandates AI training for 175,000 employees as adoption hits 70%: Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser said the bank's AI tools are now available to 182,000 employees in 84 countries with 70% adoption.
[OPINION] Stanford study warns AI could create 'lost generation' of underprepared knowledge workers: A Stanford study found workers ages 22-25 in AI-exposed occupations experienced 13% employment decline.
[RESEARCH] Google publishes largest multilingual AI training study spanning 400+ languages: Google released ATLAS, the largest public study on multilingual AI training, comprising 774 experiments across 400+ languages.
[NEWS] Meta inks up to $6 billion deal with Corning for fiber-optic cables in AI data centers: Meta signed a deal to pay Corning up to $6 billion for fiber-optic cables powering its AI data centers.

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