AI News for January 29, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Meta plans up to $135 billion in AI capex for 2026, nearly doubling last year: Meta expects capital expenditures between $115 billion and $135 billion this year, up from $72 billion in 2025, primarily for AI infrastructure powering Meta SuperIntelligence Labs.
[NEWS] Anthropic doubles funding target to $20 billion at $350 billion valuation: Anthropic doubled its fundraising target from $10 billion to $20 billion after receiving investor interest totaling 5-6x its original goal.
[TOOLS] OpenAI launches Prism, a free GPT-5.2-powered LaTeX workspace for scientists: OpenAI released Prism, a free AI-native workspace for scientific writing and collaboration powered by GPT-5.2, which the company calls its most advanced model for mathematical and scientific reasoning.
[NEWS] Tesla discontinues Model S and X to make room for Optimus robot production: Tesla will end production of its Model S sedan and Model X SUV next quarter, freeing up factory space at its Fremont plant for humanoid robot manufacturing.
[NEWS] Microsoft Azure growth slows to 39% as OpenAI drives 45% of cloud backlog: Microsoft's Azure cloud revenue grew 39% year-over-year, down from 40% the prior quarter, while capital expenditures hit a record $37.5 billion.
[RESEARCH] DeepMind open-sources AlphaGenome model for predicting effects of DNA mutations: Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome, an AI model that analyzes the 98% of human DNA that scientists previously couldn't interpret.
[NEWS] Waabi raises $1 billion and partners with Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis: Toronto-based Waabi raised $1 billion in funding and partnered exclusively with Uber to deploy at least 25,000 robotaxis on its platform.
[OPINION] Andrej Karpathy sees 'phase shift' in coding with Claude Code, says manual skills will 'atrophy': Former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy posted that AI coding agents "crossed some kind of threshold of coherence around December 2025" that fundamentally changed software engineering.
[RESEARCH] Georgetown CSET warns AI labs racing toward recursive self-improvement could arrive by 2027: A Georgetown CSET report warns that scenarios where AI R&D becomes highly automated and accelerates dramatically pose extreme risks.
[NEWS] Amazon lays off 16,000 corporate workers as AI reshapes operations: Amazon announced plans to cut 16,000 corporate jobs globally, its second round of layoffs since eliminating 14,000 roles in October.

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