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The relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is notoriously rocky, but Microsoft, one of its major investors, has benefited greatly from OpenAI’s unprecedented revenue growth. The software giant reported this sizable item when it reported its latest quarterly results on Wednesday. The investment in OpenAI increased net income by $7.6 billion. OpenAI reportedly has a 20% revenue-sharing agreement with Microsoft (though neither company has ever publicly confirmed it). The software giant has invested more than $13 billion in its AI research lab and is currently considering raising additional funding at a valuation of $750 billion to $830 billion, Bloomberg reports. In…

Tesla will end production of its Model S sedan and Model X SUV, CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday during the company’s quarterly earnings conference. He said the company plans to produce the final versions of both electric vehicles next quarter, adding that the company will provide support to existing Model S and Model X owners “for as long as people own the cars.” “It’s time to end the Model S and X program with basically an honorable discharge, because we’re really moving into a future based on autonomy,” he said. “If you’re interested in purchasing the Model S and Model…

A Stone Age man buried in an Italian cave 12,000 years ago suffered from a rare genetic disorder that caused his limbs to become short, a new study has found.DNA analysis of her skeleton revealed that she was a teenage girl with a rare form of dwarfism. Researchers say this discovery is the earliest DNA diagnosis of a genetic disease in an anatomically modern human.”This is a real breakthrough for medicine, as it is the earliest DNA-confirmed genetic diagnosis ever performed in humans, the earliest diagnosis of a rare disease, and the earliest familial genetic case,” study co-author Adrian Daly,…

Complex precursors of biomolecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according to a laboratory experiment that opens a new path to the origins of life in the universe.In the presence of ionizing radiation, amino acids, the simplest units of proteins, combine to form peptide bonds, according to new research. This is the first step in the synthesis of more complex biomolecules such as enzymes and cellular proteins.The findings, published in the journal Nature Astronomy on January 20, offer new possibilities about the origins of life on Earth and could help scientists target the search for extraterrestrial life, the study authors…

Outtake, which develops an agent-based cybersecurity platform that helps businesses detect, investigate and stop identity fraud, has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding. That may not sound like a lot considering some AI companies raise huge sums of money, but the names involved in this funding seem to be from the tech industry. The round was led by Iconiq’s Murali Joshi, who led the company’s investments in companies including Anthropic, Datadog, Drata, and 1Password. Angel investors include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks. Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Holdings. Shyam…

Tesla’s 2025 profit is expected to fall 46% from the previous year as CEO Elon Musk took over the Trump administration and sales plummeted as federal electric vehicle subsidies were ended by Congress. The electric car company reported Wednesday that it posted a profit of just $3.8 billion for all of 2025, its lowest figure in years. Total revenue from car sales also decreased by 11% year-on-year. Tesla has already revealed that it shipped 1.63 million cars worldwide in 2025. This is the second year in a row that sales have declined, despite Musk’s promise for years of average annual…

Early signs of cognitive decline often appear not in a formal diagnosis but in small clues buried in a health care provider’s notes.A new study published January 7 in the journal NPJ Digital Medicine suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could help identify early signs of problems such as memory or thinking problems or changes in behavior by scanning doctors’ notes for concerning patterns. These may include repeated mentions of cognitive changes or confusion in the patient, or concerns mentioned by family members attending meetings with their loved one.Rather than directly diagnosing cognitive decline or dementia, the system aims to flag…

Greek archaeologists have discovered a 430,000-year-old hand-held wooden tool, making it the world’s oldest surviving tool of its kind, a new study has found. The two tools, found in the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece, were created by an unidentified hominin race older than modern humans.”These objects are the oldest hand-held wooden tools ever discovered, extending evidence of the use of these types of tools back at least 40,000 years,” the researchers said in a statement.One of the wooden tools found at the Marathusa site is 31.9 inches (81 centimeters) long and has one end split and frayed, suggesting it…

Over the last year, we’ve seen a number of AI browsers from companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Opera, and The Browser Company aiming to replace Chrome with features like sidebar assistants and automated tasks. Now, Google is enhancing its AI capabilities by adding similar features to Chrome, the world’s largest browser by market share. Google introduced Gemini to Chrome last September, but the assistant existed in a floating window. With this update, the company will put an AI helper in a persistent sidebar, so you can ask questions about your current website or other open tabs. One interesting feature that Google…

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension for Moltbot (formerly known as Clawdbot) on the official extension marketplace. The extension claims to be a free artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, but it secretly drops a malicious payload on compromised hosts. The extension was named “ClawdBot Agent – AIcoding Assistant” (“clawdbot.clawdbot-agent”) and has since been removed by Microsoft. It was published on January 27, 2026 by a user named ‘clawdbot’. Moltbot has grown significantly and has over 85,000 stars on GitHub at the time of writing. Created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger, this open-source…