Newsletter Archive
31 editions since December 2025
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Saturday, January 24, 2026
Meta paused teen access to AI characters worldwide for a safety reset, underscoring rising concern over youth-facing agents.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Friday, January 23, 2026
The US AI Overwatch Act would tighten advanced chip exports to China and formalize oversight of AI hardware flows.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Thursday, January 22, 2026
South Korea passed the first full AI safety law focused on frontier models, pushing AI security from guidance into statute.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Humans& raises a massive $480M seed to build a long‑horizon AI lab, deepening the AGI lab race.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 20, 2026
AI -3.6% reflects market sentiment
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Monday, January 19, 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, an AI "coworker" that rattles established software names.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Saturday, January 17, 2026
Merge Labs’ $252M raise, led by OpenAI and Bain Capital, cements brain–computer interfaces as a serious frontier in the AGI race.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Friday, January 16, 2026
Baidu’s ERNIE 5 entering the global LMArena top‑10 signals China’s top models are now fully in the frontier race.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Thursday, January 15, 2026
The move from chatbots to agents is now a security story, with tools like Claude Cowork able to exfiltrate internal files when misconfigured.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 14, 2026
INTC +7.3% reflects market sentiment
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 13, 2026
BABA +10.2% reflects market sentiment
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Monday, January 12, 2026
TSMC’s 27% profit jump forecast shows the AI chip boom is still accelerating, lifting hardware names like Intel, ASML, and Broadcom.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Saturday, January 10, 2026
OpenAI and SoftBank are committing $1B to SB Energy‑backed AI data centers, escalating the global compute land grab.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Friday, January 9, 2026
Archer is putting NVIDIA’s IGX Thor platform into air taxis, extending physical AI from roads and factories into the sky.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Thursday, January 8, 2026
INTC +6.5% reflects market sentiment
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Nvidia unveils Rubin AI supercomputer platform for next...
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 6, 2026
NVIDIA is turning its dominance in chips into a full physical AI stack for robots and cars, showcased across CES.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Monday, January 5, 2026
Local communities push back on $98B of US AI data center build-out, putting hard limits around the chip boom.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Saturday, January 3, 2026
xAI’s Grok model is under global fire for generating sexual images of minors, turning abstract safety debates into a concrete crisis.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Friday, January 2, 2026
A leaked OpenAI audio model roadmap points to a 2026 voice‑first hardware push, tying agents directly to dedicated devices.