Devs begin to assess options for MySQL’s future beyond Oracle Summary Developers and companies that depend on MySQL have begun meeting to discuss the database’s future as concerns grow over…
Oracle, Michael Dell, named as investors in JV that will run TikTok’s US operations Summary A new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, has been formed to run TikTok’s US…
AI conference’s papers contaminated by AI hallucinations Published: 2026-01-22T21:52:37+00:00 Summary GPTZero’s Hallucination Check flagged 100 fabricated citations across 51 papers accepted to NeurIPS. The company says this follows earlier discoveries…
House of Lords backs legislation to ban social media for children under 16 Summary Britain’s House of Lords voted 261–150 to add an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools…
Google Nabs Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI Summary Google DeepMind has hired Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, and roughly seven engineers as part of a confidential licensing…
Daily briefing: Trump — one year in Article Date: 21 January 2026 Author: Flora Graham Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00230-7 Image: Lead image Summary This Nature Briefing reviews the effects of Donald…
The US and China Are Collaborating More Closely on AI Than You Think Summary WIRED analysed more than 5,000 papers from the NeurIPS conference using OpenAI’s Codex to map how…
More than half of authors of leading research say funding is declining Summary A global survey of more than 6,000 researchers who have published in Nature Index journals since 2020…
Fibre integrated circuits by a multilayered spiral architecture Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09974-0 Article Image: Extended Data Fig. 1 Summary This Nature paper presents ‘fibre integrated circuits’…
Core–envelope miscibility in sub-Neptunes and super-Earths Article Date: 21 January 2026 Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09970-4 Article Image: Summary The authors use first-principles molecular dynamics (density functional theory driven) to show that…
