On this day: Jan 15

9 records from this date, 2025 to 2026, gathered year by year — the most recent year first.

2026

This year · 6 records
xAI blocks revealing edits of real people, limits image generation to paid usersxAI

An after-the-fact response, limited in scope. AP found that the editing tool was still available to free users the day after the measures were announced — a gap between announcement and actual enforcement

Chinese customs bars entry of H200 chipsChinese customs

A two-way control dynamic: as the US opens, China closes

Korea announces first-round results of independent AI foundation model projectMinistry of Science and ICT

The first eliminations in Korea's largest government-funded AI program

WEF names 23 new Global Lighthouse Network sitesWorld Economic Forum (with McKinsey)

Quasi-standard evidence, tallied across 220 sites, that adopting AI on its own does not deliver results. On the other hand, the absence of back-end sites signals that this benchmark is hard to apply directly to OSATs

Voyage AI launches the Voyage 4 model familyVoyage AI (MongoDB)

Applies MoE to commercial embeddings and standardizes embedding compatibility across models of different sizes. Comparison figures are the vendor's own measurements

2025

1 year ago · 3 records
Aditi Singh et al. publish an Agentic RAG surveyAditi Singh et al. (Cleveland State University and others)

A sign that agentic retrieval had settled in as a category of its own

François Chollet leaves Google and founds Ndea, a lab dedicated to AGIFrançois Chollet

The designer of ARC put capital and an organization behind the alternative route of program synthesis

BIS issues the AI Diffusion Framework final ruleBIS

The most far-reaching regulatory plan, making even allies subject to compute rationing