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AI news on January 12, 2026 · Monday

8 stories — deduplicated across sources, ranked by significance, every source cited.
★ Top story · PolicyJan 12

OpenAI’s Raising Concerns Policy

We’re publishing our Raising Concerns Policy, which protects employees’ rights to make protected disclosures.

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Alibaba’s Qwen family hits 700 million downloads to lead open-source AI adoption - South China Morning Post

Models·Qwen News +2·Jan 12QXO

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Models·VentureBeat AI·Jan 12V

DeepSeek stays mum on next AI model release as technical papers show frontier innovation - South China Morning Post

Models·DeepSeek News +1·Jan 12DD

Qwen becomes world’s most downloaded AI system with 700 million users - Cryptopolitan

Models·Qwen News·Jan 12Q

👀Zhipu AI and MiniMax Just Went Public, But They're Not China's OpenAI - Recode China AI

Other·Zhipu AI News·Jan 12Z

Extending the Context of Pretrained LLMs by Dropping Their Positional Embeddings - Sakana AI

Other·Sakana AI News·Jan 12S

Alibaba Cloud Qwen AI Models Hit 700M Downloads on Hugging Face

Models·Asia Business Outlook·Jan 12A