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AI news on January 15, 2026 · Thursday

16 stories — deduplicated across sources, ranked by significance, every source cited.

★ Top story · HardwareJan 15

Investing in Merge Labs

OpenAI is investing in Merge Labs to support new brain computer interfaces that bridge biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency, and experience.

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Strengthening the U.S. AI supply chain through domestic manufacturing

Models·OpenAI Blog·Jan 15O

Alibaba expands Qwen app into consumer tasks - Yahoo Finance

Models·Qwen News·Jan 15Q

Zhipu Trains GLM-Image Using Huawei Hardware - Let's Data Science

Hardware·Zhipu AI News·Jan 15Z

TII’s Falcon-H1 Arabic sets global standard for Arabic AI - Computer Weekly

Hardware·TII Falcon News·Jan 15T

Open Responses: What you need to know

Opinion·Hugging Face Blog·Jan 15H

Alibaba’s Qwen AI app hits 100 million users as update widens role in daily life - South China Morning Post

Models·Qwen News +1·Jan 15QC

The Anthropic Economic Index report: New building blocks for understanding AI use - Anthropic

Open Source·Anthropic News·Jan 15A

Last Week in AI #332 - Apple + Gemini, OpenAI + Cerebras, Claude Cowork

Models·Last Week in AI·Jan 15L

How the UAE built the World’s leading Arabic AI Model: Falcon-H1 Arabic explained - The Times of India

Opinion·TII Falcon News +2·Jan 15TTK

China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware - theregister.com

Hardware·Zhipu AI News +1·Jan 15ZZ

Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic primitives

Open Source·Anthropic·Jan 15A

Alibaba Adds Agentic and Payments Capabilities to Consumer AI App - PYMNTS.com

Products·Qwen News·Jan 15Q

Zhipu AI's GLM-Image uses "semantic tokens" to teach AI the difference between a face and a font - the-decoder.com

Other·Zhipu AI News·Jan 15Z

First-of-Its-Kind Breakthrough: GLM-Image, Trained Entirely on Chinese-Made Chips, Tops Hugging Face Trending - Pandaily

Hardware·Zhipu AI News·Jan 15Z

Alibaba upgrades Qwen AI with payments, in-chat services

Models·Tech in Asia·Jan 15T