Alibaba-backed Qwen released Qwen3-Max-Thinking, the open-source project's flagship model that performs as well as leading large language models on key benchmarks.

CoreWeave said Nvidia invested $2 billion at a purchase price of $87.20 a share. The investment will enable CoreWeave to accelerate its buildout of more than 5 gigawatts of AI factories by 2030.

Intel said server demand is strong due to AI workloads, but it is struggling to ramp capacity and is prioritizing data center. The company's first quarter outlook was below forecast.

IFS said its annual recurring revenue was up 23% and cloud revenue up 30% for 2025. The company, which specializes in industrial AI, didn't disclose figures since it isn't public, but noted it is moving industrial AI pilots to production. The directional results are a follow up to a late 2025 analyst day.

Rimini Street said it has delivered the first 20 Rimini Agentic UX Solutions Powered by ServiceNow. The Rimini Street agents are focused on various enterprise processes. We detailed the Rimini Street strategy previously.

New Relic rolled out monitoring for ChatGPT apps as part of its broader observability suite. ChatGPT app monitoring offers telemetry to ensure AI-generated user experiences are performing well by detecting user frustration, layout instability and interactions wit backend services.

Philip Morris International released a whitepaper on AI and human cognition. Yes, that Philip Morris. The white paper explores how human capabilities such as critical thinking, creativity and adaptability will be the superskill in the future. The risks of generative AI is cognitive atrophy, attention erosion and emerging cognitive decline. Philip Morris said it has leveraged AI to become a smoke-free company by 2030.

The non-profit AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI) launched to create a third-party auditor of frontier AI models. The group created a framework for third-party audits of safety and security practices. AVERI was founded by former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage.

Anthropic published a paper on the "assistant axis" and explored how large language models adopt personas and can drift. The research is fascinating and scary at the same time.

Anthropic's January 2026 Economic Index report notes income disparities for AI usage, metrics on "economic primitives" and other takeaways. But most notable may be what hasn't changed. AI is being used to augment jobs not automate them away even as models improve.

Cloudflare said it has acquired Human Native, an AI data marketplace that transforms multimedia content into useful data that can be searched. The acquisition aligns with Cloudflare's efforts to enable content creators to monetize by providing training data to AI models. Cloudflare's pay-per-crawl approach is one of the new economic models being considered.

CEOs are quickly becoming the primary decision-maker for AI projects, according to BCG. There's a good reason for that as half of CEOs think they're toast if they don't nail the AI strategy.