Arctic Cold Wave Pushes Artemis II Earliest Launch to 8 Feb 2026
Facing sub-freezing forecasts that breach fueling limits, NASA slipped the first crewed lunar fly-by in 52 years from 6 Feb to no earlier than 8 Feb 2026.
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Meta Posts $22.8B Q4 Profit, Signals $115-135B AI CapEx for 2026
A better-than-expected Q4 print coupled with management’s vow to more than double AI infrastructure spending in 2026 sent Meta shares up roughly 8% after hours.
Single-Transit Kepler Data Uncovers Earth-Sized ‘HD 137010 b’ 146 ly Away
On 27 Jan 2026 researchers reported that a lone 10-hour dip in 2017 Kepler-K2 data points to HD 137010 b, a planet only 6 % larger than Earth and with a ~355-day orbit around a nearby Sun-like star, pending another transit for confirmation.
Global AI Oversight Ramps Up as California’s Frontier AI Laws Take Effect (Jan 2026)
From 1 Jan 2026, a cluster of new rules—headed by California’s Transparency in Frontier AI Act—triggered a worldwide rush by governments, regulators and enterprises to install formal committees, security suites and sector-specific guidance before scaling AI agents.
Beijing Greenlights First 400,000 Nvidia H200 AI Chips During Huang’s Lunar New Year Tour
On 28 Jan 2026, Chinese regulators ended a months-long import freeze by licensing over 400,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs—about US$10 billion worth—for Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent, coinciding with CEO Jensen Huang’s visit.
Meta Doubles Down: $115-$135 B 2026 Capex Green-lit for ‘Personal Superintelligence’
On its 29 Jan 2026 Q4 call, Meta told investors it will almost double annual capital spending to $115-135 b next year to fund new AI data-centres and models, yet still projects higher 2026 operating income than 2025, calming the market and sending shares up about 8-10 %.
UIDAI Unveils Privacy-Centric Aadhaar App, Begins Phase-Out of mAadhaar
On 28 Jan 2026, UIDAI released the full replacement for the mAadhaar app, offering at-home updates and offline, selective-share verification, marking the first mandatory migration of India’s 1.3 billion digital IDs.
TikTok Settles, Leaving Meta & YouTube Alone in First U.S. Jury Trial Over Algorithm-Driven Youth Addiction
On 27 Jan 2026, moments before jury selection, TikTok reached a confidential settlement with plaintiff K.G.M., removing itself (after Snap) from a Los Angeles bellwether case that will now put Meta and YouTube on trial for allegedly engineering child-addictive features.
JWST Releases Highest-Resolution Dark-Matter Map of the COSMOS Field
On 26 Jan 2026, a Nature Astronomy paper unveiled a James Webb Space Telescope weak-lensing map that doubles previous resolution and charts ~800,000 galaxies, marking the sharpest view yet of dark matter’s cosmic web.
Microsoft Rolls Out Maia 200: Second-Gen Inference Chip Hits Iowa Datacenter
On 26 Jan 2026 Microsoft began live deployment of its self-designed Maia 200 AI accelerator in Azure’s US-Central region and opened the SDK to developers, marking its first production-scale alternative to Nvidia GPUs for large-language-model inference.
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