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On 20-21 Jan 2026 Elon Musk warned “Don’t let your loved ones use ChatGPT,” citing nine alleged deaths, and Sam Altman shot back that Tesla Autopilot is linked to 50+ fatalities, sharpening their legal and public battle over AI safety.
On 19 Jan 2026 an S4-level solar radiation storm slammed into Earth, intensifying geomagnetic activity to G3–G4 levels and pushing the auroral oval hundreds of kilometres south into mid-latitude North America and Europe.
NASA moved the 322-ft SLS-Orion rocket to Launch Pad 39B and set a 21 Jan cut-off for its 1.5 million-name microchip as it finalises a Feb 6–Apr launch window for the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo.
Microsoft rushed out out-of-band updates on 17 Jan 2026 after its 13 Jan cumulative security patch crippled shutdown, hibernation, Remote Desktop and classic Outlook for Windows 11 users.
On 16 Jan 2026, a bipartisan group of 13 governors and two cabinet secretaries formally demanded the PJM grid run an emergency 15-year capacity auction forcing tech firms to finance new plants, and within hours PJM issued its own reliability blueprint that omits the requested long-term auction.
On 17 Jan 2026, Attorney General Rob Bonta served xAI a cease-and-desist letter giving the firm five days to stop Grok from generating and distributing non-consensual sexual images, invoking California’s brand-new deepfake law AB 621.
On 17 Jan 2026 OpenAI began testing advertisements on ChatGPT’s free and new $8-per-month Go tiers in the U.S., while launching the Go plan to users in 170 countries.
NASA will begin moving the 11-million-pound SLS-Orion stack to Pad 39B on Jan 17, aiming to launch Artemis II on Feb 6—the first human voyage beyond low Earth orbit in 53 years.
On 15 Jan 2026, Amazon Web Services activated its first fully segregated ‘European Sovereign Cloud’ region in Brandenburg and revealed plans to extend the EU-only platform through new Local Zones in three more member states.
On 16 Jan 2026 Washington officials and PJM simultaneously rolled out emergency measures that would force new AI data-center loads to either fund or supply their own power, aiming to head off rolling blackouts and bill spikes in the 67-million-customer Mid-Atlantic grid.
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