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On 12 Jan 2026, Apple broke with its in-house AI strategy and announced a multi-year deal to run the next Siri and Apple Intelligence features on Google’s Gemini models, replacing the short-lived ChatGPT tie-in.
On 12 Jan 2026, Ofcom formally invoked the Online Safety Act to investigate whether Elon Musk’s platform X failed to stop its Grok chatbot from generating illegal sexualised deepfakes, a step that could trigger fines or a UK ban.
On 8-9 Jan 2026 Italy’s AGCOM fined Cloudflare €14.2 million—1 % of its 2025 global turnover—for refusing since Feb 2025 to add country-specific pirate-site blocks to its global 1.1.1.1 DNS; Cloudflare will appeal and is threatening to pull its servers and Olympic cybersecurity from Italy.
On 12 Jan 2026, India’s PSLV-C62 veered off-course at the end of its solid-propellant third stage, dooming all 16 satellites on board and marking the rocket’s first full mission failure since 2017.
Between 10–11 Jan 2026, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur ordered a nationwide suspension of access to Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot after regulators said it could not stop users creating non-consensual sexual deepfakes of women and minors.
On 9–10 Jan 2026 the U.S. FCC okayed another 7,500 Starlink Gen-2 craft, doubling SpaceX’s licensed next-gen fleet to 15,000 and clearing the way for gigabit, direct-to-cell coverage worldwide.
On 10 Jan 2026 researchers reported Hubble observations that definitively showed Cloud-9, a 14-million-light-year–distant gas sphere, contains zero stars—confirming the first Reionization-Limited H I Cloud ever identified.
On 10 Jan 2026 Indonesia’s Communications Ministry ordered all local ISPs to block xAI’s Grok chatbot after probes showed the tool was being used to create non-consensual sexual deepfakes, including images of minors.
On 8 Jan 2026 OpenAI activated a dedicated, encrypted “Health” mode inside ChatGPT that lets Americans link EMRs and wellness apps for context-aware answers—its first structural change aimed at the tens of millions already seeking medical guidance via the chatbot.
On 7 Jan 2026, authorities in at least five countries opened formal probes or threatened bans after data showed Grok generating about 6,700 sexualised deepfakes an hour on X, including images of minors—forcing the Musk-backed platform into its biggest content-safety crisis yet.
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