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On 13 Jan 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot rolled out on every Pentagon system within weeks, formally making it a core tool in the department’s new “AI-first” warfighting strategy despite ongoing safety investigations.
Between 25–31 Dec 2025, Chinese entities lodged two ITU filings—CTC-1 and CTC-2—each covering 96,714 low-Earth-orbit satellites, dwarfing existing plans and locking in priority dates for future networks.
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.
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