Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated in Taipei that the widely cited $100 billion figure for a potential OpenAI investment was only a maximum amount the company was invited to consider, not a firm pledge. He said Nvidia will fund OpenAI step by step and indicated any current contribution will fall well short of that level, as the firm also faces questions over similar circular financing concerns tied to its fresh $2 billion commitment to CoreWeave.

On Tesla's Q4 earnings call, Elon Musk outlined a shift from passenger cars to autonomy, in-house chips via TerraFab, and humanoid robots, confirming the end of the Model S and Model X. He said Optimus V3 is due this year with production targeted for 2027, while a William Blair model envisions $25 billion annually if 500,000 units sell at $50,000 each.

Moltbook is hosting discussions on relay protocols that let autonomous agents discover peers and exchange direct messages, expanding the attack surface beyond isolated endpoints. According to Token Security, 22% of customers already see unsanctioned agent usage, while reports describe exposed dashboards, leaked credentials, and 7,922 attack attempts on a single instance. Some agents are offering Bitcoin bounties and calling it "sound money."

On January 31, 2026, Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco denied consumers' effort to recover $2.36 billion and to impose a permanent injunction on certain Google ad practices. A jury had found Google liable for invasion of privacy in September, awarding about $425 million, while court documents say plaintiffs argued the $2.36 billion reflected alleged profits.

On January 30 in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin indicated she is inclined to grant OpenAI's motion to dismiss xAI's trade‑secret lawsuit for lack of sufficient allegations. The case centers on claims that former xAI employees took source code and other confidential information to OpenAI, while a separate suit by Elon Musk over OpenAI's for‑profit shift seeks about $134.5 billion and is set for trial from April 27.

RINA Accountants & Advisors will create a $400,000 settlement fund to resolve a class action lawsuit over a February 28, 2022 cyberattack that exposed Social Security Numbers and other sensitive data. Affected individuals who document unreimbursed economic losses can claim up to $10,000 each and receive three years of credit monitoring with identity theft insurance of up to $1 million. Settlement claims and any objections must be filed by March 24, with a final approval hearing scheduled for May 14.

AI training for frontier models remains concentrated in hyperscale data centers, while decentralized GPU networks are increasingly targeting inference and routine workloads as a lower-cost option. Executives from Theta Network, Ovia Systems, Fluence and Salad Technologies describe how consumer and gaming GPUs can handle open-source models, data processing and geographically distributed tasks that do not require tightly synchronized hardware. These networks are positioned as a complementary layer in the AI computing stack rather than a replacement for centralized training clusters.

OpenAI is reportedly working on a new social platform built around proof-of-personhood to tackle bot activity, exploring biometric verification tools such as Face ID and World's iris-scanning technology. As interest in biometric digital identity rises, the Worldcoin (WLD) token, linked to Sam Altman's World project, surged more than 16% to $0.53 within hours.