Starting February 1, Shanghai will let registered consumer drones fly without prior approval in designated zones covering 46% of the city as part of its push to expand the low-altitude economy. The city logged 3.2 million drone flights with 220,000 registered drones by the end of 2025 and aims to build an 80 billion yuan industry by 2028, while Shenzhen targets a low-altitude sector worth over 130 billion yuan by 2026.

On January 21, 2026, Nansen launched an AI-driven trading feature for Solana and Base across its web and mobile apps. The product unifies on-chain analytics and execution, draws on over 500 million labeled wallet addresses, partners with Jupiter and OKX DEX for liquidity, and requires user confirmation on all trades, with certain jurisdictions excluded.

The Gates Foundation and OpenAI launched Horizon1000, a $50 million initiative to deploy AI across African health systems, starting in Rwanda. The program aims to support up to 1,000 primary clinics by 2028 and address severe staffing gaps, with an AI health hub already established in Kigali. Experts welcome potential benefits but flag risks around errors, privacy, bias, and language barriers.

A new a16z crypto analysis argues that as generative AI concentrates power into closed chat interfaces and algorithmic feeds, blockchain networks may be the main tool for preserving an open, user-controlled internet. The report highlights 11 concrete intersections between crypto and AI, including persistent user-owned context, decentralized compute, proof-of-humanity, micropayments, IP registries, and user-controlled AI companions. It suggests the future web could either harden into paywalled platforms or evolve into an interoperable ecosystem built on decentralized infrastructure.

Micron Technology shares recently traded near $365.00 with a forward P/E of 11.45, well below the semiconductor industry's 37.29. The analysis highlights AI's memory bottleneck, rising HBM adoption, and strong fiscal Q1 2026 metrics as potential drivers, outlining a case for MU to approach $500 by the end of 2026.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has decided to restart development of the company's shelved Dojo3 third-generation AI chip roughly five months after shutting down the original project. The chip, once intended for self-driving training, is now being repositioned for space-based AI computing as part of a broader plan involving compute satellites powered by continuous solar energy.

On January 20, 2026, X open-sourced the core architecture of its feed-ranking algorithm, built on a Grok-based transformer model. The company outlined an end-to-end machine-learning system in Rust and Python and pledged four-week public updates with developer notes. The move coincides with stricter policies on crypto-linked engagement apps.

On January 20, 2026 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that permitting exports of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China poses a grave security risk, likening it to selling nuclear weapons to North Korea. His remarks followed a U.S. policy shift easing chip-export curbs, as Nvidia and AMD target Chinese demand amid bullish revenue forecasts.