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Tuesday • January 20, 2026
Microsoft Readies Ad-Supported Xbox Cloud Gaming
Bringing Ad-Supported Gaming to Its Cloud Service would give Brands an Entrance into Microsoft’s Premium Gaming Ecosystem
Xbox Cloud Gaming service is limited to players who have Microsoft’s game pass subscription, but the company reportedly has plans to offer non-subscribers access paid for by advertising. Although unconfirmed, ads in this tier are expected to include two-minute pre-roll video ads that are typically unskippable. The service is undergoing internal testing with Microsoft employees.
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Tuesday • January 20, 2026
ChatGPT Is quietly replacing Google’s most important page, study finds
Google Search isn’t the Default Anymore
A new survey suggests ChatGPT isn’t just an occasional AI tool for quick answers or writing help anymore. For a growing number of users, it’s becoming the first screen they open — and the place they expect to run more of their daily digital life. According to new data from subscription bundling platform Bango, 72% of ChatGPT subscribers in the U.S. say they’ve set the chatbot as their homepage on desktop and mobile, replacing traditional starting points like Google Search.
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Tuesday • January 20, 2026
ChatGPT to begin testing ads as generative AI competition heats up
OpenAI said that Advertising will not influence the Answers ChatGPT provides and that Ads and Sponsored Content would be Clearly Labeled
OpenAI will begin testing advertising on ChatGPT, its generative artificial intelligence platform, in the coming weeks, the company announced in a blog post. OpenAI said it would implement several protections to assure users that the information they reveal on the AI platform would not be shared with advertisers and that what ChatGPT provides would be “driven by what’s objectively useful,” rather than advertising.
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Friday • January 16, 2026
Wikipedia Secures AI Deals With Amazon, Meta, Microsoft As Human Traffic Declines
Wikipedia Announced New Business Deals with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Companies
The online crowdsourced encyclopedia revealed that it has signed agreements with AI companies including Amazon, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity. Wikipedia signed a licensing deal in 2022 with Google, which has called the site a trusted source, and signed deals with smaller AI firms like the search engine Ecosia. It views these other partnerships as a way to keep operating.
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Wednesday • January 14, 2026
Z.ai’s open source GLM-Image beats Google’s Nano Banana Pro at complex text rendering, but not aesthetics
Open Source Rivals Have Not Been Far Behind
This week, we got a new open source alternative to Nano Banana Pro in the category of precise, text-heavy image generators: GLM-Image, a new 16-billion parameter open-source model from recently public Chinese startup Z.ai. By abandoning the industry-standard “pure diffusion” architecture that powers most leading image generator models in favor of a hybrid auto-regressive (AR) + diffusion design, GLM-Image has achieved what was previously thought to be the domain of closed, proprietary models: state-of-the-art performance in generating text-heavy, information-dense visuals like infographics, slides, and technical diagrams.
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Tuesday • January 13, 2026
Prime Video Sets NFL Streaming Record With Wild Card Game
The League’s First Playoff Round is Running Well Ahead of 2025’s Numbers
Prime Video’s telecast of the Chicago Bears’ comeback victory over the Green Bay Packers averaged 31.61 million viewers, the largest audience to date for a streaming-exclusive NFL game. The previous record — which stood for all of 16 days — was 27.52 million for Netflix’s Christmas telecast of a game between the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings.
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