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Is Your Lunch Break Now Run by AI? How Corporate-Mandated Wellness Is a Slippery Slope to Mandatory Meal Plans

January 15, 2026

With 87% of companies already tracking employee wellness data and AI layoffs creating desperate workers, this dystopian scenario might be closer than you think.

After Italy, WhatsApp excludes Brazil from rival chatbot ban

January 15, 2026

WhatsApp is allowing AI providers to continue offering their chatbots to users in Brazil, days after the country’s competition agency ordered the company to suspend its new policy that bars third-party, general-purpose chatbots from the app.

Indian SpaceX rival EtherealX hits 5x valuation as it readies engine tests

January 15, 2026

EtherealX is ramping engine tests and building a 150-acre rocket campus in India as it targets a 2027 launch mission.

Three climate technologies breaking through in 2026

January 15, 2026

Happy New Year! I know it’s a bit late to say, but it never quite feels like the year has started until the new edition of our 10 Breakthrough Technologies list comes out. For 25 years, MIT Technology Review has put together this package, which highlights the technologies that we think are going to matter…

Microsoft taps India’s Varaha for Asia-first durable carbon removal offtake

January 15, 2026

Microsoft is buying over 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits from India’s Varaha over the next three years.

Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

January 15, 2026

The abrupt change in personnel was in the works for several weeks, according to an OpenAI executive.

The FTC’s data-sharing order against GM is finally settled

January 15, 2026

The order, first proposed a year ago, bans GM from collecting and then selling geolocation data to third parties, like data brokers and insurance companies.

India’s Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can’t replace

January 15, 2026

Emversity has raised $30 million in a new round as it scales job-ready training in India.

Forget the Startup Grind — Millennials Are Taking a Shortcut to Business Ownership

January 14, 2026

Buying an existing business and stepping into its leadership has become a popular way to get a foot in the door to ownership.

Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe

January 14, 2026

The California Attorney General has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI after its chatbot Grok began generating nonconsensual sexual images of real women and even children.

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Is Your Lunch Break Now Run by AI? How Corporate-Mandated Wellness Is a Slippery Slope to Mandatory Meal Plans

After Italy, WhatsApp excludes Brazil from rival chatbot ban

Indian SpaceX rival EtherealX hits 5x valuation as it readies engine tests

Three climate technologies breaking through in 2026

Microsoft taps India’s Varaha for Asia-first durable carbon removal offtake

Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

The FTC’s data-sharing order against GM is finally settled

India’s Emversity doubles valuation as it scales workers AI can’t replace

Forget the Startup Grind — Millennials Are Taking a Shortcut to Business Ownership

Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe

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