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Daily Tech News Show

DTNS January in Review

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter look back on the biggest tech stories of January. 

Starring Tom Merritt and Jenn Cutter.


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0:00.0

This is the Daily Tech News Month in review for January 26. We're going to look back on what the big

0:11.4

stories of the month were and try to help understand why. Why? Why were they the big stories,

0:17.4

Jen? Well, this month, Apple turns to Google for AI.

0:22.0

TikTok splits off in the U.S., and I'm pretty sure something called CES was this month.

0:27.4

Was that this month?

0:28.8

Who knows?

0:30.0

That was still January?

0:32.0

Forever January.

0:33.4

Forever.

0:34.3

Hi, I'm Tom Merritt.

0:35.5

I'm Jen Cutter.

0:36.7

Let's look back on some of the biggest stories of January

0:39.3

26. Now, one thing we've been doing on this, which I found interesting, is popping around from

0:47.6

different LLMs. So chat GPT, Gemini, et cetera, to find out what it thinks the big stories of the month are.

0:57.3

Here's the prompt that I gave to Anthropics Claude this month.

1:02.0

I'm putting together a monthly wrap-up of the biggest tech stories from January,

1:06.0

limiting things to stories that broke since January 1st,

1:09.1

sum up what you think the top tech stories of January were.

1:13.2

It gave, as these LLMs, we're finding, tend to do, pretty broad categories.

1:19.2

AI infrastructure intensifies.

1:22.0

So a lot of announcements of people investing money into building infrastructure.

1:32.1

CES. So it did remember that CES was in January. Tesla's recent pivot to robotics where Tesla announced that it would stop making

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