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Welcome to the TechBrew Ride Home for Wednesday, January 21st, 2026.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Anthropic continues to project strength in the AI race.

How Open AI is rolling out ads on ChatGPT.

Netflix wants to become TikTok faster than TikTok can become them. YouTube wants to have it both ways when it comes to AI. And Elon wants SpaceX to

win the great IPO race of 26. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

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Over at the old the Davos, Demas Hasebis says there aren't any plans to put ads in Gemini,

and, in response to OpenAI, testing ads in chat GPT, saying, quote, maybe they feel they need

to make more revenue. But also, there was this, an interesting sort of power play by Anthropic,

quoting TechCrunch. Last week, after reversing an earlier ban, the U.S. administration officially approved the sale

of NVIDIA's H-200 chips, along with a chip line by AMD, to approved Chinese customers.

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