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Is TikTok’s Algo Changing?

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, Technology, News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

I think we have to gird ourselves for a slew of Chinese AI releases in the coming weeks. Are AI inspired layoffs poised to sweep the tech industry? Meta goes with subscriptions. Uber wants to train AI for others. And Dario Amodei has a pretty stark warning about AI. China’s Moonshot Unveils AI Model Ahead of DeepSeek Release (Bloomberg) Pinterest laying off 15% of workforce in push toward AI roles and teams (CNBC) TikTok says a power outage caused a 'cascading systems failure' that messed up its algorithm (BusinessInsider) Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp (TechCrunch) Uber launches an ‘AV Labs’ division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners (TechCrunch) Thread On The Amodei Essay @aakashgupta Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.

0:04.0

Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy.

0:09.0

Oh God.

0:10.0

Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel.

0:15.0

Cool, that was close.

0:16.0

You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver.

0:19.0

Because with Paddy's Super Sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. Panny power. Valid on selected leagues and

0:24.3

markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. Tis and

0:27.8

exclusions apply. 18 plus scummelawar. Dot-orware. Welcome to the TechBoo ride home for

0:35.9

27th, 26. I'm Brian McCullough today. I think we have to gird ourselves for a slew of Chinese AI releases in the coming weeks.

0:44.3

Our AI-inspired layoffs poised to sweep the tech industry. Meta goes with subscriptions. Uber wants to train AI for others, and Dario Amadai has a pretty stark warning about AI.

0:54.2

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

1:04.6

Everybody seems to be deploying AI agents right now, but the thing is, sometimes AI agents

1:09.4

mess up.

1:10.1

They go off script or make changes

1:11.7

you didn't authorize, forcing you to diagnose and fix things. The good news is, rubric agent cloud

1:18.2

helps prevent that extra work. It's the only platform that allows you to monitor, govern,

1:22.6

and rewind AI agent actions. It's like an undo button for AI. It runs in the background the whole time and

1:28.9

making sure things stay on track. On a singular platform, Rubrik helps you unleash more agents

1:34.1

faster while mitigating risk. So if you're running AI agents and want to rest a little

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