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AI News Jan 21-23, 2026: Claude comes to Excel, Tasks system in Claude Code v2.1.19, Codex agent loop architecture, PostgreSQL for 800M ChatGPT users, Qwen3-TTS open-source, Runway Gen-4.5 Image to Video.
Anthropic publishes Claude's new constitution and appoints new member to Long-Term Benefit Trust, OpenAI launches Education for Countries and age prediction, Google rolls out free SAT practice and Classroom updates, Manus launches App Publishing
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go at $8/mo in 170+ countries with ads, Anthropic opens India office with Irina Ghose, Google unveils MedGemma for medical, and ElevenLabs powers MasterClass On Call.
Anthropic launches Labs with Mike Krieger, OpenAI signs with Cerebras and Merge Labs, Google and Apple announce Gemini for Siri, ElevenLabs arrives at Deutsche Telekom, and Qwen releases its first safety model.
Google launches Personal Intelligence in Gemini for personalized answers. OpenAI makes GPT-5.2-Codex available via API. NotebookLM rolls out Data Tables to everyone.
xAI completes record $20B Series E funding. OpenAI acquires Torch to strengthen ChatGPT Health. Qwen launches multimodal models.
Anthropic launches Cowork, Claude Code for non-developers. New connectors and Agent Skills for the healthcare sector.
Anthropic publishes Constitutional Classifiers++ after 1700h of red-teaming. OpenAI launches enterprise offering for hospitals. ElevenLabs unveils Scribe v2 for transcription.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health. Z.ai goes public in Hong Kong. ElevenLabs invests $33M in NYC. Claude Code v2.1.0 with Skills.
NVIDIA unveils its new architectures at CES 2026: Vera CPU for agentic AI, Rubin with 6 chips, Alpamayo for autonomous vehicles, and major partnerships.
Early 2026: OpenAI launches Grove for founders, Your Year with ChatGPT rolled out, 2025 developer recap, and Qwen-Image-2512 available.
End of 2025: xAI launches Grok Business and Collections API, Manus joins Meta AI, WAN 2.6 improves video consistency, Runway and Adobe partner up.