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🚀 Welcome to AI Unraveled (Weekly Rundown: Jan 5th – 11th, 2026): Your strategic briefing on the business, technology, and policy reshaping artificial intelligence.

The first full week of 2026 has set a blistering pace. Insiders are already telegraphing the arrival of DeepSeek V4, a model rumored to topple Claude and ChatGPT in enterprise coding. Meanwhile, a landmark study has effectively demolished the "AI doesn't store data" defense in copyright law, and Meta is securing nuclear energy to power its next-generation supercluster.

Key Topics:

🛠️ Technical Breakthroughs & Model Wars

• DeepSeek V4 Rumors: Insiders suggest a mid-February launch for V4, utilizing Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections to achieve massive scale and stability. It reportedly targets Claude Opus 4.5’s SWE-bench record of 80.9%.
• Confucius Code Agent (CCA): Meta and Harvard researchers introduce an open-source software engineering agent designed for industrial-scale repositories. The study reveals that scaffolding—not just model size—is the new performance lever.
• Google AI's "FunctionGemma": A new compact 270M parameter model specialized for function calling on edge devices.

⚖️ Policy, Law & Safety

• The Copyright Smoking Gun: Stanford and Yale researchers prove AI models can reproduce nearly entire copyrighted books (e.g., 95.8% of Harry Potter) using specific prompts.
• UK Ban Threats for X: Technology Secretary Liz Kendall warns of potential UK blocks for X following Grok's failure to prevent the creation of non-consensual deepfakes.
• Anthropic Crackdown: Anthropic has blocked unauthorized third-party access to Claude, cutting off users spoofing headers to avoid per-token API pricing.

💼 Business & Workforce

• OpenAI's "Real Work" Data Hunt: Reports surface that OpenAI is asking contractors to upload actual files from past jobs—Word docs, PDFs, and repos—to generate high-quality training data for white-collar automation.
• Amazon’s "Badge" Dashboard: A new manager tool tracks employee office attendance and duration, grouping workers into categories based on "badge tap" data.

⚡ Infrastructure & Space

• Meta Goes Nuclear: Meta signs deals with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to power its "Prometheus" supercluster in Ohio.
• Starlink Expansion: The FCC approves 7,500 more second-generation satellites for SpaceX, doubling their Gen2 authorization.

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Keywords:

DeepSeek V4, Claude Opus 4.5, Copyright Lawsuit, AI Book Reproduction, Meta Prometheus, Small Modular Reactors (SMR), Confucius Code Agent, Amazon Employee Tracking, SpaceX Starlink, Grok Deepfakes, OpenAI Training Data, DjamgaMind

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