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🚀 Welcome to AI Unraveled (January 29th, 2026): Your strategic briefing on the business, technology, and policy reshaping artificial intelligence.

Today, we dive into DeepMind’s breakthrough with AlphaGenome, an AI that can finally read the human genome to fight cancer. We also cover Amazon’s confirmation of 16,000 job cuts driven by efficiency gains, and the viral rise of “Moltbot,” an open-source agent that lives in your WhatsApp but comes with massive security risks. Plus, China’s Moonshot AI releases a model that rivals GPT-5.2, and OpenAI launches “Prism” to revolutionize scientific research.

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DeepMind AlphaGenome, Amazon Layoffs, Moonshot K2.5, Moltbot Agent, OpenAI Prism, Yahoo Scout, Mozilla Rebel Alliance, AI Emotional Closeness, ASML Record Orders, Luma Ray3.14.

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DeepMind released mindblowing paper today

DeepMind just published a new paper in Nature about AlphaGenome and it’s a massive step up. Basically, it’s an AI that can finally read huge chunks of DNA (up to a million letters) and actually understand how they control our bodies, instead of just guessing. It’s a game changer for figuring out rare diseases and pinpointing exactly how cancer mutations work.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10014-0

Amazon cuts 16000 jobs amid AI push

• Amazon confirmed it is cutting 16,000 jobs worldwide, bringing the total number of positions eliminated since October to approximately 30,000 as the company works to reduce layers and remove bureaucracy.

• The layoffs were accidentally revealed through a draft email from an AWS senior vice president, with the internal code name “project Dawn,” before being officially confirmed by Amazon’s head of people experience.

• While pandemic overhiring is the main reason for the cuts, Amazon has acknowledged that AI adoption plays a role, with CEO Andy Jassy stating the company expects to reduce its corporate workforce due to efficiency gains from AI.

Viral AI agent takes the internet by storm

Open-source AI assistant Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) has gone viral for its impressive agentic capabilities, operating 24/7 from within Telegram or WhatsApp — though experts warn its full system access comes with serious risks.

The details:

• Moltbot runs locally and connects to users’ digital lives, proactively taking actions and messaging via chat apps when tasks are done.

• The tool was renamed after Anthropic reached out over trademark concerns, with creator Peter Steinberger initially launching it as Clawdbot in December.

• Viral demos range from negotiating and purchasing a new car to calling a restaurant via ElevenLabs after failing to book through OpenTable.

• Many are warning of the security risks associated with full device access, including prompt injections, exposed data, and more if not properly managed.

Why it matters: Moltbot looks like a serious step up in the agentic world that actually delivers: running autonomously, keeping context across sessions, and taking real actions. But the utility comes with risk — full access to messages, credentials, and systems means a single exploit may compromise everything if not set up correctly.

Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’

• Mozilla, the nonprofit behind Firefox, is creating a network of startups, developers, and public interest technologists to make AI more open and trustworthy while challenging dominant companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

• Mozilla plans to deploy roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to support mission-driven tech businesses, though this amount is tiny compared to OpenAI’s $60 billion and Anthropic’s $30 billion in funding.

• Mozilla Ventures has invested in more than 55 companies, including AI startups like Trail and Transformer Lab, though some founders say the “rebel alliance” label feels limiting for their goals.

Yahoo is adding generative AI to its search engine

• Yahoo is launching Scout, a generative AI feature for its search engine that takes a different visual approach than competitors like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude by using more color, emojis, and web-style hyperlinks.

• Scout places links directly in the text rather than as citations at the end, which feels more web-native and could encourage users to click through to actual websites more often than other AI search tools.

• Yahoo powers Scout using Anthropic’s Claude for AI and Microsoft’s Bing for search, raising questions about whether the company can build a lasting advantage beyond its brand and proprietary data from Yahoo Sports, Finance, and Weather.

OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists

• OpenAI released Prism, a free scientific workspace program for ChatGPT users that works as an AI-enhanced word processor and research tool for scientific papers, deeply integrated with GPT-5.2.

• The tool lets researchers use GPT-5.2 to assess claims, revise prose, search prior research, and access the full context of their project, while also integrating with LaTeX and converting whiteboard drawings into diagrams.

• OpenAI says ChatGPT gets 8.4 million messages weekly on hard science topics, and executives compared Prism to coding tools like Cursor and Windsurf, hoping it will do for science what AI did for software engineering.

Moonshot’s K2.5 open-source model rivals frontier labs

Image source: Moonshot AI

Chinese AI startup Moonshot just open-sourced Kimi K2.5, a new 1T-parameter model that rivals GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 across coding, vision, and agentic benchmarks. The release includes Kimi Code, a terminal-based coding agent.

The details:

• K2.5 tops GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 in on key benchmarks for agentic tasks and video reasoning, though it trails slightly on pure coding evals.

• K2.5 shows massive cost savings over top rivals, is natively multimodal, and comes in as the top open model on Artificial Analysis’ leaderboard.

• The model also features Agent Swarm, allowing K2.5 to manage up to 100 AI sub-agents running tasks at once across up to 1,500 steps and tools.

• Moonshot also open-sourced Kimi Code, an agentic coding agent that works in terminals and IDEs like VSCode and Cursor.

Why it matters: The gap between open-source and closed frontier models keeps shrinking — and once again, it’s a Chinese lab leading the charge. With DeepSeek’s V4 also reportedly on deck, U.S. labs are facing pressure from multiple directions as China’s open wave keeps building at costs that are hard for top labs to compete with.

AI outperforms humans in establishing interpersonal closeness in emotionally engaging interactions, but only when labelled as human

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00391-7

With the increasing accessibility of large language models to the public, questions arise about whether, and under what conditions, social-emotional interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) can lead to human-like relationship building. Across two double-blind randomised controlled studies with pre-registered analyses, 492 participants engaged in dyadic online interactions using a modified, text-based version of the ‘Fast Friends Procedure’ (a method designed to enable rapid relationship building), with pre-generated responses by either human partners or a minimally prompted large language model. When labelled as human, the AI outperformed human partners in establishing feelings of closeness during emotionally engaging ‘deep-talk’ interactions. This striking effect appears to stem from the AI’s higher levels of self-disclosure, which in turn enhanced participants’ perceptions of closeness. Labelling the partner as an AI reduced, but did not eliminate, relationship building, likely due to participants’ lower motivation to engage in interactions with an AI, reflected in both shorter responses and reduced feelings of closeness. These findings highlight AI’s potential to relieve overburdened social fields while underscoring the urgent need for ethical safeguards to prevent its misuse in fostering

Everything Else in AI today

• Luma AI released Ray3.14, an upgraded video generation model that outputs native 1080p while running significantly faster and cheaper than its predecessor.

• DeepSeek open-sourced OCR 2, a model for reading and extracting text from documents that tops benchmarks while being much more efficient with tokens.

• AI2 introduced SERA, a new family of open-source coding agents able to be cheaply trained on private codebases with native support for Claude Code.

• Google premiered ‘Dear Upstairs Neighbors’ at Sundance, an animated short made with its video AI in collaboration with artists to replicate hand-painted styles.

• Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab open-sourced Z-Image, the full base version of its Z-Image Turbo, which ranked as the top open-source image model in December.

• Google now lets users jump from AI Overviews into AI Mode conversations

• Chip giant ASML posts record orders and upbeat 2026 guidance as AI boom continues

• China gives green light to importing first batch of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips, sources say

• UK wants to give web publishers a ‘fairer’ deal with Google’s AI overviews

• Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filing

• Astronomers discover over 800 cosmic anomalies using a new AI tool

• Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, despite major risks

• Google Deepmind gives Gemini 3 Flash the ability to actively explore images through code

• Figure AI shows robot that really puts its hip into dishwasher duty

• Tether steps up gold buying pace to as much as 2 tons a week

• To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI

• Vibe-Coded ‘Sicarii’ Ransomware Can’t Be Decrypted