The Friday Download: $10B Brain Chips, Empathetic AI, and Robots That Actually Work (January 23, 2026)

Reading Time: < 1 minute – Your brain works like GPT, OpenAI spent $10B on chips, and robots are getting real jobs. Welcome to the weirdest—and smartest—week in AI.

The Friday Download: $10B Brain Chips, Empathetic AI, and Robots That Actually Work (January 23, 2026)
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This week on The Friday Download, Dr. JR breaks down one of the biggest AI hardware deals ever—OpenAI’s $10 billion compute partnership with Cerebras—and why wafer-scale chips are reshaping the future of model training. We explore new neuroscience research showing the human brain processes language in layers strikingly similar to transformer models, raising big questions about how intelligence—biological or artificial—really works.

From CES 2026, we look at Lenovo’s head-tracking, nodding laptop and what it says about human-machine interaction. In Segment Two, the focus shifts to AI that actually helps: Rwanda’s rollout of AI tools in health clinics, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot entering Hyundai factory tests, Google DeepMind’s emotionally aware voice systems, and a suction-powered robot unloading 1,600 boxes an hour.

We wrap with rapid-fire updates on local AI models, long-term memory breakthroughs, new AI literacy laws in the EU, California’s chatbot disclosure rules, and 4D vision models for robotics.

Big tech, big questions, and a future that’s already clocked in.


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